Sure was! You need to be on top of paid and free and open source software from a security stand point. There’s no shortcut no matter what you think you’re paying for. Your threat model might be better when the service automates a Web proxy for you, but that’s only one facet. You trade problems but should never feel like you can “set and forget”. Sometimes it’s better for you to do it yourself because there’s no lying about responsibilities that way.

Explains the bird feathers

Who needs 20! Lol. Says more about me than you.

Plex was how last pass got hacked. https://www.howtogeek.com/147554/lastpass-data-breach-shows-why-plex-updates-are-important/

You still need to do stuff even if it is plex.

To back off your post, does anyone have one for Australia?

April first.

I don’t think that works on my Samsung TV, or my partners iPad though. :)

Although not especially effective on the YouTube front, it actually increases network security just by blocking api access to ad networks on those kinds of IoT and walled garden devices. Ironically my partner loves it not for YouTube but apparently all her Chinese drama streaming websites. So when we go travel and she’s subjected to those ads she’s much more frustrated than when she’s at home lol.

So the little joke while not strictly true, is pretty true just if you just say ‘streaming content provider’.

Is the copied file going to a usb? Is the usb fake? Otherwise I’m pretty sure your source is bad. Probably the disk sector if you’re sure the file was at some point complete.

Something like btrfs probably does block cloning or similar so a copy to the same disk probably just points at the same disk blocks as the original.

ffmpeg -v error -i file.avi -f null - 2>error.log

Check the source probably

Five words into the article says

Apple’s internal presentation from 2013

Literally at the top under TL;DR

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Many of those types while having great brightness and reduced image burn in actually have terrible quality images. Eg no hdr, some may only be 30hz, some may have the contrast ratio which is so low you’ll just be sad to watch a movie on it looking at a black grey mush.

Though like all things, there’s a gradient. Some of the conference room monitor panels can be better but often >3x more expensive than the consumer model due to much better warranty (eg same day parts).

So I don’t have any advice here, just a bit of warning with experience with being around zoom, teams, and display walls from an IT solutions perspective,though generally I use AV partners for model selection and installation on any meaningfully sized conference/boardroom room or special application eg stages.

There have been a few cases where ports are blocked. For example on many residential port 25 is blocked. If you pay and get a static ip this often gets unblocked. Same with port 10443 on a few residential services. There’s probably more but these are issues I’ve seen.

If you think about how trivial these are to bypass, but also that often aligns to fixing the problem for why they’re blocked. Iirc port 10443 was abused by malicious actors when home routers accepted Nat- pnp from say an unpatched qnap. Automatically forwarding inbound traffic on 10443 to the nas which has terrible security flaws and was part of a wide spread botnet. If you changed the Web port, you probably also are maintaining the qnap maybe. Also port 25 can be bypassed by using start-tls authenticated mail on 587 or 465 and therefore aren’t relaying outbound mail spam from infected local computers.

Overall fair enough.

It’s paraphrasing Torvalds himself though. It’s a cheeky title.

“… and I have absolutely no excuses to delay the v6.6 release any more, so here it is,”

Mm, not quite, when say having 60+staff work in a single building model you need something that allows object locking so stag can work on part of a building and check it in and out.

I’m not the architect, I’m the sysadmin that designs and builds the server/network infrastructure for a half dozen architecture firms, some which have over 300 architects spread around Australia, Europe, and south East Asia. That mostly means running up servers to host BIM and BIM cache servers, as well as maintaining PIM servers.

To be honest I quizzed you because I honestly never heard of it and my life revolves around both revit and bim360, revit and revit self hosted bim servers, or archicad. Not that I do anything much in them, BIM managers generally administrate their own BIM instances and their teams. But some of the projects are in the billions of dollars that you’ll find on featured on the b1m YouTube channel.

Id argue that while the architects themselves are by and far the largest cost, the largest IT cost is the modelling software. I’ve even had some people using unreal engine to do parts of their work now especially for customer facing flythrough demonstrations and city view with time of day and all that.

So I’m pretty open minded to keeping my ears open to new software since I’m never sure what to expect. It would be interesting to see if it could ever be possible to do one of these megaprojects in open source. But my gut says it’s unlikely.

Yeah that’s fair but I wouldn’t put a cap on it. If a game developer takes 4 years to make a game, then that’s the time period I’d want to assess though when comparing what AI might be able to do. Given the rapid development so far, I’d not bet it can’t make a 3d game with the right amount of management.

But calling it worring is fair. It sure is a big unknown. I’m using it daily but I can see how using a team of 200 ai organised together to self regulate past their weaknesses, kind of already exponentially improves them and that sure is… Something.

Anyway just a thought to share that paper review on that YouTube and my thoughts. It’s a strange world we are looking forward to.

Oh because if an application doesn’t exist natively in azure, ie not a MS Store app, then you can only deploy by uploading the msi which of course is one version. At an MSP with thousands of devices in dozens if not a hundred tenancies, and new software versions being released daily, you need something that will update all that.

Chocolatey is just for the poorer customers, a best effort, immybot for soe management though if the customer is full. Whenever Microsoft finishes getting their own repository fixed though, using winget could be the new chocolatey. Right now it doesn’t do patching or at least it didn’t 12 months ago. It could install and report but not update.

So thinking of solution life cycle you want something that doesn’t need tons of manual innervation, and you can use PDQ or chocolatey or immybot or whatever. Microsoft can handle its first party software suites and rmm deployment but 3rd party at this stage is just not good enough.

Hope that helps

Because you can pay for extended security updates, yes. Looking at defence and governnent globally, this is true of systems including xp.

So aside from using machine wide installers and ensuring that users are licensed for those products, you also need to setup enterprise roaming.

By the way, intune policies if they aren’t changing don’t take 8 hours to propogate to the machine, they take hours to propogate world wide like group policy takes hours to propogate in international sized ad forests.

So if you’ve got your intune policy set to auto sign in one drive and teams and whatever apps, assuming all your devices are intune registered, that setting doesn’t take hours to get to the machine. It’s immediate on first login. If you change that setting, it’s some hours to get it across every single machine. By the way in my experience, generally 80% of the time with a forced sync from the company portal app you should deploy with intune, it’s practically as fast as gpupdate. There’s a few times where you need to patiently wait 15 minutes but you can see that if you name your configuration profile like (v12) and you’ll see it’s either still (v11) or immediately (v12) and you stuffed a setting and it’s still not working.

You should be using machine wide installers not user appdata installers. Are you not?

Just to add more confusion, we are removing MDT from all customers and replacing with intune using the already created json templates we have plus then also deploying chocolatey with intune then calling powershell from intune to install other software. I’d say only 20% of our customers have on-premise AD the other 80% are all Microsoft Business Premium licensed unless over 300 staff, and that’s why we have been transitioning customers to only that for the last few years.

MDT is the right tool for AD on premises though so don’t be dissuaded from that, just more, you should know.