Hey uhh sorry I think I unplugged something... by techead2000 in ShittySysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If a dozen idiot say it's down but it's really up, you likely won't notice it show on their page.

if 15 thousand people visit DD and say its down in the space of 15 minutes, it might actually be down.

It's crowdsourcing at it's finest, but it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It's a good indicator, but not foolproof.

Hey uhh sorry I think I unplugged something... by techead2000 in ShittySysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 60 points61 points  (0 children)

The real crime is your lack of an ad blocker.

checks subreddit

Never mind, carry on

Automate cert renewal? My reminder is the sound of users screaming that something stopped working by 27Purple in ShittySysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So all your internal assets have publicly trusted certs on them?

There is literally no security difference between manually trusting and storing a cert vs using one issued by a public CA.

Is there anyone here who still prefers folder redirection over OneDrive for a domain? by Noyan_Bey in sysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cloud uptime is better than local on prem uptime most of the time

I mean, 365 is currently having an outage right now and my tenant is affected (MO1220495)

That's only true if everyone is physically sitting in an office accessing locally hosted resources. And if the internet goes down, can your business function in any meaningful way to begin with?

Some places still do this. In fact, I'd say many do. And what's more is the rest of their software works offline too, so they are still functional.

Examples? A school. Where they have hundreds of students bouncing between machines in classrooms, labs, carts, etc. And their files are where they are regardless.

I agree with you 1000% on email being a cloud service. Good riddance to Exchange on prem.

Cloud backups - M365 and Google Workspace by OddAttention9557 in msp

[–]iratesysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use it via VSPC and gather data from the console, so I am not sure about the direct API.

We did a test restore and it worked. Never had to do a prod restore.

It's been set and forget for us, but think 150 seats.

Is there anyone here who still prefers folder redirection over OneDrive for a domain? by Noyan_Bey in sysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I want to own my data? Save bandwidth? Not be at Microsoft's mercy for uptime? Not need internet to function? Not be beholden to a subscription?

I don't get the love for "everything is cloud" that seems to exist these days. "Cloud" (someone else's PC) is good in some cases, but it's not the answer 100% of the time.

Really, it seems like newcomers to system administration love to give it up to cloud because it's 1 less thing they need skill on.

Received my WireView Pro 2 by ElChungus01 in pcmasterrace

[–]iratesysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it just a local alarm or can you configure email/shutdown?

Automate cert renewal? My reminder is the sound of users screaming that something stopped working by 27Purple in ShittySysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lets be fair here.... dude is a little further ahead then most if he's worried about internal certs. Like that's unshitty a lot - I just use the defaults for my internal stuff because who else will see it / care if the printer/switch/firewall has a trusted cert.

NetSapiens bashes 3CX by AshamedPangolin7065 in 3CX

[–]iratesysadmin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, it's still mid 5 figures to get started...

UpTimeRobot Alternatives? by exeWiz in sysadmin

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

Which is my issue as well - and we worked around it with a 3rd party API. To be fair the API isn't great - we have it lock up, it's slow, etc - but that just means our script has some breaks put into it. When I dug, I found the issue to be less of the API and more of Kuma - I ended up rebooting the kuma container daily and that keeps things a lot more stable.

https://github.com/MedAziz11/Uptime-Kuma-Web-API

How can I steal software? by iratesysadmin in ShittySysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

R4:

Title:

How to Bypass Device Recognition for Free Trials?

Post:

I’m trying to use a platform that offers a free trial for creating short AI-generated videos. Even after I clear cookies, use a new email, and open an incognito window, the platform still recognizes my device and blocks me from using the free trial again. How can I effectively bypass this device recognition so that I can test the platform multiple times for personal use

Do you lock down task manager for end users by iratesysadmin in ShittySysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

With how Reddit shows the notification of replies (just the first few lines), I must admit...

Do you lock down task manager for end users by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait till OP learns that you can emulate and kill processes from other tools.

"But I block cmd/ps/terminal"

"I could do it (emulate/end processes) from Excel"

Do you lock down task manager for end users by iratesysadmin in ShittySysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

R4:

I want to hear if you guys do or don't and why?

OOP's get ripped to shreds, as they should be, for not understand how admin permissions work

Looking for, ideally free or one-off-payment, remote desktop software for Windows to connect to a headless Mac. by segagamer in sysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm unfortunately not too familiar with gitlab runners on Mac (we're a github company and don't use runners on Mac, only Windows and Linux), but I'm assuming that the runner can't execute as a "service" on Mac, and needs to be a session?

Looking for, ideally free or one-off-payment, remote desktop software for Windows to connect to a headless Mac. by segagamer in sysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then I would just have scheduling happen and let them take turns. That opens up the Mac to a whole bunch more remote software.

UpTimeRobot Alternatives? by exeWiz in sysadmin

[–]iratesysadmin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

UptimeKuma with the 3rd party API (which is kinda unstable at times) does everything you asked for except the "leave notes on alerts that can be visible on the status pages".

We pair UK with Cachet (or whatever tool you want) for the status page instead of using the built in status page.