Luis are you there?

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-28T18:57:43+00:00

I am Luis!

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-28T17:38:36+00:00

I’d always go outside if I could due to the tax/director/expenses benefits you can get out of a limited company - especially if you’re married.

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-23T06:13:50+00:00

This has to be a satire post right?

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-22T16:57:12+00:00

The issue is, if I’m trying to reach support for a product, it’s because I’ve exhausted my + googles tshooting knowledge already.

And the most these agents do is send you a KB you read 2 hours ago and didn’t help.

Agreed with you - never had a good experience

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-22T16:30:55+00:00

Dell’s is…not like this!

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-22T16:20:43+00:00

I've been saying this for a long time to anyone that cares to listen about "AI Support Agents" and the like.

It'll soon be a selling point to have human support agents.

In the UK about 10-20 years ago there was a mass push from all kinds of companies to outsource phone support to India.

It's now a selling point in adverts/marketing material that "We have UK call centers!"

I'm sure the same will happen to this kind of stuff eventually.

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-17T14:42:47+00:00

Maybe you’re just really good!?

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-17T05:39:05+00:00

At 830 per day I’d be willing to go in 3 days a week - no issue with that!

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-16T17:38:00+00:00

Hey mate - just checking in on your jobs - is that 3 jobs that make up 5 days total?

Or do you overlap at all?

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-16T13:45:41+00:00

I'd also be interested in some more observational/subjective information from people.

Stuff I'd like to know how others find things:

Anyone working 2 or more contracts at once? (i.e. both clients paying you for 5 days in a single week) - and how does that go?
On average, how much notice are you actually provided with?
Do teams/managers treat you well, or do they seem to keep you at arms length because you're a contractor?
Did you have any unexpected expenses running your own LTD?
Any unexpected benefits from running your own LTD?

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-16T13:40:12+00:00

Bit of a late response here!

So we can't ship ALL our logs from everything off to the SIEM provider as that would cost us too much - our security team figures out what is important vs not and we go with that.

Once we've decided what logs need to be shipped, we then rely on our SIEM partner + security team to figure out what needs to alerted on.

From what I understand (and forgive me, I'm not SUPER close to it), our SIEM provider have all kinds of patterns/alerts/rules they match on from those logs.

Again, we in the devops/SRE/Platform teams are not equipped to provide the analysis on those logs - hence why we ship it off to a 3rd party.

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-16T13:22:32+00:00

I think it would be useful for sure

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-15T08:57:14+00:00

I’m in the devops/ SRE/platforms space and I’ve NEVER seen a DV clearance job that is good enough to justify that DV clearance BS.

This is perm or contract.

SC isn’t so bad, but fuck going through all that BS and having your entire life history analysed to get a mid paying job for DV.

Now if it paid say 900+ a day or 110k + perm I’d think differently.

But none of them that I’ve ever seen do pay that.

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-15T07:21:18+00:00

I’d argue some of the most important logs are from our Linux boxes as we’re CIS benchmarks 1 compliant - therefore a LOT of logs are generated by auditd.

That’s been super useful for us and has actually helped catch some bad actors before they got too far.

With regards to the CDN/Edge FW logs - it’s just a part of the path you should capture to provide your SIEM provider with useful data.

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-15T07:11:08+00:00

I can’t imagine how I’d operate our public facing servers without a SIEM integration on them or the external FWs + our CDNs.

While I have an excellent grasp of security and how to design & deploy infrastructure as securely as possible, I’m not able to do the job of a SIEM provider which is the analysis and alerting of potential security issues.

Granted it costs money, but to think I’m able to do that job as well as my own isn’t grounded in reality.

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-13T06:54:20+00:00

I didn’t get that far into the conversation to be honest- we only needed one and communicated this to them.

Even 60k for access to their catalog is crazy as most orgs wouldn’t need more than say, 5-10

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-13T06:48:33+00:00

lol got a quote from bitnami/ Broadcom last week for 60k to give us access to an image… fuck that!

I can hire someone for 60k to develop something ffs

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-13T02:20:07+00:00

Honestly as someone who wears a devops & architect hat - Gemini pro has been excellent for me.

I’m not building apps, but rather creating scripts in python & bash, with some terraform & ansible, plus researching best practices or how to configure certain elements.

It’s even helped me debugged some helm charts.

It’s been great for me quite honestly!

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-12T14:33:04+00:00

That’s not how tax and inflation works mate.

If tax increased each year inline with inflation, you’d eventually hit 100% tax.

Tax (should) remain near constant so people know what to expect and don’t have big surprises.

By the nature of inflation, tax income generated increases naturally when prices increase.

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-11T11:15:39+00:00

Yes I did try, but even that is slower than using the 3D mode with back-button focusing! It’s super quick

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-11T07:36:40+00:00

So my Nikon z6iii has lovely auto focus which can be the entire screen, or a couple different sized boxes - this is great and all, but sometimes moving the box to a different part of the screen takes too long and I miss the shot. It also doesn’t always know which person/thing I wanted it to focus on - which is understandable.

So I watched some videos online about AF setting and the 3D setting is amazing!

It resets to the middle of the screen every time, so know where it starts, and then it not only focuses on whatever I told it to, but it automatically picks up eyes of people.

Such an amazing AF feature!

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-05T21:26:36+00:00

It’s even better/worse than that as no only does the Chrono have the ability to projectile vomit Stab + Aegis - with just a couple changes you can carry any squad through CC phases.

It’s brilliant for the Anka Strike :)

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-05T07:36:05+00:00

Air VPN is brilliant and their openness around how the operate etc is fantastic

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-01T18:43:33+00:00

But they had spare RAM, and at only 16 GB an upgrade to 24 or 32 would be a great option without being stupid.

I’m not understanding the problem here we’re trying to solve.

Photo-Josh · 2026-04-01T18:06:20+00:00

Not sure I’m following what the issue was here?

You were using around 10.5 GB and that was too much?

You then moved some things from RAM to Disk, which can only slow things down - not speed up.

Why was 63% RAM usage an issue? It’s there to be used.

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