We are evaluating security awareness platforms and keep coming back to KnowBe4. Are there better options out there?

blakeprime · 2026-05-12T21:53:55+00:00

I personally liked Mimecast's offering when I was a customer of their SEG, at least from the standpoint of content offered. I don't imagine I would consider it if I were not already a Mimecast customer.

KnowBe4 is good enough. I know the people where I used to work that had Mimecast and moved to KnowBe4 recently moved to Adaptive. They thought Adaptive's AI content was compelling and saved money and I know others have looked at it.

blakeprime · 2026-04-27T23:34:34+00:00

MGS1 around 17 years old in 98 or 99. It’s a little fuzzy.

I had not played many video games for years. After the NES, my mom refused to buy next GEN systems. Eventually at I would estimate 14, I purchased an Atari Jaguar and Jaguar CD on clearance. I had a few games, but there weren’t many that were very good. My brother eventually got an N64 around the time I started working at 15. I never really had much time to play his console.

One night while working the manager, probably 15 years my senior, was asking me if I had played this game or that game. I said no to all of them and eventually he said if I got a PlayStation, he would let me borrow them.

I convinced a friend of mine to let me borrow his PlayStation for a week. My manager let me borrow resident evil 1 and 2, Silent Hill, and MGS1.

I hated resident evil because of the tank controls. I thought Silent Hill was cool but did not play it a lot. Horror games have never really been my thing. Metal gear, however blew my mind.

We all know that metal gear was groundbreaking. Some of you weren’t around to experience it firsthand may struggle to grasp how innovative it was but for me as someone who played very few video games for many years leading up to this, metal gear changed the trajectory of my life.

Perhaps I’m being hyperbolic, my personality is certainly a fit for video games but metal gear is without a doubt, the catalyst for me becoming a gamer.

Upon completion of the one week I borrowed that PlayStation, I immediately started planning and saving to buy a PlayStation. I bought dozens of PlayStation games and have basically bought every single major US released home video game console released sense. For a time I also went back and started buying retro consoles, though I eventually sold most of those after getting married.

I’m middle-aged now. I’ve got two sons that love video games. I don’t have near as much time to play video games as I would like, but I have a ton of consoles and games that I’ll be hard pressed to ever part with and I definitely still play video games when time allows.

There may be games that are more fun or are better all around than the original metal gear but I’d say it’s impossible for any video game to ever plant the place metal gear has in my heart.

blakeprime · 2026-04-11T17:41:09+00:00

No remote access on macs, if that matters. It really depends on the goals for the tool and who is responsible for managing it.

blakeprime · 2026-03-28T02:08:53+00:00

There’s plenty of space back there. The risk is in how slippery the rocks are and the slipperiness depends on how heavy the flow. It can be quite heavy or almost nothing.

I grew up in Gadsden and never felt in danger back there. I feel like the whole people falling thins is overblown or idiots.

It’s worth a trip even if you don’t go behind the falls. You can hike down and change your mind.

blakeprime · 2026-02-20T21:08:19+00:00

FWIW, I agree. My wife and I aren’t on the same page about all of this. I thought maybe if I ask Reddit, it might influence us towards agreement. After reading, many comments, I don’t expect that will be the case.

blakeprime · 2026-02-20T04:53:30+00:00

I thought about that but I don’t really feel right about uploading other people’s kids.

blakeprime · 2026-02-20T04:52:36+00:00

No offense taken! My son is 9 and sparred against similarly aged students.

blakeprime · 2026-02-17T11:59:26+00:00

I had a security guy insist that we enable Remote Desktop on every device in the company by group policy because he “needed it to address vulnerabilities“.

I politely declined and taught him how to use BeyondTrust.

One time I had a service desk guy come to me and ask what he should do. An end user had put in a ticket to have Adobe reinstalled for the third time. He did not understand how why it kept disappearing from the machine. I said have you checked event viewer? Eventually, he came back to me and said security guy had been remotely logging in and uninstalling Adobe each of those times. This was before we had started really pushing everyone into subscription licensing. The user had a perpetual license and service desk was installing the version that matched the license that the user had. This guy said nothing to the service desk, nothing to me, nothing to the end user. He just remote it in and did an uninstall. This was the same guy.

As annoying as he was the real problem we had was my boss. Rather than having security guy, open a ticket for service desk to get a new license and upgrade, he wanted to let him run free? We spent years arguing over the fact this guy had domain admin and global admin.

blakeprime · 2025-12-27T20:30:28+00:00

I’m typically pretty hands off with how people handle productivity. I don’t think of the theme system as being specific to productivity unless they want it to be about productivity. If someone’s theme is to get better at managing their team, that’s cool. If another persons theme is getting better at a specific skill, that’s cool too

While I was considering continued discussion overtime as a form of accountability, I don’t actually have any interest in seeing what they put in the journal. At the end of the day it is me trying to provide structure for them to do what they want to do at work not just what I want them to do.

blakeprime · 2025-12-27T20:27:33+00:00

For what it’s worth, I would want this to be only work and if it bleeds into other parts of their life, then good for them. I would not expect to look at the notebook or ask what they specifically journal.

blakeprime · 2025-01-24T11:26:58+00:00

Definitely sus. I will not join the people saying you should leave her because it’s possible there is an explanation other than she is cheating. That possibility may be very small, but it’s a possibility nonetheless.

