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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • IT guy here, if there is one thing I wish for, there are many days where I wish I was just a cleaner, to actually be able to complete a task that is visible for a change and not just stare me blind at a half functioning JIRA board, a broken active directory and list of 365 teams almost as long as the list of employees.

    Not to mention having to deal with systems I have no idea about and should have zero access to but somehow have global admin and am incharge of access controls which are half documented, yet the system is the most important in the company.

    We are working on improving it, it goes slowly…

    If it paid the same, I think being a street view driver seems interesting/fun…




  • There are several governments in Europe and abroad that have ordered DNS lookups for specific domains to be blocked.

    They probably mean that we can’t trust the government to keep information free and need a way to restrict governments from blocking DNS lookups.

    Unfortunately, you can’t really do DNS in a decentralized manner as the concept is based on a hirarchy.

    Example:

    If you want to go to www.coolsite.org your computer would make the following requests:

    • Hey root server, who handles requests for .org?
    • Hey .org DNS server, who handles requests for .coolsite.org?
    • Hey .coolsite.org DNS server, who is www.coolsite.org?

    I don’t really know how to decentralize this…


  • I have no explicit source for this scenario, but I am a 365 admin and extrapolated from my knowledge of Intune.

    The way I see it, there is nothing actually preventing Microsoft from blocking computers from using personal 365.

    Just look at the autopilot service in intune, you add a machine to it using either a machine ID or a serial number, then it is locked to that tenant and can’t be used outside of that with windows.

    There is no checking of actual ownership of the device, and once a device is added to autopilot, it will prompt for a tenant logon even after a complete reinstall.

    This means that MS will check any computer that checks in with their servers for their ID and s/n, and against a blocklist.













  • Something that is very easy to forget is that stock value is only very loosely tied to actual company value.

    Stock value is based on what people are prepared to pay for the stock, not what the company is worth.

    Say that I create a company that makes newspaper hats for tanks in Ukraine, something utterly worthless, I am the only employee and my inventory is just yesterday’s newspapers that I found in the gutter.

    My company has zero actual value, but I decide to create 50000 shares of my company, sell one to my friend for €2, and suddenly my company’s market value would look like €100000.