105 gigs is nothing, you can get a 1TB external drive for ~60$

I’m getting to the point of becoming a data hoarder

What’s wrong with that‽ Join us on the dark side (according to giant corporations anyways), we have milk and cookies!

Just a simple lowly troll, nothing of importance to see here

Yea if nothing else hopefully it’ll at least point you in the right direction

If the switch supports it, you login with local credentials first, navigate to its config page and configure LDAP under there. You’ll tell it the IP address of the LDAP server as well as give it its client side configuration. You give it a bind account credentials (a dedicated service account with as minimal permissions as needed) that it uses to lookup the users on the server as well as Organization Unit paths and such

When a user goes to login the switch will query the provided credentials against the LDAP server, if it’s valid the LDAP server will respond with a success and the switch will log the user in

Generally there is always a local account fallback in the event that the LDAP server is unavailable for whatever reason

Your confusion is confusing me lol

I don’t see how this would work as it relies upon every single device on the network supporting a particular authentication mechanism.

Wdym? That’s not a thing, you can have some devices on LDAP some with local logins and some with OIDC or any other combination. Authentication is generally an application layer thing and switches operate at layer 2 maybe 3 if it’s doing some routing. As long as your network has a functioning DHCP server the web UI of the switch will be able to communicate with the LDAP server that you configure it to

I’d love to see a source, I have literally never had the internal flap break and I must have had at least 30-40 devices pass through my hands with USB C by now

Everything from a cheap Chinese brand wireless mouse up to my main phones (which are constantly plugged in and out) to all the random laptops, tablets, Xbox controllers and other peripherals in between.

It’s never happened, though crud does build up in my phone port after a year or 2 to the point that I have to clean it out, but that’s nothing but a small paper clip and 5 minutes

Do you have time to build something partially from scratch? I could see repurposing an old laptop, disassemble it and make the screen face outwards with the board affixed to the back of the screen lid.

Might take some creative routing with the internal display cable, but I’ve taken apart tons of laptops where this would be doable, especially after you’ve discarded the plastic chassis

Though you’ll still need a frame of some kind, unless you like the “raw-tech” look

If writing a check with insufficient funds is done with the expectation they will be covered by payday it is called playing the float

Heh, I’d bet that many people do this, though not with checks per se.

I…err…a friend, up until last year when they changed how it worked, used to do this with the PayPal debit card. All transactions would take 3 business days to actually pull the money out of the bank account. So if you needed to pay a bill or whatever on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday but you don’t get paid until Friday you could use the PayPal debit card on any of those days.

Then the bastards changed it after like 10 years so that you could only use the debit card with settled funds in the PayPal account, which made it utterly useless because that same 3 days applied to transfer money into your PayPal account so you needed to transfer money into PayPal 3 days ahead of when you wanted to use it.

What a shame though because even if you had the money in your bank account for a purchase the PP debit card was still nice to use because it offered a 1% cash back on a debit card

Ofc the whole thing was probably a scheme to get people to keep money on their PayPal account (Which you should never ever do).

I would do option A, but instead of just not using the free internet, I would use it for everything else not needing server services. So like streaming or general browsing.

Just leaving the Google fiber as a dedicated pipe for all my self hosted services

You can do this kind of split with pfSense easily

When passing or storing data in code you usually have to specify what type of data is it. An int is an integer, so numbers, there’s also boolean (true/false) and many others. There’s also string which is just characters of any kind (for the most part) which pretty much makes it a catch-all, since numbers can be a string along with letters and special characters.

But to use a number as a number after it’s been received as a string it has to be converted to an int, which means extra code, more effort, more failure points etc etc.

“if that guy ever comes back in the building I’ll quit”

You can’t just leave a story like that lol, did “sr dev” come back into the building? Did the other dev follow through on his threat? So many questions

A simple scan is fine, but to actually image a dying drive for recovery purposes, you should absolutely be doing a direct connection

I’m going through it rn for Proxmox, it’s a pain in the ass.

I think it was better a tad on ESXi, but VMware stuff is a non starter for me at this point.

Meh it’s a meg, not like it’s the good ol dial up days where you’d sit there and have to wait for a few hundred KBs of a pic to load line by line LMAO

This incident will be reported

Im in the same boat as you, when 10 goes, Im going to go back to(see Vista Era) linux as much as possible.

