One time I got written up for stating that “failing to take cyber security seriously creates a massive potential liability” for the company. Apparently that was “out of line.”

Well you know what else is out of line? Critical infrastructure organizations (i.e. utilities) that don’t take security seriously.

I do not miss that dumpster fire.

I grew up in a family with a cycle of abuse.

I now understand why my dad was as angry and violent as he was. It honestly made me feel sorry for him and made it easier to forgive him. But in no way did it excuse or justify his actions. What he did was still wrong.

Imagine being a white Evangelical in Texas of all places and somehow believing that YOU are the one being “discriminated” against.

Orthodox Jesus is willing to overlook the sixth commandment as long as the person you’re murdering is Ukranian.

My oldest is a senior in highschool. From what I have observed, appearance – especially for teenage girls – is less about self expression and more about seeking approval from other girls. Clothing is entirely a status symbol.

There’s often a few girls who are the “trend setters”, a much larger group of “followers” that basically look like carbon copies of one another, and yet another group that doesn’t follow the latest “trend” because they either can’t afford to or (much less often) don’t care.

My daughter is obsessed with looks, as are most of her peers. Trying desperately to fit in because she’s not yet mature enough to realize that it doesn’t matter if all the other girls “like” her. It only really matters if she likes herself.

I’ve told her, only half joking, that she will know a guy is good boyfriend material when he asks her which books she’s read lately.

I use Proxmox for Work and Hyper-V at home. Looking forward to retiring my old Hyper-V host and replace it with Proxmox because Hyper-V is a pain.

Virtualization really helps with reliability. In particular, by allowing you to quickly take snapshots before doing anything destructive and by streamlining backup and recovery.

I’m just glad I can still block ads on the cheapest subscription for Disney Plus since I haven’t been able to talk my wife into getting rid of it …yet.

I think you mean an “eeek-ooh-terrorist”

A long time ago, for whatever reason, I decided to do a port scan on my entire WAN subnet. That’s how I discovered that a certain brand of DSL modem (I don’t recall which) made the admin portal accessible from the WAN. And of course the credentials were admin/admin.

I think most hardware providers do better now but it was just mind boggling to me that it even happened in the first place.

Not going to lie, It took me a second.

Buying dirt cheap garbage made by slave labor has consequences. Who knew.

With TP-Link, I would say the bigger concern is that they are reeaaaalllyyy slow to patch vulnerabilities, if they do it at all.

I’m the older brother and have two younger siblings. I love both of them. Even when they piss me off, which fortunately is pretty rare. I have a much closer relationship with my youngest brother. Something that I didn’t realize growing up is that your younger siblings kind of look up to you, even if they don’t know how to say that. If I had known that I probably would have been a little nicer to them.

As an adult, I try to make sure they know they can come to me if they need help. Sometimes I need help too and I know I can lean on them for support.

But, there are lots of people who don’t get along with their siblings for one reason or another. If your brother is unhappy, that’s not your fault. If he’s throwing away an opportunity to have a good relationship with you, then he’s a fool.

Love, not blood, is the thing that makes families and holds them together.

I would call that an excellent wedding venue.

Thanks!

Pedaler’s Pub in Bentonville. Funny thing is we didn’t actually eat there on our first date. Well, I think we had salads and left. Too bad because the pizza was excellent. Only took us 7 years to figure that out.

Same one! Cooper Chapel, Bella Vista, AR.

And here I am running an old Dell Poweredge that probably consumes 10 watts when it’s powered off.

I would not buy them here or there. I would not buy them anywhere. I do not like appliances with ads. I do not like them Sam-I-Am.

If you’re leading an organization that somehow managed to “overhire” 30k employees, then the first person to hit the bricks should be you because you really suck at your job.