probably have two last names.

Savage.

Careful. The yaml cult will come after you in a long and formless column, and only self destruct when one of them is a step too far to the left.

The only brits I know have all come over to Canadaland, so all I can offer is best wishes for a speedy transition and a resettling somewhere that feels safe. Promise you’ll update us as to the acclimation process.

Oh God. Please, use anything but Ansible.

So it’s more efficient on time?

Yeah. We joked about the dumb trope where the cheerleader goes down into the dark spooky basement to check on that weird sound with a dodgy flashlight, but then we discovered we’re all apparently the cheerleader.

Wear this face diaper, respect everyone’s personal space and wash your hands properly? We learned this when our TV-nannies showed us MASH and stElsewhere and Scrubs. Too much for us to commit to, though, as if an entire super-nation doesn’t do it every winter.

Yeah. “Who’s in the white House” is the only variable in this equation.

Zoom works for video. I test it a few times a week for a few hours with a few contacts each time.

And a few beer.

It’s a vPub most of the time with some tech thrown in.

I hate to say it, but FB Messenger is reliable for me too : starts well, sounds good, video’s clean, ends cleanly . I need to remind mom how to start that call when it’s with her on her old portal unit, but yeah. Cambridge is the worst thing to happen to good products like M and Portal.

I think I don’t like that Microsoft has access to stored chat messages between kids.

DRMs

Not pluralized. We don’t say “4 managements”

Reconsider hikvision: they were recently dropped as an option for many organizations due to some new data leak, and removed from gov buildings in a number of countries.

Didn’t it get resold again to a Chinese firm? Please tell me they’re independent again.

have ran

have run

spy

Spy ON.

Too busy, those beavers.

Lenovo: you’re okay with sharing secrets with China.

Network Operations Field Tech. They climb the ladders and debug the cameras. Absolutely toughbook.

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You need AI to reword this spaghetti of an article

I love it when writers editing the words of others somehow can’t pass grade-school writing classes.

do learn

I’ve an idea.

workout

‘work out’, here, with the space. It’s the difference between “what’s up Chuck” and “what’s upchuck”, and one of those may involve a hospital visit.