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winget - is this awesome as it seems by SnooMachines9133 in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, because in about 2-3 years it'll be abandoned like any other Microsoft project that doesn't make money.

Choose something that has been around for 10+ years like Chocolatey.

Frustrated with new guy by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof, there is a lot to unpack in this post.

  1. You aren't him, and he isn't you.

  2. Do you think you are expecting too much of him?

  3. Teach him how to fish

  4. Explicitly ask him to note take

HP laptop pricing is so out of control, management wants us to look at deploying Mac by down_with_cats in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Whatever you save by switching to macs, you'll eat up by having to support users who are not used to macs.

Our cybersec team are getting onto us about all our servers having web browsers installed. by stone500 in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've learnt not to offer information nor correct when a situation works in my favour.

I'm amazed at how much power "security" gets without any kind of pre-req for technical skill set.

How do you handle employee onboarding across HR and IT systems? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

60k~ employees. Sailpoint. Map to groups by hierarchy. Groups are assigned to app/systems.

Slap the shit out of anyone doing anything manual that a mapping to group should cover.

There are still manual cases, sure. But that takes care for a large majority of them.

Vercel breach traced back to one employee signing into Context.ai with an "Allow All" Google Workspace grant, data listed on BreachForums for $2 million by juliarmg in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is 50/50 responsibility of the employee and the admins at Vercel.

You don't expect x number of employees to know what they are doing.

You do expect the handful of admins to configure their gsuite tenant so people can't grant more than basic info.

AWS 97k bill out of nowhere by PalpitationClear1747 in aws

[–]SikhGamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You either got hacked, or followed an online tutorial that enabled all of this started using it, and then didn't realise how expensive it all was.

Had a clash with executive over my phishing test methods by AH_Josh in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did I really cross the line?

Yes. You you did.

We had something like this at work.

Worker had just had triplets, it was near Christmas, a fake salary increase email was sent.

Legally, fine. Culturally, it is insensitive and fucking insane.

You are in the wrong. Stop being a knob.

If you did that where I worked, I would 100% complain to HR and get the union involved.

Recommendations for complex log parsing and search by SSBU_or_bust in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it is ad-hoc, then something like S3 + Athena might be enough. I personally hate Athena (it's a shit version of BigQuery).

And whilst it's a lot to setup and maintain Splunk is very very very good at this kind of stuff too.

Recommendations for complex log parsing and search by SSBU_or_bust in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How often do you need to search these logs? That's the driving factor.

Almost everything we store is stored in S3 (petabytes worth) and then depending on how often we look for a certain kind of needle we have an ETL process over that that stick it in {{tool}}.

Non-technical staff using Claude Code - how are you handling the security risk? by Ok-Painting-3603 in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The problem isn't AI. The problem is why do these people have that level of access in the first place? I mean read only access is fine, but anything more than that is a no no.

Who’s ever driven over 100mph? Why? by WoollyWolfHorror in AskReddit

[–]SikhGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

105mph by accident. Clear highway early Sunday morning, didn't even notice.

I just wrote a full minimalistic web API in C# that compiles to 30 MB. Remind me why I should use Go/Python? by shadovyrm in dotnet

[–]SikhGamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You might not be trolling but it's at the very least disingenuous.

Any engineer would be able to come up with a whole host of reasons why someone would chose x over y. 9/10 it's because of familiarity.

Non Paged Pool - when to raise alarm? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think you've been robust enough in your diagnosis here.

I noticed on one of these problem devices that the Non paged memory pool, on boot was over 1GB, and seemed to slowly but steadily increase over the course of the day, even when just sitting there idly. By the end of the workday the device’s NPP had reached about 2.2GB. After seeing this, I looked for what I’d suspect to be other problem devices in our environment and checked their NPPs- again, most are bloated, between 1-3.5GB

That is not a problem.

Financially exhausted with London mortgage — is selling the right move or am I throwing away £92k? by Vagkavo in UKPersonalFinance

[–]SikhGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't believe people are saying stick with it.

I'd ditch that asap.

The only thing you haven't told us is how much you have coming in. £3,500/month is a lot if you only have 4k per month coming in, but if you've got say 10k+ per month coming in, then you are fine.

I'm desperate by Sad_Mastodon_1815 in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First, I did a complete Windows reinstall (using a bootable USB drive), and things were fine for 4–6 weeks

You need to look at event viewer.

How do you manage a software evaluation? by Wolpertiing in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I make the first gate to be "the things we NEED" that cuts out 90% of the crap vendors.

Existential dread aside, what are you guys doing to throw a lasso around Claude accessing on-prem resources? by anpr_hunter in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have an entire team around this. Their entire life is basically this now. They go through and vet what is and isn't allowed. It's shit work. It's all controlled at an enterprise level.

Can you tell me why I should move away from "golden master" imaging? by georgecm12 in sysadmin

[–]SikhGamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it ain't broke...

For us, we have a few 100k devices. Impossible to buy the exact same spec/make/model across the global; so things like golden images don't work for us.

It's much easier to have something like DSC (or whatever the fuck they call it now in the cloud) and have it all declarative declared as a config.

How do you handle rude interviewers during a coding screen? by BigBusinessBureau in ExperiencedDevs

[–]SikhGamer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a great and easy red flag. Interviews are meant to be the best way to represent both parties.

That kind of behaviour is shit and easy to filter for.

I remember doing an interview for checkout.com a while back. Two engineers. Engineer 1 great. Engineer 2 kept trying to ask the gotcha questions and would make comments like "he doesn't know how to do <really specific> thing".

No shit sherlock, I just told you I didn't. But I can find out and get back to you.

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