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Rob Olmos

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rob-olmos··on Google Spreadsheets and Python
Like another commenter said, the built-in Apps Script is pretty powerful as it is that it could probably handle requirements more easily and portably.

For example, I've created a simple Apps Script for a Google Spreadsheets that uses OAuth to sync the list of client accounts from QuickBooks Online allowing us to keep track of more structured notes and segmentation, which QBO is still sorely lacking. The sync allows someone to easily update the spreadsheet with any new clients not in the spreadsheet.

However, if I was going to be doing any in-depth calculations and/or a lot of data then I'd probably go the same route with using Python externally.

Forgot to mention: The only thing I'm wary of, and have seen other comments in other threads about, is using it for anything more crucial like a core Excel/Access app because of the potential future change that'll break things.

rob-olmos··on Insurance Startup Oscar Quits Two Markets, Rethinks Obamacare Plans
I bought it directly from Oregon's Health CO-OP because I figured it would be safer than going through any marketplace after the whole Oregon $300m fiasco. I don't qualify for any assistance.

Yea thankfully they are transferring those! Took them almost 3 weeks to do so for me; I'm glad I didn't have any major costs during that period.

rob-olmos··on Insurance Startup Oscar Quits Two Markets, Rethinks Obamacare Plans
Oregon's Health CO-OP also recently went under. Basically they lost $18.4m in 2015, and were expecting to receive $5m from the federal risk adjustment program and instead owed $900k[1].

I received less than a week's notice that my insurance plan was ending despite them knowing for almost 2 weeks before notifying me.

1: http://dfr.oregon.gov/public-resources/Pages/co-op-faqs.aspx

rob-olmos··on TCP Puzzlers
For Puzzler #2, did the kernel send any additional attempts on its own, beyond the initial attempt, before the 5min timeout?
rob-olmos··on TCP Puzzlers
Puzzler #1 is an unclean reboot with a server-side TCP reset after the server is back online.

Puzzler #2 is an unclean shutdown with a client-side TCP timeout since the server never responds.

rob-olmos··on Autoresizing Persistent Disks in Compute Engine
Before IAM, the issue I had with service accounts is that I forgot to give the account Edit permissions. It seems the new way is like how @i_have_to_speak mentioned to use service account for an instance, which can only be done during creation of the instance, if you don't want to distribute keys. Then the newest way, that's still in beta, is to use IAM roles to further restrict the access scopes of that instance service account.
rob-olmos··on Show HN: Passbolt – open-source password manager for teams
I've recently experimented with Dashlane for Teams and been using 1Password Teams. 1PW has much more functionality around teams from my experience. The team sharing within Dashline leaves much to be desired, even sharing of multiple items at a time is a bit rough, and I couldn't find a way to create vaults/groups.

1PW has a notion of vaults for grouping data, but anyone with access to the vault can see all of the credentials. This makes it really cumbersome with overlapping groups that results in vault explosion. Eg, Marketing & Finance vaults have overlapping users, so you create a Marketing/Finance vault, and so on. You can see several questions about this issue in the forums.

Looks like the pricing is going to be $5/user/month for 1PW. I'm waiting for them to add individual item permissions and the ability to create custom groups. No 2FA either, which they have their reasons for. Auditing and reports would be nice.

I might end up going with LastPass for the more granular permissions. I really wish I could find a decently priced company credential/identity manager that can assist with things like automatically rotating passwords/access so I can more easily prevent staff from copying passwords into an unencrypted file, and get an audit log of who's accessing what. Dashlane has some notion of password resets but there's no control to script it for your own or client websites.

There's Thycotic but I don't think their Cloud version supports password changing (and I'm not interested in running a Windows server). There's also Manage Engine's PMP... but that interface also left much to be desired.

Any suggestions or advice?

Thanks

rob-olmos··on Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage is now in open beta
Can you share some info on how backups are handled for 100TB of Google Cloud Storage? (I'm thinking more like malicious actor intentional deleting kind of threat, not the lack of durability)
rob-olmos··on Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
Google's Online Security Blog posted earlier today regarding improving email security including "opportunistic TLS"[1] through the M3AAWG association, which does list the above companies as either sponsors or members[2]

1: https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/11/new-resear...

2: https://www.m3aawg.org/about/roster

rob-olmos··on How to replicate Google "Hangouts On Air" stream combining functionality?
The original library I was experimenting with was from Main Concept. Basically we were just decoding the frame to it's raw format, reading out the bytes/pixels of two frames side by side with some black pixels in between, and then trying to encode this new frame. I hope there's an easier, more widely applicable way.
rob-olmos··on Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X
Here you are:

https://github.com/jwise/HoRNDIS/issues/2

Thanks!

rob-olmos··on Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X
Thanks for this! However, I'm unable to get this working, let me know if you'd rather I post this as a github issue:

MacBook Pro 13" with 10.7.5 Droid Razr with Android 4.0.4 Verizon with mobile hotspot and I believe I had tethering working on a Windows laptop before.

Steps: I have installed HoRNDIS and rebooted (tried install/reboot again just to be sure) Plugged in my phone via USB Enabled USB tethering and it says tethering error There are no changes in the Network preferences on the Mac

Saw it wasn't loaded so I manually loaded it:

sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/HoRNDIS.kext

Tried to tether again and noticed these errors in kernel.log:

  Nov 14 19:05:28 Robs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: 0        1 AppleUSBCDCACMData: start - Find CDC driver for ACM data interface failed
  Nov 14 19:05:28 Robs-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: 0        1 AppleUSBCDCECMData: start - Find CDC driver for ECM data interface failed
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