What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just noticed a scam security product vendor advertise that their customer, Chaplain College, is using their products as part of their "cyber security" initiative. Should we tell them that by using their product that deactivates Windows patching (and then reports it as being current so that no one knows) they didn't just make the college completely vulnerable, but are literally advertising them as a target!
I want this here so that when they get hacked I can show that everyone was aware publicly that they had disabled all patching AND notification on their network, AND paid to do so, AND paid for scam AV, while disabling Defender! The amount of "we just announced to everyone that we are clueless, corrupt, and disabled all of our default MS security" is just crazy.
And they posted a picture of the system admin taking "credit" for this massive blunder.
Same vendor just exposed the city of Vidalia, LA for doing the same thing... making it public that their police, fire and other services specifically are exposed and vulnerable to hacking. This vendor's feed is like a public "who is easy to hack by script kiddies" bulletin board.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Same vendor just exposed the city of Vidalia, LA for doing the same thing... making it public that their police, fire and other services specifically are exposed and vulnerable to hacking. This vendor's feed is like a public "who is easy to hack by script kiddies" bulletin board.
There is only one Vidalia. That's Vidalia, GA
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making another cup of coffee and getting started for the day. Happy Tuesday
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Made an offer on a "new" to us house. Been waiting DAYS for a response. Argh.
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Death scrolling ML, been a while since I've had a chance to post here. How is everyone doing?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Death scrolling ML, been a while since I've had a chance to post here. How is everyone doing?
I got a new job, no longer at the horrible company. doing much better.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Death scrolling ML, been a while since I've had a chance to post here. How is everyone doing?
I got a new job around 6 months ago. I'm now a network engineer, and like the job/coworkers/manager.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Death scrolling ML, been a while since I've had a chance to post here. How is everyone doing?
I got a new job around 6 months ago. I'm now a network engineer, and like the job/coworkers/manager.
that's awsome!
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Just finished collimating my telescope. It needed done badly now that I got a new mount and tri-pier.
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@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just finished collimating my telescope. It needed done badly now that I got a new mount and tri-pier.
I've been meaning to ask how your setup is going.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just finished collimating my telescope. It needed done badly now that I got a new mount and tri-pier.
I've been meaning to ask how your setup is going.
Have you been able to get out with it lately?It's going well now. My main interest is astrophotography, and with what I had, my biggest limiting factor was tracking (mount/tripod). I don't have a big aperture scope, so of course that doesn't help, but it's way more than enough to fulfill my needs with the proper foundation.
The camera I have is absolutely amazing, I'd get it again. The downside is compatibility with numerous astrophotography tools (as well as the fact it's not a dedicated astrophotography camera). It's working mostly fine on Linux (Astroberry rPi), thankfully, but still has it quirks. We use the camera for regular photography all the time so it's definitely worth it aside from that. Maybe I'll get a cheap ZWO sometime in the future.
But yeah, it's going well now... has been cloudy literally for the past few weeks straight until clear two nights ago and tonight, maybe tomorrow night will be okay (we'll see), but after that more clouds. Not exactly normal for here at this time, but whatever. I'll make the best of it one way or another.
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@WrCombs Think we all got new jobs around the same time, just noticed its my 6 month anniversary too
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs Think we all got new jobs around the same time, just noticed its my 6 month anniversary too
I've only been here about 2 months - I stayed at that previous company 5 years too long
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I’m still looking,… but the dynamic has now changed. Not the work though… the Director is leaving so we will see how management absorbs the responsibility or finds a replacement ..
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I'm about 6 months in, and am starting the process of looking. I underestimated how rough the commute for the 3 on-prem / 2 remote schedule would be.
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Morning all, had early morning customer calls. I'm up and working way too early. But at least the coffee is already here.
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How is everyone today?
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Has been a long day. I feel like I've not been productive at all... but I did manage to get a bash backup script to work nicely on a couple of servers.
tar /var/www
tar /etc
mysqldump
send it to file server.Even better, I fixed it so that it can simply be copied to any of our servers that are setup right and can be run and all the things happen... it's like magic, lol.
So much other stuff I needed to do, but that called out to me today.
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it's been a fairly busy day, created 3 new email accounts for customers and took on some so pretty fun calls. excited for my 3 days weekend coming up starting Sunday morning (I pulled the short straw and got weekend on-call duty Friday and Saturday overnights)
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Coffee time and trying to wrap my brain around the day. Lots of Ubuntu updates going on as not all our machines are up to 22.10 yet.
