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by gw99 4y ago
Oh god no I was a CCNA. IOS is horrible. manpages aren't always that great. Unless they are on a BSD derivative... PowerShell had some good ideas about making commands discoverable but the nuances and implementation really killed it fo
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by gw99 4y ago
This stuff happens all the time. A few years back a company I was contracting for had one of their end users report a high severity security defect. Apparently he signed into the app and thought he had been hacked because a couple of large
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by gw99 4y ago
I can never remember all the flags and syntax. Also I hate writing parsers all day which is what you really have to do with text interfaces. UIs are discoverable. There are some compromises in the middle somewhere. I'm liking Apple Sho
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by gw99 4y ago
I actually uninstalled instagram and shot my account yesterday because the ads were getting absolutely atrocious. Decided it was done for me. Looks like I was right.
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by gw99 4y ago
Conversely optimism can waste resources on unworkable progress which could have been applied to workable progress. Reality is way more nuanced than single perspectives.
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by gw99 4y ago
This smells like "I don't like how SQLite because I can't get in to the party so I'm making my own party" which is fine but don't denigrate the product or the contributors who have been doing an amazing job f
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by gw99 4y ago
My last one expired 20 years ago.
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by gw99 4y ago
Historically yes. Your job is to evolve this configuration as security controls improve. It's not a fire and forget process, it's continuous improvement.
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by gw99 4y ago
They don't really though because in the several systems I've seen configured like that, the same staff have access to all accounts. Accidental deletion and unauthorized access should not be a possibility via policy rather than iso
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by gw99 4y ago
None of these concerns require multiple accounts. An account is a container for resources and resources do have tangible isolation between them if configured properly and properly delegated credentials should be issued to staff which are sp
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by gw99 4y ago
I disagree with this perspective. You should have multiple accounts but only if your organisation requires it for isolation or data protection reasons and only enough to perform the task. Every other reason here is because you fucked up. Yo
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by gw99 4y ago
Yes VScode but fuck me it's still painful.
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by gw99 4y ago
I've been through that "no code" cycle at least three times, ironically including Oracle in two of those cycles, and they always died on their ass. I suspect the same will happen again. It's really hard to build somethin
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by gw99 4y ago
Well my pet hate is that I write a lot of YAML. It's poorly structured, unreliable, nuanced, schemaless and difficult to edit reliably. I prefer XML and XSLT to this shit show. Oh and unnecessarily distributed things. In summary, app
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by gw99 4y ago
Oh yes this. I wrote a timesheet system in VB4 32-bit back in the day in 4 days and rolled it out to 10,000 users. And it worked. And it stayed working for 15 years until it was replaced. In 4 days worth of work now, I couldn't even do
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by gw99 4y ago
There is the voice of someone who has never actually been in the position of getting into an actual pit of depression over the toolchain you have to use. No joke but I was doing some work on VSTO in Visual Studio Classic a few years back an
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by gw99 4y ago
Been there. Remember the immediate priority of work is to satisfy your personal security so that means cash. Always. Then remember it's someone else's cash. If you are an employee and it goes to shit it's not your problem. Ju
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by gw99 4y ago
I've seen it working for schools with 5000+ account so it'll go well past 100 users. Not sure I'd want to depend on Google though.
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by gw99 4y ago
NetIQ eDirectory tends to be the other big one. Although I am seeing a rise in companies not having an SSO solution recently at all. In fact some of the SMEs I've seen recently are running most of their stuff entirely via basic Microso
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by gw99 4y ago
I had problems with Windows Defender finding a false positive in the output of a product I was working on. This was an EV code signed MSI package with signed exe. This eventually inflamed SmartScreen and despite getting the thing sorted as
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by gw99 4y ago
I think the best thing is wait 5 years and see if they are going to shitcan it or not...
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by gw99 4y ago
It's horrible. After futzing with it for a year or two for trivial test rig and automation stuff I switched to avr-gcc and avr-libc toolchains and just used vim and makefiles now.
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by gw99 4y ago
Oh she deserved it. And the HP windows 10 laptop with 64Gb eMMC storage.
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by gw99 4y ago
Yeah good luck with that. I did the same. Then all the streaming devices stopped working suddenly. Turns out that there was suddenly an HDCP compatibility issue which obsoleted the TV instantly.
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by gw99 4y ago
You can crack the things open and unplug the wireless module usually. If the TV stops working then, well you solved the problem anyway :)
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by gw99 4y ago
I left my Tizen based Samsung with my ex wife when we got divorced. This was a subtle troll because I am finally free of the fucking thing and she's not. The last decade of ownership has been hell. Slow laggy equipment, HDCP problems,
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by gw99 4y ago
Yes - I should have clarified that. The extra flux thing is the problem :)
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by gw99 4y ago
Yep. To be honest a lot of stuff we didn't clean flux off professionally. Anything which was solvent safe would be soldered on, the board cleaned, then anything not solvent safe would be soldered on and it'd be left.
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by gw99 4y ago
It's the .154" Molex stuff that tends to melt after 20 years spontaneously. Not sure what plating they use bit it turns into a power dissipating resistor after a bit which is not good when you're shoving a few amps through it
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by gw99 4y ago
Oh just reading that hurts!

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