Chris Draper

IT Ninja @MarvinWD. Capable woodworker. Passionate archery Hunter

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@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Live on Fidelity.

[Lemma the Optimist @DoctorLemma]

A woman in British Columbia, Canada named Bev York noticed back in December 2015 that her garden gnome had gone missing from her front yard. She didn’t think much of it. Eight months later, the gnome reappeared in a plastic bag tied to her gate, along with a hardcover photo book.

The book was written from the gnome’s perspective. “Hi, my name is Leopold the traveling gnome,” it began. “One morning back in December 2015, I saw a motorhome toddle along Finlayson Arm Road and I thought to myself, there’s got to be more to life than standing knee-deep in rainwater, being peed on by neighborhood dogs and staring at the same view every single day. So I hopped on.”

The rest of the album was photographs of the gnome on a road trip down the west coast of the United States and into Mexico. Beaches, Route 66, the Grand Canyon, margaritas. He came back rebranded as Leopold. Bev never found out who took him. The only clue was a single photo of a toddler cuddling him in the album, and she didn’t recognise the child.

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@elonmusk Welding overhead in a tank top is a bold choice regardless of planet.

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@SwiftOnSecurity I built a test domain this week to validate the depreciation of RC4 against Windows XP computers so we know what the impact is going to be. You people don't know how good you have it.

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So here we are at the end of RC4. How is that going for everyone? This week I have become a Window XP longevity specialist. I am convinced that at the end of all things there will still be Windows XP.

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@kaidja Let's be honest. If you are in the assessment phase right now, you aren't ready for this. Some of us have been working on this for months and still aren't going to be done before the deadline. May the fates be ever in your favor...

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@georgeguimaraes Often not the fault of the security team. Blame outdated business policies based on insurance company requirements or similar. We told them for years that regular password changes were absolutely necessary.

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My biggest long term goal for my IT career is to retire before Microsoft secure boot certificates need to be rolled over again. #Microsoft

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@guyrleech @Azure Yes, this one specific gap is preventing our org from switching to Cloud Sync. I keep patiently waiting and hoping for feature parity to come.

https://t.co/bdbn66WfiZ

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@DeanTTraining When done well you will spend at least two days regretting leg day and probably four days dreading the next one.

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@guyrleech Our testing was easily 5% less RDS users than 2022. We were rolling over 2016 technical debt and rolled to 2022 rather than 2025. 2025 hasn't been great in a lot of instance for us. Domain controllers have been terrible. All virtual.

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Carver's mallet. Walnut and mountain mahogany. A little project in between something bigger.

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@foundmyfitness @mackinprof This is true if you care more about muscle mass than you do about strength.

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@unusual_whales Just like my 9mm, I would rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

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@JeninYounesEsq You don't get to be the instigator and then play the victim. Her choices put her in that situation. She could have complied and maybe got arrested. Do that. Have your day in court. Sue the government. Step one, don't get yourself killed.

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@Dr_Gingerballs Yeah, the dipshit probably thinks you can just catch spaceships. I bet he has never even flown on one.

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@VMware @cswolf Sadly that is no longer true. The current VCF offering is a subscription and you retain no rights to run the product when you stop paying the subscription. You own nothing.

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Don't we look happy? Ask me how happy we were at 2:00 am when we finished packing it out. A great hunt despite the heat and love getting to share it with my wife.

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One more week.

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@alitajran This is indeed good news. Way past due.