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Combat Pretzel posted:The batteries in my Cyberpower UPS are like 3.5 years old right now, I'm loosely looking for new ones (among other reasons reports that they poo poo the bed around that age), except I can't find them anywhere here in Europe, and the very verrrry few shops that have them listed are all out of stock. Awesome. Cyber power doesn’t make the battery cells, just rip the battery open, look at the parts(I would bet yuasa) and buy them.
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ConfusedUs posted:Pissing me off: cutesey animations in mandatory trainings. One of the harassment trainings I took recently had mixed live actors with animated characters. It was surreal and disturbing from a purely aesthetic perspective but two moments really stuck out to me: At the beginning there was a scene with a real life woman in a suit, and cartoon janitor. The woman was introducing the entire course and how sexual harassment is not okay no matter who does it and who it's done to. At the end of her intro the businesswoman turns to the cartoon janitor and tells him, "You missed a spot!  " Okay great, not okay to sexually harass, but if you want to be a complete shitheel legally feel free to rub someone's nose in the wealth and class disparity between you. Way to set the tone, anti-harassment training writers.The other moment was at the end of one of the sections, where the (again, real-life actor) businesswoman ERASED one of the cartoon characters from the scene. It wasn't to prove a point about how you lose good people when you let harassment go on or anything nominally clever like that, it was just for a scene transition. It was mildly horrifying. Maybe next time she should bring out a barrel of Dip to throw the toon into. It was probably the weirdest training I've ever taken. I'm sure the intention with the mixed real life and cartoon aesthetic was to make it memorable. Which I guess they succeeded at, but maybe a little tone deaf, guys.
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Combat Pretzel posted:The batteries in my Cyberpower UPS are like 3.5 years old right now, I'm loosely looking for new ones (among other reasons reports that they poo poo the bed around that age), except I can't find them anywhere here in Europe, and the very verrrry few shops that have them listed are all out of stock. Awesome. It will likely be a string of CSB batteries, see what looks right from here and then source locally: https://www.mdsbattery.co.uk/ups_battery_kits.html
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Not sure who is more annoying, this vendor or my boss. I get a phone call. "Hey it's blah blah from blah blah blah. We are here to start wiring for the door security system....also we brought over jimbob a new guy who's never been here before so he needs safety traing." My boss is in a meeting so I have to go let them in the building. Thanks for the heads up! Guess what? Your new guy gets to sit in the lobby until we get him safety trained and US citizen verified. I have to go find the EH&S girl and look like an idiot asking her to get your guy through the process ASAP. First question they ask, "hey, where do these 3 PA speakers go?" No idea man. Nobody told me you were coming out here, nobody told me we were adding PA speakers....
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Oct 18, 2021 14:10
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Fucktard MSP. Just blocked RDP on our entire network.
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Oct 18, 2021 14:44
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A vendor wants to have a troubleshooting session with me. Problem is they are based in the US so all their requests are at 8pm in the evening. Not happening friends.
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Oct 18, 2021 14:54
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Bob Morales posted:Fucktard MSP. Yikes, it's not like you can't limit RDP to a specific set of high-access users in a security group
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Oct 18, 2021 15:04
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That’s as stupid as blocking powershell, maybe even more so.
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Oct 18, 2021 16:00
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Bob Morales posted:Not sure who is more annoying, this vendor or my boss.
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Bob Morales posted:Not sure who is more annoying, this vendor or my boss. We have a similar thing with getting new internet circuits delivered to buildings. When we order a new circuit, we tell the vendor that when the installers go out, they absolutely must call the branch first and let them know that they are planning to arrive. If they don't, the location will turn them away. We have this show up multiple times, and one of the installers had a bit of a tantrum about it.
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Oct 18, 2021 16:21
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lmao at expecting a telco to listen to anything you say!
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Oct 18, 2021 16:30
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Yeah, it shouldn't be this way, but at that point you might as well just ask them not to install the circuit. Getting a circuit installed is a miracle to begin with.
