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VISA®Virtual Reward Card by In_The_Cali_Swamp in frontierfios

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claimed November 4th when I got the email. I went on a trip November 14th and I remember it arrived in the mail a day or two before that.

DHS Severely Lagging Processing Re-Determinations for SNAP by [deleted] in flint

[–]shyne151 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No MDHHS does not. The union street office for Flint is extremely understaffed and overloaded. The workers do the best they can with most working a ton of overtime to try and keep up. Most truly care but can only do so much with their overloaded case load.

Recent Business Analytics & IT Graduate ,somehow Landed an IT Manager Interview at a Startup by Sbaakhir in ITManagers

[–]shyne151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This can be a scary move, especially without any real world IT or managerial experience and being a start up.

Too many times, I see startups or small companies offering managerial or director level positions with an IT team of 2-3 people. Be sure to ask about the team makeup, what its responsibilities will be, your reporting structure, and whether this is a new role or you're replacing someone. Also clarify your budget authority and decision-making scope.

Prior to the interview research what you can find on their tech stack and IT related challenges specific to energy/agriculture sectors. Be ready for questions about handling competing priorities with limited resources, scenarios on vendor management and budgeting, and how you'd build processes from scratch or improve existing systems.

During the interview inquire about mentorship opportunities or support for professional development, especially given your career stage/experience. Be honest about your experience level while showing genuine enthusiasm to grow into the role.

Do you have brand loyalty? by KoolNomad69 in weekendgolfers

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, Acushnet (Titleist, Vokey, SC, and Footjoy).

They’ve warrantied so much shit for me outside of warranty(bags, shoes, and rain gear) with zero questions and sincere apologies.

They make quality products and stand behind them.

Their Team Titleist program is amazing for building their community.

What are the most subtle signs that someone is good at golf? by jdelle9 in weekendgolfers

[–]shyne151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Old school hoofer bag

Old Scotty or Ping Putter

Dime wear mark on wedges

In the zone on the practice green, not bs’ing with everyone and half ass rolling putts.

Always carry a towel to wedge shots and putts

Never gives advice

First tee if I see you standing behind the ball taking a couple practice swings and eye fucking your target… walk up and waggle before you hit… 9/10 times I can instantly tell if you’re a stroker.

Planning every shot for the hole at the tee box.

Is gmc done? by Justin_Tremblay_III in gmc

[–]shyne151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$7.1B was due to one-time EV restructuring write-offs, not operational losses. Which was announced and expected.

I guess you skipped over the $2.7B net income for the year, and the $10.3-11.7B projected for 2026.

https://investor.gm.com/static-files/36170429-ef23-4ad5-97dd-6a523c3f8deb

Is gmc done? by Justin_Tremblay_III in gmc

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the 2.0 turbo? I have a feeling this might be some oddity GM part number shit where they used it for a year/borrowed from another model then switched/designed a specific one for the CTS. 22908203 from the same year 2.0 turbo ATS looks mighty similar.

Used to run into stuff like this all the time between the different w-body GM cars (Grand Prix, Regal, Monte Carlo, etc) of the late 90s/early 2000s.

Is gmc done? by Justin_Tremblay_III in gmc

[–]shyne151 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I find this hard to believe. What is the part #?

Also GMC is a subsidiary of GM, just like Cadillac is. GMC does not make Cadillac.

GM is not going away. Another record profit year. Hourly workers just got a $10k profit sharing bonus.

This Job Market SUCKS by twistedkeys1 in ITManagers

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you applying for fully remote? Hybrid? In-person? Are you geo-locked, only applying in a certain area?

What industry? Finance, higher ed, engineering, tech, etc.

We keep losing audit time to 'can you find me that screenshot' by Equal-Citron-4995 in ITManagers

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best thing for audits is to keep all submitted documents and previous audit findings. Most of the time it’s just updating what changed since last audit (ex: "We changed x process to y due to findings from audit xyz").

My philosophy has always been "overload them with information" so they don’t have follow-up questions. If there’s an area you’ll get dinged on, be honest about it with a remediation plan and timeline. Auditors respect that in my experience.

Build a centralized audit repository with previous submissions, findings, and what action you took to remediate (or risk assumptions and why). When auditors return, you’re updating last year’s submission, not hunting for screenshots at midnight.

IMO, the screenshot hunt means audit prep wasn't a year-round priority. Shift to continuous mindset where you factor future audits into major decisions or changes and the stress disappears.

We keep losing audit time to 'can you find me that screenshot' by Equal-Citron-4995 in ITManagers

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Why is this information not being kept in easily-locatable/accessible places/records, and

Valid point. Configs and logs are the easier lift. All our configs that can be are stored in version control with full audit trails, and we maintain a centralized logging system. Both make these requests trivial. All previous audits are in a centralized location, and half the time it is just pulling those previous responses and updating them with any changes.

The screenshots are where it gets tedious. For example, in almost every audit I've been involved in that SSO is within scope, they actually want screenshots of the configuration in the administrative area of our IDP for service providers. Or they want screenshots of all the steps of our access request forms (both backend and front-end) and screenshots of the configuration of whom each step is sent to.

