Recent content by alavaz

Ironically, we've been doing this for a couple of years. You can add RAGs pretty quickly to your own LLM chatbots and create collections of documentation for it to reference. It's a poor mans enterprise search but it's been way better than anything we've had up until now. It obviously doesn't...

They probably have Nessus or something running a canned DNS attack surface scan. It can be a real vulnerability - i.e. you have a CNAME of company.com pointing to myshit.s3.amazon.com, but deleted the myshit bucket. Someone could theoretically take the "myshit" name and then your CNAME will...

Pretty much every big tech company is getting after this in some form or fashion. Microsoft is trying to sell us on their Purview product that they claim is like "zero trust for AI". With a buzzword salad like that, how could it not be good? I do try to maintain a little bit of hygiene with my...

I recently used Claude to replace an ugly shell script I've been maintaining for 5+ years that would configure XML for a java application that we have to run. I was using environment variables along with shell to do a bunch of regex against a default xml config that the app generates but...

For the past 5 or so years I've kept a running log of things I do in Task/Action/Result format. Even for meetings I use that format so that my impact (or lack there of) on attending can be quantified. Then I can copy/past these notes into all the Jiras, SharePoints, emails, and other BS I have...

When I was a kid my mom got Hep A and almost died. She spent a week in the hospital and didn't fully recover for like 2 months - which felt like a lifetime at 5 years old. The whole family had to get vaccinated of course once they diagnosed it.

Kratom leaf powder seemed to agree with my body for pain relief. I hope they ban the 7OH stuff, but not let the powder get swept up with it. I'd definitely use it again for pain relief over any prescription.

This comment seems out of place in response to RFK...

I did Kratom daily for over a year (several years ago now at this point) when I fucked my neck up and couldn't sleep without some kind of pain killer. Once that was over with I decided I liked it and just kept taking it. At some point I realized I was no longer getting much effect out of it and...

I would be worried that you're in a niche tech lead role and it's just going to be a middle manager role anywhere else (even though they'll say it's not). If you leave, I'd go back to firmware dev unless some people you trust can vouch for the tech lead role not being all meetings and bullshit...

Where can I get an EveeQrst t-shirt like that?

I would second the advice of searching LinkedIn but not applying through it. Go directly to the company website. Were you in a cleared gov type role? If so should be cake to find something. If not - I know gov contracting isn't anyone's first choice lol, but should be lots of opportunity in...

There used to be this smoking hot German project manager that worked in the dev office and I used to like to go in there just for some boner fuel later on. I think she liked talking to anyone that wasn't an autist. Anyway, there was a neckbeard dev who worked in there that used to fart it up and...

I'd fire him or conspire to have him fired. I can't stand unabashed farters. That's just embarrassing for everyone. You know everyone that walks by and smells that rank shit is looking around and postulating whos rancid asshole that came out of.

Another rousing round of original thought and philosophy regarding cheating in our favorite 26 year old game. How did it start this time... oh because a guy said "here's what I would like..." and everyone else said "No you wouldn't, you wouldn't like that!!! They aren't even the same crime...