“A Windows-style error dialog box with a red circle and white X icon. The dialog has no message text and displays three buttons labeled ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ and ‘Cancel.’”

Maybe?

Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."

Just found out the british have a dish called "toad in the hole". These are not serious people.

Paloalto have somehow managed to choose the absolute worst date format out of all of them

The GPT-5 models no longer support the Temperature parameter. That was a good way to control the determinism of the output - for some things you wanted the same response every time, for others you wanted more creativity.

I guess now you just have to trust the model to decide what is best 🧐

Stripped screw

Snapped screw

Thought I was doing well to get this stripped screw out, turns out I just made it snap in half 🥲

but why dot jpeg

GitHub - mdjx/AndroidSync: A stupid simple Android to PC sync tool A stupid simple Android to PC sync tool. Contribute to mdjx/AndroidSync development by creating an account on GitHub.

For ages I've wanted a simple tool to sync/back up my phone (mainly pictures) to my PC. Never found anything that fit the bill so I threw something together. Just plug in via USB, pick your dest folder, and it copies everything over, skipping previously copied files.

github.com/mdjx/Android...

Took me way to long to figure out that when Claude Desktop launches an MCP server will inject its own environment variables from the config, and the server won't have access to any system env. vars, unlike VSCode.

Had me scratching my head for a while, stuff worked in VSCode but not in Claude.

ChatGPT desktop agent mode 🤣

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

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The PPP log file is C:\Windows\Ppplog.txt. It's located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft IPSec VPN folder.

MS logging is now superpositioned until the log file is observed

I've got a new role lined up with some very different responsibilities that I look forward to.

If anyone has made the move from a technical role to IT Manager and has some insights they're willing to share, I'm all ears!

Last Friday was my last day at my employer after some 18 years and several mergers / acquisitions along the way. It's definitely a bittersweet feeling, I'm going to miss my colleagues and our clients, some of which I've worked with for that entire timespan.

I hate that I just spent half an hour trying to work out how to access phone storage with C#, got absolutely nowhere, then asked Chat Gippity and it pointed me to a Nuget package that did exactly what I needed, with working sample code.

The machines are winning, they must be destroyed.

Not quite zero but you're pretty close

DNS SPF record details showing a TXT record with TTL 3600 and value 'v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all'.

TIL SendGrid no longer offer a free tier, only a 60 day trial before a min $20/month plan. Going to give Azure Communications Service a go, it's not free but for my volume it practically is. And the ability to do SMS from the same platform is cool.

Turns out ACS uses the same mail servers as M365

On the other hand it just wrote some CSS for me and I'm imagining how wonderful life could be if I never have to write CSS again

Just tried Copilot in VS Code for the first time. Despite giving it the codebase for the context it immediately hallucinated a property a class didn't have, and assigned an enum value that didn't exist to another property.

I'm sure there's a learning curve to get the most out of it, but ughhh

I use social media mostly to keep up with tech stuff, but geez, what's happening in the US is pretty frightening.

Finished a C# dev book as my first foray into .NET, and as a bit of a personal project I wrote a Netflow parser (I have a net/sys-admin background) which hooked into an ASP.NET page and drew real time traffic graphs via SignalR.

The codebase is a madhouse but I loved watching those graphs update 😂

AI suggesting 97% of Italians are called Giuseppe

Apparently 97% of Italians are called Giuseppe

Sounds stupid in hindsight but I assumed when my boy started to walk he'd happily go wherever I went. Found out just how wrong that assumption was during a grocery trip, turns out he has very strong opinions about which way he wants to go, and he does not care one bit about our shopping list 😂

#Caturday

Shazbot!

Been reading One Soldier's War, written by a young Russian soldier about his experience in the Chechen wars. Absolutely brutal read, makes you understand the phrase "war is hell" (as much a book can).

Living in Australia, hard not to reflect on how much we take peace and comfort for granted.

Veeam Update In Silent Mode Fails When Running As SYSTEM I’ve recently been doing a bunch of Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 upgrades and have tried pushing them out via our RMM using Veeam’s silent mode. This…

Just blogged: #Veeam Update In Silent Mode Fails When Running As SYSTEM

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Taskbar with large unused area where app icons could go but for mysterious reasons it's empty

Why does Windows do this :/

TIL if you leave SSMS connected to your free Azure MSSQL instance it will consume the entire 100,000 vCore seconds in around 3 days, even if you don't execute a single query 🤦‍♂️

Congrats 👍