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I had a really awesome boss who probably overshared about stuff like this but a lot of it also comes with general distrust in the business world. People are out to make a buck and they'll do it anyway they can. Every time you come across a business, consider how it works and where their profit comes from.

A tactic I've used in the past is buying a burner number (prepaid sim), called recruiters with a fake name, number and resume and asked them to provide details about the job which many of them name completely. The ones that don't generally indicate that other recruiters do exactly what I'm doing to them in order to steal clients.

I don't feel bad about screwing over an industry which has no place in the modern world, particularly when they're opportunistically trying to make a buck from me and/or my future company while adding very, very little value :)

Do you use an external monitor? That's the most important part of the setup, IMO.

I said two monitors but what I mean is one for each location - many people I know seem to prefer two but I think it's an antipattern (move your head, instead of alt+tab or similar)

Thanks for the tip, I learnt this a long time ago, I've also moved into an industry where dealing with recruiters would probably indicate other issues like lack of ability to research prospective employers, etc.

I'm glad it's becoming more common knowledge though. Recruiters have long been redundant compared to job search websites like seek.

Probably likely to do with the toolkit used to build the Windows version and inability or unwillingness to port it to Mac.

They really need to start from scratch and build solid, easily testable product because the current methodology doesn't work.

I especially love the bugs where when in one specific track changes mode typing in the comments section drops keys, or when using 'read aloud' the voice randomly changes gender. Office 365 on a Windows 10 LTSC virtualised host w/ no other software.

> For the most part, it sits on one of two desks that I use or it sits on my lap on the train.

If this is the case, do yourself a favor and go and buy two ergonomic screens, keyboards and mice - one for each location.

It'll save you becoming a hunched over laptop gremlin.

I would recommend against using Office 365 web ui for word/excel etc, I'd also recommend avoiding the MacOS Office build for the same reason:

They're both buggy as hell, the type of bugs that will make your document render in unintended ways when somebody opens it on the other side. At some point, Word for Mac decided to remove whitespace between words on my resume - I couldn't see them and generally exported to PDF, but I didn't hear back from prospective jobs that asked for a word format specifically.

Office 365 Web and desktop application really need a complete revamp, they have reproducible bugs and horrible UI/UX in edge cases.

I also really hate when Microsoft decides I want to store my sensitive data on their cloud for no apparent reason despite saving to local disk, it really seems like a 'whoops we accidentally did this but you should try it!' kind of move from MS. This is the perfect example of a monolithic application with chronic feature creep.

So your comment is vaild. Having strict and not-strict validation would be a nice compromise though (:

My personal JSON Pet hate is: ``` x = [ "Foo", "Foo2", ] ``` Is not valid, but the following is: ``` x = [ "Foo", "Foo2" ] ``` Makes dealing with packer configs feel like punching yourself in the face.

I still prefer it over YAMLs awkward initial learning curve.

Funny that you namedrop like three security products but fail to evaluate which hypervisor should be used, which is probably the most important part of a secure environment if unauthorized code execution fits in your threat model.

I don't fully understand why everyone gets upset over browser leaks when in private mode - most websites interested in tracking private sessions will just associate private and non-private sessions by IP address.

If you're paranoid enough to use a VPN for 'private' traffic, you should probably be running such sessions in a VM using something like the tails live CD.

Renaming executables to explorer.exe worked with the application whitelisting solution my school implemented.

That's how we ended up with 8-player age of empires 2 deathmatches after hours ;)

Seems silly to care so much about your tethered connection when the average home network has a bunch of computers, random IOT kit, a end-of-lifed smart TV, friends mobile devices and the random MAC addresses in your DHCP lease pool that you can't even account for.

Network security is unmaintaniable. Start caring about defensible boundaries instead.

Grantparent poster here. Hrm, you're right, I remember purchasing keys 'lighter' than browns, possibly silvers. They're very light, but I'd probably prefer 'too light' over 'too heavy'.