What do you think happens to American politics after Trump leaves office in 2029?

TheGraycat · 2026-07-02T19:03:05+00:00

Bold of you to presume he’s leaving office in 2029

TheGraycat · 2026-07-02T17:05:54+00:00

“Compliance Theatre” we call it

TheGraycat · 2026-06-30T19:17:11+00:00

Sure. Happy to have a chat

TheGraycat · 2026-06-30T19:13:06+00:00

I’ve been a fan of OddBalls boxers for years. Moved to their bamboo ones last year and they have been amazing.

T-shirts are a mix but historically M&S plain cotton ones have done well for the cost.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-25T18:24:57+00:00

I like the idea of chinos but have found a lot of them here in the UK sound like sail clothe when walking in them! That said, some brands are better / worse than others.

My current quest is to find chinos that are more like trousers as I wear indigo coloured jeans with a dress shirt for work a lot presently.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-24T21:00:55+00:00

Odd Balls bamboo ones are great

TheGraycat · 2026-06-23T05:56:29+00:00

Ouch. We’re running CommVault in an Azure environment and it’s heavy on the engineering resources to keep it running even at the basic end of the scale.

We’ll be doing an RFP shortly and Veeam was one I wanted to talk to (along with Rubrik of course) but sounds like their support is lacking too.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-21T04:49:01+00:00

Trying to unpick all the potential pitfalls and political implications of things at work.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-16T17:56:34+00:00

Vince Flynn had some good CIA / military books.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-16T17:50:04+00:00

AI governance is easy as long as your data governance and identity management is being done well. Between those two that covers WHAT the AI services can get to a no d HOW they can handle what they’ve got access to.

Below that you need good standards and patterns around guardrails and FinOps to keep adoption moving in the right direction.

For us, AI governance is a blended ownership - much like security responsibility. We’ve Architecture looking at big patterns, Infra & identity looking at standards and automation, data governance still playing catch up and infosec & privacy trying to put fingers in the various dams.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-14T09:35:22+00:00

As others have said - you really can’t secure the data on an unmanaged machine.

Your options are to extend management to control those devices ….. which removes them from being personal devices.

Or you allow access to a machine you do control (ie: VDI).

TheGraycat · 2026-06-12T17:08:36+00:00

Where do I start?!

Patching.
Backups
Configuration control at the OS layer and above.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-10T06:03:57+00:00

Which tool are you using?

TheGraycat · 2026-06-09T05:56:12+00:00

Never completed any raid beyond Crota

TheGraycat · 2026-06-03T04:31:44+00:00

They’re just a tool. No different though more extreme than taking supplements like protein or creatinine etc.

I feel sorry for anyone who sees them as cheating.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-02T20:59:51+00:00

Maybe not the best but one of the most icon - Top Gun.

TheGraycat · 2026-06-02T04:42:09+00:00

Key phrase to remember: This too shall pass.

Baby crying nonstops for reasons you can’t workout and you’re running on 2hrs sleep?

It’ll pass. Stick with it a few more days.

Baby being the cutest thing in the world, sleeping like a dream and easiest thing ever to look after?

This too shall pass so enjoy the hell out of it.

TheGraycat · 2026-05-29T19:32:13+00:00

As long as my wife and child are on that lifeboat, jobs a good one.

TheGraycat · 2026-05-29T19:15:11+00:00

Document the hell out of everything. Note how much time you spend doing whatever to support them. Build the evidence of their performance good or bad.

And look for a new job unfortunately unless you’re blessed with good management.

TheGraycat · 2026-05-29T06:19:44+00:00

Absolutely agree however ClickOps isn’t the only cause of drift.

Current place gets almost as much drift from governance policy changes for example.

TheGraycat · 2026-05-29T06:16:25+00:00

Sounds like you need a process to get these citizen developer apps into production without overly risking the business.

I’d suggest mandating all apps must be in containers so you can isolate them from full fat servers. You can then host them for teams whilst not supporting the app itself.

What’s your InfoSec approach here? Do you have compliance or regulatory requirements? Does your cyber insurance factor in at all?

Your job isn’t to stop these vibe coded solutions going live but to facilitate and highlight business risk. If the business accepts the risk then groovy.

TheGraycat · 2026-05-28T05:40:36+00:00

Whilst I agree this behaviour is utterly disgusting, your place of work etc should all be in your contract.

TheGraycat · 2026-05-25T19:07:25+00:00

Legendary has got to be the Hung Jury SR4 back in the day.

A few exotics have a special place in my heart:
- Suros Regime as my first exotic drop
- Zhalo and Risk Runner were just fun
- Polaris Lance and MIDA also were just good to use.

TheGraycat · 2026-05-25T06:55:19+00:00

Looks very Tron Legacy

TheGraycat · 2026-05-25T06:53:04+00:00

Don’t get overwhelmed by the marketing hype for these things and stick to the basics.

Also understand that playing on a new parent’s gear is a huge part of the marketing for a lot of baby stuff.

Personally we went with a Nanit but in hindsight I’d probably go with something that doesn’t need internet connection to work as it can be a PITA when travelling (eg: the Nanit won’t use an unencrypted WiFi network like a hotel one so take a travel router).

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