Sylamore

Yeah, I still say "Google it" even though I've been using DDG and more recently Kagi for years - I discovered saying anything else seems to lose people when trying to help them. Even just saying "search for" gives me deer in the headlight responses until I say "search on google".

Defaults matter because many people won't change them, and even people that will change them aren't going to change them every time they touch a new system. Especially when the "defaults" have been that way for decades which brings a sense of gravitational pull back to those tools/sites even if the new defaults change.

Some defaults can absolutely be over ridden by a non-stop barrage of interstitial pages and ad banners imploring your to install Chrome because all the default tools you use are Google sites, which just circles back to defaults mattering.

Because AT&T reported it to the FBI and DOJ, they in turn requested AT&T to not disclose it and there are exceptions in the SEC rules for exactly that scenario of actively working with law enforcement.

Regarding 2FA, it probably means they just enabled it in their access rules for any access to snowflake, but it's highly unlikely AT&T will walk away from Snowflake anytime soon because it had become their preferred BI/Data Analytics platform and they were actively migrating several hundred TBs of data out of Hadoop to Snowflake.

What's odd is until August of last year I worked for AT&T and had to do 2FA for accessing almost every internal site I used, and that extended to most SSO integrated external sites - including the relatively small number of Snowflake instances I worked with.

I do know that not every employee designation required universal 2FA but more or less all IT/ATO staff did.

The doubleclick acquisition was the end of that.

The last project I was working on at a major telcom before jumping ship was a project to migrate off of VMware onto KVM systems managed by Cloud Stack, they already have a major Open Stack environment but that's only for SDN stuff now.

We're talking over 10,000 ESXi hosts in the current footprint and at least 50% of them will be off VMware by the end of 2026.

If they were smart, the people they would be focusing on squeezing are the mid-sized shops that don't have the in-house skills or top level cost focus to force a migration. The small shops can't afford to stay on vmware, the very large shops will have the in-house skills or contract to the right people to get moved, it's the mid-sized people that are most stuck.

If you have legacy Itanium/Alpha/VAX hardware in your closet, you will no longer be able to use the hobby license to be legal, new licenses will be limited to the x86-64 version running in a ESXi VM valid for only 1 year at a time.

Nevermind that it's possible to detect server-side if the content is being simply downloaded, or piped into a shell for processing so that you can change the content based on the way it's accessed.

http://web.archive.org/web/20240406132938/https://www.idontp... (archive because HSTS and the cert is expired).

Which is why I have 3-4 of them across mine and the ex's house, but now with the changes they've had lately with showing more and more sponsored content in the home screen, issues with HDR10+ (mostly Paramount+), changing my theme for random reasons... I'm switching to Apple TV.

Allow me to introduce you to the world of the hackentosh...

Having until recently worked for AT&T I suspected this was the case based on the nature of the problems and the timing of when it started - however I am a bit surprised that the repair took as long as it did. I'm wondering if this broke something in their Openstack environment that hosts most of their LTE SDN?

As someone that often has limited time to research viable options to present to leadership, I expect to be able to negotiate pricing at the enterprise level if we want to move forward. What's deeply frustrating that keeps me from sometimes mentioning an option is having no idea what the rough order of magnitude pricing is. Some kind of pricing is deeply appreciated.

If I don't know whether something will fit within the approximate budget for the project and can't quickly get an idea from other research I'm not going to mention it as an option. I'm used to spending about a million per rack but that's for a complete ESX cluster with storage and networking, if I have no idea how alternatives stack up against that it's hard to put it on the table.

How is this statement's sentiment any different than the grand parent comment?

When I delivered pizzas for a large US chain in the 90s, I got paid $5.25/hr when the minimum wage was $5.15/hr, plus I got tips and I also got "wear & tear" of $1.50 per run. Most of the time I made more in tips than I did in pay. When I started I did not have a vehicle and had to use my boss' vehicle but I was able to save up enough to buy a new vehicle after the 1st year of doing it.

It worked well as a part-time job for me at the time because I had no rent to pay and very few other regular expenses.

I don't think the same would be true today.

Yeah, it's a problem but it's made worse by the fact that on a lot of cars there doesn't seem to be a huge difference between high or low beam in terms of brightness to oncoming traffic. I've seen cars dip their lights, but if you blinked you would have missed the difference. I used to be proactive about dipping my lights when I knew there was oncoming traffic but I learned that if I did that, the oncoming driver almost never dipped their high beams so now I make sure that they have a clear view of my lights before I dip them and it has significantly increased the reciprocation because I guess it signals to them that I did indeed dip my lights.

