ahamos
@ahamos.bsky.social
Weirdo on a bike. IT stuff. Getting old but undeterred.
One day I'll be brave enough to try replacing parts of my PowerShell behemoth with functions, but #region tags just improved my life dramatically. Kinda enjoying relearning how to make magical things happen in code.
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
One day I'll be brave enough to try replacing parts of my PowerShell behemoth with functions, but #region tags just improved my life dramatically. Kinda enjoying relearning how to make magical things happen in code.
Zava says t-shirts for all! It's the magic!
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Zava says t-shirts for all! It's the magic!
Incredible keynote demo: the CEO of LinkedIn can get his schedule from Copilot! Wow! So ready for the future where there are...calendars.
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Incredible keynote demo: the CEO of LinkedIn can get his schedule from Copilot! Wow! So ready for the future where there are...calendars.
PowerShell ISE experiment lasted all of a minute. Code that worked great in raw PS threw errors. Switched to VSCode + PowerShell extension, per recommendations here, and it's so much friendlier. Thanks, fam!
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
PowerShell ISE experiment lasted all of a minute. Code that worked great in raw PS threw errors. Switched to VSCode + PowerShell extension, per recommendations here, and it's so much friendlier. Thanks, fam!
and on the 7th day, he remembered PowerShell ISE exists. I've been doing this thing 1996-style.
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
and on the 7th day, he remembered PowerShell ISE exists. I've been doing this thing 1996-style.
Time for my quardennial complete relearn of PowerShell to support one small project. Pray for my sanity and my family.
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Time for my quardennial complete relearn of PowerShell to support one small project. Pray for my sanity and my family.
His name was The Lorax; he spoke for the trees.
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
His name was The Lorax; he spoke for the trees.
Any proposed solution that includes "just" is an automatic 🚩🚩. It's a marketing word that makes it seem that problems can be solved simply with novel thinking. "You just enable this setting..."
Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply.
There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵
There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Any proposed solution that includes "just" is an automatic 🚩🚩. It's a marketing word that makes it seem that problems can be solved simply with novel thinking. "You just enable this setting..."
The VW Atlas is actually a micro SUV that only appears large because of Mercator projection.
August 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The VW Atlas is actually a micro SUV that only appears large because of Mercator projection.
Daaaaaaaaamn
Prompt engineering is knowing the correct answer and trying to get the chatbot to produce it.
August 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Daaaaaaaaamn
Conservatives are not ok, you guys.
August 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Conservatives are not ok, you guys.
Given 2 days to read 300+ pages of documentation and churn out a generic SoW for a project, I was told to make Copilot do it. Have now lost an entire day and have almost nothing to show for it. Are we all better at our jobs now?
July 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Given 2 days to read 300+ pages of documentation and churn out a generic SoW for a project, I was told to make Copilot do it. Have now lost an entire day and have almost nothing to show for it. Are we all better at our jobs now?
This is how we'll get Greenland. www.pcmag.com/news/denmark...
Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice
The Danish Ministry for Digital Affairs will move half of its employees off Windows and Microsoft 365 next month as part of a four-year 'digital sovereignty' push.
www.pcmag.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is how we'll get Greenland. www.pcmag.com/news/denmark...
Starting my day old-school with a bit of security analyst work. So oddly soothing to pore over logs and chase details. I don't miss the stress of active investigations, but it felt good to do something meaningful again.
June 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Starting my day old-school with a bit of security analyst work. So oddly soothing to pore over logs and chase details. I don't miss the stress of active investigations, but it felt good to do something meaningful again.
I'm trying to reply to a simple email and all the damned Copilot interruptions are killing me. Just let me write a f*ing message--I DON'T WANT YOUR "HELP".
June 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm trying to reply to a simple email and all the damned Copilot interruptions are killing me. Just let me write a f*ing message--I DON'T WANT YOUR "HELP".
Just sat through a great session at @rvasec.com on why not to use private "unresolvable" DNS zones for your internal network. TLD'S like .ad & .ms are public, and if you haven't registered your company.ad internal domain space, someone else might. #purpleteam
June 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just sat through a great session at @rvasec.com on why not to use private "unresolvable" DNS zones for your internal network. TLD'S like .ad & .ms are public, and if you haven't registered your company.ad internal domain space, someone else might. #purpleteam
Bryan Park Training Races are back, but I'm not sure I am just yet. Got dropped at 10 minutes but fought back onto the group. youtu.be/WsByQx7f2SY
Bryan Park 2025 Season Opener
YouTube video by Adrian Amos
youtu.be
May 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Bryan Park Training Races are back, but I'm not sure I am just yet. Got dropped at 10 minutes but fought back onto the group. youtu.be/WsByQx7f2SY
Reposted by ahamos
i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search.
NO. WRONG.
You have just forgotten how good search used to be.
Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.
NO. WRONG.
You have just forgotten how good search used to be.
Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.
May 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search.
NO. WRONG.
You have just forgotten how good search used to be.
Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.
NO. WRONG.
You have just forgotten how good search used to be.
Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.
Old but still feisty. 🏆
April 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Old but still feisty. 🏆
Lord of the Dicks (LOTD) is a terrible follow-up Tolkein franchise.
During WWII the US deployed a Naval ship whose sole purpose was to make, store, and provide ice cream to troops actively deployed to heavy combat areas. Now you can't even have 9 ball
April 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Lord of the Dicks (LOTD) is a terrible follow-up Tolkein franchise.
Damn near 30 years at this and it's still a huge PITA to pull data from a PDF into Excel. Even Copilot balked at it. Thank goodness for good ol' trusty Notepad, savior of tabs & line-breaks.
April 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Damn near 30 years at this and it's still a huge PITA to pull data from a PDF into Excel. Even Copilot balked at it. Thank goodness for good ol' trusty Notepad, savior of tabs & line-breaks.
Hey Siri, how do you create a slave workforce?
But just to make sure enough people are unemployed,
before the crashing stock market leads to corporate layoffs,
Trump's priming the pump by laying off hundreds of thousands of government workers, especially the ones with uncommon skills.
before the crashing stock market leads to corporate layoffs,
Trump's priming the pump by laying off hundreds of thousands of government workers, especially the ones with uncommon skills.
April 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hey Siri, how do you create a slave workforce?
Every time I drag a .ics file onto my Outlook calendar and it actually imports I say, in genuine surprise, "hey it worked!" I think MS might be raising their batting average with this feature.
April 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Every time I drag a .ics file onto my Outlook calendar and it actually imports I say, in genuine surprise, "hey it worked!" I think MS might be raising their batting average with this feature.
Tractor won't start. Anybody want to jump underneath and take a look?
April 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Tractor won't start. Anybody want to jump underneath and take a look?
Travel safely and protect yourself. I would still LOVE mobile OS's to add an option that unlocks your phone to a minimum set of apps & data by providing an alternate fingerprint, or a "Windows 365" type app where my core apps could run in a remote virtual phone.
We've just updated the @wired.com guide for how to better protect your privacy when you cross the US border: www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...
How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.
www.wired.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Travel safely and protect yourself. I would still LOVE mobile OS's to add an option that unlocks your phone to a minimum set of apps & data by providing an alternate fingerprint, or a "Windows 365" type app where my core apps could run in a remote virtual phone.