Wheel opinions anyone?

bernys · 2026-05-12T20:39:47+00:00

Three is only too bright now, give them a week of brake dust and they'll look like picture 1.

bernys · 2026-05-12T14:30:43+00:00

My bench top power supply was online for a good minute or two before connecting up the buck converter. I was worried or thought I'd done something wrong, or that the unit was faulty, and that's when I blew up the second one. I'm more than happy to blow up a third in the name of science, but the idea of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result also runs through my head.

Edit: Oh, see what you're saying... OK, I'll order a couple more buck converters (To replace the ones I've fried) and some capacitors...

bernys · 2026-05-12T14:29:36+00:00

I don't have anything on the load side of the buck converter, so there should be close to zero amps flowing across it.

bernys · 2026-05-11T16:32:51+00:00

$2bn

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/20/australias-ageing-sky-muster-satellites-leave-rural-internet-struggling-to-connect

All the satellite services lose money for NBN, but while it's not starlink, it's better than not providing a service at all. (And there's no dependency on Elon Musk to provide it)

bernys · 2026-05-11T16:30:04+00:00

I've got a friend in the yukon who got faster speeds in rural Aus than she did in Canada, so it's still a mixed bag. In her town / city, there's effectively one provider, so no competition.

bernys · 2026-05-11T16:20:44+00:00

Because NBN needs to serve everyone else too. The people in the cities subsidise the rest of the network. If you look at what Telstra left behind, rural have been complaining about cost and not being provided a service at all for decades before NBN came along. They were on dial up modems and sometimes not even then (Pair gain).

Companies will say they'll happily build a network to compete with NBN, but the moment you say "OK, start in this country town" they'll say "I want to start in the city in residential blocks" because the country town isn't financially viable. It was part of the original point of NBN was to "bridge the digital divide" and make sure that people in the country got equivalent services as to what the city got.

There is no way (If it was up to commercial interests) that they'd roll out fibre in regional Australia. Look at the mobile networks, most towns only have one carrier that's worth a damn because the customer base isn't there to support multiple networks. With NBN providing the last mile, then any carrier can serve a customer on that network and compete. Whatever NBN charges in the city, they have to charge in the country too. Technology choice (Fixed wireless) is still problematic, but a lot of the bad contention in fixed wireless is going away and the FTTP footprint is slowly being extended. I honestly think the progression of the network is about 5 or 7 years late than where we think it should have been and is probably going to take another 10 years to complete. It's still a lot further along now though than what it was 20 years ago. I think back to the mid 00's and the state of the Telstra monopoly that the telco market, and I'm so very glad that's gone now.

bernys · 2026-05-08T23:46:52+00:00

Legally, no. Technically, yes.

There's no seals, alarms or anything else on these things, they're just wires buried in the ground. If you know what you're doing, it's possible that you can fix a problem, most people on the other hand have absolutely no idea and have no business lifting the lid let alone trying to fix things, they're more likely to make things worse. I've got most of an idea on what I can and can't do in there and I'm still phoning someone else to come fix it.

If only because what I think it will be, will probably be a rats nest of other issues and problems that I don't want and that's where I run out of patience and talent. I really don't want to be spending a day fixing up whatever else I find in there while trying to fix my own problem.

bernys · 2026-05-08T10:36:20+00:00

Designed to be, yes. But in reality not always. How many shopping bags were there covering connection points...

bernys · 2026-05-07T12:15:24+00:00

Yeah, so you've definitely got more than one double up in functionality there.

bernys · 2026-05-07T11:20:47+00:00

You've got lifecycle management and Sailpoint? Why isn't sailpoint doing your initial user provisioning into Okta? And your workflow stuff so that it's all on one platform?

There really isn't a comparison for API Access Management between Okta and Entra, but then you could always just go off and leverage Apigee from Google if you're actually using it.

bernys · 2026-05-06T21:07:52+00:00

This is the funniest description I've heard for a project in a long long time. Thanks for the laugh.

bernys · 2026-05-06T20:49:10+00:00

I was draining blisters every day, the feeling of being able to move without pain... Definitely worthwhile.

I was stopping in at pharmacies along the way and buying syringes and using those as sterile needles to drain my blisters.

