“[Twoflower] also believed that anyone could understand anything he said provided he spoke loudly and slowly, that people were basically trustworthy, and that anything could be sorted out among men of goodwill if they just acted sensibly.” -The Light Fantastic, Terry Prachett
By my foggy memory of the mandatory money laundering training from when I worked at a bank a few years ago, basically any unusual transactions are supposed to be reported to the IRS, and bank employees will notice multiple large withdrawals in short succession. Also if I remember correctly the mandatory reporting amount is not per lump sum but includes over time as well. While I worked there I overheard plenty of bonkers reasons people decided to do strange things with their money so just withdrawing a large sum of money for any reason is fine. It’s your money to do with as you see fit .
Simply put, don’t try to hide what you’re doing. Just do it and own it if/when asked
Oh the best part is it was all to fix a problem on Microsoft SharePoint. Not even on-prem SharePoint!
Yeah Powershell has way more weird limitations than Bash but it’s way better than using cmd.exe
I actually had to do that due to something preventing me from upgrading to Powershell 7 on my workstation. Adapted my script for Linux and ran it in Powershell in Linux
As an administrator, powershell is an essential tool these days. There are tunables that Microsoft simply only exposes via powershell even in their cloud Microsoft 365 environments. Just last month I had to rely on Powershell to trim previous versions on SharePoint, and 2 weeks ago I had to use Powershell to adjust a parameter on Exchange.
But also being able to pop a Powershell session and quickly apply a registry fix or run a diagnostic command or even just install a piece of software without disrupting a user’s work is absolutely brilliant (plus saves a call when I can just email back and say “I’ve pushed it remotely, reboot and it should be sorted now”)
I have one friend who uses the R word and insists it’s to reclaim the term, but they almost exclusively use it in a self-degrading manner. They seem to be the only one in their circle that uses the word, and they’ve had lively arguments over whether or not it’s a word to reclaim. I’ve stayed out of it but when the only person I’ve encountered who says they’re trying to reclaim a slur seems to be using it to degrade themselves, I question if it’s worth even trying to reclaim. It’s just a word, let it be entirely forgotten to the sands of time like “forsooth” and any other words I don’t know because they’ve left virtually all people’s lexicons
Building off of this, the PDF standard supports all sorts of craziness. It can have embedded math and logic similar to excel files, to the point there’s templates available for banks which will automatically calculate entire loans (including weird ones like balloon mortgages and variable interest rate stuff) without leaving Adobe Reader, and the recent Doom PDF and Linux PDF projects exploit the fact that pdfs support embedded javascript.
There’s also an actual market for enterprise PDF templates like the banking ones I described with automatic calculations and whatnot. So some people literally make their living selling PDFs to businesses that businesses actually use
I used it briefly in a class around 2015ish. It worked about as well as any Adobe software does, but honestly it was really difficult to use and quite frankly it probably would take just as long to learn the HTML and CSS skills necessary to make a decent website as it would to learn how to make one in Dreamweaver
I feel like it still counts given it’s the exact same plug just a slightly different size
I ran my crappy lawmower on crappy gas I filled up 2-3 years ago, and I’ve never done any maintenance on it. I can tell it’s not happy but also I’m sure this $100 lawnmower is a lot simpler than any road vehicle made in the last 50 years
10 miles is about 1 hour’s bike ride or 2-3 hours of walking. There’s a reason rural America has a town every 20 miles or so, that’s about half a day’s travel by foot, or one can feasibly go to the next town, do something that takes a while and return back by horse or bike within a day
It was actually the 70s but pretty close
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)#Historical_development
That’s of course the 1870s I mean
I love how this very specific topic is posted in an Autism community and not any of the tech communities and yet it’s getting potentially better engagement than if it was posted to a Linux/IT community
But onto the subject at hand, I work at an MSP at the moment (and probably not for long due to management issues) and the one thing I’ve noticed is that the MSP industry is all about risk, and deploying something they’ve not deployed to customers before is a huge risk. They’d much rather work with “the devil you know” than take the risk on something they haven’t worked with yet. Commercial vendors also have the benefit of being able to hawk stuff onto their support to free up your own techs to take more tickets (and therefore make more money) plus of course the extra cost to customers is either a non-issue or a plus due to more margin (because everything an MSP sells you is sold with a margin, usually ~20%)
I will say, this experience has further solidified my belief that paying for outsourced services will cost more than doing it in-house for most businesses. About the only way outsourcing makes sense is if you literally don’t have enough work to hire one dedicated employee to do the thing.
Not long ago I managed the claims database (among other duties) for a large company that contracts with industrial facilities. Built a report for accident free days that also happened to have a count of employees and other metrics. I quickly realized that safety was clearly a matter of the facility and/or the people running the gig and not so much related to company policy or training. Seeing some facilities with an accident every few days and others that haven’t had an accident since the turn of the century, and no obvious trends related to the number of employees it was interesting to say the least
Wait they’re talking on the phone in the classroom during a lecture? That’s messed up. I can’t say I’ve encountered that either of the times I’ve gone to college.
Maybe you could pull the individual aside after a class that they’ve disrupted and ask them nicely to step out of they get an important call? Then of course if that doesn’t help you could escalate by speaking with the instructor about your concern
The part that’s wildest to me is that nowadays with all the ways services are trying extract more value from their users (ads, increasing rates, reducing library size, restricting access to features, etc ) plus the DRM, the media consumption experience of just having the media files is so much better than the experience one can have through most of the streaming services or even DVDs with all of the unstoppable prerolls
Whether you rip your own DVDs (legally murky) or you’re just watching a bunch of public domain silent films, or pirating, it’s really hard to beat just having the .mkv and opening it in your player of choice.
About the only way to compete with that is one decent service with good quality, no ads, an extremely wide collection and minimally invasive DRM
I’m guessing one piece but I don’t know enough to know if that’s correct
At least you didn’t accidentally quote Hammerhead
“So you can all hide behind your desks now And you can cry teacher come help me Through you all, my aim is true”
Brilliant song and it’s cool hearing Dexter perform unclean vocals but also it can be too easily interpreted as aggrandizing school shootings
I pulled an 11 hour workday recently between my main job and my side-gig. With my current insane commute I spent waking to going to sleep either working or commuting. The next day I crashed hard after work and went to bed with a massive migraine immediately after returning home from my full time job. My limit is clearly ~10 hours in a day even with a breaks peppered in