Mastodawn

Company wide email last week: there is an emergency patch for some software you’ve never heard of. Please update manually NOW; if it’s not patched by Tuesday, your machine will forcibly reboot.

Me: o software management portal of my work machine, is this software even installed, that I might update it?

portal: it’s not installed, no.

[Tuesday comes]

Your machine is going down NOW in the middle of the workday because you FAILED TO INSTALL THE PATCH, SINNER.

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da_667

@0xabad1dea thanks for reminding me to boot my work laptop, and log in to the work VPN to refresh its machine AD account.

I do like 99% of my work on a Linux VM NOT hosted on my work hardware because, like a lot of us, I poke malware all day, and the thought of poking malware on a system that has direct network access to all of that is not on my most wanted list.