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I’m on a Ex-Facebook employee group on FB. The amount of upset former employees is beyond belief.

In summary, FB was pressured in 2016 to act on “foreign influence” the press hysterically parroted by politicians and leaders. FB bowed to the pressure. Now that the press lost all validity along with the X purchase, the press can no longer persuade Meta to “fact check.” FB is in a better spot to follow the X model of moderation. People arguing this is a bad move are ignoring the fact that FB was a censorship hotbed for the last four years.

Because of a similar post a few years back I learned you can buy kiosk TVs from commercial vendors. They strip the garbage apps and leave you with a dumb TV. It wasn’t really that much more either. Used them for new conference room TVs for an office build out. They work and last flawlessly.

For those thinking they’re off the shelf drones or some other type of consumer drone, they’ve been reported to be the size of an SUV.

Also I learned from the a recent JRE with Marc Andressen that the US really doesn’t make consumer drones domestically because of regulations but China is allowed to import them here. But still not to say someone isn’t making them at home on their own.

Cruise was garbage when I rode them. Sat in the car for ten minutes waiting for it to go. Someone over the car speakers said they were doing something to get my ride ready. I could have walked to my next destination but wanted to give them a chance.

Waymo has been a little less expensive than Uber/Lyft for me. I just saw a Zoox autonomous vehicle today. That weird looking box with no drivers seat.

For some reason when Apple moved to their own SOC I knew this would be one of the nails in the death of the company. A few other blunders on their part and here we are.

Considering there’s a tech industry in South Korea I would like to know how that might affect global markets and industry from that country.

The whole voting process is fundamentally broken in this country. One side argues we need to fix this and is told it’s fine. I then see articles like this and can’t help but reaffirm they’re right.

You won’t. It’s essentially an arm of the federal government. No efficiency.

I’ve been a subscriber to Wired for almost the entirety of the publication. I also subscribe to their RSS feed. Lately they have been heavily pushing articles painting conservatives as being the most destructive in tech, politics, and society. Their bias has been overwhelming to the point where I feel someone is pulling their strings to push a narrative. You can argue however you want about conservatives, but Wired is losing my ability to like them. They’re becoming a political rag. The Verge has also been dabbling in articles like this one as well lately too. There are forces here trying to influence the media recently.

Can confirm I can’t drink as much anymore and have switched to Lite beers because I don’t feel weird after drinking.

Peoplemover like Walt Disney and vision with Epcot and the original design

Use something like 1Password and integrate with your SAML/SSO provider (Okta).

You have the ability to share a password to anyone even without an account (similar to OTS). Team vaults. Recovery. Etc..

Been using it the last few companies and it’s worth the money.

You always want to take into account who will manage this when it breaks and how often? Roll your own BW instance you’ll be in charge of it 24/7. Outsource the infrastructure to 1Pass and you really only have to manage policies and access.

Do you honestly think all the billionaires supporting Harris are actually for that? They’re going to be tons of loopholes and exceptions to these billionaires that give to her. If anything it’s attack on the middle class.

There was a story of a hit and run in Florida recently where the teenager lost one earbud in the car that hit him. Using Find My they found the driver who hit them and arrested them for felony hit and run.

I feel like this is hoarding on a different level. “Someday I’ll need it.”

It’s become an invaluable resource for my team in debugging scripts we’ve written for our services. There are a couple of third-party integrations that have been helping us greatly increase our release of features and fixes for problems in our company.

I continue to use them instead of Lyft or Uber. Same price practically for me when I commute around SF. I love it.

Unless actually required by your org, choose the N -1 policy in CS to avoid snafus like this in the future. It’s in the console so use it.

That’s what a lot of us are wondering. There’s a lot of outside thinking of the box right now about this in certain circles.

Can someone from one of the major services comment on why they don’t run the N -1 policy on Falcon? My onboarding sales engineer recommended this to me years ago to avoid this situation. Why do critical infrastructure companies run bleeding edge updates like this?

What saved my company from this is the recommended policy I’ve had the last three companies I’ve implemented this in. N -1.

The first time I ever rolled out Falcon, the sales engineer said, “if you want to be on the latest when it releases, choose this policy. Generally customers like to be one release (N -1) behind. This is the safest option in my experience. We rarely have issues but this is the way to prevent issues if we do ship something bad.”

I’ve been telling other admins this is the safest option moving forward. I don’t see a need for my org to run bleeding edge releases of newer products. This also applies to OS updates unless it’s a zero day. Major OS releases I wait for the first .1 update to release. Currently doing this with Ubuntu Desktop 24 LTS as it shipped with missing features from 22 and a broken autosetup functionality. August is the first update to 24 LTS and we’ll test and determine if the bugs have been squashed.

I can’t think of any way to always be on the latest upgrade of anything critical. All of these companies were on the bleeding edge release of CrowdStrike and it brought a lot down globally.

It’s going to be hard to persuade a lot of people to go back to COVID protocols with something like this. “Fool me once…”

Something I read about six months ago was somewhat disturbing to me. It seems there was a commission formed to determine the likelihood of survival after an EMP attack on the United States. I don’t know the name of the report, but I know it was published in 2008. At any rate, the report concluded that if the United States was hit with an EMP attack within one year 90% of the population would die. This was back in the 2000s when we weren’t as dependent on technology as we are today. I can’t imagine what that report would be like for today’s world.

I have a question for anyone else using one of these.

I bought one just to tinker with. It has “integrations” with Spotify, DoorDash, and a few other services.

When I say “integrations”, I have reserves on actually signing in so maybe somebody with developer integrations can answer this.

If I click on the link from their integrations page for DoorDash, it looks like a streaming session to a browser opens up and the DoorDash login page loads. I never leave their integrations page. The logging to DoorDash is within a window on the page. It almost looks like a Nutanix or AWS Workspaces web page loading in the frame. My hesitation is it feels like a remote session into someone’s web browser that captures my login to DoorDash. I didn’t sign in because the normal sign just felt super sketchy.

Has anyone else gone through this process? It doesn’t feel right.

It’s comical nobody gets this reference, sir.

I can also see sales people.

I know from a friend who worked at Brex that said they offered Chromebooks for people who just needed a web browser. That was mostly sales and support staff like HR.

It was being planned and talked about internally in ~2010. They had this idea that because everyone knew how to use Facebook and they already had your data, why not provide an HRIS system built around that.

So many bad Corman movies on Mystery Science Theater 3000. My favorite is It Conquered The World. Lee Van Cleef and Peter Graves. The quote at the end always gets me:

“He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself.”

As a side note, anyone who’s interested in seeing classic MST3K, they have a site gizmoplex.com. Sadly some movies (including It Conquered The World) are not available to stream. I guess they never got the rights to show them or they no longer had the original tapes.

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