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Posted by therealtacopanda@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 22 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

Posix groups are used for dual mode access to file systems that a used by both Linux and Windows. There might be other use cases in a Windows domain, but that one I have experience with. The purpose is to prevent nfs v2 permissions from being wiped out by Windows access.

Stepping Away (Sort Of)

Posted by HayabusaJack@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 84 comments

How do enterprises actually prevent developers from exfiltrating source code?

Posted by thmeez@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 98 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

OK, I was thinking we weren't talking about source code written by idiots. Anyone hard coding credentials into source code is flat out bush league.

How do enterprises actually prevent developers from exfiltrating source code?

Posted by thmeez@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 98 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

Yeah, but for source code, that is unlikely to be of any value. Maybe back in 1975 what you're saying would be true, but we aren't using hammer and chisels to write on stone tablets any longer.

How do enterprises actually prevent developers from exfiltrating source code?

Posted by thmeez@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 98 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

What difference would that make to a chinese AI decoding the source code from video or screenshots? If we are talking about something critically important and valuable, trust is way more important than trying to figure out how to prevent all possible exfiltration methods. You can trust a guy sitting at a terminal in a building where he is being watched. You can not trust anyone using a remote session of any kind under any prevention circumstance you try to implement.

How do enterprises actually prevent developers from exfiltrating source code?

Posted by thmeez@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 98 comments

Keep your Claude code/codex projects to yourself

Posted by Lower_Fan@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 164 comments

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The abject fear of AI is palpable, but reality is reality. No amount of wishing it away will save your career, get with the program, or you will find yourself being judged as not worth paying any longer...

Genuinely hate cyber security teams

Posted by talent_de_tigan@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 385 comments

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I hear ya. The block everything approach was taken by our company. They had a crazy firewall rules request system that involved Word documents and spreadsheets on a SharePoint site and I'm talking about a company with 50K+ employees. The monitoring was so tight, that me running powershell queries to the four (!!!) different directories to check if employee infomation was in synch rasied some kind of red flags and they would keep hasseling me like I was a hacker. It used to be that they were worried about the external threat. Now they see the threat everywhere. That said, the big security push came out of a break in when the company took a less serious approach over a decade ago. After that happened, they started taking things more seriously. I feel like they did a lot of it without much planning and thought and implemented system with onerous managment overhead, but it was above my paygrade to do much more than complain to managment that they were costing themselves money. After all is said and done, it's their money to burn up as they see fit.

I’m running out of gas

Posted by ButOfCourse@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 629 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

I retired at 59, not burned out, just bored of the work. Hang in there and make sure you feel confident in your savings and retirement plan. My wife and I worked with a planner when I turned about 55, and we saved as much as we could to make retirement a no-brainer.

What’s your favourite “I was there” GenX moment?

Posted by lovelyb1ch66@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 2100 comments

my company wants to use VDI by 2027

Posted by Cool_Equivalent_4607@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 219 comments

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Its really a good idea, although it might require handing everyone a computer in addition to using a vdi. I used one at my company for over 5 years before I retired, it worked out great for me, but the vdi was not shared, it was dedicated vdi with plenty of cpu cores and RAM. If they go with cheezy shared vdi, low ram and 2 cores, the users will hate it.

Semi-detached neighbors having extremely loud sex even after we've politely asked them to keep it down, is there anything we can do?

Posted by Nice-Agent3109@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 1239 comments

Kid wants to join the National Guard

Posted by SocialSyphilis@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 479 comments

How bad is OLED flicker, really?

Posted by CarQuery8989@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 121 comments

Asked our head of sales if putting client addresses in ChatGPT was data sharing. She looked at me like I was the idiot.

Posted by shangheigh@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 514 comments

Asked our head of sales if putting client addresses in ChatGPT was data sharing. She looked at me like I was the idiot.

Posted by shangheigh@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 514 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

You could make that case about searching. Seriously, the threat is being blown way out of proportion. There is more danger of the user copying the information to an unsecured USB device and losing it than send it to ChatGPT.

Asked our head of sales if putting client addresses in ChatGPT was data sharing. She looked at me like I was the idiot.

