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Martijn Brant

@mbr.bsky.social

πŸ‡³πŸ‡± Microsoft Cloud and Infrastructure Architect/Consultant. MSFT. Sometimes talks in GIF. Words are my own. Also on @martijnbrant@mastodon.nl

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Or an bull farm... Britney's Steers

14.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thread on Home Assistant is great.. until it just magically stops working, AGAIN. This is really getting on my nerves now. There is a ton of work to do before any of this is ever going to be stable.

14.02.2026 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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13.02.2026 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tide Ad (feat. David Harbour) - Super Bowl 52 Commercial
YouTube video by Ethan Tide Ad (feat. David Harbour) - Super Bowl 52 Commercial

I think they all showed up in this one, and it went downhill from there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzX6...

09.02.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, maybe buy a boat?

08.02.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was "lucky" this week to score some new-stock 2x 2TB a-brand NVMe PCI-e 4.0 SSDs at about 100 euros/TB.

GPUs are also exploding. Your next phone will also be about 10 to 60% more expensive, depending on the buying power of the OEM.

05.02.2026 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And now copper prices are exploding, this will make the PC building hobby even more expensive. OEMs are no longer respecting list pricings and quotes are extremely short-term for new hardware. How can anyone even access all of this AI if they can't even afford a new PC to connect it?

05.02.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BBWWOOAAAHHHHH

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS1K...

05.02.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah and use Bio-lock freeze / disable Work Profile on Android.

04.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Most people are never targeted by attacks of this nature"

... yet

04.02.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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OK so .. you can grab the Outlook window by the search bar in the app title bar and move it around.

But you can't do that with Teams...

03.02.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Same for ADO it seems.. I'll check back tomorrow haha

02.02.2026 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Write a letter to the board of robotics and have the place condemned!

02.02.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Biggest question then becomes, where will you be taking your travelers cheques to?

01.02.2026 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Unifi just totally broke my ipv6 and I'm getting real mad about it. It's not like the future of home automation depended on it or something...

31.01.2026 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Windows, I love you.... but why even have settings and policies regarding software updates and auto reboots if you're just going to ignore them anyway?

"But it restores your session"

Barely, and over 90% of the software can't properly handle it.

30.01.2026 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜”

28.01.2026 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What about OTPs and passkeys? And do you use it on mobile as well?

28.01.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OK folks, how are you doing passwords? A paid service?

Given ... stuff... I'm considering moving away from 1Pass... so something selfhosted makes sense... host it myself? Or host it on the web? And would a VPS be enough or should that be bare-metal for extra security?

Overthinking?

28.01.2026 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I beta tested some of it with Microsoft Connect, ha! Blast of the past.

27.01.2026 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I bought a Minisforum MS-01 a while back with 64GB of RAM, thinking I could buy additional similar nodes and build out a small cluster with them. Safe to say, those plans are on ice, for a long time. It just doesn't make sense and I really dislike it :(

27.01.2026 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I ran an opensource tool to run custom calibration on my Denon receiver, export the results to a graphing program, to enhance and apply special filters and reupload the results via Telnet back to the Denon....

...

All that because the local news program is too lazy to use pop filters :X

26.01.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've always been worried about this attack vector, even in ConfigMgr... everyone always told me "it's fine". Alrighty.

Disclaimer: Work for Microsoft, don't speak for Microsoft. Personal view.

23.01.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone went to Qatar for football last time.. so that's a moral indicator of the fans..

23.01.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, for everything you've done. You will never truly know how far your impact has been and how it's still growing.

I wish you the best, good health and all the rest in the world!

THANK. YOU.

21.01.2026 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it me or has OneDrive gotten really slow? Like the online photo browser is taking 5 sec to load thumbnails, and a minute to load a video..

20.01.2026 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Tidal trial has a small migration service but it was very limited. Apparantly it migrated one of my oldest Spotify playlists and I'm not even mad...

19.01.2026 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reddit is funny.. I tried to help someone with some Windows issue they had, and they replied "Microsoft aint paying your rent"

Oh sweet child, how wrong you actually are but will never know it.

Have you ever seen something like this as well?

18.01.2026 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gemini Ai goes crazy in GitHub thread

github.com/google-gemin...

17.01.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with a beard and a hat is standing in front of a row of empty seats . Alt: A wizard (Dumbledor from Harry Potter) sighs whilst opening his arms followed by hands to thighs in disappointment.

SO: "Where did the huge boxes with my books go?"

Me: I have carried those all the way to the attic, where you wanted them to go, right? My back thanks you btw.

SO: "Errr, they were supposed to go into the other room.. like 3 meters to the right after clearing that room"

15.01.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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