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I put “Call B4 Arrive” or “Call 1st” since it should hopefully fit in whatever tiny field comments show up on for the tech. Unfortunately maybe only the first four characters show up. They’ll call, “Hi is this x? Yeah we’re here I’m outside”. Not happy when I say sure I’ll be there in about 45 minutes. Let em wait then.
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devmd01 posted:That’s as stupid as blocking powershell, maybe even more so. We have power shell blocked and next week or so all incoming traffic on windows firewall will be blocked. No ping/admin share/RDP (except through a single service). It’s the worst
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Do you want shadow it? Because that’s how you get shadow it.
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Blocking access to ping and stopping a quick trip to the command prompt to troubleshoot have to be the quickest way to generate negative returns on the time put into making those changes
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Oct 19, 2021 00:32
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but security guys
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Oct 19, 2021 04:23
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Have you considered upgrading to IBM Selectric and HP 97 for your staff?
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SlowBloke posted:Cyber power doesn’t make the battery cells, just rip the battery open, look at the parts(I would bet yuasa) and buy them.  I was looking specifically for their product numbers. Apparently it's indeed just some stupid standard form factor and connector. I found new batteries.Naramyth posted:We have power shell blocked and next week or so all incoming traffic on windows firewall will be blocked. No ping/admin share/RDP (except through a single service). The only two IT admins we have here, one of them couldn't manage to install old rear end Microsoft software on my laptop, a problem that I solved by sending him a how-to that I googled within two minutes, and the other couldn't solve my ODBC connection issues shortly after enforcing SSL network-wide, which was an expired local certificate, that was obvious from the error message, but I still had to look up (again) and refer to IBM documentation about that poo poo. And it wasn't the first time he saw this error message. This is gonna be fun. I really wish they'd give me admin rights for my work laptop, so I don't have to deal with them. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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Naramyth posted:but security guys My boss: I think I am going to handle a person to handle security 
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Just make sure it's not Mitch.
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Kind of a related question: Has anyone ever been asked to do an interview over Telegram before? I can get it (it’s for a remote position that pays better) but wtf lol Am I weird for thinking this?
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WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR GREATEST WEAKNESS STOP SOMETIMES I BECOME TOO FOCUSED ON A SINGLE TASK STOP
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Telegram is the chud messaging service these days, fwiw I’d view it as a red flag that they’re not using literally any other video conference service
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Unless I'm mixing it up with something else it's also what a leftie I know in Seattle was using and I'm pretty sure people in CSPAM were talking about Telegram in Summer 2020 so it may be for both sides of the political spectrum that are paranoid about being spied on.
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Oct 19, 2021 17:32
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Unless you're choosing to use "secret chats", Telegram chats by default are only encrypted between the client and the server, not end to end.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Unless I'm mixing it up with something else it's also what a leftie I know in Seattle was using and I'm pretty sure people in CSPAM were talking about Telegram in Summer 2020 so it may be for both sides of the political spectrum that are paranoid about being spied on. A decent number of people on the left use it, but it is not secure in any way. I think the privacy protections are a bit better than a lot of other messaging apps, though.
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The Fool posted:Telegram is the chud messaging service these days, fwiw
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Oh gently caress off I was specifically referring to the fact that after a bunch of social media services banned right-wing hate groups one of the platforms they flocked to was telegram. As such a huge number of newer users of telegram are those same people, much more so than competing services. I went on to say that a company using telegram for an interview instead of Zoom, Teams, WebEx, Hangouts, et al. would be a red flag for me for that reason. Again, gently caress off.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Kind of a related question: So... Someone I knew went in for this, and it ended up being a scam. I would look really, really hard at any company that conducts it's business through Telegram.
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Raerlynn posted:So... Someone I knew went in for this, and it ended up being a scam. I would look really, really hard at any company that conducts it's business through Telegram. That reminds me of another thing. Telegram is getting some bad press right now for absolutely refusing to acknowledge or moderate scamming on their platform. There are a bunch of accounts impersonating celebrities or other public personalities to push crypto scams.
