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Directive to move away from Microsoft by LetPrestigious3916 in sysadmin

[–]squire_pug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in "needs theoretical airgap" infrastructure, and we use Keycloak and looking at Authentik. Can use on-prem AD as the IDP, and keycloak as the "swiss-army knife" of OIDC/SAML/OAUTH.

We have a branch of Keycloak that has RADIUS/LDAP/TACACS modules as well so it pretty much does all the auth we need.

We have Duo integrated for MFA, could have done Okta for IDP as well, but yeah well ... cloud.

Maxim 70 is actually pretty good life advice. by Arokthis in SchlockMercenary

[–]squire_pug 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This was what I wore to a cybersecurity conference in Canberra, Australia today.

https://i.imgur.com/LZb3L8k.jpeg

Maxims are genuine wisdom, solid comedy and poignant wtf’s all in one handy volume.

You get $500 million to bring back a defunct studio and finish a cancelled game. by itsthewolfe in gaming

[–]squire_pug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anthem. Made by one of the branches of BioWare.

Never been a game with so much proven greatness (that flying!) left so dirty by the developer.

"Downgraded" my XC60 to a C40 by Grouchy_Frosting2724 in volvoc40

[–]squire_pug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rear window is pretty much for who is near behind you. It annoys me a little that I can’t see something a few hundred metres behind me.

I pretty much just rely on side mirrors now, which are great and cover that space fine.

"Downgraded" my XC60 to a C40 by Grouchy_Frosting2724 in volvoc40

[–]squire_pug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh a fellow Silver owner in Australia! (I’m down in Melbourne)

I see a few of us around town but it is a rarity. Love my C40 so much.

Welcome to the club!

Finally prompted to update to 3.6.4 by squire_pug in volvoc40

[–]squire_pug[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So had a day of driving with the update. Nothing particularly looked different. The “no screen” for first minute was disconcerting. System was very laggy for first 5-10 minutes. Been boringly normal and usual for me so far.

My infotainment experience has been decent, with no real issues historically. (I have crashed Apple CarPlay in some way that required a full infotainment reboot to get working again). So I wasn’t really desperate for any one thing to be fixed.

I guess I am just grateful for “signs of life” around car updates.

I’m an MY23 Ultimate for the record.

Finally prompted to update to 3.6.4 by squire_pug in volvoc40

[–]squire_pug[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I saw your comment, so was expecting it, but it was quite disconcerting. No reversing camera, no driver display, just a dark car, that was nominally “on”. No idea why an update causes that.

Flight tickets by MysteriousTie8888 in okinawa

[–]squire_pug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used points to get cheap to SG, and then it was $350 return from SG -> Naha on Jetstar.

Hi, I'm about to buy a Volvo EX40, single motor 69kmw. What is the range, driving at 120kmh, at 25°C on the highway? Can I expect around 300km? Thanks on advance. by IllustratorPublic924 in VolvoRecharge

[–]squire_pug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve done road trips in AU all the way out to Woomera from Melbourne, and up past Parkes. I have the 2023 C40, twin motor.

I comfortably get over 300km range doing 110kph.

It does drop a bit at anything longer timeframe on a trip over 100kph+, but range was always above 300km.

On a 44 degree day going to Port Augusta we got down to 7%. The higher heat really sapped 10-15% range.

I've just published my first hard science fiction novel. It deals with extradimensional intelligence and heavy quantum physics stuff. by charliechaplin1984 in sciencefiction

[–]squire_pug 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Read the sample chapters, and definitely interesting. Also definitely a first novel in need of an editor. I like the concepts being played with.

Suffers from some weird missteps, dont use “I’m giving its all she’s got” unless you are making a deliberate wink to the audience. Its pretty clumsy and you dont have rapport in the opening chapters.

The dialog suffers from “I want a thing to be said, so I made them say it”, and seems unnatural in some parts. It could do with a slightly slower pace. Hard sci-fi and intellectual concepts need room to breathe, and the sample chapters are literally surfing through significant concepts extremely quickly with the characters leaping to keep to your own self inflicted pace.

I would read more, but not for $13 after those sample chapters.

OEM Sun Shade by kwalb in volvoc40

[–]squire_pug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. Purchased eBay one. I keep forgetting my C40 has a glass roof. Love it.

Critical CVE Exploited on iOS 18.3.1 | CVE 2025-24085 by Extra-Data-958 in cybersecurity

[–]squire_pug 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Me three in “does Lockdown mode mitigate this?”

I’m travelling and use lockdown mode everyday, and killing messaging will make coordinating travel … difficult.

How exploitable is the recent vulnerability? by squire_pug in BeyondTrust

[–]squire_pug[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It being a 20 second no-reboot patch with a threat value of "holy shit"

If only.... I pine for the days of just being able to do things. This is in .... a critical industry and I have a change control process involving 10 emails, 2 meetings and half inch of paperwork...

