@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@Obsolesce

No, I read it, but there was nothing to really support it. I mean all of those are things, but I guess they are posted as facts and I am trying to figure out how they would really apply... Remember we are just talking about blocking access to a website.

What's your evidence to support the site blocking is racially motivated, and not, lets say, regulatory or otherwise motivated?

I don't know which site you are referring to, so I can't really dive in. If it was a KKK website blocking your country's access, then sure. But that's likely not the site you're trying to go to.

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@Obsolesce said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@Obsolesce said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

Living outside the USA has shown me how many supposed 'IT Security Policies' are in my opinion, racist.

I got this today:

403 ERROR
The request could not be satisfied.
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: zomv8JAx_0HrRCvqqrBVKdUVY0WYlrp6F0BhpVut-NLG060J2fKC-w==

1. I happen to be in Nicaragua right now, and I think it would be hard to argue that there are a lot of Nicaraguan hackers (In other words we aren't talking originating from China or Russia here).
2. Do IT staff really think that the hackers they should worry about aren't familiar with VPN's or other ways of spoofing their IP or location?

This happens from time to time and today it I guess annoyed me more than it normally does.

Thoughts?

Not sure what race has to do with geographic restrictions. I'd say it more-so has to do with laws, regulatory, and other such things:

How does it not?

Race refers to the categorization of human beings into groups based on physical attributes such as skin color, hair texture, and facial features. Geographic restrictions, on the other hand, pertain to limits or boundaries set on certain areas or locations.

The primary reasons for geographic restrictions are usually grounded in legal, regulatory, and administrative decisions. These decisions might stem from concerns related to national security, resource management, public safety, or diplomatic reasons. Race doesn't inherently dictate these legal and regulatory restrictions. While it's true that some restrictions historically may have been influenced by racial prejudices, conflating race with the primary purpose of most contemporary geographic restrictions can be misleading.

While it's true that you CAN have different raced people in every country, @scottalanmiller example of a vendor blocking Spanish-speaking countries... Well, sure, anyone can live there. Scott and I for example live in a Spanish-speaking country, so no, it's not 100% by race, but there are certainly a lot of Chinese people in China for example...

I guess it's discriminatory and has no real value.

Did you somehow miss the list I posted of so many more likely reasons a country is blocked?

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@Obsolesce said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

Living outside the USA has shown me how many supposed 'IT Security Policies' are in my opinion, racist.

I got this today:

403 ERROR
The request could not be satisfied.
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: zomv8JAx_0HrRCvqqrBVKdUVY0WYlrp6F0BhpVut-NLG060J2fKC-w==

1. I happen to be in Nicaragua right now, and I think it would be hard to argue that there are a lot of Nicaraguan hackers (In other words we aren't talking originating from China or Russia here).
2. Do IT staff really think that the hackers they should worry about aren't familiar with VPN's or other ways of spoofing their IP or location?

This happens from time to time and today it I guess annoyed me more than it normally does.

Thoughts?

Not sure what race has to do with geographic restrictions. I'd say it more-so has to do with laws, regulatory, and other such things:

How does it not?

Race refers to the categorization of human beings into groups based on physical attributes such as skin color, hair texture, and facial features. Geographic restrictions, on the other hand, pertain to limits or boundaries set on certain areas or locations.

The primary reasons for geographic restrictions are usually grounded in legal, regulatory, and administrative decisions. These decisions might stem from concerns related to national security, resource management, public safety, or diplomatic reasons. Race doesn't inherently dictate these legal and regulatory restrictions. While it's true that some restrictions historically may have been influenced by racial prejudices, conflating race with the primary purpose of most contemporary geographic restrictions can be misleading.

@CCWTech said in Is it racist? I think it is.:

Living outside the USA has shown me how many supposed 'IT Security Policies' are in my opinion, racist.

I got this today:

403 ERROR
The request could not be satisfied.
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner.
If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: zomv8JAx_0HrRCvqqrBVKdUVY0WYlrp6F0BhpVut-NLG060J2fKC-w==

1. I happen to be in Nicaragua right now, and I think it would be hard to argue that there are a lot of Nicaraguan hackers (In other words we aren't talking originating from China or Russia here).
2. Do IT staff really think that the hackers they should worry about aren't familiar with VPN's or other ways of spoofing their IP or location?

This happens from time to time and today it I guess annoyed me more than it normally does.

Thoughts?

Not sure what race has to do with geographic restrictions. I'd say it more-so has to do with laws, regulatory, and other such things:

• legal and regulatory compliance
• export controls
• licensing
• infrastructure / performance concerns
• economic considerations
• fraud/security concerns
• content sensitivities
• strategic business decisions
• taxation and financial regulations
• local partnerships or agreements
• network abuse (sure there's one single aspect of your hacking point)
• language and support concerns
• etc.

@nadnerB said in Helpdesk options / Ticketing system for non-IT purpose:

We are using Freshservice and have been for several years.
Very happy with it.

In fact we've spread it to several other departments.