OTOH, I get flashed by other drivers often when I don't have my high beams on and I don't have after market lights. Ironically, it seems to happen less when I drive the car with the brightest lights (Land Rover LR3 HSE) because it seems to shape the beam best to keep the light out of the opposing lane. It happens the most when I drive my 2005 Mustang which by far IMO has the poorest road illumination of any vehicle I have access to drive.

Microsoft purchased tech and people from AT&T to help boost Azure's telco capabilities as a cloud solution[0].

I haven't followed what's happened since it was spun out, but I know that Network Cloud was heavily OpenStack based so I'd would be interesting to see how that may have changed but I no longer work in the Telco space either.

[0]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improving-the-cloud-f...

Depends, I've seen cat6 stapled to the studs like all the other wiring. I'd probably at least ask for it to be placed in conduit if it were me, but I'd probably also just go in and do the wiring myself before they closed up the walls.

Yeah, how they can claim to "not be a bank" bu act like one all day long baffles me.

I don't have Cash App, Venmo, Zello or any of those other micro payment apps because every single time that I sign up for one, I get automatically blocked on my 1st transaction. Zello is even offered directly by my bank so it's automatically linked to my banking info. Calling customer service leads nowhere. It all works out for me in the end because if I can't Apple Pay or Paypal someone I probably don't need their product or service anyway.

I've experienced this in real life, I was on a committee that rotated meetings between the US and The Netherlands.

During a policy session in Zaandam with some Dutch, UK, Spanish and US peers we had a moment when our Dutch hosts had an excited conversation in Dutch but since it was a tech conversation both myself and the UK member blurted out at the same time that our Dutch must be getting better because we understood most of what they just said and didn't need them to translate it for us.

IBM (and spinoff Kyndryl's) 401k Match only at the end of the year and only if you are still an active employee (or retired) was already bad enough. At least Kyndryl increased the match to 6% instead of only 3%. I left in 2023 from Kyndryl and due to the match only at end of year will not receive 401k matching contributions for 2023. This just makes their 401k even shittier than it already was.

I randomly have the whole Feeds menu option disappear entirely, "see more" doesn't reveal it when that happens either, so I just book marked the different versions of it I found useful to use directly.

Make that https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr and you'll get your friends feed in chronological order too.

Dave explicitly said in the video that the Xbox hypervisor is based on Red Dog, which is not HyperV based, which was also the hypervisor used in early iterations of Azure, but that currently Azure runs on a variant of HyperV.

Worse is that things land in your watch history simply because your mouse hovered over a video on the page and it auto-played, even if it was only a fraction of a second of play time.

I really was happy with my Nokia 1020 and Dell Venue phones. I ended up going back to Android after the death of Windows Phone till I got frustrated with the lack of support of even former flagship devices and switched to Apple. I've gotten used to Apple, but I really still miss how intuitive and customizable Windows Phone was.

That's a broad brush. I don't really see the value in installing Chrome or any other Chromium based browser when Edge is already there, already updated, and also Chromium based. While in my personal life I used Firefox, I've found no reason for the last 2 years or so to bother with putting Chrome on a work device.

The early days of DirecTV were actually a partnership between Hughes Electronics, USSB, Thompson Consumer Electronics (RCA), and DIGITAL. Hughes provided the satellite tech and some FCC licenses, USSB some FCC licenses, Thompson built the set top boxes, and DIGITAL ran all of the technology. Until DirecTV started to in-source their own IT operations in the mid-2000s, all of the systems to run the business were in DIGITAL facilities (the same campus where StorageWorks R&D and early manufacturing was done) in Colorado Springs. To this day, all those Colorado Springs hosted systems running Billing, Account Management and CRM are in the dec.com domain.

HP-UX has replaced most of the OSF/1 stuff by the time I joined in 2011, but OpenVMS was just being upgraded from Alpha to Itanium boxes. I doubt it will survive to make the transition to x86, but it it still the backend for most billing and account management via STMS.

Some of the billing was migrated to AT&T systems, but we halted that project because it substantially increased customer churn just migrating them from STMS to Enabler and changing the bill format, even if amounts didn't change. I guess it reminded folks that AT&T was in charge now.

After the password sharing lock down (which ended up being a price hike for our 2 household child), the lack of compelling content, and now another planned price hike I think I'm going to be dropping Netflix in the near future there's just no content there I value that much.

Unfortunately very familiar with them and their disconnected demands, just have never heard them called HiPPO before and now I have a new favorite term for the over inflated egos in management that make being productive harder.