RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115328370499323778 oh deloitte. remember when i found one of their domain controllers publicly accessible on port 445 way back when? before azure normalized just putting AD directly on the internet with no firewall or protections whatsoever? good times.

nobody here has a normal relationship with technology

"Don't Forget: Remote MCP Servers are Just #curl Calls" https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/dont-forget-remote-mcp-servers-are-just-curl-calls

The proper way to drink whiskey - and live.

@da_667 I just realized that your account picture pictures a VISOR! Maxi respect!

My husband works in PR. He's really good at it because he is a person with whom it is impossible to stay angry. He even makes people who are angry at each other less angry just by being there. I don't know how he does this. So I shouldn't have been surprised when I asked him if PR people are […]

"What is fascism?"

The #PSConfEU MiniCon schedule is here! 🚀 An evening of #PowerShell, #Automation, #AI, #DSC, #Testing & more. 📅 14 Oct 2025 | Online | Starting at 4pm (CET) 🎟️ Tickets: synedgy.com/psconfeu-minicon #DevOps #Community

Finally I was able to connect to an #openstack compute instance running on my #raspberrypi5 🎉 I am in the Bring Your Own Cloud #byoc business \o/

#azure #mfa #phase2 > In phase 2, multifactor authentication will be required for all users that leverage Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Azure mobile app, laC tools, Azure Identity SDK, and MSAL. Phase 2 enforcement is scheduled to begin after October 1, 2025.

Happy #caturday you all!

Criticizing Linux on Mastodon is really the best way to make men type paragraphs, isn't it?

Jesus FUCKING Christ, that's quite a jump. Just jacked the price up by a third. #xbox #gamepass

Punk was hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing (had right of way). Punk wore plenty of metal, and slid/rolled all the way over the car, car showed some pricy damage. Driver got out and shouted, as assholes do. Punk shrugged it off, looked at the damage on the car, to the crossing, to the […]

🔐 SSH on Windows is levelling up. At #PSConfEU 2025, Microsoft’s Tess Gauthier & @stevenbucher13.bsky.social showed how: 🖥️ #SSH is default on Windows Server 2025 🛡️ SSH Posture Control secures configs via #Azure 🌐 SSH Arc = remote access without public IPs #PowerShell #WindowsServer

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I really need y'all to help make #byoy trending this month because we need #bringyourownyubikey to happen and help us spread #phishingresistantmfa

Last month my premium members learned about scripting with event subscriptions, creating a rich, interactive console experience and much more. https://jdhitsolutions.com/yourls/newsletter #powershell

My #microsoft365 family plan still contains 60 minutes of #skype credits. Can I just use those for AI? 🤔

This is still golden, while is is also super provocative about #powershell Do developers really dislike PowerShe

Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people. And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off. Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts. Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public […]

💻 PowerShell can scrape anything — even if it’s not meant to. At #PSConfEU 2025, @james-oneill.bsky.social shows how to grab data from APIs, HTML & apps with browser tools and native cmdlets. 🎟️ 2026 → Wiesbaden: psconf.eu #PowerShell #ScreenScraping #DevTools #Automation

Kira: Spite. It gets shit done.

finally some normal fucking people on reddit

Look at this domain name, and this article is pretty cool too! #idontlikeai #powershell #dsc https://www.idontlikeai.dev/office-installations-made-easy-introducing-officedsc-powershell-module/

I am trying to experiment with the cloudy version of both Jira and Confluence and compared to the Datacenter version there is WAY TOO MUCH going on on the pages there are just too much notifications about new features which makes me feel like my brain is getting overloaded. Just after 3 minutes […]

I finally zipped up the migration away from Host Europe as they - were bought by GoDaddy and - tried to move my mails to MS 365 Now I cancelled the required MS account and cancelled my HE subscription. That was last weekend. Today I received a "What's New" email from MS. I cannot unsubscribe […]

You've been waiting for it, and now it’s here! The sponsorship brochure for #PSConfEU 2026 is out. 📦 4 packages give you the widest range of opportunities! 👉 psconf.eu/wp-content/upload... #automation #IT #Wiesbaden #Germany #PSConfEU

💡 AutomatedLab - Basics 👨‍🏫 Jan-Hendrik Peters – Cloud Engineer at SWK AG & #PowerShell enthusiast 🗓️ 14 Oct | #PSConfEU MiniCon 👉 Free ticket: synedgy.com/psconfeu-minicon

I am trying to experiment with the cloudy version of both Jira and Confluence and compared to the Datacenter version there is WAY TOO MUCH going on on the pages there are just too much notifications about new features which makes me feel like my brain is getting overloaded. Just after 3 minutes […]

What The Actual And I Can't Stress This Enough FUCK Is This!?

#microsoft Edge generates scrolling text advertisements _in the address bar?_ E.g. "🏷️ Get 4% back!" When did that start?! Oh. Edge 132, it looks like? (`Settings -> Privacy, search, and services -> Search and connected experiences -> Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge`. I'm […]

Don't forget to push to prod before you leave for the day!

The witch’s robes flapped in the gale as she knelt on the beach. Waves crashed and she squinted as the sea spray lashed her face. She withdrew a small syringe from the water as the magic started to work. As she stood, the wind calmed to a gentle breeze. The ocean settled until it was smooth as […]

💡 Be Your Own Sherlock in the Realms of Microsoft Graph 👨‍🏫 @hcritter.bsky.social – Senior System Engineer at CANCOM GmbH 🗓️ 14 Oct | #PSConfEU MiniCon 👉 Free ticket: synedgy.com/psconfeu-minicon #PowerShell #Microsoft #Graph #automation

Autism causes vaccines. There it is. There IS a link.

I wrote an article about what I wish juniors in cybersecurity would ask for and contribute when asking for a mentor and career guidance, in light of the terrible tech jobs market. https://tisiphone.net/2025/09/24/reasonable-expectations-for-cybersecurity-mentees/ #cybersecurity #infosec […]

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

Stop me if you've heard this advice before: CISA says the top three lessons from an incident response it recently conducted at a federal agency are: remediate vulnerabilities, test your response plan, and review your EDR alerts. www.cisa.gov/sites/defaul...

What is this PGP thing and do I need it?

at this point anybody still using solarwinds should just be considered a huge security risk https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/solarwinds_patches_rce/

🖥️ “Big Brother is Watching!” by Bartek Bielawski taught how to troubleshoot client machines remotely using #PowerShell without disrupting users: 🧰 #Sysinternals (Handle, Procmon, RAMMap) 📡 #pktmon > netsh 🧪 Smart prep = zero friction 🎟️ psconf.eu #RemoteSupport #PSConfEU

#bing search results #enshittification level 100 Well done Microsoft.

This is beautiful; pure poetry: https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/ (Obsidian’s dependency-management philosophy.) I have a suggestion: If you have a project or repo that's getting popular, stop writing features for a few months and implement this instead. #softwaredevelopment […]

How does one supposed to install the #azure Arc agent on a Linux server when #microsoft disabled #devicecode flow logins?

Hey @cirriustech have you seen this when it was most shared during the summer? https://github.com/switch-ch/SwitchPwshXDRNotebooks

FTR, you can fix this by: 1. Unlock your phone, but don't swipe up. 2. Long press somewhere on the screen. 3. Press the `Customize` button. 4. Tap the text you want to make more legible. 5. Select `Solid` instead of `Glass` Because of course it […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

refactoring is an act of kindness to your successors

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