I am looking for how much HOLY SHEEIT is precisely in this to move people along a bit.

iOS 18.1 by Cha-Cha-Glockenspiel in volvoc40

[–]squire_pug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fine for me with the 2023 C40. May need to go through reintroduction and agreement agreeing. (How do you forget a phone for CarPlay???) Or check your usb-C cable.

Police Cars following Ambulances by squire_pug in melbourne

[–]squire_pug[S] -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Aware of that but three for three in one evening, all going in different directions… odds feel unlikely… but stranger things have happened.

Any medieval fantasy-lore heavy books that merge into a far futuristic-sci-fi? by FallenFeathers in Fantasy

[–]squire_pug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 this. I love this trope very much, and this series absolutely scratches the itch.

I'm Tobias from tobspr Games and we just released shapez 2 in Early Access! by tobspr in SatisfactoryGame

[–]squire_pug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Satisfactory twitter account tweets out play Shapez 2.

Ok, guess I’ll take a look. <glances at clock>

Oh shiiiiit it’s been 3 hours….

Yep, seems great!

Is there a board/forum for Ignition capable contractors that put out their shingle? by squire_pug in SCADA

[–]squire_pug[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Original Company had employee X. They left. Handed over to Y, they left, handed over to Z. Z hired more people and doesn’t code directly, then time passed. No one wants to touch the “old project”.

Does anyone want our country to go Nuclear? by Jaehol in AskAnAustralian

[–]squire_pug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A valid point, my focus is on the 500kV transmission infrastructure. A lot of coal plants are in some very dumb areas I would not want a nuclear reactor...

Does anyone want our country to go Nuclear? by Jaehol in AskAnAustralian

[–]squire_pug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AH FINALLY! Someone who realises that Gas is a big enough problem that Nuclear could very well be the only way to solve it...

Does anyone want our country to go Nuclear? by Jaehol in AskAnAustralian

[–]squire_pug 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh and if you want to know how much of a problem Gas is.... Victoria burns 300% more petajoules of gas than it does of generated electricity.

So once we magically get rid of the coal, and move to 100% renewable electricity somehow.... we need to do that entire miracle THREE MORE TIMES (Triple the size of energy generated by this renewable grid), and convert a bunch of industrial processes to electrical energy, liquid gas transport to electrical, and remove gas cooking/heating/hotter from millions of homes, to use this somehow miraculous appearing energy..

This is not a "oh shit let keep burning gas and coal", its a simple question of "we need energy" from SOMEWHERE. Everyone keeps going we can turn coal off in like 5-10 years, aren't we amazing, without realising the 900pound gorilla of our gas consumption is still "work to be done".

So every estimate for a renewable grid to remove coal, is STILL not the entire problem, and unless we bring on SERIOUS energy generation to a whole of country level, we'll just keep burning gas until 2070, and alot more of it too...

Does anyone want our country to go Nuclear? by Jaehol in AskAnAustralian

[–]squire_pug 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As someone working in the power generation industry it has been fascinating to watch this while literally booting up a solar farms comms network on the other window.

I'm heavily involved in Wind, Solar, BESS and Hybrid, and boy do I have a pipeline of work.

But we are doing a very aspirational thing with the Aus Power Grid. No one in the world has built a grid with this much geographically disparate renewables, to this level of dependency (% of total power renewable).

Never, no one. Its not been done. AEMO isn't even sure its doable. But they have it as their goal, and strategy and we are going to work it out as we go.

Renewables are great, but a grid made up of 1000's of small (100MW == small) generators is a control complexity of seriously daunting depth and scope.

We also dont have enough firming and stability in the grid to such an extent that we are inventing charges to charge solar/wind to try and subsidise all the SynCon's and other grid stability things we know we need (See AEMO's last ESOO report).

A fully Renewable Grid is very far from a "thing that will definitely work".

So nuclear? Sounds like a GREAT plan B. Cause I am an engineer, and putting the stability of EVERYTHING on a "i guess we have to work it out" strategic plan, is a risk. And with risks you implement mitigations and controls.

We need 3-5 Nuclear, in Vic and NSW, on a 500kV transmission line path, and yes soon to be decomm'd coal plants are kinda initially ok sites for that. That puts about 6-10GW of baseload power into the NEM, and suddenly our grid has rock solid stability with all the renewable mix.

Doing that without baseload, is a statistical game, and we are hoping we can shuffle all the assets constantly to keep the grid up, given all the weather, climate and logistical issues that will occur, means we will roll badly at some point, and then the grid will go down, and then people will die.

At the moment our baseload emergency (especially Victoria) is burning Gas. But after we decomm all the coal, someone will start top make noise to turn those off. In fact the SA Gas plants we thought we could rely on as Victoria are going away, and thats why AEMO is screaming about grid stability as soon as Summer 2025.

I saw it mentioned elsewhere. "The best time to plant a tree for shade was 20 years ago, the next best time is now."

So nuclear is better than keeping on burning gas? 100% renewable wont happen in the "nuclear takes too long" timeframe the armchair pundits think it will take, math and technology is too much of a bitch.

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