Working from home (WFH) related posts.
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This is a great idea for a thread.
So Iāve been struggling on my work provided surface pro - didnāt think to do anything to improve my situation. Colleague suggested pairing my Bluetooth headphones so I can Skype and also suggested I buy a second screen. Itās been a revelation. Not looking forward to kids being home next week but at least I have two screens to hide behind.
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Weāve been testing our systems and it just doesnāt work for us. We use a really ram/graphics heavy 3D design software, so short of taking my tower home with me (which I guess isnāt the worst idea) were a little screwed.
To be honest though if our manufacturing division isnāt in, thereās not much point us doing anything anyway.
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Weāve been told our servers donāt have capacity to manage all of us working from home at same timeā¦ So non-time-sensitive work staff have been asked to shift working patterns outside of 9-5ā¦
So that means weāve been asked to work 3.30pm-10.30pm and weekends until they can increase network stability with increased load. 
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Weāre not doing too bad. I bought a laptop stand and screen a couple of years ago. Brushed the dust off them and set up like the bridge of a mini starship enterprise. Missis is on the dining table with my ladās Xbox telly. Just forgot to bring my usb hub home and Iām in isolation so nipped back to work for them to chuck it thru the window at me. Itās too weird to be the new normal yet, but itās getting there. Work fb messenger chat group keeping morale up. The less tech able of my middle aged colleagues have discovered gifs big time 
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My team is going to start having periodic (daily?) virtual ācoffee breaksā on Microsoft Teams, when we video chat and talk about anything non-work related, to support each other and feel less isolated.
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Google is doing that apparently.
Must put the jacket and tie on for the interview:
Live from the couch and personal library - working for Bloomberg under the shelter in place order in San Francisco:
Can I join in your virtual coffee breaks?
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Happy hour Fridays. Virtual 
Isnāt it what the Second Life video game is for?
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Tried second life. Completely out of my depth. Got me coat. Left.
Day 4 of WFH, yesterday Mrs Sleepy was eating tortellini in bed. Today my 6 yr old was naked crawling about the house being dog. We havenāt even got to lockdown yet. 
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When working from home:
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Iāve taken two monitors home along with the docking station for my laptop, unfortunately Iām now down one dining room table 
Worst part of working from home is boredom, only person Iāve seen today is the postman
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Beware of phishing while WFH.
Modern machine learning-powered antivirus systems are probably as good as the labeled datasets used to train them to identify stuff. Itās a never-ending adversarial game.
cc @Ian
The TrickBot and Emotet Trojans have started to add text from Coronavirus news stories to attempt to bypass security software using artificial intelligence and machine learning to detect malware.
Before malware is distributed in phishing campaigns or other attacks, developers commonly use a program called a ācrypterā to obfuscate or encrypt the malicious code.
This is done in the hopes that it makes the malware appear to be harmless and thus FUD (Fully UnDetectable) to antivirus software.
This was shown to be particularly useful against security software that utilizes machine-learning or artificial intelligence to detect malicious programs.
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