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I could see a claim for emotional distress based on believing you had won this life changing thing. But on the other hand, anyone can buy a fake winning ticket to prank people and I’ve never heard of a suit moving forward for that.

Course, I’m fairly pessimistic to the whole system and would rather see the lottery done away with as a whole.

Went about 25 feet up a tree a few weeks back to retrieve a kitten which got stuck.

I’ll tell you what the market is. Parents rocking babies to sleep at night. My daughter will get very mad at me if she wants to sleep and I touch the laptop. She couldn’t care less if I put on the AVP.

Oh look, it’s that last nudge I needed to go ahead and move my home stuff to HyperV.

Suppose I could fire up proxmox but meh, I’m already too familiar with HyperV for how much my clients use it.

I mean… I use 123321 in a number of places for “pointless” accounts that realistically have 0 blowback if ever compromised. In that sense, these short generic passwords being popular makes sense. If I have to take 90 seconds to make a new account for downloading ROM’s, meh.

Now anything else that’s a bit more important gets a unique random password in the realm of 20 - 50 characters based on the service and what they allow (it’s sad how many still exist which force a max of 8 characters or don’t allow symbols).

It’s perplexity.ai, which is what Arc started pushing recently. YMMV, I asked it some technical questions and got responses back which were far too generic to act upon. Might have pointed me in the right direction for a Kagi search though if I was clueless on the subject.

Turn it off and back on again

Unless you’re willing to pay out for something like proofpoint or edgewave, you’re probably looking at 365 or GSuite having the best native filtering. Though I will say I have very little spam issues with mailbox.org, so it’s a bit to do with whoever hosts your email as well.

As a 365 admin, I’m not aware of a single policy to track or manage your device through the authenticator app. Past that though, you should have the option while setting up to click that you want to use a different app than authenticator. The vast majority of businesses won’t lock you down to the single app, so check to see if that option is there. I couldn’t care less which 2fa app any of my clients are using so long as it’s a reputable one. And your company can’t get mad at you for using a different app if they left the option available.

Very interesting. I don’t see any links on the site (could be that I’m using mobile and not desktop) related to a privacy policy. What happens to files after I upload them as far as retention or potentially being read through by humans?

More devices still do than you might think. Had someone needing access into an Android phone recently. Wireless attacks proved easier than wired for that one. It broadcasted its list and from there was just a matter of spinning up SSID’s until I hit one that didn’t have a PW.

This likely had nothing to do with your Mac specifically. All wireless devices basically broadcast a statement out for anything to hear which goes like “Hey, here’s a full list of every SSID I’ve ever connected to, any of them available right now?” It’s very likely the program you were using caught one of those broadcasts from another one of your devices.

She should start with reporting to her HR. Government jobs tend to have large HR teams which handle these complaints.

Now that said, the phone number may be a non point. I’ve worked jobs so limiting I couldn’t share my real name. I know others who aren’t allowed to say where they work. If it’s part of the job description, she may legitimately not be allowed to share her work phone with you.

I’d be interested in some comparisons between this and rewind. Currently, rewind is pretty epic and even gearing up to offer transcriptions of all conversations everywhere via phone/pendent combo. The roadmap of Layer1 could be cool to compare.

I love it, but it’s not an answer to normal people yet. The 0.01% of us who know and understand encryption, cool. But getting ready for the main world? Bitlocker lets people click a button and walk away. Administrators make a few small changes and have the whole fleet bitlockered with centrally managed recovery keys should anyone have an issue. Does Veracrypt offer better security? Yes. Would I be thrilled to roll it to my clients? Yes. Would it be an absolute nightmare to deploy and manage across an organization? Yes.

I’m sad because this is great and the answer to much but stands no chance when you move past the “single user who is IT literate” user group.

This is interesting, but there’s not near enough information that I’m seeing on the site to make me trust it. There is one line about data not leaving the device. Does that mean this is basically a PrivateGPT instance bundled into a nice “you don’t have to compile it yourself” gui? Need to know more about the data processing and how that impacts general cpu/battery usage.

The privacy policy is also quite cut and paste generic. It even still has the defaults of offering multiple ages under the child section rather than defining what the website actually does.

