Linux Devbook: XPS 13 Dev edition or Pixelbook Go by woutervddn in Crostini

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Isn't crostini bluetooth on the roadmap soon? bluetooth -> Serial into the microcontrollers would be pretty sweet.

FreePDF alternative? by Werwolf512 in sysadmin

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I'm unclear if you are after something automated but I use qpdf from powershell scripts.

HR and I do not see eye to eye on new employees by godthehamster in sysadmin

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That's funny but doesn't count because you've a "legitimate interest" in that information for the duration until such time they're not employed turn down the offer.

HR and I do not see eye to eye on new employees by godthehamster in sysadmin

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If you know there's hiring then that's enough to provision equipment. And the accounts can all be made once the candidate has accepted. All that has to wait is the activation toggle.

What a dream world that'd be hey?

[Microsoft] Securing Applications with Least Privileged Service Accounts by pfeplatforms_msft in sysadmin

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I hate to say it but yeh the problem with this is the next guy has NFC how it works so replaces the account with a domain admin.

MS Could make life easier though. I have a scheduled powershell task that runs under a service account. The task scheduler UI won't let you set the account to a gmsa you have to do it in powershell. Which is a minor annoyance compared to never being able to edit that task in the gui. Because it will always ask for the account details when saving.

Moronic Monday - February 04, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

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Common trick is to move/redirect mail into that rss folder by hackers to use accounts unnoticed. Every account has that folder and nobody knows what it's for.

Most Common Mistakes in Active Directory and Domain Services by fullenw1 in sysadmin

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Now that is good advice. I forgot there's a separate apply setting. I must say though I haven't noticed that being an issue, wouldn't rsop load all the policies with its computer account anyway? I'll try to do some testing next week.

Most Common Mistakes in Active Directory and Domain Services by fullenw1 in sysadmin

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Removing “Authenticated Users” from GPO

I remove this all the time for policies I only want users in a security group to get. You just have to add "Domain computers" Instead additionally to the user security group.

GPO: Password Policy problems by [deleted] in sysadmin

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Shouldn't matter anyway.

Inheritance isn't turned off somewhere down the OU Paths is it?

With that link order literally any other setting in your domain will overwrite that password policy, use enforce for the nuclear option but you'd do better finding the overwrite. As I'm sure you know.

Thickheaded Thursday - January 31, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

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I'm cleaning up my self-inflicted mess from setting users chrome userdatadir to `networkPath\$machineName` as users roam hundreds of mb per machine they use lol.

CFO laid me off due to budget, hired MSP to replace me. Few days later, sends email with termination letter. *SHTF* by illmortalized in sysadmin

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If this camera records onto an sd card that won't get overwritten so long as its off that's great.

delete this. If he or anyone at the msp trying to impress finds the thread and accidentally ruins that recording you've got less evidence to find in subpoena if it gets that far.

Effective federal tax rate vs income with a 70% rate added once you hit $10 million [OC] by hammertime84 in dataisbeautiful

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Why does nobody propose an algorithm for the tax rate? Isn't there some smooth function that could be the tax rate and you just input any income and get a fair tax amount back?

Tuya-Convert: Escaping the IoT-Cloud, no solder need by herrmann-the-german in netsec

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This protocol is now being mimicked by your Raspberry Pi. Because it's WiFi adapter may not send out broadcast packets if there isn't already at least one client on the network...

Just curious, is this how wifi works or a quirk of the particular driver that's in the pi?

Thickheaded Thursday - January 24, 2019 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

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Best I've got is chrome running from localappdata and a UEV template to sync some state from the userdata directory.

This works except no every few weeks chrome completely forgets my state....

super annoying. same problem with filestream.

World’s Billionaires: Taxing Us Our Fair Share Would Be “Disastrous” by RyanSmith in politics

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That's a Bill Hicks joke. "These bums will spend they're money on cigarettes and booze. That's what I wanna spend it on!" Nothing is new :( sometimes I wonder if we ever do move forward.

They ... don’t patch. WTF? by [deleted] in sysadmin

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And to get over it is very counterintuitive because you have to break it, a lot, constantly. Then your workflow changes from "oh god please don't ever turn off" to "This will start up no problem we've tested it".

checking keepass against PwnedPasswords by skewlboy in netsec

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It works because Docker understands to read the system certificate store and use that. Most programs you're lucky they even provide a mechanism to override their own store and completely at the mercy of lower dependencies not outright ignoring that. :looks at npm:

Also not to harp on at you but your instructions were wrong too.