Notices by Mat DJ 🐶 :verified_paw: :donor: (shibashecurity@infosec.exchange)

@ryanc You know, I was always partial to Swordfish

Completely pedantic bugbear: people who say 24/7/365

It should either be 24/365, or 24/7/52

I'm just reading a document where they've said 24/7/240 - and of course what they mean is five days a week for 48 weeks.

Which should, of course, be 24/240 or 24/5/48

Utterly inconsequential, I know.

I'm now off to deal with this colleague that keeps pronouncing it "marshmellow"

Croissants and coffee for breakfast.

Just spent two minutes looking round the kitchen trying find where on earth I'd put the squeezy honey.

#coffee #breakfast #honey

"Mat, can you write me a single side about the issue - keep it simple, not too techie"

Currently on page 4.

I always do this, and then I spend three times longer editing the thing down, rather than just writing it concise in the first place.

Why use simple words when a plethora of multisyllabic bon mots will do the job indubitably

It occurs to me, I wonder if non-Brits have a clue what I'm talking about.

Are the delights of an egg and spoon race solely a UK phenomenon, or does it have a wider appeal?

Sorely tempted to just sack off Outlook and Team's fat clients, and just live in the browser for both of them.

They both seem to have been coded using mashed potato.

Maybe I'll give it a go for today, and see how I get on.

Corporate standards be damned!

#microsoft365 #outlook #teams #mashedpotatoes

Just had to look up the plural of plectrum. Apparently it is plectrums or plectra.

You don't hear that at gigs , do you?

"Got to the end of the encore, and Mayer flicked his plectra into the crowd"

Ew.

#guitar

Noooo!

I just put a massive bag of grass clippings into the cardboard skip at the tip.

While I had my head in my hands, mortified, your main guy there told me not to worry about it, it happens all the time, it'll be fine. Just go on your way, we'll sort it out.

So I did. As I pulled away, hot from embarrassment, there were three men climbing into the skip with nets and brushes, and they'd closed the skip. I can imagine they thought I was a complete idiot, or ruder words.

PS I have no idea how well that translates to American

It's a steak experiment

We have four rump steaks - supermarket, not the usual local farm steak we'd normally pick - and instead of the usual butter pan frying, we're air frying them today.

Salt and pepper, coated in extra virgin olive oil, let's see how this goes. Not convinced, myself. But let's see...

@horse Nah, no need, that'll do nicely! Thank you very much for your help there, saved me some faffing about

Just looking at this CVSS 9.3 about #VMware #ESXi

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0033.html

Is it worth breaking the Christmas change freeze by classing this as an emergency change? It is a 9.3 after all.

I can't see any evidence of any proof on concept. I can see there's the workaround of removing the USB controller, but I've yet to find out if this is going to involve reboots on Windows servers. I know I can easily test it, and I'll get there a bit later this afternoon.

In the meantime, if any of you have any answers to these questions, I'd be most grateful:

- Do you know if there's a public PoC?

- Do you know if removing the USB 2.0 controller needs a reboot?

Arran Quarter Cask The Bothy

I don't know how to do tasting notes. It's very good.

https://www.arranwhisky.com/shop-whiskies/single-malts/14-quarter-cask-the-bothy

#whisky #whiskey

Has anyone actually ever used the Word 365 templates?

I particularly like "Clean elegant resume", which to my UK eyes, is something I'd dearly like my Linux VM to do one day.