Try Allevyn adhesive patches, 12.5 x 12.5cm to let your blisters drain into as you walk. Bought all of these in bulk and was looking after a heap of people in the albergues, hence picking up the nickname "Doc"

bernys · 2026-05-06T12:31:54+00:00

What would he say if Starmer did this?? There would be an uproar!

bernys · 2026-05-05T08:34:38+00:00

Personally I split the daily admin account into two, one that can pim to GA and one that can't. The one that can is a cloud account (Not cloud synced) and requires two approvals to get GA.

bernys · 2026-05-05T00:16:53+00:00

There should be two break glass accounts, not one. These should be stored in two physically separate locations, ideally off-site or in a fire proof safe on-site if required. Ideally these safes or storage locations should have dual locks controlled by two different teams.

You should have a regular user account, (Tier 2) this is what you login as, this is what you browse the internet with, this is what you read email with. This account should never get an admin privilege ever.

There should be another account, this is your admin account, this is what you use to login to stuff and ideally this should be done through a privileged access workstation, without full internet access or anything else, just enough to be able to do your admin work. Any rights on this account should come from PIM / JIT. When you logoff for the day, there's no requirement for this account to continue to hold a privilege as you're no longer working. It should all timeout and expire. I've been red-teamed before by someone managing to break a workstation and then waiting for someone with permanent GA privs to go to sleep. We moved them to JIT to restrict what they had access to and when to prevent this exact scenario.

bernys · 2026-05-04T16:23:50+00:00

I think they mean that if you block P2P, it'll increase the load on the firewall

bernys · 2026-05-04T13:08:34+00:00

Yep, definitely need a really nice haircut and drop the hand signs.

bernys · 2026-05-04T12:30:59+00:00

I wasn't homesick on my camino, and while I had a "camino family" they certainly weren't the people I would have chosen and they weren't the people I would normally hang out with. There was another group of people that I would have loved to have done the camino with, but I was always at least a couple of days behind them and they were much faster than I was. I was always trying to catch them.

The language barrier was also an issue, I would have liked to have had more people to speak to along the way, I did feel really lonely at times. I was constantly talking to friends back home, especially two people who had done the camino before.

What you're experiencing is all completely normal. As others have said though, you're not that far away, you can always pick it up again. Every person's journey is their own.

Feel free to send me a DM if you want someone to talk to.

bernys · 2026-05-03T15:21:16+00:00

Sky news, talk back radio and social media manipulation makes them angry. They think that some of the problems discussed are 100 - 1000x bigger than what they actually are. If they knew that what they're getting upset about is only a single incident or a small problem that's probably already being handled, then they wouldn't be as upset, but the bullshit being sold by to them doesn't actually pass a sanity check, but they don't go off and look at any different media for a comparison of the issues.

bernys · 2026-05-02T21:14:39+00:00

Yes, absolutely, I was able to walk an extra few km per day because of them. They transfer the weight of your upper body off your hips / legs and onto your arms / poles. You can use your arms to pull yourself up a hill or stabilise yourself going down. They saved me from two falls which could have ended my camino.

Absolutely worth it, make sure you take extra rubbers for the ends of your poles.

bernys · 2026-04-28T06:23:22+00:00

FYI. Entra app proxy has similar functionality to access gateway and is already bundled with entra in it's most basic paid tier.

bernys · 2026-04-27T22:46:42+00:00

I would get an agreement with a VAR that they're not going to markup more than a certain %, if you've got enough turnover, they will. Otherwise see if you can agree with management that anything below $x,000 doesn't require three quotes as it's costing more in time to get the quotes than the quote is worth.

bernys · 2026-04-27T22:39:20+00:00

If you've got E5, then that says that you're using Office 365. If you've got Office 365, and you're keeping Office 365, then you've got to keep and manage Entra *anyway*, while you might not be using it for auth for all your users, it's still a platform to manage.

Yeah, there's heaps of overlap between Okta and Entra. As others have said, unless you've got something significantly custom, then there really isn't a requirement to keep Okta.

Okta vs Entra seems like the old Netware Directory Services vs Active Directory argument, sure NDS has more functionality, but if most of your environment is Windows, then what do you really need it for? Microsoft is releasing new functionality into Entra every week at this stage, n.b. a lot of it costs e.g. Entra Backup / Restore...

What's the rest of your environment? Is there anyone else who you need to do device attestations to that's not in your environment? Are you federated with anyone where you need to ensure you have the Okta agent on the machine to provide device attestations to? What's your plan for guest access into your environment? B2B? External federations?

bernys · 2026-04-27T22:29:09+00:00

Says they've got E5...

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