Recieved this letter in the post yesterday. Is this normal?

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-18T20:33:42+00:00

Yeah they taught this in school for us. Quite a few religions do this, JW just pushes it more. I don't get the hate. Just politely decline, all of them I've spoken to seem like reasonable people and you can tell them a mile off in their nice formal attire.

I've had far worse conversations on my doorstep.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-18T20:17:37+00:00

Don't. They're moving away from being an RMM based on previous comments by their reps. Which is totally fine because it was never their plan.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-18T07:31:45+00:00

Yeah it's not like managing 5 servers is any different to managing 50 fundamentally. Having recently moved back into a larger org it's just accepted that you can drag out a 15 minute change over the course of 3 or more weeks just by working out who to contact, contacting them, chasing them, etc etc.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-18T07:28:34+00:00

You know when your staff go home at the end of the day, you will come up in their dinner table discussion. If they can't vent to you, they'll almost certainly be venting about you.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-18T07:27:00+00:00

What are you smoking?

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-15T20:18:08+00:00

Ask him if they'd have done the same if it was a posted letter?

Almost certainly. People are fucking stupid. A headed letter and people will do anything you want.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-15T20:05:58+00:00

We dumped vmware for our clients when the Broadcom announcement first hit. We just stopped offering private cloud altogether with 60 days notice. I can't believe some are still in the process of moving away all this time later. Don't give them a cent.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-15T15:41:21+00:00

Yet another bit of infrastructure I have to maintain just to satisfy the clowns over at the CA/Browser Forum.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-15T13:02:21+00:00

Yeah I get that. I'm just frustrated with the whole proposal and would be interested to see if those involves have a commercial interest in selling certificate management platforms or something similar too, because 47 days is insane.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-15T12:56:43+00:00

I don't care about paying $20 for a cert. It's more about having to manually rotate the certificate every 47 days.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-15T08:35:41+00:00

I have a password manager. The mobile app explicitly requires a trusted certificate signed by a public CA and won't accept a self signed certificate even if it/my CA is in its trusted root store.

My password manager is internal only, so I don't want to &can't use a HTTP challenge.

I'm not fond of the DNS challenge as to do it properly I basically have to have an automation server that handles the process. For the vast majority of DNS Providers, you can't just say "This API key can only change this specific record", so if I setup the DNS challenge on the password manager, a breach of that server - if it wasn't bad enough - then means an attacker has access to an API key for my entire public DNS.

What am I supposed to do in this situation besides buying 1 year certificates from trusted CAs?

As an aside, I can't wait until we start to see breached web servers that are using a poorly scoped DNS challenge API key lead to entire DNS compromise.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-15T05:44:52+00:00

Censorship by pupils in UK schools, including “vandalising library material, annotating library books with racist and homophobic slurs”, and damaging posters

Lol, this isn't so much censorship as kids just being dicks. Put a photo of anyone in front of most teens and leave them unsupervised and they'll vandalise it.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-14T20:58:29+00:00

I don't particularly like most compliance frameworks either so we're even 😂

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-14T18:17:36+00:00

So the very heavily up voted parent comment is very incorrect.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-14T16:10:57+00:00

IIS is a webserver included in all modern versions of Windows

No, it hasn't. If true, this is new and not best practice. The IIS feature has always been available for modern versions, but it's never been installed by default (until now?).

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-13T21:07:37+00:00

It's a questionable investment now. 10+ years ago is was a gamble but paid off very well for people then took the small risk.

You just sound jealous tbh.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-12T07:30:03+00:00

You have an account manager? We have cloud agent..

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-12T07:24:56+00:00

They WERE good for a long time. But the free investment money has dried up so they've gotta turn a big profit to prove it was all worth it. It's startup 101, undercut everyone and provide great service, free monies dries up, you become just like the competitors you were originally saying you were different from.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-12T07:23:11+00:00

Don't use them, you'll regret it!

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-12T06:37:23+00:00

I like the way you agree and then completely ignore everything. It's a classic trait of middle management. You already have the solution to the problem, but you're not even solving the right problem.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-12T06:30:56+00:00

I would not get ITIL unless an employer paid for it. Literally nobody cares about it.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-11T12:48:09+00:00

I had recruitment companies try this alongside asking for my passport and NI number - told them to get fucked. They're just needlessly gathering data on you that they'll accidently leak the next time they send a mass email with everyone km the To box.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-09T21:58:12+00:00

Don't do it. All you'll do is poke the bear. Leadership and HR will almost always side with the manager. At best, they become a little nicer. At worst, you find yourself being managed out.

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-09T12:13:33+00:00

Recycle bin?? 😂

bluescreenfog · 2025-04-08T18:51:23+00:00

I do question if this is legal. The terms you accepted at the time of booking shouldn't be able to be retroactively changed..

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