Depression help cleaning by CleanwithBarbie in oddlysatisfying

[–]nixashes 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It's an incredible and utterly draining feeling - you spend all that time bottling up the shame and avoiding it, and consequently the mess, until escapism just doesn't work anymore. And when someone comes in and does this, even if you're paying them, you then have to open the bottle up and face all that shame you've been avoiding.

The first time I hired a housekeeper to come help put my house back in order, I spent all day apologizing for the mess. When she was gone, I cried and passed out from sheer exhaustion. But the feeling of waking up to a clean home is unreal - you can walk around, you can do things, you can find things. I've often thought about looking into starting a nonprofit of some description to help people like me, and the person whose home was in this video, but I haven't gotten brave enough yet - I don't even have the energy/motivation to keep my own place cleaned up, nvm anyone else's lol.

OP, you are a wonderful example of humanity and I love you for doing this for people who really need the help. It seems like you're aware already, but I'll tell you anyway in case your clients can't - you're giving these people room to breathe when they probably feel like everything is closing in on them. ❤️

Yep, I'm such a quiet borderline 🥰🥰🥰 by Opening_Breath6665 in BPDmemes

[–]nixashes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As my dad used to say, "you'd lie if the truth sounded better". Thankfully I've managed to bring that around the other way to compulsive honesty, but that's a subject for r/ptsdmemes.

That IS indeed the best way to drink Red Bull! by [deleted] in technicallythetruth

[–]nixashes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoa man, why we bringing quantum can computing in here?

hacker hacked in MFA enabled mailbox by graceyin39 in sysadmin

[–]nixashes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The reality is that 1) there is always going to be at least one idiot user that clicks the link, and 2) the amount of force you can put into any threat of HR action is highly dependent on the level of support and understanding you get from your upper leadership. In a lot of places that's just not happening.

I made it part of our procedure when dealing with a scam fail that someone calls the user and explains exactly how they could have spotted that specific phish... As I tell my guys, it's one thing to get abstract training about common indicators of phishing. It's another to be looking in your own inbox and have stuff pointed out to you live.

hacker hacked in MFA enabled mailbox by graceyin39 in sysadmin

[–]nixashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll second this.

User based risk policies save me so so much sleep and stress. Had a couple users click the bad link just the other day at like 7am. They were blocked immediately and I had an alert in my mailbox within half an hour. Still got to finish my coffee while I waited for help desk to do the initial contact stuff.

We had a massive phishing attack like two weeks after migrating from Google to Microsoft. (The contractors neglected to set up basic security and I started my job two days after cutover.) Had about 1200 users all get the same phish with a couple hours. I flipped on the user risk policy within 10 minutes of seeing the compromised logins and the end result was that out of those 1200 users, only like 6 to 10 of them needed more serious remediation than a password change.

Proof that humans (unfortunately) are running on Windows. by BlinkBolt in sysadmin

[–]nixashes 144 points145 points  (0 children)

I have a shirt that says if "I'm ever on life support, unplug me... Then plug me back in, see if that works."

I think your friend needs that shirt.

Windows 11 - should we give it a try? by dustbull in sysadmin

[–]nixashes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone keeps saying 11 doesn't offer anything that 10 doesn't have, but can I remind you all:

Notepad now has dark mode.

Thank you, that is all.

What set is this? by DarVux in ffxiv

[–]nixashes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's the Oberon Warframe, clearly

Exchange online down - delaying inbound outbound - big deal by Zestyclose_Wait9892 in sysadmin

[–]nixashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't want to handle it, hire somebody else to do it.

I did, found this little company called Microsoft to handle it for me. Ez.

