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Twerk from Home posted:It's cheaper than a free OS on VMWare! Microsoft tells me it's "Activated by my organization" so I guess that means it's free.
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We made Microsoft's license auditors cry and give up, and I am proud of that fact.
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Antigravitas posted:We made Microsoft's license auditors cry and give up, and I am proud of that fact. you sick gently caress (approving)
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Feb 28, 2024 22:06
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I work at a German university, which means that each institute is fiercely independent, and each working group inside those institutes has its own budget (via grants) and lots of licenses are for project specific hardware. Trying to audit this structure is basically impossible. They tried, spent a year on (I think) one institute out of dozens, and gave up.
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Feb 28, 2024 22:18
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Antigravitas posted:Trying to audit this structure is basically impossible yeah lol, soft money gonna be soft money. not my problem
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rowkey bilbao posted:$job is taking back our physical keys for the main entrance because they've installed a garbage iot lock that works off batteries and bluetooth, and works as a motor that rotates the key inside the existing lock. lol i posted this 3 weeks ago, and that piece of poo poo broke today the part that rotates the key inside the lock couldn't take the torque and just plain broke. it's a super common lock that's everywhere and people use it with normal keys no problems, just garbage
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Feb 29, 2024 15:08
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what do you do when that happens
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Mar 1, 2024 10:25
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go home and get paid for not working (or at least thats how it worked before vpns and remote desktops anyway)
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Mar 1, 2024 15:40
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Yup, legally, it is my responsibility to offer my work as defined in the contract. If my employer doesn't give me work to do, for any reason, that's not my problem. I still expect to get paid, and I will get paid. If I get locked out of the building, but I was physically there offering my work? No longer my problem, give me my money, kthxbye.
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Mar 1, 2024 15:53
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yeah it's explicitly written into my contract that lack of work to do does not dissolve the relationship or alter any other terms this is probably standard for full time positions in general
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Mar 1, 2024 16:15
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what is this "contract" you speak of
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Shame Boy posted:what is this "contract" you speak of you need to move out of florida my friend
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Mar 1, 2024 17:08
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My contract is a one page document that refers to a two-page document detailing my responsibilities, and a 177 page document with 7 annexes that handles everything else. My super power: I have actually read that document and its fractal of annexes. I know what my employer contractually agreed to. Too bad the other side knows it too, so I haven't had much conflict with my employer. 
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Mar 1, 2024 17:23
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my contract is basically covered by funktionćrloven, but also i get a week extra vacation on top of the law's 5 & iirc some other minor perks
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Mar 1, 2024 17:35
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got an unsolicited email from a crowdstrike rep, basically going “click this link for our annual report!” …..are you kidding me? I don’t give a poo poo if the email is signed, just no.
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Mar 1, 2024 17:39
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more like clownstrike
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theres something extra satisfying about marking a "legit" email as spam because it sucks
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top work from the Germans quote:According to Der Spiegel magazine, the videoconference was not held on a secret internal army network but on the WebEx platform. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68457087
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quote:Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that the discussion betrayed the "cunning plans" of the German armed forces, which he said had committed "a blatant self-exposure". Sorry, I'm confused by where the "cunning" comes into this
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Cerv posted:top work from the Germans https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112028202387679908
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Volmarias posted:Sorry, I'm confused by where the "cunning" comes into this sarcastically
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Mar 3, 2024 17:41
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WAF (wet-rear end firewall)
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Potato Salad posted:WAF (wet-rear end firewall) I have a co-worker who DMs me this exact phrase every time we're engaged on an Akamai WAF issue. which is often, because Akamai sucks and we probably aren't very good at writing rules that don't trigger false positives
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lolhttps://lemire.me/blog/2023/03/15/precision-recall-and-why-you-shouldnt-crank-up-the-warnings-to-11/#comment-651471 posted:Back when I worked on Windows Vista, the Windows team introduced static analysis tools that operated in conjunction with source code annotations. The vast majority of flagged issues were false positives, but the problem wasn’t just wasted time from investigating non-issues. Some manager had the brilliant idea of outsourcing all the “trivial fixes” for issues flagged by static analysis to a large IT contractor in India. You can probably guess how well that went. Novice programmers completely unfamiliar with one of the world’s most complex codebases introduced so many bugs (I wish I had statistics), which the Windows developers then had to fix, that I’m sure it would have been cheaper to leave the investigation and fixes to the original developers. The original “bugs” were mostly illusory, but the bugs introduced in the “fixes” certainly were not. (Not that I have anything against static analysis: the Vista codebase was far more robust than XP as a result. But this was definitely the wrong way to implement it.)