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Wibla posted:I ditched Telegram a while back, Signal seems to be the new hotness The two folks who keep bugging me to use signal... are people I know who have always been sus as gently caress. I just assumed it was for trumpers or something.
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The Fool posted:Oh gently caress off telegram is sketchy because it, obviously, has no management capabilities and you’d expect a real business to use a real comms platform. But just because bad people use an app doesn’t mean you’re a bad person for using the app. Also signal is great. Funded by the CIA, but otherwise great. It’s my go to app for encrypted communications, and all of my family is on it and uses it regularly.
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The Iron Rose posted:telegram is sketchy because it, obviously, has no management capabilities and you’d expect a real business to use a real comms platform. The people that are using it are using it because of the lack of management. quote:But just because bad people use an app doesn’t mean you’re a bad person for using the app. That is not at all what I’m saying. quote:Also signal is great. Funded by the CIA, but otherwise great. It’s my go to app for encrypted communications, and all of my family is on it and uses it regularly. Signal is good. It and iMessage are probably the most secure messaging apps available right now.
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Ahh Server 2016...why must you take so loving long to do updates. This VM has been sitting on 100% complete for 30 minutes now. I want to go to bed soon. All services seem to be up and running - I might just leave it and hope it doesn't poo poo the bed overnight.
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Sickening posted:The two folks who keep bugging me to use signal... are people I know who have always been sus as gently caress. I just assumed it was for trumpers or something. Been using signal for 4 years, evangelizing to get everyone I know on it, and other than the episode this past January when everyone in India deserted WhatsApp and crashed Signal's servers for a week (they went from something like 50,000 users to 500,000 in a week), it's great. Sadly you can't stop assholes and idiots from using an open platform, so there's probably a fair share of them using Signal, but at least it's not really meant to be a chatroom platform like I think Telegram is, it's more individual-to-individual messaging, which keeps down its potential for spreading misinformation easily. (gently caress Trump, in case that needs to be said, or really, just because everyone should say it all the time) The Iron Rose posted:Also signal is great. Funded by the CIA, but otherwise great. I didn't know this but after doing some research, I think "funded by the CIA" is slightly misleading, or at least gives a misleading impression. As detailed here, the reality is an arm of the government gave funding through an alphabet soup of sub-agencies to a bunch of different technology companies to bolster Internet freedom projects. And yes, that arm of the government oversees a bunch of various projects from the 50s that were started by the CIA and were absolutely pro-American propaganda organs during the Cold War, and some of those projects are still going as part of the US government's soft-power initiatives. However, the CIA didn't write the software and the whole point of the government's interest in this kind of thing is to enable activists in other countries to communicate effectively to try and bring about regime change in those countries (they also pumped funding into Tor and email encryption). Which, as I think the NSA and CIA understand all too well, wouldn't work if there were a backdoor (which is, no matter if you didn't mean to suggest that, absolutely the intimation when someone mentions something's being funded by those agencies), because any backdoor will ultimately be discovered and render those programs useless for their intended goal. Bottom line is government intentions, even MIC intentions, are not always 100% evil - look at the medium in which we're posting this, which wouldn't have come about, or at least not when it did, if the military hadn't wanted a reliable communications network. As always, a healthy dose of understanding nuance and that very few things are purely good or purely evil goes a long way. And that said, I'm not trying to attack you for being un-nuanced, just pointing all this out as others may not look for the nuance before kneejerking. wooops yes #7 with large coke and fries please
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Whipstickagostop posted:Ahh Server 2016...why must you take so loving long to do updates. The first time I updated our then new 2016 VMs I thought something was wrong with the hosts causing the VMs to run poo poo slow. But then nope.. I found out 2016 just REALLY sucks at installing updates.
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quote:We will never initiate contact with you by text message or chat application. We will only contact you by phone or email. If you receive a communication that you believe to be suspicious or fraudulent, please forward it to us immediately at EMAIL Sigh.
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