There are at least 3 of us! Lmao, we have until Oct 15th 2025 for win 10

My head hurts now, I need to go lay down…

SSDs were properly destroyed

I hate when companies do this, SSDs do not need to be shredded, there’s no security benefit whatsoever. You don’t even need to do the whole “write 0s/random data X times” like with HDDs. So damn wasteful ugh.

I…don’t get it, are you guys sure (Not from Canada lol) a conservative wrote it? What’s the catch?

8. Wearing a visible religious symbol while working for the public sector

This one seems reasonable, I’m sure it applies universally and fairly to all religions right?..right?

I feel like it was just a few months ago someone else was asking this very similar thing, including wanting to handle payment processing themselves as well.

Seriously OP, do not do payment processing on your own unless you already have experience with going through PCI compliance. And if you did, you would already have made the decision to off load it to an actual payment processer lmao

Don’t be a hero, offload payment processing to a third-party.

Cybersecurity communities too, there was one guy on [The Other Site] I saw awhile back who, whenever somebody asked a question about what they should do to secure X or Y or if Z security product was better than V because they just did general IT, would always default to something along the lines of “If you don’t know, don’t bother its above you and you should shell out $$$ to an actual firm otherwise you’ll be shelling out $$$$ to another firm to clean up your mess”

Surprise surprise, when I googled his username (The fact I was even able to do this isnt a great sign for a “security professional” IMO lmao) he actually owned one of those “Databreach Triage” firms…yea…I’m sure there was no conflict of interest whatsoever lmaoo

Some executive somewhere:

In fact, files end up corrupted,

Backup often and check the backups.

That costs $

data is improperly transferred

Backup often.

That costs $

hard drives fail

Backup often.

That costs $

formats change

Use an open format. For extra sure, make sure it doesn’t carry DRM.

That costs $ (Probably, I’d ask IT but we laid them off as a cost reduction so meh )

work simply vanishes.

Uuuuh don’t be corrupt?

That costs $

I haven’t seen a library with software to lend since I was a kid, I used to go and get a ton of games n random software and rip them all lmao. But there was a lawsuit from software companies (ofc, can’t have any fun in this world) at some point in the mid 2000s against a library district and it all got pulled. The lawsuit was based on the fact they had to share non-transferable, non-shareable license keys to make it work, which is why we still have movies and console games at libraries, because there’s no license key involved.

Nah fuck that, let’s all make a patreon for every. single. fork.

Let’s see if Nintendo’s unlimited legal budget is unlimited or ISP “unlimited”

LLCs are fairly cheap to form (if you file the paperwork yourself) it might be advisable for instance owners of any decent size to place instance stuff under the control of an LLC. There shouldn’t be too much tax stuff to worry about if there’s no profit (Not a CPA, consult a CPA for a final word) but it definitely would help protect an owners personal liability from any sort of lawsuit shenanigans

I don’t even think we really need to eek out every MHz or clock cycle of performance these days unless your shipping code for a space vehicle or something (But that’s an entirely different beast)

We’ve got embedded devices shipping with 1GHz+ processors now

It’s just time to move on from C/C++, but some people just can’t seem to let go.

There’s no situation where you want buffer overruns.

I want buffer overruns in my game consoles for jailbreaking purposes lmfaoooooo

I have a Samsung 840 (or maybe 860? Idk) 512GB bought back when 512GB was like 500$+ lol

The thing is still trucking along, being moved from system to system as the years go by. I don’t even remember what system it is in currently, but I know at some point I’ll open up a computer or server around my place and there it’ll be again lmao

A poem by ChatGPT lol: In a corner of the world, where tech giants lay, A solid state drive, aging, in the fray. Once young and swift, at data’s beck and call, Now an elder, but dutiful, standing tall.

Through systems it travels, a nomad of sorts, From desktops to servers, in electronic forts. Its label worn, its edges frayed, But in the dance of bytes, it’s never swayed.

“I don’t remember,” the owner chuckles with glee, “Which system it’s in, it’s a mystery to me. But sure as the sun rises, and the moon takes its leave, I’ll find it again, in that, I believe.”

It’s seen the rise of clouds, and the fall of disks, Survived the digital tumults, with its own little risks. Yet here it remains, a silent witness to all, A testament to duty, refusing to fall.

For in its circuits, a heart beats on, A steadfast guardian, from dusk till dawn. From system to system, it wearily sighs, Yet embraces its role, under digital skies.