Posted by shangheigh@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 514 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

**If a user puts client information into a google search prompt, full names, deal sizes, internal pricing strategy, etc., is that data sharing?** What's happening here is that admins, by that I mean the AI wannabe police, have decided that data that goes in that might later be used to train models will somehow be used nefariously by the model owners or that thrid parties will later somehow co-opt chatGPT to leak this information directly to them because it was trained with it. This simply isn't the case. It is hyperbolic to think that a user putting data into their context is going to have the data leak out to the rest of the world. If they save the context and someone else logs into their chatGPT account, well then I guess you could look at that. But the mere fact that they pasted information into a chatGPT prompt does not mean anyone else in the world gets to take that raw data as if it was freely shared.

Just got the email this morning…

Posted by rolisrntx@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 957 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

Man I got something like this about 4 months ago and I am now retired. I exited the company about 3 weeks ago. Your offer is much better than mine for sure. I got about 6 months worth of paid COBRA as a "stipend", I have to pay for the other 12 months we are eligible for. I got a bonus which was about 12 weeks of pay, I got about 18 weeks of 'severance' pay, and then my payout for unused vacation time was about another 6 weeks. That said, between my wife's 401K (she retired a few years earlier after a layoff) and my 401K savings we have enough that retirement isn't iffy. I'm almost 60, she is a year younger. When COBRA ends in 18 months we are going to have to find coverage until we hit 65 and that is going to be costly, but we've got a lot saved up and income from a few rental properties too.

Home video game question.

Posted by No_Consideration_339@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 170 comments

How are you handling employees using personal ChatGPT accounts at work? We had an incident last week.

Posted by fxs38@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 382 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

I really don't think putting data into ChatGPT is as big of a deal as people trying to spin it up into. Security and IP people tend to go hyperbolic on the subject and their arguements are pretty much bunk and border on paranoia. A snippet of code is not going to leak the family jewels for everyone to make use of. Pasting in the entire codebase repo into a context might be used by OpenAI or Anthropic in some way for training that could eventually lead someone else making use of the knowledge. You can't shut it down, you can only make it difficult. Our company blocked everything, people just used screenshots and asked chatGPT on a personal device. Our company finally went so far as to buy their own AI company to the tune of $1.5 billion so that the code base could be put into an AI that is locked to only company use.

What to do with Cosby…

Posted by HonestNeighborhood67@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1189 comments

Is this push for AI as insane everywhere?

Posted by Legal_Situation@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 326 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

Did someone meantion AI Powered Shovels? [https://www.hitachicm.com/eu/en/onsite/article/autonomous-excavators-a-new-era/](https://www.hitachicm.com/eu/en/onsite/article/autonomous-excavators-a-new-era/)

Is this push for AI as insane everywhere?

Posted by Legal_Situation@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 326 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

Yeah some companies took a beating, but guess what? The Internet is still alive and well, and 100x bigger than it was 26 years ago, LOL!!!

Is this push for AI as insane everywhere?

Posted by Legal_Situation@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 326 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

Wishful thinking and $10 will get you a cup of coffee friend. If it didn't deliver value, people would not be paying $billions for it right now. In 10 years we will look back at today's AI and think it was quaint. I get the fear, I mean whole categories of careers going to AI isn't going to be fun.

Is this push for AI as insane everywhere?

Posted by Legal_Situation@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 326 comments

Turned 60 this year

Posted by Pragmatic_synic@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 35 comments

Any of you still tip for food ordered at the counter? I'm done with that bullshit.

Posted by Dunno_If_I_Won@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 895 comments

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Nah, it is ridiculous. Rubios for a time was auto adding a tip to online orders, you had to notice and deselect it. I did not notice for like 7 or 8 orders when it went live. I sent them feedback and they acted like I was off my rocker. But the next revision of the app has it deselected by default, so I wasn't the only one complaining.

Critical ERP system can't do OAuth and Microsoft is killing basic auth next month

Posted by Severe_Part_5120@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 551 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

This is a sad reality in many business operations. In my mind, it is the business that must accept the risk, not Microsoft, so Microsoft should not be turning off anything, they should make it an option to turn off. If $400K is something that can't be done by the business, then the business sounds like it's probably a dead horse.

What is the secret to breaking into Mid Level IT? Whatever im trying isnt working.

Posted by Ruminatingsoule@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 67 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

Man, I don't think I ever had any prestige with my title. I feel like the IT job market is shifting and shrinking. Much of the operational responsibilities are moving to third party contractors. I don't think there is any golden bullet for you, luck, skills, and knowing someone on the inside of a good organization are your best bets.

Active Directory Users and Computers

Posted by ChildhoodNo837@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 137 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

OK, well if you read a gigantic amount of data into memory, and then begin iterating it, depending on the processing, I could see problems developing deep into the loop, but it would have to have not been well thought out.

