Krisjohn

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by Krisjohn 4y ago
What magical unicorn of a place have you worked at that could survive multiple entire teams quitting at once? Do you think the induction manuals literally jump of the shelf and explain themselves to the new hires that there isn't an HR
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
If they want to appear modern and inclusive, why does it look like the inside of a gun barrel from the opening sequence of a Bond film?
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
> The developer worked in that company for ten months. The company fired him and asked for ten months' salary back from the developer. Otherwise, they threatened to sue him. This sails pretty close to the wind. In some parts of the
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
That’s kind of what antivirus web plugins do
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The authenticator you use is less important than the process you use to store the TOTP QR codes/secret keys. Never just feed it into an app, always screenshot it and store it somewhere safe THEN put it in something that can generate yo
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
Windows 10 is fine, so Windows 11 upgrades for most of our customers are based off a timeline working forward from Windows 10’s EoL date. Testing - deployment - procurement - full migration just in time for security updates to 10 to end. We
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
I had a close call a couple of years ago when I had to travel unexpectedly and discovered that my phone provider’s new wholesaler relationship didn’t offer SMS roaming. Since I suddenly had to use a government app to get back into the cou
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
Isn’t this literally the problem with every social media site?
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Couldn’t or didn’t? When I worked IT at a real estate place, tenants routinely didn’t pay rent until chased up by the asset managers.
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
Any negative traits not filtered out in the first round, but routinely filtered out in the second will be disproportionately represented in this pool of people.
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
Our travel agent is an individual with a reputation. An app is not. An app is self-service and self-service is no service. When travel agents were unable to get us something affordable in Paris, we attempted to solve it ourselves with an ap
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
I need a separate window. My WFH environment I use every day has three screens stitched together for 7680x1440. On the left third is my primary remote desktop app that connects me to work with a window for my old desktop PC. The middle thir
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
I'm working on this at the moment. Currently I'm using Bitlocker on a virtual disk. I'm going to test using Keypass to unlock it soon (which in turn unlocks at the beginning of the session with a long passphrase, but unlocks
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
A hiring manager that assumes businesses are, by default, good unless proven otherwise is a red flag for anyone looking to work at that business. Not only is it typically the opposite, but advertised jobs are disproportionately bad because
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
Neither. If you want adoption then it needs to be; a parallel option to a password, and more convenient than a password. You don't want to; add more layers to a work flow, or implement a system where the user can lock themselves out of
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
The problem isn't that you're that person, it's that 90% of the responses are that person. I find general forums to give answers that don't answer the question. I find product-specific forums provided by the vendor as a
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
"Person whose YouTube channel should have been shut down years ago surprised it's finally happening"
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
"Messaging with push notifications only" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
The Venn diagram of crappy air carriers and air carriers that ban devices that let travelers find their lost luggage will make its way to a circle.
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
There is no difference, because you don't know how many other guns were 3D printed or milled for this buyback scheme that now won't be traded in. Maybe there will be an increase in ghost guns caused by the policy and its subsequen
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
btrfs is a horrible mess that will likely lose your data. For the few production systems we implemented it on, every single normal failure that other file systems can recover from had resulted in complete loss. We've had to implement a
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
Western Australia had a three year daylight saving trial imposed on us with short notice back around 1999. A decade later it was still dangerous to try to sync a calendar through iCloud from a Mac to a PC running Outlook. And I discovered a
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
> " It’s too early to say that the test is “meaningless,” “totally meaningless,” or “a fad.”" No, it's not.
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No two companies deserve each other more
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The Dell XPS laptops are the worst crap Dell makes. They're like Toshiba Satellites. Why anyone would take a perfectly servicable distro like Ubuntu and ruin it on an XPS is beyond me.
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
Arbitrary decisions with a cost to employees in an environment of stagnant wages and rising costs are not going to make anything better.
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Sigh When the phrase "The King is dead, long life the King" is used, the two kings are different people; the one that just passed and the one that replaced him. If the King is replaced by a Queen then the phrase is "The King
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by Krisjohn 4y ago
I regret every cent I ever spend on Dilbert crap.
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If you don't think that flipping back and forth between centralise and decentralize is a cycle that will repeat forever, then you haven't been in computing long enough.
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I re-write recipies to call things by different names when they change. I got sick of losing track of the current state of something when a recipe is all "take the eggs, scamble the eggs, add the eggs to the mixture, let the mixture si

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