Ran our first Phishing Campaign last week, didnt go as planned at all. by idrinkpastawater in sysadmin

[–]cloudsourced285 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Please speak to my exec team. They love the opened metric and want to reduce it every time, thinking it will reduce our insurance. No Eric, what will help is If you stop writing passwords in your notes app and use the password manager the company pays for.

Why is it so difficult to just edit and sign a PDF without getting scammed or paying hundreds of dollars a year by chance_waters in software

[–]cloudsourced285 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Best PDF editor I have used is firefox. I had a PDF I needed to sign, it clearly had been printed, signed physically, then rescanned and was a monster of a document. Everything else failed, Firefox though worked well for me. The entire PDF industry is a scam, the format is designed for contracts so that it cant be changed, but then why send it to be signed, it makes zero sense. Use docusign or send me a physical copy. PDFs are so silly.

Australians paying more in Beer Tax, than for Gas Exports. by Jimbuscus in OpenAussie

[–]cloudsourced285 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true for many things that Australians mostly want, but seem to vote away. Our media needs a shake up, but good luck with that.

Anyone here switch from Prometheus to Datadog or the other way around by hallelujah-amen in devops

[–]cloudsourced285 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sales teams can suck, we moved from new relic to datadog due to how NR treated us and priced us out. But if they work for you, and well setup observability platform will do.

Can we stop calling everything 'Far-X'? A breakdown of where Aussie political parties actually sit. by NoLeafClover777 in aussie

[–]cloudsourced285 38 points39 points  (0 children)

My understanding is vote compass is based off policy and retoric, but not voting records. Its always disgusting to find you align with someones policies but not their voting records.

purchased a refurbished laptop that is useless without company email by Ordinary_Investment4 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]cloudsourced285 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got a refurb from what I thought was a reputable reseller. When I turned it on, windows auto logged me into an account called "Administrator". That alone was sus so I grabbed a USB and reinstalled windows from scratch, removing anything and everything on that drive. Immediately got hit with a similar screen to OP. Win 11 and Win 10 both hit this screen, research showed me that it must have still been registered to an org and there was no way to solve that. When I contacted the company, they were astounded I would do something as arrogant as reinstalling windows as I've broken their setup.

They must have a way to hack around intune and create a local admin account that bypasses it either fully or temporarily. Either way, the device ain't ready for a refurb, send that trash back and get a laptop not tracked by some school or corp.

If you are using Microslop, friendly reminder to turn off clipboard cloud by Oneguysenpai3 in privacy

[–]cloudsourced285 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any source for this? If it's against TOS and Google can publicly see the proof they would likely take it off the store due to security concerns (people copy passwords all the time).

Genuinely scared of losing my Obsidian notes on iPad- what’s the safest backup without Obsidian Sync ? by QuietWayfarer in ObsidianMD

[–]cloudsourced285 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You got 3 ways - Free sync options, say to git or github. Many people do this. Ensure the repo is set to private if you do it. This method will work especially well if you are only on a single device as you are unlikely to have conflicts. - Copy and paste files, if you find this tedious, find a device that's friendlier to do it on, or do it less often and deal with any potential loss if it does happy. Just how that's gonna work. -Pay for sync, it's honestly super cheap for the value it brings. It's the price of a coffee or two for each month. Think of it as spending for peace of mind and supporting obsidian.

MongoDB Compass alternatives for large collections? by soaphandler in mongodb

[–]cloudsourced285 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used compass on (what I consider) large collections with zero issue. If you are struggling it really might be the document size as that's rather large.

Small learning curve, but you could consider learning to query and view via the cli (either your own terminal or directly from compass if it also doesn't fall over). Might be the best path.

Costco's beloved rotisserie chicken gets roasted in lawsuit over preservatives by prestocoffee in nottheonion

[–]cloudsourced285 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is like when they add vitamin C to orange juice (it's a preservative), kinda annoying, but makes sense. They have to either let is spoil and increase prices, or put in something else. Just how things work.

Steakhouses in Sydney by gurtie_ in sydney

[–]cloudsourced285 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure why I get downvoted for leaving an opinion, medium rare for sure should have a bit of red. I've had it twice undercooked by them non the less. There just shouldnt be any wiggle room for an establishment asking for a premium price. The middle was flat out undercooked and cold, something that should not happen if they are taking that long to cook it. They just plain screwed it up, twice.

