MTO and Microsoft Teams is a trip

How can you not be romantic about broadcasting

do people still blog? anywho, here's a story about how i (finally) set up home assistant altrhombus.com/2026/02/27/h...

Jailed during the 2021 coup in Myanmar, American journalist Danny Fenster passed the time by meditating and listening to podcasts that had been smuggled in. Read the comic Notes from a Burmese Prison: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

“I, Tony Evers, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, do hereby proclaim February 20, 2026, as FRIDAY FISH FRY DAY throughout the State of Wisconsin.”

They said it couldn’t be done

Getting around to some much-needed RSS organizing, and I've noticed that the MSRC blog feed just kinda stopped on September 4. The old feed at msrc.microsoft.com/blog/feed is still there, just frozen in time. Anyone know if the RSS feed is coming back?

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Grok” Okay, and? I ask Gandalf and he called me a Fool of a Took

📊 There are *so* many chart types out there. Which one should you use for what kind of data and goal? I tried to answer the question in a new blog post (and poster!): www.datawrapper.de/blog/chart-t...

Yes, the Nintendo Switch 2 supports WPA3 networks.

Belated Happy Windows Server Lifecycle Equinox to those who celebrate (yesterday was 595 days since 2012/r2’s end of support, and 595 days until 2016’s end of support)

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Happy Costco Dill Pickle Salad season to those who celebrate

Apple-managing Intune admins: look for an updated ABM agreement on April 14.

Oh dear, oh my

First the Vita got TLS 1.2 support, now the PSP supports WPA2 networks. Love watching the scene take good care of older consoles ❤️

Spent some quality time last night undoing some modifications to a PlayStation Vita TV. The previous owner must have been trying to free up space and deleted the theme music!

tired: shutdown.exe wired: SlideToShutDown.exe

Whenever I work with an Intel Mac, I realize how quickly I’ve forgotten how loud (fan noise) and hot those things ran.

Bob Uecker Nesting Doll Snow Gauge. 1 p.m. Brewers Uecker is 4.5". Cardinals Uecker is 3.5". Braves Uecker is 2.5".

Are people still using offline image servicing? If, and it's a huge if, were to restart WIM Witch, would it still be used? #sccm #configmgr

TIL saying “Hey Siri, belay that!” does not actually belay your request

Every marketing meeting at Microsoft in 2025.

a watched DNS record never propagates

Pro tip: if you block your TVs from accessing the internet but you still want them to have the correct time: Android TVs: time.android.com Samsung Tizen TVs: time.samsungcloudsolution.com (Older Samsung TVs may also use pool.ntp.org, YMMV)

Hot product idea: PoE Christmas lights

Show-and-tell Friday: Lapster is a little tool for viewing LAPS passwords in a mixed environment (legacy LAPS, Windows LAPS on-prem, Windows LAPS Intune). No prebuilt binaries yet, but the source code is available at github.com/altrhombus/l...

I’ve been thinking about those usually-hilarious Apple Intelligence summaries and how they have a dark side too. It’d be really handy if this could tag content as potentially spam/fraud. Or at the very least only allow summaries from contacts or other known parties.

This is one heck of a CD Lookup result

Oh hey! I found my mxchip azure IoT devkit. Time to thing of a good (or dumb) project to build..

Finally started cleaning out the storage unit today and found this Windows XP-era 🐐 of a keyboard

If you hear a rustling sound, don't worry, that's just me rummaging through your follows looking for accounts to add. Like a raccoon who helped themselves to the fridge after letting themselves inside your house.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Sysadmin: that's great, now get that out of the server room please

It only took me like 4 hours, but I've finally automated a task that took me about 10 seconds a month

I’m bad with these, so instead of an #introduction I’ll share a picture of the aurora I took last month