Skattered Thoughts – Episode 9 / The 2022 CU

RT @Redneck_N_IT: New blog post: Introducing Quisitive's Monitoring solution built in Azure for Azure and on-prem resources .

A lot of sysadmins seem to think patching alone is enough. It's not. Not even close, unless you run an entirely air-gapped environment.

RT @Awesomevideos07: Moms are the best ~ A thread🧵. 1. Mother of the year 😂

part 2: "Who's their manager?"."It depends"."on what?"."On how much time you have to hear the explanation".

"Well, it's a department, but not really a department. But essentially it is a department. Almost always." #thingsThatBreakAI.

RT @xenappblog: Anyone looking for an @MSIntune @PatchMyPC Application Expert? I’m available for part / full time hire.

Looking at Kusto-Loco I wonder if there are any #kusto tools for mining information directly from OS resources locally? File system, registry, services, processes, etc. Any recommendations?.

In the future when every service is privately owned and for-profit, the Earth will anxiously watch as the asteroid defense system has 15 secs to save the planet, but has to wait for the 30 second ad to play before it can engage.

So 42% say their use of AI for tech assistance has had no impact on tech assistance interaction w/human colleagues. 30% say it has reduced it. What tech asst are the 42% requesting from humans and not AI? Just curious.

30 yrs in IT and I still treat every unscheduled Friday call with the boss like a plastic sheet moment. That's a Lethal Weapon reference.

A cool little feature for the #azure automation team would be adding a runtime timer to the runbook test UI after you click Start. That's assuming anyone is left in that dept. Either kidnapped by the white Copilot van or . .

AI tip o the day: If you ask a copilot/agent to scan your module for find function defs that are no longer referenced: trust but verify. It can flag items which are still referenced if they're nested. I find it about 90% accurate as of today. Next week will be better I'm sure.

Them: "I hate a CLI. I prefer a GUI".Also them: (opens a web page to an LLM chat and spends hours typing in the text box).

All DoD networks are now considered compromised by Salt Typhoon. Air-gapped LANs might be okay, but that's not a guarantee. I suppose it's back to Signal and FB messenger. Lol.

RT @fabianrodrguess: Working 120-hour weeks?!. On the next episode of Diary of a SysAdmin Podcast, I spoke with @bigchrisatx about his IT j….

Updated my Linux kernel and it broke VirtualBox. I asked @warpdotdev terminal to diagnose. It absolutely knocked it out of the park. Suggested the fixes, step by step, prompted me to exec the cmds and tested the output itself. Invoking Claude Sonnet 4 in the convo. AI FTW!.

RT @dfinke: Tired of searching your #PowerShell?. Use ASTs like a boss. Find-PowerShellSymbol lets you audit all functions, vars & params….

For anyone trying to feed MS Office docs into an LLM this utility from Microsoft might be interesting.

Pretty cool in a kind of steampunk-ish way.

Looks like Reddit is having technical difficulties today.