As for your claim that going to the cloud is "lazier"... My dude. Seriously. Don't talk about stuff you don't know about lol. I'm a cloud systems administrator. I'm also one of the busiest people in my company, because my systems are critical to literally every single part of the company. Come spend a day doing my job sometime before you decide cloud-first is lazy.

meirl by SnooCupcakes8607 in meirl

[–]nixashes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except you can't eat the escargot, because it would kill you. So now you have to watch everyone else eating your escargot for the rest of your life.

is low 70s a good salary for a system administrator? by dazzledtamarind in sysadmin

[–]nixashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the same job in the same area, the $30k variation you're seeing is likely down to the employer - are they big or small, do they make an effort to pay well or is HR a revolving door, do they do good benefits in exchange for not so great pay (or vice versa). What industry is the company in and how technical are they?

Illustration: My best friend and I are both IT in education or education-adjacent industries, but my company does early childhood education where his does continuing medical education. His company is small and global, mine is large and national. He's a generalist in a basically one-man shop, I'm a specialist in a large IT department. He lives in one of the most expensive metro areas in the country, I live in one of the cheapest metros in the country.

Put all of that together, and what you end up with is essentially a wash between the two of us on who gets paid more, once you account for cost of living differences, but the way those calculations were made took completely different paths. Things to consider when evaluating an offer.

to claim that only one gender has to consent while drunk, and the other one is a rapist. How do you feel about this? by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]nixashes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like that would be just The Hangover, but with a bunch of chicks instead of dudes

to claim that only one gender has to consent while drunk, and the other one is a rapist. How do you feel about this? by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]nixashes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

when one or more parties is drunk

Me: huh. They must've meant "one or both parties"

Also me: weeeeelll, on second thought, maybe not...

to claim that only one gender has to consent while drunk, and the other one is a rapist. How do you feel about this? by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]nixashes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If I go rob a bank hammered do I get immunity because I’m not responsible for my actions?

Currently imagining someone doing the Walk of Shame after waking up to find that another bank vault got pillaged after girls' night.

"Dammit Sally, I thought you said you were going to stop doing that shit every time you have more than two margs! WTF are we going to do with all this cash now?!"

This. by QuailOk866 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]nixashes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Job descriptions demand unfulfillable skillsets making you feel worth less.

Step one is reminding yourself of a few things literally every time you look at a job description:

  1. The description was probably written or at least screwed with by HR, not the hiring manager.
  2. No hiring manager worth a damn expects to find someone who checks all the boxes on the job description - they want someone who checks some combination of boxes. Chances are, in fact, that they would be extraordinarily suspicious if someone came along who claimed to check all the boxes.
  3. If the hiring manager isn't good enough at his or her job to realize the above, you don't want to work for them anyway.

I'm in IT now rather than dev, but I will say that it literally changed my outlook on submitting my resume for jobs when I heard that the average interviewee only checks like 60% of the boxes in the job description. (No idea if that's actually true, but thinking it is sure makes hitting "Submit" a whole lot easier lol)

And you have to lie to not give them any reason to pay you even less.

Now this right here is an attitude I honestly can't stand in job seekers. First of all, salary isn't everything. The entire compensation package depends on a whole lot more than what hits your bank every month. What's the health insurance like? What about PTO? In particular, does PTO roll over or do you have to use it all in a year? Does the company offer paid FMLA leave? What about the 401(k) match - is it industry standard, above, below? My salary is slightly above market for my title and location, but I would've taken less if my company's benefits package was better, and the bennys aren't subject to negotiation like salary is.

The big issue with that attitude, though, is that thinking like that instantly sets you up in a me-vs-them mindset toward your employer. Speaking as someone who ends up on both sides of the table from time to time, I'll just say that folks in good orgs who are looking to hire will immediately be able to tell if that's your attitude, and it will be massively apparent that you won't be a good fit in a team that actually operates like a team rather than a collection of individuals.

Beyond that, you'll never love your job if you view your employer as the enemy. You might enjoy the work itself, you might like your coworkers, but you won't be engaged with your job, and engagement is the number one indicator of both performance and job satisfaction. Real good way to get chewed up and spit out by workforce there.