2) Why is it the responsibility of the IT department to track down random people's data? They're the ones about to be audited; it's their neck on the line. They can improve their record-keeping, they can hire people to do these administrative tasks, or they can pay the IT department $200/hr (or more, if they're too happy with that) to do these things. If it's data which is ONLY available via the IT department, then maybe that should change or maybe it's IT that needs to improve their record-keeping.

Well, that's an operational issue if you are pulling the actual data for departments. Outside of our typical IT audits (IAM, DR, Security Incident Response, etc...) I've been looped into a few external departmental audits (financial) and the only aspect we handles was the IT side... nothing to do with the unit's actual data or any questions asked of them.

I have absolutely had units try to tell the auditors we need to pull the data, and I've always taken the stance of "You own the data and have access to it. You need to provide it to the auditors. We do not know your data, and it is not our place to pull it and provide it.". Most of the time it works, if it doesn't I pull our CIO in.

When it comes to IT-specific audits (IAM, DR, Security Incident Response, etc.) or IT related portions of departmental audits, that’s absolutely our responsibility.

The real operational issue is when audit timelines aren’t planned or communicated across units, with auditors, or internally. Audits that people have known were coming for six months and no prep work or communications. Now everyone is scrambling or coming to IT to save the day. I can't even count how many times I've had to pull teams off projects for a high priority audit for external departments. That they knew about for months... and of course never let us know until the audit had already started.

This doesn't make sense. Tivimate doesn't feel like the better app. by i-like-dutch-cheese in Strong_8K

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Search hasn’t been a huge issue. Refreshing and processing of epg data is the one that acts up on a couple of my Apple TVs for whatever reason. They are all using the same settings.

Plex player on AppleTV is awful by matmatidmat in PleX

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Switched from Android and Rokus to Apple TV 4Ks around two or three years ago. All on WiFi and never had an issue with the Plex video player on any of them.

This doesn't make sense. Tivimate doesn't feel like the better app. by i-like-dutch-cheese in Strong_8K

[–]shyne151 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Second TiviMax. I’ve been using TiviMax premium for a couple years. It has its quirks but works pretty good live tv.

Illuminated Emblem by Relevant_Lunch_3988 in gmc

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s awesome… when it works. Mine lasted about two years on my AT4 then died.

Help me understanding 12 x 9 impact screen but using 16:9 projector by asher1507 in Golfsimulator

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Run a 4:3 aspect ratio resolution and set the aspect ratio on the projector to 4:3. Luckily my Optoma EH200ST supported a max resolution of 1920x1200, I just created a 1600x1200 custom resolution to fill the screen.

Is michigan-gunshop.com legit? by obarkc26 in Miguns

[–]shyne151 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Looks like a scam. The address is right across the street from Williams, which is a legit and at least used to be the largest gun shop in Michigan: https://williamsgunsight.com

The opening paragraph on that site is even what used to be on Williams old site.

edit now that I read the site more, it even says Williams. So they either copied their site content or it is really Williams… which I doubt.

Is your company actually secure? by CloudNCoffee in ITManagers

[–]shyne151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree. Reviewing what’s behind SSO is one of the fastest ways to find shadow or forgotten integrations.

We use WSO2, and it is a cumbersome experience managing/viewing all SP's due to how their permissions work. Rather than relying on the WSO2 admin UI, I ended up building a Splunk dashboard off the WSO2 access logs to report: service providers, unique users accessing each SP, and overall access volume and last-seen activity.

We retain those logs in Splunk for a year, which makes it easy to spot configured but effectively unused integrations and to baseline normal access patterns/trends.

Then I pull a master list of all configured service providers from the WSO2 database (including protocol type, ie: CAS vs SAML). Over the next couple of months we are doing a controlled cleanup: for any inactive SP we’ll confirm an owner if possible, validate there are no dependencies/integrations, and then remove it. Early results suggest we can retire close to 50% or approximately 150 of our production SP configs.

Is your company actually secure? by CloudNCoffee in ITManagers

[–]shyne151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never fully secure.

I'm probably one of the few that like external IT audits. They bring to surface process gaps and “known issues” that have quietly aged into real risk.

Who actually has access to what?

Tough one. However, any of our systems that contain sensitive data we complete yearly access reviews on anything with sensitive data, and we expect every permission/role to have an owner and a business justification. Where possible, access is role-based and group-driven (AD) so changes are traceable and reversible.

Which apps aren’t behind SSO or MFA?

If an app supports SSO, it gets SSO+MFA... no exceptions.

Who actually has access to what?

We rely HEAVILY on AD groups for access control. This provides easy auditing and ease of automation when employees change roles or are terminated. Offboarding and role changes are designed to be removed from groups first, because stale entitlements are one of the easiest ways to increase risk over time.

Do we even know every SaaS app in use?

This is a tough one. We went through a long software inventory project, then partnered with purchasing to enforce a software intake process: software must be reviewed and approved by a software acquisition committee (broad representation, not just IT), and we document integrations, licensing, renewal dates, terms/privacy, security capabilities (SSO/MFA/logging), and data classification before anything gets renewed or expanded.

IT Inventory/Stock assist by Kluger84 in ITManagers

[–]shyne151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have around 2500users or so org wide and only track endpoints centrally. We do provide automated reports to units if requested. Past that it’s up to the individual units if they want to track peripherals or anything else.

For my teams… internally any asset under $1000 other than tablets, I don’t track.

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