Mark Wragg

@wragg.io

Microsoft focussed DevOps Engineer working with and interested in Windows, PowerShell, Azure, AWS etc. Blog @ https://wragg.io * Humans can make mistakes. Check important info.

Just tried to change my password on the website of a very big UK telecoms company and it said the password I put in the confirmation box did not match what I'd set as my new password, even though I had copy/pasted. It turned out it was because the new password contained a single quote character.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing while bad people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

I spent a day troubleshooting DFSR with Claude and it gave me lots of interesting advice and analysis but none of it fixed the problem. I eventually ran out of tokens (free tier), and was pretty close to just sucking it up and buying a subscription. But then I decided to go old school.. /1

My kid ordered apple slices in his happy meal and they gave him chips anyway (as well as apple slices) which felt like a comment on society. But long story short order apple slices and there’s a non zero chance you’ll get free chips.

Me: It must have sucked to work in a factory in the past doing endless repetitive tasks Also Me: Approves MFA requests 50 times a day

Why did you make this mistake? "Because I looked at a file where it was done correctly but decided to just do something else" is a weird answer.

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“Microsoft: we are committed to improving your subscription. As such it now no longer includes one of our products.” I guess they didn’t mean for me