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sfwarlock posted:Yeah, that's standard both internally and externally. I mean, our IT sends emails like these almost every other day: "Maintenance in so and so datacenter" . I've read them religiously years ago, only to see that for 100% of them I didn't give a poo poo/never impacted me. So, now I just ... don't read them. The day will come when a server/VM/service that I use and need will be offline, but I usually then just ask the team "is it working for you?". When you're a big company with a lot of poo poo going on all the time ... yeah, you tune out the (perceived) noise.
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That's why some genius should buckle down and come up with a protocol where attempting to connect to an offline service will query some kind of status reporting service and display a helpful message like "we're doing maintenance, gently caress off." But nah, spinning a dial for 45 seconds before kicking back with a "connection timed out. contact your administrator if this persists" error is totally acceptable.
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How do you know if it's a timeout because a thing is down or a thing doesn't even exist? If you build something into the local network stack that does a query against a source of truth when things are timing out how do you prevent that being abused to enumerate your entire network without any privileges at all if you get popped? It's a non-trivial problem to solve TBH.
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That's why I said a genius should do it, I'd gently caress it up. I just want errors telling people to ask to their administrator to die.
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I've been in lovely work environments, but I'll be happy if nobody ever asks me to die.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I've been in lovely work environments, but I'll be happy if nobody ever asks me to die. "Do it yourself, coward. Free me from this place."
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It is absolutely true that nobody reads emails, but the reason you send them anyway is not so that you don't get calls about it -- that is an immutable law of nature -- but so that when you do get calls about it, you can say you sent them and it's not your fault that they didn't know. And/or that it's not your fault that it caused a problem for them, because they had the opportunity to speak up about the schedule.
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The new guy at work has, once again, clinged on to me, so I am being asked questions about HS codes and shipping and items and... I just don't understand why this happens loving consistently. Like the last 7 guys clung on to me and asked me poo poo about support and shipping and stuff all the time. I don't know? Why the gently caress does everyone assume I know? Is it because I bother actually loving answering people? I really wish people would stop!
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Reoxygenation posted:
it's this you are likely the only person that doesn't make them afraid to ask questions
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Reoxygenation posted:The new guy at work has, once again, clinged on to me, so I am being asked questions about HS codes and shipping and items and... Yes, that is why. Demonstrating competence and/or willingness to answer questions gets all questions routed to you. That doesn't mean you should stop being competent or stop responding to people, but try to route them to the correct source instead.
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xzzy posted:That's why I said a genius should do it, I'd gently caress it up.
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guppy posted:Yes, that is why. Demonstrating competence and/or willingness to answer questions gets all questions routed to you. That doesn't mean you should stop being competent or stop responding to people, but try to route them to the correct source instead. I mean I get what you're saying but it has the opposite effect on me, tbh, like yeah I shouldn't turn into a massive rear end in a top hat over this but like I've only seen incompetence be rewarded so this isn't a great motivator to keep doing as I do  Especially when people come to with like whole paragraphs about what they want to do. Just because I have "systems" in my title also doesn't mean I am the sole arbitrator of how things should be done or that I know how the accounting system works...
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The Fool posted:it's this It's absolutely this. Newbies gravitate toward the people who they can get a good read on, who seem safe, even if they're not the ideal place to get an answer. They especially avoid people who send mixed signals, like insisting they're happy to help then giving monosyllable answers hours late; who unpredictably loop extra people into email chains; or who aren't reliably discreet about "is the boss serious about [policy]" type questions. Basically, newbies coming to you with questions outside of your area is a complement, indicating you treat them like fellow humans, and give off vibes of having a healthy perspective and not being a corporate bootlicker. You can repel them by adjusting your vibes. Orrrr you can cultivate those relationships and leverage them as a personal spy network, or to serve as fake managers if a later position wants boss references but your boss was an rear end in a top hat or whatever.
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I teach my helpdesk people that, in addition to answering IT questions, we're also going to be a clearinghouse for God drat everything, because we're the only ones everyone is certain will respond in a timely manner. Then I keep up to date docs on where to send people for most stuff that isn't our problem.
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Man I just blew up a Linux VM I was setting up in Virtualbox (lol) trying to get drag and drop functional so I could copy the endpoint protection file over to it.
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Don't even bother with that poo poo. Just stick a bridged card on the VM and SCP to it or something.
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Sywert of Thieves posted:There's a lotta people on here complaining that Google Search sucks, but not a whole lot saying they stopped using it.
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Arquinsiel posted:Don't even bother with that poo poo. Just stick a bridged card on the VM and SCP to it or something. Pfft, make a virtual floppy image then mount it to the VM.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Pfft, make a virtual floppy image then mount it to the VM. I just read an SOP with a file share mapped to A: I'd really rather not  , but goddamn if it wasn't tempting.
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mllaneza posted:I just read an SOP with a file share mapped to A: So you probably don't want to know that I mount my Windows backup target as B:, huh?
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Pfft, make a virtual floppy image then mount it to the VM.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I use DuckDuckGo, and it's drowning in AI spam sites just like Google is. Apparently DDG sold their recipes searches to some AI garbage and so any time you look up a recipe it's nonsense or otherwise complete trash. Seems like search has turned from an artform into the show Pickers or whatever it was where they find treasure among piles of trash.
