Gregg Prendergast

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dad, infosec worker in healthcare, gsec, catholic, lefty, into things. he/him. I’ll follow you back!
Gregg PrendergastJun 1, 2023
Show threadMax Leibman has moved!Jun 1, 2023

@ubiquity75 The end of these programs—and who was so eager to see them end—made it very clear to me how capital sees its place in capitalism:

Capital’s goal isn’t prosperity. Capital sees our prosperity, to the extent we enjoy any, as a byproduct, as waste. And it will come for that waste as soon as it can.

Gregg PrendergastJan 11, 2023
TechmemeJan 11, 2023

Memo: Microsoft to give US salaried staff unlimited "Discretionary Time Off", plus 10 corporate holidays, leaves of absence, mental health time off, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23550470/microsoft-employees-unlimited-time-off-2023
http://www.techmeme.com/230111/p30#a230111p30

Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off

Microsoft is giving all its US employees unlimited time off on January 16th. The new policy is designed to make life more flexible for Microsoft workers.

The Verge
Show threadGregg PrendergastJan 11, 2023
Hey look at me, I figured out how to keep my work laptop session going via a desk fan, a wall clock, tape and some paper clips. Instead of being quiet about it, I'm going to make a TikTok with my face and everything on it!
Gregg PrendergastJan 11, 2023
Why all these idiots telling the goddamn Wall Street Journal how they keep their sessions active on their work PCs while working from home? Are you stupid! Who do you think reads the WSJ?!?! https://www.wsj.com/articles/employee-productivity-workers-avoid-monitoring-11673445411
Mouse Jigglers, Fake PowerPoints: Workers Foil Bosses’ Surveillance Attempts

Companies that track employees’ productivity run up against their inventive workarounds

The Wall Street Journal
Gregg PrendergastJan 9, 2023
Hospital IT is intense. Priority 1 overnight call about overhead paging system being down. Such a system isn't just for show; it's critical for patient safety. Think of code blue and other coded alerts. We all wear the codes on our badges so that when the overhead paging system goes off, we can reference which alert is being announced. It's really the most urgent alerting system in the enterprise, ahead of voice or mail or teams chats or P1 calls. It's beyond ultra critical, and much of it is analog because the bits need to be converted to sound waves. Super interesting system.
Gregg PrendergastJan 9, 2023
Dropped a "French AA has wine at their meetings" joke in this morning AA meeting and it went over really well, feeling pretty proud of it, my francophile bonafides notwithstanding
Gregg PrendergastJan 9, 2023

lol this will make infosec teams really popular.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3684908/if-governments-are-banning-tiktok-why-is-it-still-on-your-corporate-devices.html

If governments are banning TikTok, why is it still on your corporate devices?

When lawmakers and higher education take steps to prevent official users from accessing the popular video-sharing app on their devices, corporations should sit up and take notice.

CSO Online
Gregg PrendergastJan 9, 2023
How about they bring ChatGPT to Powershell. Want an Ask-GPT module, and I'm too lazy and unskilled to write it myself.
Show threadGregg PrendergastJan 8, 2023
can't relate to your drinking of Chateau Petris, sorry lol
Gregg PrendergastJan 8, 2023
This Beverly Hills AA zoom meeting is kind of a trip. Very old millionaires in an AA meeting....different demographic this morning lol. Not what I'm used to.