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37c3's youtube videos still aren't finished being manually approved btw if anyone was wondering if i'd update that post. no idea what they're doing this year they were added to their youtube account unlisted the day of but ??? if you want more of that though join us at something awful wrestling season 2: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4055673
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so change healthcare paid ransom and got nothing lmao?
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new buncha vmware sandbox-escape vulns, all critical: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/vmware-issues-patches-for-critical-sandbox-escape-vulnerabilities/. have a good weekend! lol
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great time to get off VMware, just migrate everything tomorrow and get off their licensing disaster simple as
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yeah the entire company is going to poo poo as broadcom strips it for parts
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as a former vsphere/vcloud suite api product manager, that happened when EMC acquired them
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yeah that's true in a way, but with broadcom it's different because they're basically corporate raiders:in a well actually posted:There’s no need to look at their hardware business, which is something they actually care about and invest in. This a play where they identified a company that was undervalued compared to the possible profits they could extract. They can cut development costs to the bone and jack up prices on a captive market (as they said they would in investor docs when they put the offer out.) It is the same pattern as their CA and Symantec acquisitions. They’re really good at this. They’ll get enough out to pay for the acquisition and some cash to funnel into their core business and buybacks.
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anyone ever figure out why Facebook poo poo the bed yesterday?
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the incident review isn’t even public internally within Meta, so not a lot is leaking so far…
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Emergency zuck containment system, someone broke the glass
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a recruiter from crowdstrike reached out, what's the thread's general opinion of them? im not particularly inclined to even respond, but a bit surprised that they have an office here in dont even mean as a place to work at, just their general image. i know i've seen them called clownstrike and "<role> @ crowdstrike a 60B company" is very cringey but i haven't actually interacted with them or their products ever
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NFX posted:a recruiter from crowdstrike reached out, what's the thread's general opinion of them? im not particularly inclined to even respond, but a bit surprised that they have an office here My employer switch to them (partially at my urging because at the time we were using Cylance which is dire) and it's been good so far. It doesn't generate a constant stream of false-positives or cause issues on our PCs. The sales & support people actually talked to us all normal like instead of of giving us a lot of "It'll be fine trust me" BS. I've never looked at working for them but the customer experience has been good so far.
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NFX posted:in dont even mean as a place to work at, just their general image. From the outside, they're fine, they make a decent EDR, they aren't a snake oil cyber company but still have strong silicon valley vibe. Their EDR can be tricked with some effort but there is no perfect EDR. it's funny to say clownstrike dont take it personal
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When I see someone works at Crowdstrike, I expect that they're good at their job and everything. I don't think "OMG they work at Crowdstrike!", and I also do not think "lol they work at Crowdstrike." People call it Clownstrike because they can, it's not an actual hatred, with the possible exception of SWEs who will get mad about literally any endpoint detection deal and there's not much you can do about it. As far as I know, it's generally good software that isn't perfect (which is to say, it's software). For what it's worth, I have a hard time thinking of _any_ organization where I say "OMG they work at _____." I guess maybe, like, NSA crypto, but even then, it depends a ton on what the actual job is and the things that come out of their mouth when we speak and such.
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