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Bring back the old days where searching was a crapshoot because search engines were bad, instead of them being good but compromised by ads and the Internet being full of SEO slop
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this was an entertaining read on google's search antics https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ although i don't think you can blame one (or two) guys for this lol
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vanity slug posted:this was an entertaining read on google's search antics https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ Not denying Google’s gotten worse and it’s probably because of ads… but this is an incredibly poorly written, histrionic article. It reeks of zealotry, and it is deeply unfortunate that such an interesting story is turned into this pat little fable of evil management and heroic engineers devoted to good tech. It may well be the case, but the tone and lack of good sourcing makes it hard to find even its more grounded claims believable. The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Well, it was a good run. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm
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After all these years, I feel like my colleague still refuses to apply principles to develop collaboratively in Unreal Engine. I create a base level with lighting and mesh assets, and he wants to try stuff out in it. Rather than making a new level with the base level as a sub-level (good) or editing the base level (not good but not bad either as I've handed it off to him), he duplicates the level and starts editing in that. So now we got the same level twice, just one slightly altered and with an extra asset added. It's the equivalent of duplicating a Google Document and editing that. For gently caress's sake we have version control for a reason. On top of that he's left for the day and he didn't check in his work.
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We really need to get control of tech debt right now. We have a package that's been EOL for over 10 years and four similar, but annoyingly different ways of compiling front end JS and CSS. These also have critical third party issues we should fix.
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Arquinsiel posted:How do you know if it's a timeout because a thing is down or a thing doesn't even exist? If you build something into the local network stack that does a query against a source of truth when things are timing out how do you prevent that being abused to enumerate your entire network without any privileges at all if you get popped? It's a non-trivial problem to solve TBH. I think it's possible to avoid overcomplicating this. If your org has a status page, look at that status page if possible. If the system can't ping the gateway, politely inform the end user they're a fuckwit. If they can't ping 1.1.1.1, inform the user their home Internet or ISP might be down. idk it seems like a very simple sequence of completely benign checks might be really helpful
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You've just added another layer via making it work from outside the network, so now you need to worry about other people's networks too. That's even more complexity and still hasn't addressed the security issue it causes.
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pinging two addresses and opening a predetermined status website: all major security threatsArquinsiel posted:lIf you build something into the local network stack that does a query against a source of truth when things are timing out how do you prevent that being abused to enumerate your entire network maybe you're thinking of, idk, a network module extension and I'm just thinking of a very small browser extension going back to the op, I do find it really weird that the big browsers don't say "hey you have no network connection, idiot" because they're in a great place in the system to safely see if one exists at all. similarly, "something's not right with your gateway or ISP" or "there's no route to that private (rfc1918) network, should you be on a VPN?" it's really low hanging fruit and it doesn't have to nmap your entire network and attempt to kidnap the children of your local isp's support team Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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as soon as you let the rocks talk to each other it all starts going down hill
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Potato Salad posted:maybe you're thinking of, idk, a network module extension and I'm just thinking of a very small browser extension Potato Salad posted:going back to the op, I do find it really weird that the big browsers don't say "hey you have no network connection, idiot" because they're in a great place in the system to safely see if one exists at all. similarly, "something's not right with your gateway or ISP" or "there's no route to that private (rfc1918) network, should you be on a VPN?" it's really low hanging fruit and it doesn't have to nmap your entire network and attempt to kidnap the children of your local isp's support team
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Sudo for windows 11... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sudo/
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Arquinsiel posted:That's what the post you quoted is directly replying to, so yes. Firefox has had a "you're offline, do you want to go online and here's how" status page for about 15 years. I remember this because one of the stupider senior people I've had to support stared at that all morning and only asked me about it after lunch, a really good look for our Director of New Business. The status page for that tells you how to go back to online mode. Reading comprehension was beyond this idiot.
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Potato Salad posted:"there's no route to that private (rfc1918) network, should you be on a VPN?" are we just ignoring the quad 0 here or what? You do not need a route more specific than 0.0.0.0/0 to an IP to communicate with that IP if you have a network proxy or a firewall that handles encapsulation/ssl interception/forwarding traffic. that implementation can be entirely transparent to the client. A browser client shouldn’t even necessarily be aware of what is private IP and what isn’t. It has and should have no notion of what differentiates a Postgres server IP from a Netflix edge node IP. In both cases your NIC is ultimately going to send traffic using a more specific route* and a next hop! *I am eliding over path selection weighting here deliberately The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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mllaneza posted:Firefox has had a "you're offline, do you want to go online and here's how" status page for about 15 years. I remember this because one of the stupider senior people I've had to support stared at that all morning and only asked me about it after lunch, a really good look for our Director of New Business.
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another one is why in the hell can you not browse a website without signing in? Or even worse: Downloading an app? Reddit does this, tumblr, IG, Tiktok, it's just frustrating. Eventually YouTube will start doing this bullshit. The thing that sucks about the internet is that it will just continue to decay more and more until some kind of major event occurs (eg a world war, giant solar storm) and breaks it. only then will it get better and more user oriented rather than corporation oriented. /rant e: tumblr and ig even let you see some posts but completely block you after scrolling a bit. what am I a loving fish? can't even have a bite of content? Sweevo posted:And heaven forbid you ever lose that phone. I was thinking of buying a cheap prepaid but then i realized it's just not worth the hassle. Phat Phingers fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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Well as they say, if it's free you are the product. They want your email address so they can build a profile of you and sell it to advertisers.
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