shininghero

@shininghero@kbin.social
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Joined 10 months ago

Knock it off, Microsoft. You're not my buddy, you're an OS. Your job is to sit down, shut up, and run the programs I choose. That's it.
If I find a function that's useful for more than a week, I might make a batch file for it. Until then, you're spare code.

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These are the same people who drive with paper-thin, or even fully rusted off, brake rotors. And then they yell at the mechanics for "upselling them" on brake maintenance.

I firmly believe that brakes should be the absolute last thing to fail on a car. The tires can rupture, the steering shatter, and the car snapped in two, but I must be able to bring the remaining wreckage to a stop.

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748 million? I'll be surprised if they get more than 748 thousand.

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I don't see a problem here. If the US auto makers are so worried, they should buy a few of them, copy their secrets, and sell them at a marked down price.
Turnabout is fair play, after all.

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Fedora Linux also comes with SELinux enabled by default. Did you check that the new home folder and all its contents have the proper SELinux tags?
Run an ls -lZ and check that the directory has the user_home_t tag,
The user's home directory is also stored in the /etc/passwd file. Did you update the entry there?

No, do not "disable SELinux". That advice hasn't been valid for a good 20 years. You can set it to permissive though, to see if it's the source of the problem.

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Really? You're missing out, the original Looney Tunes was full of shenanigans like that.

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Enough games. If you can't get him to shut up, go over his head to every social media site he blabs on and hand them legal orders to remove the offending comments and disable his accounts.

If you have admin portal access to write transport rules, I recommend writing a rule that has the server reply with a 550 5.7.1 Delivery Refused error. Trigger it based on the keyphrases "top of Google search" and "affordable SEO" to start with.

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Having managed an exchange instance for my old job, I can safely say that DKIM and DMARC are just some extra DNS entries for out-of-band verification. They can be boiled down to a pair of checkboxes on a compliance sheet.
I can also say that most of the companies we got emails from didn't have DKIM, and even fewer had DMARC. Or worse, they had DMARC set to p=ignore. Which is honestly even more infuriating.

The only thing that got botched is that thumbnail. Why do the Roman style columns look like an M.C. Escher painting?

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I agree, but I have this sinking feeling that the politicians above them are going to find some way to punish or force Fairfax County into compliance. They'll probably slash education funds or replace the superintendent in retaliation.

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Do it. And when his adherents make their little death threats...
Take more things away from Trump, and say it's a direct result of his adherents actions.

Parental discipline™, coming soon to a political office near you!

Or the XCOM games.

cries in kbin

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And another 100k and 1k monthly to the FNA engine. I wasn't aware of that engine until today, but it looks like I have a couple of games that run on it.

It took me a minute to realize he wasn't talking about a scene in the movie, like the hacking scene from Gumball.

There's also a limited federation mode that server admins can use. Users and posts are still searchable, but they do not show on the public federated feed.
Useful for this exact case where a server may have beneficial accounts, but the rest should be hidden for moderation reasons.

Still would prefer it being on a proper mastodon server, but I can live with this. Whatever server ends up hosting a President's account now has to deal with record preservation laws for their posts. Let's leave that bureaucratic stuff to threads.

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Aww man, that means no more furry omegle videos. Those were always funny to watch.

The ability to take for granted that anything and everything I purchased was owned outright. It couldn't be taken away, either intentionally or accidentally, in any capacity.
Now everything is all always-online digital licenses, and they can be swapped to monthly subscriptions at a moments notice.

Yes, shoot me for wearing an anti-allergy mask officer. I'm begging you.
I will live like a king siphoning off your retirement pension if you shoot me for keeping pollen out of my nose.

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They didn't stop allowing 3rd party app usage per se, they just priced it so absurdly high that they all had to stop operating or get multimillion dollar invoices.
...Which is technically just killing 3rd party apps, thinly disguised under a layer of potential profit. Pretty standard soulless corporate practice.

Computer monitors should work too, and are more readily available. Just dig through the business oriented monitors and ignore the gaming ones, as cable providers aren't really going to have anything that can take advantage of >60 fps display rates.

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Meanwhile, Microsoft's Exchange platform blatantly ignores DMARC failures for senders and relays on its "Good PTR list". Bit of a glaringly large hole for spam to pass through.

Oh please, you wouldn't have it out of the holster before the already prepared-to-react swat team, with their already raised barrels, would open fire on you.

As for me, I'll just reinforce my door and frame with metal and get a home camera system. If a swat team comes knocking, it'll buy enough time for me to turn on the intercom and ask for both the warrant and affidavit that they are required to have on hand.

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I give him 10 minutes before he opens his mouth and instantly falls afoul of Evil Overlord List entry 11.

I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it...

It's only minor if the data points in this breach are used by themselves.
Once you aggregate this with other data breaches, you could end up with a much bigger capability to target anyone in this breach.

Assuming you already have the IP phones, you need two things. A PBX server (for the VoIP stuff), and a SIP trunk with a block of external phone numbers.

Start with the PBX server software, there's several free/open-source implementations. Once you're comfortable with it and have internal calling good to go, then you can spend on the SIP trunk and number blocks.

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Step 3: unfuck the SIP settings, then email both HR and their supervisor to throw them under the bus. Also covers your ass for step 4.

Step 4: Route the manager's calls to a disconnected number. When they come knocking about their phone not working, tell them, "No, you should be able to dial out, unless someone changed the SIP trunk settings and didn't tell me."

No, there are still use cases for it. I usually use it to retrieve web pages from sites that get incorrectly blocked by the firewall at work.

Long live mastodon. And bluesky too, when they finally open up and stop with the invite codes.

Step right up and place your bets now, folks! What will be the tipping point for massive defederation? Will it be:

  • Snobby, vocal elitism from instance admins,

  • Retaliatory sanctions for anticompetitive actions, or

  • insufficient moderation of harmful or adult content?

I'm putting $20 on the third one, rampant porn bots will be the tipping point.

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While I have no sympathy for the upper management behind this stupidity, I would like to remind people to ensure their fire is focused away from developers and other non-management staff. They generally have no say in these calls.

If you have the connections to pull their staff away into jobs at other companies, please do that instead. It may not feel like it, but it will do more long-term damage if you can extract their senior talent.

Wouldn't be surprised if they got some personally delivered letters from the legal department of a big media company, given that they blocked visibility to some magazines on other servers.

They got the training data from Reddit, what did they expect?

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SIP providers usually sell numbers in contiguous series for businesses. For example, if your company buys a block of 50 numbers, the SIP provider then allocates XXX-5100 to XXX-5150.

But since you're keeping this strictly internal, you don't have to worry about that.

“It would legalize the creation of human-animal chimeras,”

Awesome, I would love to have actual IRL furries. Some of the smartest and kindest people I know are in that fandom.

I've got a pair of Merrell hiking shoes and some basic heavy duty insoles from Dr. Scholls. My only issue was getting used to the lack of material under the toes, causing them to angle down a bit.

I recommend starting with the insoles first, see if they provide the support you need. If that doesn't help, I recommend escalating to a doctor. They can provide better shoe recommendations than us randos on Lemmy.

If I hadn't already deleted all my posts and comments, I'd be poisoning all of them. Randomizing numbers, switching units, changing names, etc.

Personal firewall.
If an app doesn't need internet access to do its job, it doesn't get it. Simple as that.