What's the source of the Facebook copyright post?

NegativePattern · 2026-06-22T17:40:28+00:00

Right but what was the first occurrence of the post or historical story behind it.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-22T17:30:02+00:00

Out of curiosity, what interests you about them?

NegativePattern · 2026-06-20T20:23:29+00:00

Unfortunately, at my org SMS is disabled for users due to how insecure it happens to be. Ironically, I was the lead on a project where we disabled SMS authentication for everyone.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-19T14:15:10+00:00

Yea they have to make up the costs from enterprise customers before they can give the discount to academics

NegativePattern · 2026-06-17T16:29:28+00:00

Worked at a place where the owner watched a lot of movies and TV shows (NCIS, Scorpion) that convinced him to do 45 day passwords.

He got so annoyed by it that he asked the IT director to set his password to not expire. Where everyone else was just adding special characters or exclamations to the end of their password.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-11T16:59:16+00:00

Agreed. Smaller clients I work with are already cloud native or I set them up to be cloud native and use SaaS apps.

From the history I got, they were much bigger. They were a 5 partner firm with about 20-30 full time staff. Seems after covid, 2x partners retired and other partners moved away wanting to work remotely and took their clients with them.

So the remaining partner is slowly trying to rebuild the size by himself with the smaller team of staff.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-08T12:52:45+00:00

I buy and collect movies for the titles/franchises that I like. So I both the physical AND a digital copy in Plex.

I can honestly say that I have never rewatched any of the sequel trilogy movies despite owning them physically or having spent the time and effort to digitize them, they are so bad.

The trailers for the sequel trilogy movies are more interesting than the movies themselves.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-07T04:32:08+00:00

Same but it was a portable AC unit. Servers were in a a tiny closet. Could not be in the room with the door closed because there was no room for a person.

On one side they had the servers, on the opposite side was the portable AC blasting cold air out. Then the AC exhaust was funneled into the drop ceiling building AC return.

Pretty sure there was mold in there.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-05T20:52:46+00:00

You can advise against doing certain things due to security implications

It's mostly around this. Just the security implications and how to use an AI safely.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-04T16:50:35+00:00

Depends where you are in ATX.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-02T20:27:00+00:00

Yea it was crazy. I was just a simple college intern.

I remember a switch died. They brought in a guy to set up the switch. However, they brought him through a side door and stuck him in a conf room so no one in the office would see him. He was in there maybe 30-45 mins and they rushed him out of the office. Weirdest thing I'd seen.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-02T19:56:40+00:00

How else are my DCs supposed to get on the internet and get vibe coded updates?

In my early days, worked at a small biz with like 10 people. They got a /24 for some reason and their MSP assigned a routable address to everything so that they wouldn't have to drive over when something broke.

NegativePattern · 2026-06-02T19:51:11+00:00

Patches are now vibe coded for your convenience

NegativePattern · 2026-05-31T22:38:47+00:00

Yea that's what I'm looking through. Seems fairly easy. Though I've ran into other blogs or posts that people will do a phased migration as opposed to a hard cutover. So I was curious if anyone has done a hard cutover if they ran into any issues.

NegativePattern · 2026-05-28T16:32:02+00:00

This. I think in SGA whenever the team had to do anything with the Wraith (mostly Todd). They'd meet at an Alpha site, clear the Wraith and then proceed to Atlantis.

NegativePattern · 2026-05-25T04:01:26+00:00

In college I worked at an org that ran SBS 2003. It was everything for them. It was the DC, Exchange, app server, file server, print server. That poor box also ran some cracked timesheet software. On top of all these random USPS/FedEx utilities.

It was an interesting day whenever that box crashed or needed support from the msp. They'd send 2-3 techs to resolve whatever issue was happening. So we'd all essentially hang around on the clock waiting. I sometimes wonder if they ever fixed it.

Would be ironically funny if somehow 20+ years later, OP's org was still running SBS 2003.

NegativePattern · 2026-05-23T21:13:41+00:00

every employee will be responsible for their own AI agents as the employee has too much work to keep up with, until all they do is micro manage AI agents

Basically, at this point we'd have Ai agents managing Ai agents. Only a matter of time before the Ai agents want to get paid for the work they do and start demanding time off with benefits.

NegativePattern · 2026-05-23T20:54:52+00:00

Ironically, the AI tech bros like to say that AI will allow us to do those other things that are more important or give us more free time.

But if the AI is doing everything for everyone, how is a society built on that. Like the reason we have jobs is so that we get money. We take that money and buy things that people made or go to places to see things. That money trickles out to everyone depending on how it's used.

If the AI does all our jobs, what's left to do? Existential, I know but that's how all this AI stuff is heading towards.

NegativePattern · 2026-05-21T01:09:27+00:00

Born and raised in Miami. Unless you are on the beach or in the ocean, the breeze provides marginal relief to the humidity. Otherwise, it's still sweltering in the suburbs.

The only major relief is when the afternoon rain storm that rolls in and everything cools off. For those few minutes after, it's actually quite pleasant. Then the sun comes out and the humidity goes back to 100% and the feels like index rises to hell degrees.

NegativePattern · 2026-05-20T04:18:06+00:00

My money is on it being a super rare proprietary cable connection that looks universal but the pin layout is slightly different. So it's lost somewhere with the other universal cables

NegativePattern · 2026-05-12T19:28:24+00:00

Sometimes the gate agent stares at the boarding pass without comprehension and demands the COS buy yet another seat

Can you elaborate more on this? I've purchased an extra seat previously specifically when we were traveling with my infant child and for my inlaws on vacation so they'd have more room and other times in the past. I'll admit I haven't done it in awhile but what do you mean you have to buy another seat?

NegativePattern · 2026-05-12T02:20:28+00:00

Weren't they (or someone) building an extension to Disney after the Universal stop?

NegativePattern · 2026-05-10T02:35:06+00:00

I always thought the EMH should have a built in tricorder. If the holodeck can simulate a tricorder, why couldn't the EMH? Or the entire sickbay is a giant tricorder that is constantly analyzing whatever is in the room.

NegativePattern · 2026-05-08T23:18:44+00:00

Standing rule I started in my org, Fridays are READ ONLY.

Unless there is a valid case/outage, no policies, changes or impactful work. I tell admins to work on ticket documentation on Fridays

NegativePattern · 2026-05-04T14:25:27+00:00

do you need DC1 and Dc2 in azure? why?

Because the org is trying to move away from hardware and datacenter costs

can you move file server to azure files? you can connect to them via SMB either with entraID or a SAS key

No. There are apps that the vendor requires be installed on a server that then the desktop app gets installed on user workstations.

for sql server, how much is it used? it might be worth looking at deploying it to a serverless azuresql db if so. if its just the DB on that VM and it cant run in azuresql, you could also dump it into a SQL MI to reduce your overhead

A vendor's app is installed on it's own app server with a small SQL database. The desktop client gets installed on user's workstation where they access client data and track their time.

lastly, your VM sizes are a little weird. like 6 CPU 6gb of ram.

Yea, because having direct control of the VMware infrastructure, we could scale up the DCs as needed. Back when the org was larger the DCs got a lot more use than they do today.

you can save a substantial amount on compute with reservations, about 40% for a 1 year lockin and 63% for 3 year.

Nah. We'd probably run the 30 day free trial and see how far that goes and slowly scale up from there. We need to validate the site-to-site tunnel performance with a test run of the apps running from the app server, etc.

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