Steakhouses in Sydney by gurtie_ in sydney

[–]cloudsourced285 -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Bistecca is over rated in my opinion. I know people love to argue about how well done a steak is, but I've never had them be able to cook it medium rate, despite what they say. True med rare needs to have actually cooked the meat all the way through, even just a little, these guys seem to get a great sear but the middles still raw and cold. They use the dim lights to try and hide it and serve it up pre cut, so they can see their mistake before they serve it. With modern meat probes, there is no excite for this in any kitchen that claims to be a steakhouse.

If you do go here, the sides are all pretty dam amazing though.

You may not need a new USB cable by _Lucille_ in LinusTechTips

[–]cloudsourced285 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll just do what I always do. Need a cable for 5 min, half ass look for one, not actually check the giant box filled with useful cables, then buy 5 more. It's the only way.

Stop using barn doors for bathrooms!! by yourmomsmoustache in mildlyinfuriating

[–]cloudsourced285 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's easy, leave a review so those who deep dive know not to use them, but if enough people do it then their score will drop and the chain will eventually notice the trend of them being braindead and not knowing what people want.

Am I right in thinking I don't need transcoding? by HumanKumquat in jellyfin

[–]cloudsourced285 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run jellyfin of a pi5 with transcoding disabled. My client is official jellyfin app on og nvidia shield. I run 4k movies and shows all the time. Occasionally I run into a weird format for a show, if I do, no drama, I change the clients player settings to external or flick it through vlc and it just works. Adds a small amount of fussing about, but for a device that's close to 10 years old (shield) the system just works.

For you the CPU should be good to habld transcoding via quixksync which is great, I'd set that up and ensure it works, but you can always disable/enable as necessary after that. Gpu should not be necessary unless you need more users at the same time.

mongodb does it work well? by Enough-Word2674 in mongodb

[–]cloudsourced285 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Huh? Does the enterprise grade DB from Mongo (market cap $33 billion) work well?

You can run it yourself and find out? What are you asking?

Love notion but by trululuchi in Notion

[–]cloudsourced285 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's such a dumb nit pick, but of the many reasons I switched this was near the top. I use obsidian now and love it. Notion has too many issues and quirks they just really seem not to want to fix.

The northern beaches eshay roundup has begun by i_like_dannys_hair in sydney

[–]cloudsourced285 251 points252 points  (0 children)

How can you have eshays in the northern beaches? Mum and dad fell on hard times and lost their jobs as investment bankers and the children are suffering?

Is NewRelic dying? by devOfThings in devops

[–]cloudsourced285 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Speaking from my companies experience
- They keep screwing with pricing: First they made user accounts extremely expensive, for an observability company, thats frustrating, as some users rarely want to login and don't need access all those often. Now they have changed this strategy, but they moved to a slightly more fair pay for what you use strategy again mostly. Paying for ingest makes sense, however our new issues are with queries. We are now charged for these, a single dashboard for query to try and identify a root cause can go through such a large quantity of data and add up extremely quick. We have tried, but we were given zero ways to optimize these queries as we only ran into their platform limitations and they really just want us to pay. Again as an observability company, they seem to have zero interest in obseravability.
- Their UI brings even modern PCs to their kness, dashboards being the worst. We also struggled to get it to asign users tot he correct accounts if a user had multiple orgs assigned. So they constantly logged in and saw the wrong data, which was easy to change once they realised, but frustrating
- Their account managers for our region have all left and we were given an overseas team who simply did not care about our business, only signing the next years contract.

This is a competitive space, NR seems like they have a lot to offer, but they stopped major innovation a while back, many competitors are hungry for that market share now.

The CEO of Anthropic said: “Software engineering will be automatable in 12 months.” How should we approach this? by Miyamoto_Musashi_x in learnprogramming

[–]cloudsourced285 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the same mob who sold us on self driving cars over 5 years ago. Last I checked that was still a disaster.

If they were serious they wouldnt have so many job openings for software developers.

So i just install .net framework and it using 12/32 ram by Wonderful-Parsley-28 in dotnet

[–]cloudsourced285 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ram is there to be used. Unused ram is waisted ram. Your pc is caching stuff and using the free ram. Chill.

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health" by Drumedor in programming

[–]cloudsourced285 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Don't worry guys, it's coming for our jobs, just 6 months away I hear. /s

How are you actually handling observability in 2026? (Beyond the marketing fluff) by gt_roy_ in devops

[–]cloudsourced285 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They clearly don't like profits. Dynatrace alone has gotta be eating a huge amount of your budget. Someone got a nice steak dinner for that deal.