@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

"We both know what's in there" certainly isn't an admission of any wrongdoing.

Why not. If the cops believe it is evidence, and he says that what they believe is correct. That's exactly an admission of wrongdoing.

Unless they asked him if there was CP, and he said "yes, we both know what's on there" then, no, he didn't admit to anything. If they just asked for the password and he said "we both know what's on there", which seems to be the case, then I don't see what he admitted to...

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

they suspect based on the statement of someone they've already charged with a similar crime and are attempting to charge with additional, similar crimes.

Nope, That's not the case. If you think this, you've missed the point of the discussion.

They don't think, they know in a legal sense because the person in question has admitted to it. That's it. Over and done, the whole thing. Passwords, eye witness, all pointless background noise.

He told the cops that what they thought was on there was, in fact, there. What more is needed to prosecute?

"Sir, we need to go in your house to see if there is evidence of a murder."

"You don't need to come in, we both know that I murdered the guy."

You don't need to see the body or find the weapon, he admitted to the crime.

This is completely different because this person explicitly admitted to murder. If the police knocked on his door and said "we need to come in and search your house", "We both know what's in there" certainly isn't an admission of any wrongdoing. Maybe when he said it would hurt him, he had pics of himself in cosplay and he was super embarrassed?

Anything the police claimed they knew but didn't actually witness first hand would certainly, 100%, be hearsay.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

No, the defense could claim he meant his Christmas list...

Defense can claim anything. It's what he actually said that matters, and what he said is that the cops know. So if the cops say, under oath, that it's child porn, then child porn it is.

Did he literally say that he had child pornography on there? I must have missed that part... They still have to prove that it's there.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Nothing in that statement is evidence, and if it was it would be self incriminating, so the person isn't compelled to give up that information.

Except he told them that THEY knew what was there. In theory, that statement in a court would mean that the cops could testify as to what evidence was there because he granted as evidence that they knew what the evidence was. Therefore, they are witnesses by his admission. That he gave it up and self incriminated isn't a problem, because he did so voluntarily.

Anything the police claimed they knew was on there because of the suspect's statement would probably be considered hearsay. They don't actually know first hand what's there... Just because the suspect said they know doesn't constitute proof.

Doesn't it? It's proof that he admitted to anything that they say is on there. That's admission. And admission does not require further proof.

No, the defense could claim he meant his Christmas list... it could literally mean anything, he didn't admit to having anything on there. We all know there's drivers and a filesystem, nothing incriminating about that. The defense would ask if the police have been in his computer and seen something incriminating, as soon as they said "well... no," the entirety of their claims would mean nothing.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Nothing in that statement is evidence, and if it was it would be self incriminating, so the person isn't compelled to give up that information.

Except he told them that THEY knew what was there. In theory, that statement in a court would mean that the cops could testify as to what evidence was there because he granted as evidence that they knew what the evidence was. Therefore, they are witnesses by his admission. That he gave it up and self incriminated isn't a problem, because he did so voluntarily.

Anything the police claimed they knew was on there because of the suspect's statement would probably be considered hearsay. They don't actually know first hand what's there... Just because the suspect said they know doesn't constitute proof.

I've been stuck at 210 lbs (-50 lbs) for a month or so now. I just can't get motivated to workout. At least my diet is still mostly on track.

I've been using Google Domains, which is probably a bad idea since it's probably going to randomly get discontinued one day...

@dafyre said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

built it when it was 0.44a... It now is showing 0.44-s.

That might only be like 3 days worth of updates, sometimes they do a crazy number of releases in a short time...

@NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller Yep, happening quite a lot actually.

Same here.

I agree that they should be public.

I'm curious what the UI looks like if one person upvotes and one person downvotes, doe it just display both names, or which one did which?

@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Everywhere in Upstate NY there are Christmas decorations up. This is ridiculous.

How about this for ridiculous:

One of my friends said that they started playing Christmas music on one of his favorite radio stations 1-2 weeks ago, so he has been listening non-stop during his car rides.

My wife is one of these Christmas crazies. She's been listening to xmas music for about 2 weeks now too. Our tree and decorations usually go up on Nov. 1. :man_facepalming:

Possibly unrelated, but I was having problems getting a new instance setup on Ubuntu. Redis wasn't working there either. I bailed almost immediately as I didn't have time to mess with it. Installed it on Fedora, and it everything seems to be working as expected.

@IRJ said in Trying to find a good, on-premises, multi-department help desk application:

@scottalanmiller said in Trying to find a good, on-premises, multi-department help desk application:

@IRJ said in Trying to find a good, on-premises, multi-department help desk application:

Jira is easy to setup for multiple departments. It's not the best ticketing software, but it's inexpensive and very short learning curve. You can also do quite a bit with the api.

Until you need more than ten people, then it is a little expensive.

It's still less than half of his $8k budget for 50 users

Self hosted (one of his requirements) is $19,000 for 50 agents

I can't believe how fast the update is. I was seriously expecting it to take 4 hours like every other feature update, or to stall 2 hours in like 1903 did for my laptop. When my computer restarted and was back at the login screen in 20 seconds I thought it failed.

Looks like Zammad does both SSO and Groups (Departments). I don't use it though, so no experience there...

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Nextcloud 10 to damn old. Should have been removed permentanly from the repo.

I've been checking about once a week since 17 came out and my updater refuses to show 17 as an option. Just this morning it gave me an option to go to 16.0.6, even though 17.0.1 is out now... so weird.

That was a screenshot of Nextcloud from Fedora repo.

What release channel are you using, stable or production? Have you try upgrading via CLI?

Stable, and I only use the CLI updater. It's pretty common for it to be a month or so, but 40+ days since release seems excessive.

Have you consider temporary switch to beta channel to upgrade and then switch back to stable?

I have considered it, and I'll probably do that this time. It's usually not a big deal to just wait it out, but I'm trying to move my install to a new VPS instance now and I believe everything needs to be equal to do the migration.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Nextcloud 10 to damn old. Should have been removed permentanly from the repo.

I've been checking about once a week since 17 came out and my updater refuses to show 17 as an option. Just this morning it gave me an option to go to 16.0.6, even though 17.0.1 is out now... so weird.

That was a screenshot of Nextcloud from Fedora repo.

What release channel are you using, stable or production? Have you try upgrading via CLI?

Stable, and I only use the CLI updater. It's pretty common for it to be about a month, but 40+ days since release seems excessive.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Nextcloud 10 to damn old. Should have been removed permentanly from the repo.

I've been checking about once a week since 17 came out and my updater refuses to show 17 as an option. Just this morning it gave me an option to go to 16.0.6, even though 17.0.1 is out now... so weird.

@Pete-S said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Simplified, image resolution is how much detail is visible. And that is really what you are after, but not what you are going to get. You'll simply get a lot of pixels without much detail.

They describe it in the article like it's almost entirely for digital zoom. The software crops the images and rarely, if ever, saves a full size photo.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Updating a system for a Monday, and getting some equipment gathered for Extra Life tomorrow.

What game(s) are you going to be playing?