Who else makes minor mistakes on purpose so people don't think AI wrote your work?

Posted by DonJohn520310@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 49 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

AI generated writing generally doesn't sound the way a person would state or write. I find it to be too colorful, using too many unnecessary adjectives. If you simply restate it in your own words, it will pass a sniff test.

Active Directory Users and Computers

Posted by ChildhoodNo837@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 137 comments

Active Directory Users and Computers

Posted by ChildhoodNo837@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 137 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

I don't know what you mean by Powershell not handling loops that exceed 1000. I mean I don't think I've ever seen a problem with a loop that went on for thousands of reps. If your code is crap, you could have a memory leak that brakes the session I guess.

Do we all remember the gas lines of the 70’s

Posted by Silent-Warning5654@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 193 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

There is a YouTube video of a gas line with a reporter doing on site reporting and recording B Roll. It brought back a lot of memories watching it.

No Coke, Pepsi.

Posted by DantesGame@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 1651 comments

People referring to their girlfriend/wife as "the old lady"

Posted by Matt-J-@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 118 comments

Over a decade ago my manager/associate director/ what ever...

Posted by tunayrb@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 10 comments

When will the job market not suck?

Posted by iworkinITandlikeEDM@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 165 comments

I found out I will be let go soon on accident - they do not know I know.

Posted by Upbeat-Chain-3155@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 506 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

If you are 23, I'm having a hard time with your bosses thinking that you would have a lot of real world IT experience. I mean what exactly were they expecting out of a new grad? Don't sweat it, if they dismiss you, you won't have a problem. You might want to just look around now since you might be able to leave on your own terms if push comes to shove.

Let go from full time job

Posted by zaina2050@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 78 comments

Can I still get back into in IT at age 38 after getting clean from heroin and build a good career?

Posted by IR30Lover@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 69 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

Hell I worked with a guy that was addicted to pin killers (opiods) for years. He eventually had to quit because of medical issues, but additiction issues didn't stop him at all. Best thing is if you know someone on the inside that can help you. I can't think of a better was to get an IT job. Maybe work for a contract IT company, they tend to be focused on delivery capability and not so much about your past. Look for jobs that most IT people wouldn't want, like overnight hours, lots of on call, that sort of thing.

Ran our first Phishing Campaign last week, didnt go as planned at all.

Posted by idrinkpastawater@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 197 comments

So who's doing all the talking?

Posted by TheEdumicator@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 46 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

That's funny I tried to post the same thing and the mods removed the post immediately. I'm surprised they have not removed this post for Rule number 11.

Coming to the realization that I may never be promoted again unless I go into management...ride it out until retirement?

Posted by sys_admin321@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 153 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

This is basically a description of my company. Your trajectory will keep pace with inflation, and that is about it. If you're happy with that, great. If not, then you need to move into management if you're looking for more.

Had an epiphany today

Posted by diamondgreene@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 71 comments

What is with all the background noise?

Posted by BrettHutch@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 43 comments

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They want the announcers to shout so that it feels more exciting, but they forget that they need to because they don't hear all of the background noise. They need to feed the background noise into the announcer's ear pieces so that they feel like they have to shout to be heard.

My mom found my old jacket, from 10 year me, circa 1985

Posted by Hour_Mycologist_5957@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 310 comments

GenX semi retired folks how is it going?

Posted by utvols22champs@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 226 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

I'm retiring in about a month, my wife has been retired for two years already. I've got all kinds of hobbies I want to do, my wife may pick up some part time work as she is a bit bored. Our life won't change all that much from how it is now. We'll be able to travel more and treat everyday like we're both on vacation, so looking forward to being retired.

Gen X Existential Depression related to aging.

Posted by Sense_Difficult@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 213 comments

Jacmac_@reddit

I'm 59, about to retire after 35 years in IT. My belief is that AI is going to displace millions of workers over the next 10 to 20 years and eliminate large categories of labor the employer's pay humans to do currently.It won't be high end or low end work that gets supplanted, it will be work that involves the manipulation, interpretation, or arrangement of information. Also jobs that can be automated in a cost effective manner, where it wasn't practical before. For example, raise the minimum wage for Uber drivers to $X, and then it becomes practical to totally automate it. Ultimately I am really glad I am retiring now, because it is going to be a bloodbath of fighting for leftover jobs in a few years.