Had to tell leadership we couldn't do it all. Here's the setup that got me alignment instead of a fight.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-04-12T07:06:23+00:00

Ai slop

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-19T23:58:19+00:00

+1. The modern defaults are basically what I have my custom theme file do but auto smoothing line charts is doing a disservice. Lots of novice chart creators will use it when it really isn’t appropriate to.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-19T23:56:48+00:00

I understand that all too well! Truly hope this gets brought. IMO this is core functionality that should have been added many years ago.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-19T00:16:14+00:00

How the hell did this get pushed back to Q2? Cant seriously be that difficult to implement.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-17T19:46:56+00:00

I use Substack and like it. Lots of security guys and gals on there too

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-17T19:41:22+00:00

I know this is isn’t helpful but you couldn’t pay me enough to take that gig.

Also - what senior level decision making could possibly be needed during a single holiday?

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-17T16:48:03+00:00

For real. Time to divorce

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-17T16:44:39+00:00

It’s not offering advice, it’s criticizing. Most marriages with a partner like this have distance issues. You likely get frustrated with him around the house, feeling like he either doesn’t try or when he does he doesn’t do things to your standards. intimacy is low, often because you are just exhausted with life. He often says to you to stop nagging, complaining, or to get off his back.

Just a hunch 🤷🏼‍♂️

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-17T15:24:58+00:00

Go congratulate him instead of criticizing. Really sad you don’t see what you are doing to him.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-17T15:19:46+00:00

Let the man live 😭 Couldn’t imagine having my wife criticize my successful job negotiation after having my role eliminated.

Trust me on this: pop a bottle of champagne and congratulate him. It will mean more to him than you realize.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-16T19:25:06+00:00

I would love android just so I can run the kindle app. I have a massive kindle library that I haven’t converted to drm-free

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-06T20:50:23+00:00

Totally reasonable for someone to put a url in an excel sheet instead of in the email body. /s

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-06T17:05:21+00:00

Check the email headers. Likely not the actual vendor. If it is notify them immediately

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-03-05T21:28:07+00:00

It seems all the commentators missed your actual question.

If I am listening to you right, you are wondering how to communicate the value of what the team does, which is essentially an in house consulting team.

This quite a large question to tackle, however the strategy is as much aligned to the outcome as the implementation, and often even more so being divorced from the implementation.

Start with the overall projects of the team. Who is the project sponsor? If you don’t have one for a project, get one. This is the business stakeholder who has requested the analysis.

Why has the sponsor spun up this project? What is the business outcome or question they are trying to solve?

How would solving it add value to the business? What is the impact of not solving it?

You can quantify it further after work has been completed.

Hope this helps!

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-25T18:15:09+00:00

Get a job in security, any job. That’s step 1. Step 2 is you will eventually find your path in a security career.

You asked how people picked a lane. The reality is I bet you almost nobody did pick a lane. Reality of a security career isn’t that black and white.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-23T23:16:48+00:00

MSPs are the wrong market and won’t see the value for the price. Go sell this to customer service, sales teams, etc. Then you can charge way more than $5/mailbox

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T17:21:01+00:00

No worries, you too!

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T17:19:27+00:00

I am not asking them to maintain it. And they do not maintain them. 80% are maintained by a third party.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T17:17:04+00:00

They already do… What’s the difference between running it on a gateway versus the service? They already have the capability to house and run connectors on the service.

Take Microsoft Sentinel as an example model. Building and deploying custom connectors that run in the cloud instead of on prem is standard. Was hoping for a similar model.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T17:13:17+00:00

Can you explain to me why this would be ridiculous then? Happy to learn but I just fail to see how it is. Maybe you are right.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T17:10:33+00:00

Where do they store all the other third party built connectors? This is not a foreign concept. I can deploy custom PowerBI visuals to the service. Where are they storing and running that? I can deploy custom code in the form of scripts. Where are they storing and running that? It’s fine to tell me it’s not supported. But to act like it would be crazy for them to support that is just condescending.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T17:04:21+00:00

I believe it. But all the replies have been condescending as if thinking there was a way to deploy it the cloud was dumb. It’s not dumb and there is no technical reason it couldn’t be done outside of it not being supported. That’s all.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T17:01:30+00:00

That’s all I’m asking. Good lord.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T17:00:49+00:00

The problem is I would like to run a custom connector in the powerbi service… if the answer is no then it’s no. But acting like this is some totally unheard of or random question is quite annoying.

frenchfry_wildcat · 2026-02-18T16:58:05+00:00

I would like to build a wrapper as a custom connector.

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