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Frank Barton
@fbarton@infosec.exchange
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchIT/InfoSec in Higher Ed, Parent, instructor, Scout Leader - and Coffee Addict
135 Followers
167 Following
50 Posts
Joined April 26, 2022
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Can I submit my Disaster Recovery Plan for consideration?
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@nyanbinary@infosec.exchange @huronbikes@cyberplace.social @da_667@infosec.exchange any machine can be a smoke machine… once
Some mushrooms will feed you for a day, some will feed you for the rest of your life?
I'm sorry... but if you don't understand NAT (yeah, I know... use IPv6) you shouldn't be configuring a firewall.
Please don't make me watch 11 minutes of video about NAT to get permission to get tech documentation from a vendor perspective
Wait a second... https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5907
It IS Tuesday!
(and I never could get the hang of Thursdays)
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange lots of political capital! anf folks that understand that "we've always done it like that" isn't a good reason to keep doing it that way
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@kajer@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange now I have to wonder how many obscure cheat codes we're going to have listed here
@CrabbyIT@infosec.exchange are those talks considered "RGEs" (Resume Generating Events)
if I find the person or people that started this "you need a VPN" thing... I'm going to have words... lots of words...
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange @kajer@infosec.exchange I've had a user run a ipconfig /flushdns should I be worried? :-p
I can’t believe I just had to send a picture of the side of my toilet to the company’s support agent to make them understand “I cannot physically get to under the bowl to install a nut for a toilet seat, it’s a flat-side toilet… here’s the model”
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange I asked CoPilot:
The cynical sysadmin answer is:
"The next one."
More seriously, there probably has never been a Patch Tuesday with zero reported issues across the entire Windows/Microsoft ecosystem. Given the scale of Windows deployments, virtually every Patch Tuesday ends up causing at least some regression, incompatibility, performance issue, driver problem, application conflict, or edge-case bug for someone.
@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe I found that "can you give me my soul back" tends to get them to shut up
(and back in the day... so did the, I live in northern maine... VERY northern maine)
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@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe "Four is for the aggressive vendors who constantly try to sell me a new cellphone"
"How much do you pay for your cell phone?"
"less than you're offering!"
"Try us"
"only a portion of my soul"
"oh, work pays for it... yeah, we can't beat that"
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange would I get bonus points if I had replied “503 from 207”? (At which point I could also check from a couple other exchanges…)
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange who do we know in Montreal… then you can get a 503 from the teapot…
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange or on the flip side - find out that it can't be done in the old tool, and that the new tool can do everything you need, so you can remove TWO old tools.
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange very true - however, I can't tell you how many times I've seen 4 different tools that each do something related, and moving to tool #5 solves all of the issues, for less monthly cost
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@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe Completely agree!!!!!
and while I can multiply or divide by 8 fairly well in my head I SHOULDN'T BLOODY HAVE TO!!!!
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@badsamurai@infosec.exchange @TimWardCam@c.im @cR0w@infosec.exchange @MrAndrewD@aus.social Very true but also - schools have the ability to cook for, and to keep large numbers of people warm and out of the weather
This is a pet peeve type of day... I wish we could standardize on bandwidth utilization metrics...
are we talking "B" vs "b"?
am I completely crazy? or does this whole... outsource all of your support to force.com thing not make a lick of sense? I am already signed into your app... don't make me sign into a different tool/site to get support or find documents!!!!
This RAM and chip shortage is killing me... now switches, APs, etc. are also in short supply.
Ubiquiti has added a "Memory surcharge" to their products instead of increasing prices
@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe "100% complete, do not shut your computer down"
5 minutes later... "100% complete, do not shut your computer down"
I'm not sure that's what 100% complete means...
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@kajer@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange XYZZY
there are certain limited tasks that Gen-AI is very useful for... very limited
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My cousin was just diagnosed with glioblastoma - a cancer that doesn't so much as have a survival rate as a life expectancy
She has a 7 year old daughter.
I just looked at the August Microsoft updates list... filtered for just CRITICAL... "Load more 500/614"
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@CrabbyIT@infosec.exchange Ooofff... I can see some uses for that - but NOTHING in a public-cloud... that's a hard NOPE
okay - I'm looking for documentation on why I would be seeing connections to entra from "Cisco IOT" network (67.223.120.0/21)
it feels VPNish...
I love it when I get to quote XKCD in a professional context.
https://xkcd.com/2170/
loc=POINT (-97.8220000024885 37.75099997408688)
Almost $200 for a pair of cleats so my kid can play high school JV soccer…
Please make this make sense for me
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@TimWardCam@c.im @cR0w@infosec.exchange @MrAndrewD@aus.social If "pterodactyls attack... I have bigger issues"
if "A meteor wipes out $CITY" I don't care about the offsite back-up, because I've been atomized
Holy cow is today a Monday of Mondays!!!
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@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I made the comment to one Tech Conference I went to in their follow-up that FL isn't the friendliest place for many folks
Individuals at the org agreed, but I don't expect any changes (and many of the orgs headquarter there)
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange "But if you're going to be in heaven, then I'd much prefer to be in Hell"
If those are the only two things that the scouts are causing worry for... we're doing it wrong
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@kajer@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange how do you have 80+ hours in 2 weeks for games?!? I barely have an hour a day!
@CrabbyIT@infosec.exchange If you add a flame-thrower... is it still a lawn mower?
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@josh@masto.byrd.ws great theory... but I prefer
"well, well, well, if it isn't the bridge i said I'd burn when I came to it"
What should I do today? same thing I do every day?
Try to take over the world?