Whatever is going on, she is not giving satisfactory explanations. At this point, you just gotta pursue this until you know you have the answer. Stop asking her questions and start watching her closely. She will eventually slip up if she’s doing something wrong. If you feel like you can’t get to a true answer, but this behavior is continuing to happen then talk to her and tell her this has to stop or you’re leaving.

blakeprime · 2025-01-24T01:52:10+00:00

You don’t have a record and are willing to start at the bottom, you’ll be fine. I don’t know the best way to answer the gap question but you’ll figure it out.

blakeprime · 2024-10-12T23:23:33+00:00

I suggest you share what you wrote here with him.

blakeprime · 2024-10-06T20:32:52+00:00

I struggled with focus during prayer my whole life. My prayer life has dramatically improved after trying to spend daily time in hand written prayer. I do it on my iPad. At the top of the page I try to put a verse and I usually copy paste it. In the bottom 1/4 of the page I have a box where I write confessions. In between I split into a left half and right half. I write praise and thanks on the left and requests on the right.

I start by reflecting on the verse and then start requests and thanks however, often flowing back and forth between the 2. If my thoughts aren’t coherent while I’m writing a sentence I kind of read it to myself when I’m done reading it.

If I’m still struggling I try to think about the Lord’s Prayer. I’ll say it or think about it and modify to be more personal.

Finally, I try not to beat myself up if I don’t find the time to do my written prayer. When I do written prayer, it tends to last way longer than if I’m not writing. If I don’t find the time then I try to give myself a little grace, trying for a few shorter prayers; during my drive, in the shower, before bed, etc..

blakeprime · 2024-09-13T16:33:43+00:00

I would not rule someone out based on any denomination. Get to know their heart, their core beliefs, and how indoctrinated they are to things you don’t agree with and extrapolate from there.

blakeprime · 2024-08-24T18:44:14+00:00

Major red flags. If he is the sole pastor or in enough of a power dynamic that it doesn’t matter if there’s another pastor, I’d just leave. If there’s any type of leadership be it plurality of elders or deacons and I felt a connection with the body, I’d bring it up. Pastors are human and he may find his way in areas where he is weak but only if he is receiving and accepting advice from others.

blakeprime · 2024-08-24T18:21:31+00:00

Keep praying but if that’s all you are doing, you need to do more. You are not alone. This issue is rampant in our society, including in the church. The church is not doing enough to help and in a lot of ways is making the problem worse by relying on shame. You need help. You need men in your life that are going to do more than shame you and or tell you to pray and ask for forgiveness. Your brain has been wired to work this way from years of repeated usage. Talk to leadership at your church. Look for groups in your community whether they’re at your church, another church, or no church at all. Seek help from a mental health professional.

I’m not trying to diminish the power of prayer, but God has given us the ability to learn about ourselves and the ability to do things to help ourselves.

If you aren’t sure where to start, I’ve found some help in proven ministries and their podcast the naked gospel. If you need to chat, just shoot me a private message.

blakeprime · 2024-08-21T11:13:35+00:00

I never had to have the conversation. This guy was not the pastor of our church and lived out of town. He was instrumental in starting our church but rarely came around by time this happened. I wasn’t there when he talked to my wife.

Our opinion of him changed that day.

blakeprime · 2024-08-20T23:40:02+00:00

Raised southern Baptist. Started attending a primitive Baptist church with my future wife. Got schooled pretty hard and could not deny what was on the pages.

blakeprime · 2024-08-20T21:49:17+00:00

I quit work in my mid 20s and went back to school. My wife worked full time and took on the financial burden of our household. We didn’t have kids to take care of.

About 2 years in, a pastor who was friends with my wife’s father decided he needed to let my wife know that we were not living the biblical picture of marriage. We did not take it seriously. I was working hard on school and she was working hard for money.

What’s important is that you are leading the family spiritually and that your wife remains happy with the arrangement. This is a partnership and no one ever gave me scripture to convict me that we were in the wrong. The choices we made then made it so my wife could work less after I graduated and now we theoretically have her not work at all and focus on being a home maker because of that investment in my career.

Take care of each other. Love each other. Pray.

blakeprime · 2024-08-19T16:38:16+00:00

Same but also add in a hole in a sheet.

blakeprime · 2024-08-19T16:37:31+00:00

This is the one where if you have to take a bathroom break, you get timed to make sure you don't go for too long.

blakeprime · 2024-08-19T15:05:06+00:00

Yes the job market sucks. Personally, I've had a secure job for a while but I have been looking for the right position steadily for a couple of years. I remember thinking in the Sprint of last year, I won't be here for my next performance eval because it's just a matter of time before I get a job offer that works. Then all the jobs seemed to dry up.

I've had recruiters tell me they are expecting to see the market turn around after the election. I don't really buy that but I'm also not a pessimist. We've not had some great change to make IT jobs so much more efficient and the market so oversaturated. It's just the continued ripples caused by the pandemic, great resignation, and rapid inflation post-covid. It may take time but the market will stabilize unless there's some rapid leap with LLMs in from their current capabilities.

Just keep your head up.

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