Seeing it get rolled into a single IRM is a good thing. That IRM is cloud-only is not.

I do feel that Grafana are slowly becoming more cloud-first, regardless of that a lot of work is done in OSS. Even if I look at the blog, most content there is about Grafana Cloud. The "Grafana LGTM Stack news" section isn't navigable.

With Opsgenie shutting down, and I see that DataDog releasing their on-call feature; maybe migrating away from the LGTM solution might be a whole thing if there's nothing to replace OnCall; not that it would be easy, mind you.

There are certainly more alternatives than ever. I am certainly team "hosting your own on-call is a terrible idea".

Standalone tools like Rootly (where I work) but also likely every observability company in the next couple of years will follow what Datadog has done.

That’s not a mail client, it’s a GMail client

What type of registry? GitHub packages?

I would hazard a guess, more in the vein of the much-maligned "Windows Registry".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry

Is your partner not following the signs saying where to tap in?

Been there. Done that. Even the guards admit it's unreliable.

I’m definitely in the category, however, the job situation is so dire that if I quit my job, there’s nothing to replace it.

it’s like we were playing musical chairs, the music stopped, and then they took away half the chairs.

Definitely wasn't the case in 2021 when this was written.

The one about "developing coping mechanisms rather than skills" definitely resonated. Life isn't gonna be perfect though so learning how to cope with less than ideal situations is a required skill.

Not everyone is using Exchange Online.

only like vast majority, yes, i know

We'll see how long that remains the case when Microsoft can't keep the Chinese government out of its cloud.

100%, but they are still not really interested in onpremises exchange, at least the latest version is 2019 which is no longer in mainline support, only security with no new version announced

these days it looks like every email is a teams message anyways, so unless they also release onpremise teams server, i don't see a future of exchange very bright

maybe everyone will move to google workspace in the future?

Teams will crater in popularity once it's no longer bundled with Office 365. Nobody uses Teams because it's good, they use it because it was free with stuff they already had.

2019 is technically still receiving feature updates because of the delay of the new Exchange on-prem, though however that transition takes place will be wild.

I don't think we will be able to get rid of teams that easily 1) it's a PITA to migrate teams accounts between tenants not mentioning migrating stuff off teams to another solution 2) companies use teams as "shared folders" in respective channels 3) copilot which enterprises even pay extra for

Teams shared folders are simply SharePoint folders. Like, they literally are. So you're not dependent on teams for accessing them.

technically correct, but people would still need to get used to the change

> Teams will crater in popularity once it's no longer bundled with Office 365. Nobody uses Teams because it's good, they use it because it was free with stuff they already had.

And what if the unbundling doesn't affect the price? Don't confuse MSFT making mediocre products with them being commercially stupid.

Working for a non-tech company, I can tell you that most love Teams. It was a godsend during Covid, people haven’t really seen anything else, and in all honesty it does what it’s supposed to do

You think outsourced point-and-click administrators of company on-prem servers could do better?

A valid point - you can't match Microsoft's resources and in-house expertise.

But you are probably a much less appealing target. Also, you might be willing to lock it down more than Microsoft, which has to please all those millions of customers and wants to admin it at the lowest cost possible - including possibly minimizing support calls by using permissive settings - and not with the most security possible.

Indeed, one of my favorite inconvenient truths is that geo-blocking remains one of the most effective, and essentially free attack surface reductions you can make.

If all your staff are in a country, there's no reason for your internal tools to be accessible from any other country. If all of your customers are in a country, there's no reason for any of your web presence to be accessible from any other country.

Yes. Managing Exchange is not that hard. Having everyone's eggs in one basket though is just dumb.

Not that hard for you. I think, you’re overestimating the average employee. At my current company, the maintainers absolutely don’t have a clue how it works, and they are completely unusable when there is a problem with it. They don’t know even the basic things, they just blindly follow transcripts from Microsoft, like telecallers.

It's a shame that JB doesn't have a code hosting product outside of Spaces, Spaces just does too much for me

It’s a real shame their new editor (fleet) is also Java and thus not possible to run it in something like code-server/gitpod.

One day I’ll have goland on an iPad… maybe… ;)

Every year I play this, started with CorsixTH a few years ago when it became stable enough to play.

Those damned earthquakes destroying different equipment (usually the slack tongue slicer) annoy me, but it’s all good fun though.

I tried to play the reboot, but I prefer Theme Hospital.

On the mend.mid is my favourite piece of music from the series.

It's poorly explained in the game, but you can increase the amount of machine health by researching "Improvements". One also has to keep track of the machine strength which is only visible in the bottom right corner when hovering over the machine. It will deteriorate over time, and at some points the machines will have to be replaced.

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