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by thimp 3y ago
I saw a hilarious fuck up a few months ago. Company sets up an AWS hosted always on VPN solution. Connects 1000 staff through it. Celebrates how they saved $50k on the VPN solution. Gets $25k AWS bill for the just the first month of egress
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by thimp 3y ago
Anyone who has driven a radio controlled car will know how quickly this will turn into a big problem.
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by thimp 3y ago
Not every AI company. There are two approaches to solving problems. One is finding problems you didn't have to solve with the latest hammer. The other is having existing problems and solving them with the latest hammer. The subtle diff
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by thimp 3y ago
Went through this fad. Ended up with Muji gel pens. Much less maintenance! Best fountain pen experience I had was actually Rotring ArtPen EF. Pretty bomb proof and you don't cry too hard if you lose it.
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by thimp 3y ago
Well they failed miserably at that first thing. Azure's only leverage is really AD, InTune, O365 etc for corporates and then shovel everything else in there around the edges. Even in the MS house I work in, other than AD, all the produ
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by thimp 3y ago
They're not abandoning AI yet. They are however compromising it pretty heavily with overblown claims about how it's going to make people's lives better. They also have little to no profitability model around it and the develo
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by thimp 3y ago
Yeah that. They enter every single market, deliver a half-assed broken product with dubious gains and expect to pick up business and when it doesn't they shelve it, even if the market is heading in that direction. At the same time they
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by thimp 3y ago
Can I just point out that the vast majority of users I know are basically teetering on the edge of the cliff of losing everything they have ever done. I'm not suggesting that selling your soul to the SaaS vendors (disclaimer: I work fo
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by thimp 3y ago
Amazing. The first thing I use Edge for is to download Firefox. It pleads and begs me not to which makes me want to kill it harder. I hope the EU beats them with a stick until users can make an informed choice of not being upsold crapware b
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by thimp 3y ago
If you are going to do a context switch of this nature it’s best to do something random rather than routine. Sometimes the routine is the problem. Going for a walk every day may become a chore during winter but you feel obliged to do it bec
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by thimp 3y ago
Technology is just a delivery mechanism which can be used for good or bad interactions. The problem is some technology is optimised for delivering the bad interactions because it benefits the technology vendor. Use technology that you con
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by thimp 3y ago
This is a very naive perspective. As a parent for the last 20 years, I had no idea what I was doing and did a shitty job of the first decade. And to this day I see people making the same mistakes I did.
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by thimp 3y ago
I've configured at least 3 VPCs in the last decade which were exactly that. Literally one instance with VPC service endpoints deployed and an egress NAT gateway. Surprisingly common when you have a random shitbox which sucks data up fr
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by thimp 3y ago
I reckon 20% of EC2 is NAT gateways with one instance behind them.
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by thimp 3y ago
I wish for all advertising on the tube to die. It's terrible and confuses the hell out of tourists.
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by thimp 3y ago
This is a terrible straw man. Firstly I have raised two bugs against LibreOffice in the last decade where it can't open files it created and can't print a spreadsheet. Secondly the specifications for proprietary software are not n
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by thimp 3y ago
Some of us just want to get shit done and surprisingly there are products out there which you can exchange for money that allow you to get stuff done. I've found you can generally trade time or money to get stuff done and a lot of the
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by thimp 3y ago
KDE is reasonable but the problem is that not all toolkits are made equal. If you have to fire up something that uses Gtk, which is somewhat inevitable, it really pokes you in the eyes. I tend to use Adobe stuff because it is literally a de
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by thimp 3y ago
Honestly I'd love to do this but I'm getting too old to argue with Linux on the desktop. The apps I want don't exist on the platform (Adobe mostly) and the high DPI and fractional scaling is a mess. On top of that the desktop
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by thimp 3y ago
It's not just the browser, it's the OS as well, at least on Windows 11. Literally everything is optimised to force you to try and use Bing and Edge. If I hit start, I get bing, if I run updates it tries to sell me Bing and Edge. I
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by thimp 3y ago
Better a Norwegian prison than a Soviet gulag.