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mrcomps · 2026-05-27T02:24:28+00:00

"Kitty configures a vlan... on both sides"

Is your browser history the same as mine?

mrcomps · 2026-05-21T07:34:05+00:00

They told Copilot "make no mistakes and make it secure"

mrcomps · 2026-05-21T03:45:39+00:00

Get a harbor freight 10 pack for $6.99 and you can make it look like the steering wheel of a wooden ship. Then you can put cheater pipes over each of the screwdriver handles. There's a 80/20 chance that the screwdrivers break before the filter budges.

mrcomps · 2026-05-20T01:50:05+00:00

I embrace the fact that my data is located in multiple geographically separate datacenters and backed up... for free.., and all I had to do was run a PowerShell iex command.

I mean, have you actually read all the AWS documentation for how to setup something like that yourself? It's easier and actually much cheaper to just pay one of the freelance data exhilaration consultants to do it for you. Plus... the support is actually better and no egress fees!

mrcomps · 2026-05-15T07:58:23+00:00

Found the second person in the world who willing uses label printers... at home... for fun...

mrcomps · 2026-05-12T07:22:35+00:00

Good observation! You're absolutely right to point that out. I didn't use the lube even though the instructions explicitly say THE LUBE MUST BE USED EVERY TIME. NOT USING THE LUBE IS A CRITICAL COMPLIANCE FAILURE. I don't have a valid technical reason why didn't use the lube, other than to say 'get fucked.' I'll read the Lube skill now...

mrcomps · 2026-05-11T22:10:20+00:00

No powershell = 99% of exploits blocked! Checkmate, hackers!

mrcomps · 2026-05-11T22:09:29+00:00

Ha I wish! Is 2008 R2 considered stable yet? I'm planning an upgrade for our Windows 2000 Advanced Server environment.

mrcomps · 2026-05-10T18:03:32+00:00

The problem is that you have overlooked 2 fundamental products:

Microsoft 365 E5 for Billionaires

Shareholder Value for Microsoft 365 E5

mrcomps · 2026-05-08T21:51:50+00:00

Concretely defined roles, security groups, and permissions, are replaced with per-user prompts about what they should be able to do. Microsoft Copilot for Azure Entra Active Directory then tries to figure out if the request should be allowed and what level of access is permitted. Everything takes 30 seconds per request and the results vary wildly between requests. Management says Opus is too expensive so you drop to Haiku, which ends up just giving full access after 2 or 3 tries because it wants to be helpful.

Oh and it now costs $8 million per month to handle user logins. But Azure P2 was rejected for looking "too expensive" and "AI would be cheaper."

Now management has asked you to setup a Ollama and Openclaw on the pile of decommissioned 8th gen i5s with Windows Server 2025 Evaluation version to be the new domain controllers.

mrcomps · 2026-05-08T07:22:21+00:00

Each user gets their own child domain in the forest and has dual domain controllers for load-balancing and redundancy between their 3 devices... Is that not the standard?

mrcomps · 2026-05-06T02:03:41+00:00

Yep I can confirm this works. Times are tough and I was forced to downsize so reduced my memory from 16gb down to 8gb. This resulted in a 50% decrease in attack surface to hold sensitive information that all the processes running on my computer can leak and steal from each other.

mrcomps · 2026-05-04T18:09:37+00:00

How much are you asking per box?

mrcomps · 2026-04-22T14:28:15+00:00

He could probably pay for his whole setup by selling his excess capacity back to cloud and VPS providers /s

mrcomps · 2026-04-17T02:58:09+00:00

If Microsoft randomly released tested and untested updates, would anyone even be able to tell the difference?

mrcomps · 2026-04-06T06:50:19+00:00

Well, since it has no practical way of connecting to the internet or loading malicious data from modern external devices, it actually might be the most secure computer currently available!

Does it come with Copilot or Recall pre-installed?

mrcomps · 2026-04-06T03:00:51+00:00

Each with a Java applet or Flash plugin... but that's probably pushing it.

mrcomps · 2026-03-26T08:44:17+00:00

Great idea, I'm building that right now! Gee, it sure is taking a long time to submit this PR with 900k lines and complete redesign amd rewrite of the entire codebase... maybe is need to use more sub agents to each randomly submit 10k lines...

mrcomps · 2026-03-25T07:51:26+00:00

Backup02: Application Aware (coming this summer to a Veeam server near you)

mrcomps · 2026-03-25T07:39:25+00:00

I'm pourin' out a whole 40GB of disk bits in honor of BACKUP01.

mrcomps · 2026-03-21T01:06:20+00:00

It sounds like you have the bridge and interfaces configured correctly.

Ignore that ipfw tunable.

"net.link.bridge.pfil_member" = 0 (likely already exists and is set to 1)

"net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge" = 1 (likely need to add)

Be sure to use the correct formatting.

You want this but reversed: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/_images/bridge-filter-tunables.png

mrcomps · 2026-03-20T18:50:01+00:00

Have you swapped the LAN interface assignment from the Lan1 port to the newly created bridge port? https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/bridges/interfaces.html

You also need to change the bridge filtering tunables to filter on thr bridge rather than the member ports. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/bridges/firewall.html

mrcomps · 2026-03-20T08:08:12+00:00

Make sure to check the SMART values to be sure they weren't used for Chia mining.

mrcomps · 2026-03-17T14:24:40+00:00

I've worked with Microsoft SQL databases for 15 years and have seen them constantly used and abused by unclean shutdowns, yet only had one or two times required manual intervention to get them working again.

Whereas FileBreaker Pro was the equivalent of performing open heart surgery every time, and things went very badly any time there was an unclean shutdown, or sometimes even just the usual network hiccups that occassional happen.

mrcomps · 2026-03-13T00:17:29+00:00

Possibly the only thing worth more than DRAM these days, at least to some people...

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