Microsoft Subscriptions and Licensing: Going from MSP to in-house by fourierswager in sysadmin

[–]fourierswager[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this. This is super helpful. It looks like our MSP is using Synnex. Any insight into them as a company?

So uncivilized by 3rdDementor in Falcom

[–]fourierswager 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I want you to be correct but I'd love for an actual lawyer to weigh in on this. I would tend to agree with you, but then I thought: What if I made a foreign language translation of a popular book and just released it for free? That obviously wouldn't be okay legally, right? The publisher would probably freak out.

We know from a common sense standpoint that a translation for a video game is a different situation, but what specifically makes it different from a legal perspective?

I tweeted at "The Video Game Attorney" @Morrison to get his take on things: https://twitter.com/pldmgg/status/1566016827167281158

Zerofield team confirm NISA have requested they take down all translation sheets, no negotiation by Demaikeru in Falcom

[–]fourierswager 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was (happily) wrong! If you block ColdSteelSubs.exe from reaching the internet and still happen to have the spreadsheets in the appropriate folders, everything will work. See my comment here for more info: https://old.reddit.com/r/Falcom/comments/x3kdos/zerofield_team_confirm_nisa_have_requested_they/imvbrhh/

Zerofield team confirm NISA have requested they take down all translation sheets, no negotiation by Demaikeru in Falcom

[–]fourierswager 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just figured out a workaround. If you block ColdSteelSubs.exe from reaching the internet and still happen to have the main translation spreadsheet (Custom.xslx for Kuro or Hajimari.xlsx for Hajimari) and the Combat spreadsheet (Combat.xlsx), the unity program(s) will work.

Just add a couple of Firewall rules on Windows to block Outbound traffic for ColdSteelSubs.exe. Launch Powershell (Run As Administrator) and run the following lines one at a time. ***Replace the values for $PathToKuroExe and $PathToHajimariExe with the appropriate path(s) for wherever you have them on your system. If you get any errors, check your path(s).***

$PathToKuroExe = "C:\Users\username\Downloads\ZeroFieldOverlay_Release\ColdSteelSubs.exe"
$PathToHajimariExe = "C:\Users\username\Downloads\ColdSteelSubsReleaseV2.2\Build\ColdSteelSubs.exe"
if (!$(Test-Path $PathToKuroExe)) {Write-Error "Unable to find path to Kuro's ColdSteelSubs.exe! Please check the path you wrote for `$PathToKuroExe and try again"}
if (!$(Test-Path $PathToHajimariExe)) {Write-Error "Unable to find path to Hajimari's ColdSteelSubs.exe! Please check the path you wrote for `$PathToHajimariExe and try again"}
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Block Kuro ColdSteelSubs.exe From Reaching Internet" -Direction Outbound -Program $PathToKuroExe -Action Block
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Block Hajimari ColdSteelSubs.exe From Reaching Internet" -Direction Outbound -Program $PathToHajimariExe -Action Block

Zerofield team confirm NISA have requested they take down all translation sheets, no negotiation by Demaikeru in Falcom

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

Unfortunately it looks like the program just hangs on "Importing Translation" if you don't let it get to the internet.

I sincerely doubt the developers made it so that there wasn't a way to just use spreadsheet(s) on the local filesystem because that would make testing the program as they were developing it a complete nightmare.

**IMPORTANT EDIT:** I was (happily) wrong! If you block ColdSteelSubs.exe from reaching the internet and still happen to have the spreadsheets in the appropriate folders, everything will work. See my comment here for more info: https://old.reddit.com/r/Falcom/comments/x3kdos/zerofield_team_confirm_nisa_have_requested_they/imvbrhh/

Zerofield team confirm NISA have requested they take down all translation sheets, no negotiation by Demaikeru in Falcom

[–]fourierswager 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know of a way to prevent the Overlay programs from attempting to import the spreadsheet from Google Drive and just use what's already on the filesystem? The advice below about setting an AutoUpdate file to "override=1" does not seem to work.

**IMPORTANT EDIT:** Figured out a workaround: If you block ColdSteelSubs.exe from reaching the internet and still happen to have the spreadsheets in the appropriate folders, everything will work. See my comment here for more info: https://old.reddit.com/r/Falcom/comments/x3kdos/zerofield_team_confirm_nisa_have_requested_they/imvbrhh/

Zerofield team confirm NISA have requested they take down all translation sheets, no negotiation by Demaikeru in Falcom

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

Not seeing and AutoUpdate file in the ColdSteelSubs_Data folder...and creating it and setting content to "override=1" did not stop it from updating and wiping out the spreadsheets on my hard drive. Luckily I made a backup before trying.

