Steve Hiatt

A tech guy doing tech things I only speak for myself, not on behalf of any organization

[Steve Hiatt @SteveHiatt_IRL]

Accept All Cookies #PyCon2022

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Internet is kill?

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I highly recommend The Last Caretaker. What a fun game!

https://t.co/ibYvd1jjC8

[Michael Swengel @MichaelSwengel]

@Windows Nope. Uninstalling it.

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *copilot* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *startexperience* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers

Get-AppxPackage -allusers *webexperience* | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers

[Steve Hiatt @SteveHiatt_IRL]

@Windows Can we not, though?

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Please do not try to abbreviate "Cyber Security Awareness Month" in your slide decks.

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@TracketPacer It varies by situation, but it's mostly hands-on still.

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Friends don't let friends use us-east-1.

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@wh1t3h4ts test123ilikekittens4567890

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@UTOPIA_Status Thanks!

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Sometimes being the old guy on the team means you still know how to fix the legacy piece of crap your enterprise just can’t seem to get rid of

[Trevor @trevcare]

@TracketPacer everyone was an amateur at somepoint.

even this hardass.

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@UTOPIA_Status ...

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@UTOPIA_Status 🙏

[Steve Hiatt @SteveHiatt_IRL]

@rekdt The best advice I give to young engineers is to make friends.

[rekdt @rekdt]

Setting up a new personal laptop today and FYI, you can still bypass the annoying Windows 11 Microsoft account requirement at setup by:

> get to Microsoft account login prompt
> hit Shift + F10
> type: start ms-cxh:localonly
> create local account
> ???
> profit

[Steve Hiatt @SteveHiatt_IRL]

heh, "vipe ops"

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There are obvious downsides to AI that I won't bother rehashing here, but it sure is nice to be able to use it to craft complicated regex strings, Wireshark filters, or Splunk queries.

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Last night's fire in downtown SLC looks absolutely devastating! :(

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@nellohead Is this rage bait?

[Steve Hiatt @SteveHiatt_IRL]

I really miss being able to work on cloud networking infrastructure. My team is pretty heavily siloed right now. Some of the most fun I had in my career was writing Terraform to spin up VPCs, TGWs, & firewalls on demand.