Propaganda page: https://www.freshworks.com/freshservice/features/

Samsies!

@EddieJennings

@JaredBusch said in Powershell (or CMD) to print PDF files:

@JaredBusch said in Powershell (or CMD) to print PDF files:

I can easily print the PDF with Start-Process in a simple PowerShell script from the user machine

Because this is launching an actual process of whatever the default PDF viewer is I still would like something better than Start-Process if anything exists.

There's no native support in PowerShell/.NET from my understanding, so you'd need to rely on an external tool which is what I'm guessing you're launching with Start-Process.

The only thing I can think of atm is keeping the Windows box logged on to, and running the process as the user or launching the process with ServiceUI.exe from within the PowerShell script.

@JaredBusch said in Powershell (or CMD) to print PDF files:

@Obsolesce I guess maybe instead of a webpage I could have some kind of PowerShell application running with a little GUI for the feedback?

Could you serve the same web page from the Windows box and have it do the printing?
Another possibility, use node or php to run a powershell script from the web page.
Otherwise yes, you could make a simple PowerShell GUI script to have the scanner enter the info and print. Then what? They would use that Windows box instead of the Mint box?

@scottalanmiller said in Resources for Learning HTML & CSS Web Design:

Does anyone have good resources for web design? Good books or YouTube or websites? I'm talking actual skilled design, not "I bought a template for WordPress and changed teh colors using a GUI". I want to get people up to speed on hand coding HTML and CSS, understanding things like Bootstrap and so forth.

I'm not aware of any specific videos for HTML and CSS, but what I have been using here and there is SoloLearn. The Android app for it is great. The best part about it is that for each part of the course, there's public comments. You can learn so much more useful things browsing through those after reading each step of the course. It's been a great help.

My most recent course in Sololearn is the C#. I don't only use Sololearn, but it's a great addition to other resources. I used a great 45-hour Udemy course as my main source. That said, I do remember seeing HTML and CSS in Sololearn.

As for websites, when I need to reference HTML and CSS, my go-to sites are:

HTML:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML
• https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

CSS:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS
• https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Most of my HTML/CSS usage these days is the ad-hoc need to reference something, so there's likely better tutorials than I listed. But it might be good to check out SASS and SCSS as well, as I have been needing to reference those more and more.

@scottalanmiller said in Remote session with Chrome OS ?:

@WrCombs that site doesn't even exist here.

Or here.

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server Licensing:

HPE has some tool which indicates the inverse here

This tool is correct, as far as I've last known.

@DustinB3403 said in Windows Server Licensing:

Hey all, long time.

Just had a conversation with my purchasing guy, who's been doing this for decades the conversation came up about Server licensing, 1 Socket or 2 (or 400) and the core count.

Can someone refresh my memory on the specifics of this.

• I would eat my hat, but I could've sworn the licensing is every core and socket (using Standard licensing) needs to be licensed with a Core-Pack (16 core minimum) and the Server Standard license.

• He's under the impression that you only need to purchase 1 Server Standard license and the core-pack to cover the spread of those cores.

Microsoft's licensing seems to indicate that its a Per Socket with a Core Rider, as indicated here.

HPE has some tool which indicates the inverse here

You need to license 16x cores as a minimum, regardless.

If you have 1x socket @ 16x cores, or 2x sockets @ 8x cores each. You are covered via minumum.

If you have 2x sockets @ 10x cores, you need to license 20 cores total. (16x minimum, + 4x more cores) No more, no less.

If you hae 4x sockets @ 4x cores for example, you still need to purchase twice the minimum, which is licensing 32x cores.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Another 12 hour recording session on Saturday, but the tracking is DONE. Now we wait on the 1st mixdown...

When can we check it out?

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting started with Intune... getting caught up with seeing what Android Enterprise is about... sigh scope creep for todays work

A couple of people on my team have to deal with InTune. I don't envy them. Luckily, I have plenty of Linux work to keep me from being roped in.

Intune*

Yeah there's a lot to it depeng on requirements. I simple setups it's nothing.

@WrCombs said in Reboot resets Desktop Win 10 -:

@Obsolesce said in Reboot resets Desktop Win 10 -:

@WrCombs said in Reboot resets Desktop Win 10 -:

Got a client running Windows 10, and every time they restart the computer, it resets everything on the desktop - Background is wiped, apps and programs are removed, files are removed, the only things that stay are the recycling bin, and Edge. I have no idea what is causing this, and I have no idea where to start. Anyone seen this before?

Just reload it with Win11 or latest Win10?

Would love to, but don't have the ability to.

Care to elaborate?

@WrCombs said in Reboot resets Desktop Win 10 -:

Got a client running Windows 10, and every time they restart the computer, it resets everything on the desktop - Background is wiped, apps and programs are removed, files are removed, the only things that stay are the recycling bin, and Edge. I have no idea what is causing this, and I have no idea where to start. Anyone seen this before?

Just reload it with Win11 or latest Win10?

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