So here’s to the drive, with its storied past, A relic of tech, that continues to last. May it find its rest, in a worthy machine, A dutiful servant, unseen but serene.

It’s honorable to want to keep all customer data within your control, but seriously unless you already have experience dealing with PCI compliance, that’s one part you should definitely offload to a payment processor. This might even be a clause in your insurance (Depending on what it covers)

I don’t have any particular software in mind to recommend, but I’d bet they probably have some sort of integration with processors like Stripe or something

To deploy AD, that depends.

If you like to sail the high seas AND aren’t trying to use it for a business, then no.

If you don’t want to sail the high seas or need to use it for a business, then yes, you’ll need to buy a Windows Server license

AD is heavily reliant on the DNS protocol, so heavily in fact that a large component of an AD deployment is a DNS server.

So basically, when the AD DNS server takes over on your network It’ll do DNS things as you’d expect, when it gets a DNS call with the AD domain it will answer with the AD server every time

If your AD domain and your web address domain are domain.com then whenever the AD DNS server gets theh call it won’t answer with the IP address of the web server, it’ll answer with the AD server, even when you are trying to access a web service like domain.com/Plex or something.

You can change the DNS server used on the host, but then you’ll be borkin domain functionality in weird ways

Yea, you’d want an entirely different domain or an internal like domain.lan or in my case what I should have done is made it a subdomain like ad.domain.com

And also it’s a bitch to change the AD domain once you get it all setup hence I’ve been procrastinating with hosts file workarounds lmfao

I do, for a multitude of reasons

• Easier management of family computers
• an authoritative source for Authentik SSO
• Learning experience, I’m also heavy Linux, but I try to maintain an OS agnostic philosophy with my skill set so I can have options in my career
• I was bored
• Again, since I like to maintain an OS agnostic philosophy I have a healthy mix of Windows, Linux and MacOS devices, and you CAN in fact join Linux (w/ SSSD) and MacOS to a domain too

In addition to what others have said with roaming profiles and such:

DO NOT SET YOUR AD DOMAIN AS THE SAME DOMAIN OF A WEB ADDRESS YOU USE

I…er…someone… Found themselves in this situation and have been in a mess since lmao

Yea poorly worded, I meant that the free services would kick in directly rather than having to mess with nameservers and crap like I used to do whenever I bought a domain on Google lmao

I used to use Google Domains, but then they sold that off to Squarespace.

Now I just use Cloudflare directly lol which also includes their free services, which is quite the value IMO

Where is the Human branch maintainer? Why aren’t they reviewing and approving the numerous PRs and merges??? So many open issues…

If what you want is recent within the last 10-20 years or older but popular, Usenet is far superior, if it’s available it will always download as fast as your connection will allow Vs torrents which also needs seeders in addition to simply being available, and then ofc you’re beholden to those seeder’s upload bandwidths.

If what you want is obscure and/or old, torrenting is probably your best bet, especially since you can just leave the download “open” and download it byte by byte over months if you so choose. But even then, it’s still worth checking Usenet since you never really know what people will upload and when. If someone reuploads something obscure/ancient and then is never seen again it doesn’t matter, you’ll still be able to download it fast until it’s removed or until it’s retention expires (about 10 years for the good providers)

but friends dont let friends use plex.

I would love to get rid of Plex, but jellyfin failed the spouse test last summer and it never really liked my GDrive mount

Plus, Plex clients are everywhere, so it’s all but guaranteed that whoever I decide to onboard is going to have something compatible. I’ve even had early smart TV’s from like 2013 with that weird Yahoo app store thing that had a Plex app that still worked even when the Netflix app didn’t lolol

It’s like…having a toddler LMAO my little digital toddler lololol

I mean that’s up to you, my personal settings are 2:1, it’ll delete and stop seeding once it’s uploaded as much as 2 downloads worth.

But it’s important to remember that Radarr/Sonarr are Usenet first, torrents didn’t have official support till fairly recently and it’s still a little wonky

Officially, to seed you basically have to have a duplicate file until your set threshold is reached.

If you want to seed forever (or at least a really long time (ty btw for your contributions)) I’d say you’re probably going to want some custom scripts. Have Radarr move the file and rename as normal and then your script to symlink it back to the torrent directory under the original filename so it can continue to seed without taking up double space for every movie