Kid_Thunder

I was shadow IT for a project and asked IT to design this special unconventional thing which of course they wouldn’t. So I made this little embedded linux device to take care of it. Gave them the design and steps I made and all that. They were like “nah” so I told them to give me admin on their file server and switch and I’d just do it myself. So they did (lol?).

I had to create a service account, so instead of just having the system account do it on their file server because I figured that wouldn’t be OK. I asked them how do I properly get a service account approved and they passed me to Cyber who had me submit a user request. It got denied because it didn’t have a signed user agreement or a Sec+ or similar cert…

So I created a word doc that said “I am not a real person and therefore cannot sign any contracts. I am just software man.” and exported it to PDF and named it the same name of the agreement file name. Did the same for the cert. They approved it.

Then nobody ever created the account because IT’s helpdesk couldn’t figure out how to do it. I think it was more that they probably didn’t have an OU structure properly set up so they wanted some architect or something to weigh in.

Anyway, I just let System do it because, well I had been waiting months at that point. The service account probably still doesn’t exist in AD. They then took my admin privs away and got credit from upper management for solving this odd problem that my stuff took care of.

Eventually they needed a more robust solution and also in a few more places since it worked well but they started slamming it a bit too hard with data. They wanted to just keep giving me specific rights and then take them away when I was done but also submit paperwork every single time to them to do it.

Apparently, I burnt bridges when I said “nah” as a Reply to All when they told me that. But who cares to have a bridge to nowhere anyway? As far as I know (since I still occasionally get a technical question about it) my little guy is still chugging away today, though I’ve moved on since then.

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Man jokes about “good sex” being key to his 47 year marriage.

Conservatives: Rage while putting a thrice married rapist on a pedestal of morality supposedly “chosen by God” and what-not.

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Democrats: See opportunity to win women voters over due to IVF being considered abortion.

Republicans: See opportunity to win black voters over due to sneakers and menthol cigarettes.

Not all digital reporting but a massive amount of it is just low quality. Many articles stating something with 5 tweets from random people or reddit posts or similar, blog quality op-eds; atrocious barely moderated comments sections, recycled articles, adblocker blockers, cookie notifications with too many checkboxes, autoplay irrelevant videos (relevant ones are still bad) and paywalls just aren’t good enough.

You need compelling content, you need original content and you need a compelling price point for subscriptions. On the op-ed side, everyone does a terrible job compared to some hobbyist youtubers.

Vice had some compelling content (to me) but not nearly enough for me to want to subscribe with actual money. I personally think Vice went for quantity over quality more and more plus probably grew too fast over the last decade. I guess that’s what happens when investment firms essentially control the company.

Yeah you can use any executable but hh is just short and in everyone’s path.

In powershell:

for(){hh \}

Also the beeping will be annoying.

Oh that’s my fault. I’m so used to seeing defenders of this kind of stuff that I took it as you saying i also have no proof as to my position that I need to prove it. Definitely my own bias of expecting an argument.

I apologize.

You’re saying we don’t have the engineering know-how or the technology to build the pyramids today? You’re saying we can’t cut blocks and put them in place and cover them in a limestone casing? That we have no way to lift ~2.5 tons? Or even better just use concrete?

Are you unhinged?

I like how they didn’t provide an alternate solution to this. Mr. Miller is showing real Texas leadership potential.

Yeah I’m so tired of hearing that “We can’t build the pyramids even with the technology of today” because that’s just a bullshit statement with nothing supporting it. It is just to try to dismiss actual reality in order to prop up “It was aliens obviously” that has zero evidence.

Don’t worry, he’ll end up still having enough funds for a legal defence after the RNC is backrupt due to it. We will find out in 5 years or so that it turns out Russia backed his funds for legal defense and some loans or something. He’ll say it was due to a ‘great business deal because Russia are great business people, maybe the greatest’ due to like a $500 million ‘business’ deal to put Trump’s name on a random warehouse out in the middle of Siberia.

I would have been your hype man if I saw that for sure.

The DNC should have also given their own other candidates support as well to give some semblance of a choice (except for the one that isn’t even eligible and is basically a Republican). Perhaps it wouldn’t have to be A few McCheeseburgers from death narcissist moron trying to stay out of prison vs. Dazed and Confused, replacement hips are now a matter of national security

The DNC has once again failed their voter pool by trying to pre-pick their candidate. Last time, it ended in them disbanding their Super Delegates after causing a “fuck them both, I’m staying home” voter mentality.

I’m agreeing with you and perhaps being a little too overzealous about it but I can’t believe that they are doing this again when they lost doing it the last time.

Well they are placed in mostly minority communities but above that, a ShotSpotter tech admitted in court that they often change the analyst interpretations of what is and isn’t a gunshot at the request of their police department customers which, keep in mind, have successfully been used in court as evidence of a crime.

There is also overwhelming data showing that the majority of their alerts lead to no arrests. The Chicago IG believes this demonstrates false positives where as ShotSpotter (who changed their name after some criticism to SoundThinking) says that people can fire a gun and leave no evidence in spite of police investigating and asking people that would have witnessed it (and there being no victim).

Furthermore, the way it works is that AI ‘assists’ a human who then determines if it is a gun shot and then attempts to triangulate the position it came from. From the trial I mentioned earlier, ShotSpotter determined that there was no gun shot but then changed the analysis at LEO request but in actuality was proven to be a helicopter…

Furthermore, ShotSpotter keeps the details of its methodologies and models a secret and has refused an independent audit from IPVM.

So with all of that, one could easily argue that ShotSpotter/SoundThinking is as biased as a police officer and that the evidence is purely subjective and non-transparent.

YouTube, Facebook, forums and pretty much any echo chamber. Pretty much anything that has replaced AM radio and shitty newsletters. In the ~2020’s also parroting politicians – I’m sure I don’t need to go over the last 4 years of examples, so how about the Bowling Green massacre that never happened?

bi-partisan effort with democrats and MAGA fringe GOP voting for it.

Well it was 208 Democrats + 8 GOP. That’s not even 4% of the GOP in the House. I guess you could call that bipartisan if you want. Then there were a bunch of failed speaker nominations before Mike Johnson.

The GOP would actually have to pass legislation for there to be a chance for anything for them to talk about. They haven’t passed meaningful legislation in years that wasn’t bipartisan. They’ve shown that even with a majority they can’t get anything done themselves. They keep scapegoating their own Speakers because of it.

It pretty much shows that the GOP can’t even unite to do anything in current Congress. It is supposedly so much a shitshow that some long-time Congresspeople are considering retirement after their terms are up out of frustration.

The SSH keys don’t help me if I get locked out of a Domain Controller unless you’re using OpenSSH (which is now a native feature you can turn on). In that case you can actually still log into the DC via command line because it authenticates based on authorized_keys and not the LDAP of the DC. I actually do this on the enterprise, not because I may get locked out but because it is just convenient. Granted you’ll have to execute powershell on the command line once in to use the AD cmdlets.

On the other hand when you create a DC now-a-days (Server 2019…I don’t remember if this is asked in the wizard when in Server 2016) you can create a “Directory Services Restore Mode” password which is basically a local admin account on the DC that you can log into only when the DC is booted into safe mode. You’ll be asked to create it when you promote your DC.