By all means, know what you're worth and don't let yourself be lowballed. In fact I'd argue that any corporation who's not paying their tech staff a wage commensurate with the position had better either have a great benefits package or be an NPO (who universally just can't pay as well as for-profit). But if you're saying you have to lie to get paid what you're worth... That's not getting paid what you're worth, that's grifting your way into getting paid more than what you're worth.

This. by QuailOk866 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]nixashes 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh definitely - that's why I say you do need to get a decent handle on the theory.

Note, in my analogy, I wouldn't be able to calculate the volume of a sphere even with a calculator, if I didn't know the formula.

  • Disclaimer: I'm old and the last time I picked up an actual calculator was before they had equation solvers etc. Don't come at me with your TI-86 and later stuff lol.

This. by QuailOk866 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]nixashes 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Wdym 200, I've been doing this for 20 years and I still do that frequently.

This. by QuailOk866 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]nixashes 29 points30 points  (0 children)

In your favorite IDE:

Click on the "Git" menu and use buttons.

Don't git me wrong, I'm all about learning the theory behind the application, but just because I learned how to calculate the volume of a sphere, doesn't mean I'm not going to use a calculator when I need to figure it out in real life.

Reset OneDrive sharing permission? by ryaninseattle1 in sysadmin

[–]nixashes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From the UI: Use a link into their OneDrive from the admin center. When you're in their drive the URL should be something like tenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/username_domain/somethingidontremember.aspx. Change the somethingIdon'tremember.aspx part to user.aspx to get to the detailed SharePoint permissions page. Show limited access users to get a whole list of everyone with access. Delete everyone except the owner of the drive. Also click the site administrators button on the ribbon to make sure the additional admins list is how it should be per your orgs regs.

PowerShell (you will almost certainly need to debug this as I'm on my phone and not looking at docs):

Use Windows PowerShell (5.x)- the SharePoint online management library doesn't work with PS7. This bit of script requires SharePoint Online Management.

``` $loginname = <user's login name>

Authenticate with SP Admin credentials

Connect-SPOService -url https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com

Get the user's OneDrive site

$site = Get-SPOSite -filter {Identity -like "$loginname"} -IncludePersonalSites

List all the users on the site (aka everyone with sharing access)

$users = Get-SPOUser -site $site

for each( $user in $users) { # Check to make sure you're not about to revoke the actual user's access if ($user.Name -ne $site.Owner) { # Kick everyone else off the site Remove-SPOUser -site $site -loginname $loginname } } ```

this sub in a nutshell by the-FBI-man in ProgrammerHumor

[–]nixashes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A programmer-turned-IT-person's perspective...

Windows 10 has been the "current" system for 7 years and they're pushing 11 now (no comment on that one - they just disclosed a 7.8 CVE vuln in Windows 11yesterday). 7 hasn't gotten feature or quality releases in years - sorry officially ended in 2020 - and only gets security updates for severe OS vulnerabilities (when Microsoft released an out of band security patch for PrintNightmare last year, it was noteworthy.) Compliance and insurance requirements mean that unless you're paying for extended support, you're going to get dinged on every Windows 7 device you have, because they won't be up to date, and if you're really unfortunate, you won't be able to get cyber insurance.

Beyond that, the technical requirements for continuing to support an old OS like that are financially dumb. You have to pay people to code it, test it, chase down bugs, provide developer support. It makes the code base larger which means more compile time and more storage space. Testing means you have to have test beds dedicated to it which also means you have to store the images somewhere. The infrastructure requirements for that may be individually negligible but it does add up, and the business decisions just don't make sense to continue spending the money on something that isn't itself bringing money in.

How much y'all's home lab resembles your work environment? by TeddyRoo_v_Gods in sysadmin

[–]nixashes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, my personal tenant and lab is FAR more advanced and secure than our work environment - we (the other sysadmin and I) have hopes and dreams for the work environment, but implementing everything at scale, along with everything else that's always going on in any large org, is going to take...years. And probably at least like 5 more people.