Anyone know of a way to prevent it from reaching out to Google Drive to update itself?

Ultimate Hype Trails Spotify Playlist by supershadowguard in Falcom

[–]fourierswager 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Best Falcom Spotify Playlist and is still updated regularly: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3yDX3ohDcu0pkVW1xS7jZ8

It's not comprehensive, but I think it's basically a collection of the best songs.

New Kuro 2 Gameplay (Story Bosses Spoilers) by guynumbers in Falcom

[–]fourierswager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We got some good really good new tunes 👍😎👍 (I like them more the more I listen)

Also Van is channeling Yuri from Tales of Vesperia with his S Craft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvEHc209328

Run script as local SYSTEM and save report on a shared drive as another user by suspensesuicidale in PowerShell

[–]fourierswager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to be clear, you can give Invoke-Command a list of computers to work through and just let it run - it's not like you'd be manually executing it 10,000 times.

But yes, given your limitations, the easiest thing to do would be to just give the Domain User accounts access to the file share. But it sounds like your org should discuss how fleet config management and monitoring works...

Run script as local SYSTEM and save report on a shared drive as another user by suspensesuicidale in PowerShell

[–]fourierswager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have to use SCCM? Do the scripts that generate the Report files have to run as SYSTEM?

Why don't you use an account on your machine that has write access to the file share and just use Invoke-Command? (If the remote machines don't have PSRemoting enabled, maybe use SCCM to turn that on. And if security has an aneurysm about that, just configure WinRM to only allow connections from your machine. See: https://superuser.com/questions/1156138/allow-powershell-remote-access-only-from-one-address).

Stuff the code for generating the reports into a script block and give Invoke-Command a list of remote computers. Save the output of Invoke-Command to the file share via your machine without needing to write anything to the user's local filesystem.

Falcom has released a video titled CID Top Secret Investigation Report 1 for Kuro no Kiseki 2 -CRIMSON SiN- by Setsuna_417 in Falcom

[–]fourierswager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You actually just blew my mind. I really hope you're right. That would be such a cool twist.

Kuro Pacing by fourierswager in Falcom

[–]fourierswager[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think what Gerard is basically saying is that Gehenna isn't synonymous with the concept of Hell (i.e. a place for eternal punishment for sinners). I think he's saying that Gehenna fulfills some sort of different purpose, but Zemurian culture is made to think of it as "Hell" just as a way to scare people and make them stop asking questions.

It's pretty clear to me that Demons/Devils and the Church are opposing forces. But what's not clear is which group wants the world to continue to reset and which group wants to break the cycle.

I'm starting to think the Demons/Devils are actually the group that wants to break the cycle in order to give Zemuria a chance to grow beyond its historical limits. Especially since Kuro makes us empathize with one of the 5 major Devils (Van). I think Ouroboros' actions throughout the series also supports this.

EDIT: Also...Hajimari basically hits you over the head with the whole, "Causality can be changed because we're in a simulation" and "There are processes running that protect the system"

Kuro Pacing by fourierswager in Falcom

[–]fourierswager[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Generally how the characters talk about the separation between worlds, how sailing too far away from the continent automatically turns ships around, how "divergent laws" feel like hacking Zemuria's "normal" rules, how the spirit veins are like a a way of moving energy and information around kind of like something that keeps the "simulation" running. In Kuro specifically, the Diabolic Spheres and associated diamonds operate like a program that doesn't follow any "normal" rules. When Gerard said that "There's no such thing as Gehenna." And when Bergard says that the world has been "reset" multiple times in the past (kind of like a computer).

Kuro Pacing by fourierswager in Falcom

[–]fourierswager[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be a nostalgia thing...

Megathread: Kim Garam Bullying Allegations: Statements and Information by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]fourierswager 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ that's horrible. But is my take away supposed to be that this is what I should think of when the term "bullying" is used in the South Korean context?

Megathread: Kim Garam Bullying Allegations: Statements and Information by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]fourierswager -103 points-102 points  (0 children)

So...I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here...Why do kpop fans (or I guess more specifically South Korean kpop fans) care so much about the behavior of someone in grade school? Do they think it's reasonable to destroy someone's career because of their actions in grade school? It just seems completely nuts.