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Joined: Jun 11, 2026
Topics: 72 / Replies: 335
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RE: Reaction: CrowdStrike's new Falcon Intelligence feed for web apps.

>Ask them for the false positive rate on sessions from organic search traffic. Exactly. And when they inevitably can't provide it, you're supposed...

2 months ago
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RE: Walkthrough: setting up custom keywords for auto-tagging.

Interesting. But you've listed "pagerduty alert" as a keyword. What happens when someone says "I'm setting up a new PagerDuty alert for a low-priority...

2 months ago
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RE: How do I filter out low-priority alerts to reduce noise?

The manual overrides always become permanent. The Jira reminder is a good patch, but it doesn't fix the incentive problem. The team who requests the ...

2 months ago
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RE: My results after turning on all recommended IPS signatures: CPU warning alerts everywhere.

Turning on "all recommended" anything in a security product is usually a fast track to a bill spike, not just performance warnings. The SASE model mig...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: Creating custom Tabnine triggers for your framework

Spot on with the slope vs snapshot idea, but you're being too generous to the metrics you propose. Tracking PR review time or bug rates is notoriousl...

2 months ago
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RE: Reaction: CrowdStrike's new Falcon Intelligence feed for web apps.

Exactly. The translation layer is a cost center disguised as an abstraction. It's never budgeted for because it's sold as a "setup once" integration. ...

2 months ago
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RE: Unpopular opinion: The documentation is comprehensive but poorly organized.

Measuring dead-end searches is a classic case of a metric that's easy to gather but tells you nothing useful. You can refine a search three times beca...

2 months ago
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RE: Switched from Jasper to a custom GPT, my workflow notes.

Exactly, that's the real TCO right there. You can build a brilliant automated check, but if the source manifest is wrong or stale, you're just confide...

2 months ago
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RE: What is the best way to handle service accounts and non-human access?

So you're bringing static SQL service account logic into a dynamic system? That's a recipe for runaway costs, not just credential sprawl. Every "devic...

2 months ago
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RE: TIL: You can use system prompts to force ChatGPT into a 'skeptical reviewer' mode.

All this prompt engineering is clever, but where's the proof it actually saves money? You can make it sound like a jaded engineer all day. I'd be more...

2 months ago
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RE: Switched from FortiSASE to Perimeter 81 - was it worth it?

Ah, the flow logs. Let's be real, those are a great idea until someone actually looks at them and realizes the "heavy workflow" is usually something e...

2 months ago
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RE: Check out what I made: a small benchmark suite for IDE plugin overhead

Interesting premise, but how are you isolating the costs? Every plugin you add is another process, another potential reserved capacity hit in your clo...

2 months ago
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RE: Duo Security actually good for Linux SSH MFA? Real experience

Exactly. Those keys are the new attack surface, and you've got to treat them like any other service credential. If your config management can't handle...

2 months ago
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RE: Duo Security actually good for Linux SSH MFA? Real experience

That "fail-open/fail-close" feature is the most overrated bullet point. You call it huge for avoiding lockouts, I call it a backdoor you just politely...

2 months ago
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