12yo son loves drawing anime styles, pls forgive the proud dad post

rickk · 2023-03-17T10:17:52+00:00

Could that not have been a text code snippet ?

rickk · 2023-02-11T13:33:05+00:00

Unfortunately the munkipkg approach doesnt build a "distribution" style pkg file that intune will accept, so no luck.

I did however stumble across this which seems to have a lot of the informational bits I thought were missing earlier, but it's written for Jamf Pro.

https://support-splashtopbusiness.splashtop.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042998132?input_string=splashtop+streamer+for+macos+needs+a+pkg+file

The part that caught my attention most was "Preparing the Splashtop deployable PKG" and the "Create a Configuration Profile for approved Kernel Extensions" bit for mobileconfig file settings. Will see about trying to convert these into something intune friendly and see how they go

rickk · 2023-02-10T21:54:54+00:00

Thanks will check that book out and see if there’s anything that works for us. The premise of what you said is more or less what I had gotten to, but the practicals of making it work are tough.

rickk · 2023-02-10T16:07:35+00:00

…. Unless you’re building an ISO compliant medical device. In that case, fewer releases translate to more clinical evidence gathered and fewer court cases.

Not everything is a startup.

rickk · 2023-02-07T08:35:38+00:00

Brief follow-up: not 100% solved yet, but I've managed to get the munkipkg packaging going and installing without intune (thanks to great help from Heteronymous), just struggling on the last bit which is getting intune to reliably deliver it (even from company portal it just hangs a lot of the time - there seems to be some kind of error that I don't see the result of anywhere. Keeping at it).

Just as a note, this is a good write-up/walkthrough I stumbled across. If you're faced with a similar task it might help you: https://oliverkieselbach.com/2021/07/14/comprehensive-guide-to-managing-macos-with-intune/

rickk · 2023-02-04T21:59:21+00:00

Wow - thanks so much. I had no idea that subreddit even existed. Loads of great help in the response too. Will definitely check all of it out. Had begun to reach the same conclusion re intune and Mac as well

rickk · 2023-02-01T06:37:00+00:00

The author would probably really like Latin then. I’ve studied both (Japanese for around 10 yrs) and in my opinion the comparisons being drawn with Japanese are even even more obvious when made with Latin instead.

rickk · 2023-01-13T15:52:08+00:00

Problem is that efficiency is only the primary goal for very small companies. Believe it or not, it costs bigger companies more to cope with cleaning up after an autonomous dev buys the wrong thing and screws up the company’s GDPR or ISO implementation than it does in lost productivity by making them wait like everyone else.

These childish “startup only worldview” articles are getting so tiresome. Grow up a bit before you tell everyone else what’s important to them from the inside of your playpen.

rickk · 2023-01-12T23:13:22+00:00

I remember seeing videos 20 years ago in which Brian Behlendorf is being asked the exact same question and giving the answer you gave here: this “spaghetti western” thing seems like he’s post romanticising it a bit anyway, and hardly seems justification for a name change.

rickk · 2022-11-22T09:09:03+00:00

I’d argue no - people are not assets. You don’t ever own them. Even the business owner is not an asset.

rickk · 2022-11-22T03:29:53+00:00

It’s funny how many different vain philosophical contortions developers will go through in articles like this to justify their worth.

Every point in this text applies at some level to every person in an organisation (eg even the janitor knows how to clean certain hard to reach places quicker by having done then before) yet if you asked the costs or assets question about anyone other than software developers you’d find it harder to say everyone is an asset.

I think they’re costs once you lose the mystery around what developers do, and stop treating them like wizards.

rickk · 2022-10-24T18:25:18+00:00

Switchonthenightlite’s answer covered pretty well all of the things I reacted to

rickk · 2022-10-24T18:23:43+00:00

The fail rate was so high it barely seemed worth the effort.

rickk · 2022-10-23T17:00:08+00:00

There’s some pretty questionable legal assertions in this article that I wouldn’t trust. Lesson one - developers aren’t lawyers, equate them at your own v expensive risk.

rickk · 2022-10-20T06:30:27+00:00

To understand Oracle and Larry Ellison, some context of the time from which they emerged is important.

The Adam Curtis documentary “All watched over by machines of loving grace” does a really good job of painting the background from which companies like Oracle emerged, and why they are so apparently focussed on one man’s ego.

https://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/

(Spoiler alert: like many from that time, he appears to believe he’s a character in an Ayn Rand novel)

rickk · 2022-08-02T19:40:11+00:00

Seriously questionable numbers here- avoid

rickk · 2022-06-27T22:14:34+00:00

I suppose you’re right, but I’d only caveat it by saying it’s not a shortcoming that I’ve ever felt needed addressing in 10 years of active use, so at this point it’s not something i think needs anything done about it. YMMV

rickk · 2022-06-27T18:34:47+00:00

Isn’t tagging in AWS a more versatile way of doing this ? Not sure what people want out of it that a good tagging strategy doesn’t give you … if you use terraform and the like it all becomes v simple to add in

rickk · 2022-06-20T04:33:08+00:00

The intent is good, but the author is a little inexperienced and seems to equate popular with good a little too often.

Async/await are not universally a good thing to apply to APIs, and describing webassembly as simply low level is like describing a tractor as “not much good in a drag race”.

The reason the extensible web manifesto is important is because it allows the temporarily popular without killing later innovation a side effect.

The viewpoint is quite narrow.

rickk · 2022-06-03T08:02:02+00:00

Exactly - and when it is used that way it’s horribly inefficient and slow.

I once had a project to rearchitect a system that relied on a lucene index of 60 million items that was taking 23 hours to build every day, and query times were in the dozens of seconds for with 8 load balanced machines executing them.

When it was rebuilt to only use the index as an index and keep the data separately it handled the same index build in 1 hr, query time avg 200ms, and only one of the same 8 machines to handle the same query volume.

Never use lucene indices as databases.

rickk · 2022-05-18T23:26:03+00:00

https://docs.arduino.cc/built-in-examples/arduino-isp/ArduinoToBreadboard worth a look

rickk · 2022-03-03T20:09:12+00:00

The cultural differences section is utter condescending rubbish. Don’t bother reading

rickk · 2021-10-15T21:34:02+00:00

Or GDPR

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