For the Maui sirens, there’s actually an argument for not activating them. From my understanding, the sole purpose of the sirens is to warn residents of a tsunami. Residents are trained to run into the forest in the mountains when they hear the sirens… the exact spot where they needed to keep people away from because the fire was raging. If that’s accurate, it might have done more harm than good to use them. It also sounds like the mayor didn’t bother to answer a request for temporarily rerouting streams to let the fire department have enough water to respond. Because it wouldn’t be equitable to the other people on the island to let that small group have so much of the limited resource. I might be missing some details, but that’s what I got out of a quick news article yesterday. I’d apply the avoiding work argument here more than the sirens. First guy made a hard decision. Second guy sat on it until it didn’t matter anymore.

(Edited to fix a few words Siri felt should be changed after I typed them)

I have a hard time calling the first flaw a design flaw. VPN clients are geared towards the average person. The average person wants to be able to print a paper to his/her printer while connected to the VPN. Though I could definitely see a policy which only allows such communication to private IP ranges and not public ones.

The second vulnerability is more interesting. It seems VPN clients should be better at verifying their communication with the VPN server. The article claims communication to the server itself isn’t encrypted to avoid encrypting packets multiple times. How much communication is directly to the server vs just relaying through? Even if it got double encrypted, it doesn’t seem like that would greatly impact the connection since that traffic would in theory be minimal.

I used both for a time. Ultimately, I felt protonmail provided the better experience with its cleaner interface and “bridge” client that let you use a program like thunderbird. It also had fewer ddos issues than tutanota, but it seems I was simply using tutanota at a rough time and those might not be as big a thing anymore.

All that said, I decided both platforms were somewhat without a point as no one else I knew used them. Which meant I may as well be using any other email platform out there. I settled on mailbox.org for my personal email. They are privacy respecting and work out of the box with any client I want. And I can still send encrypted email if I feel the need to do so.

The only thing I can think while reading this is the mass of sleep health data people are about to be paying niantic to collect from them (via purchase of that stupidly named plus plus controller) and then selling to who knows what groups.

Our economy has taken a hit and made things worse for sure. I’d be in rough shape if I didn’t have my pre inflation house mortgage. But it seems like a decent subset of people simply don’t want help if it means needing to take any responsibility themselves. Mental illness plays a role in some, others I’m not sure. It’s almost a shift of thinking leading towards entitlement. Offered someone a bottle of water around here and he refused it saying he only wanted money or soda. If mental illness was part of that picture, it wasn’t obvious in speaking with the individual. How do you help that kind of attitude?

TLDR: The plugin is ironically a security plugin. All-In-One Security.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been “in IT” 8 years now. Most of that spent as various types of helpdesk support. Now I’m one of the admins with a MSP and work the more complicated tickets. It’s great, I love my job, and salary is good enough my wife was able to become a stay at home mom. You don’t have to go a development route to make something out of IT. Find an area of it you like, and push for your own development there. It seems MSP’s are hiring quite competitively right now. Look around and see what roles interest you.

Also, I don’t have my A+ either :)

It seems everything about your current job is perfect except for the location. I’m perhaps far removed from what you are facing, but I’ve not ever met someone solely happy with a job based on where it is located. It seems you would be trading a job which is aligned with your interests for a job that only sort of works for you but offers a official location you like more.

I’ve moved a few times for different reasons. Some areas are definitely better than others. But for my two cents, there are always friends to be made where you are at and the key to happiness is often learning to be content with life vs trying to force life into some optical image you have. It doesn’t sound like the Bay Area job is truly aligned to you. Your seeking advice here seems to further indicate it. Again, just my two cents, but it sounds like you are in a good spot now and would be risking quite a lot leaving for a job that isn’t really what you want.

I keep an old yahoo account around for limited purposes. Their requirement is to log into email accounts once a year for everything to stay up and running.

TLDR: the D stands for Day.

A tool that legitimately put project status and client/ticket highlights into a meaningful single pane of glass that could be referenced so everyone was always on the same page. I’m not sure what that would ultimately look like, but being in the MSP world, the biggest issue I see faced is growing to the point that people no longer have any idea what others are doing and end up offering five different opinions for how to get from A to B while it turns out projects is already working on deploying a solution.

I’m not sure which defaults you mean right off, but the best place to start is honestly YouTube. I built Wordpress sites for a few years. Before anything, I watched demos on YouTube to learn how. I will say, you can get yourself an established builder like Divi and have a pretty easy time creating content as a beginner.

I can download it through the parallels application on my Mac (not within a VM but the application itself).

This is generally caused from your SPF record. When a mail server isn’t included in the SPF record as allowed to send on behalf of your domain, Google and Microsoft have a tendency to black hole the emails without giving you any indication it’s happening. Get the IP of the email server your website is using, add it into the SPF record, and you should be golden.