Posts made by warren.stanley

Just putting this here for prosperity

Worth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here!

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-35

@scottalanmiller aaaaand I still don't like it (secretly hoping it's now at "retirement age"). I'm sure some do like it, and that's cool

@AdminEvo I've found the JumpCloud docs (previously - not sure at the moment of this post, same for Synology docs) to be confusing on this front. I had issues with Synology services and JumpCloud LDAP. Turns out you need to bind every user individually (whom you wish to access things via JumpCloud LDAP). I had incorrectly assumed that I could propagate LDAP via enabling the JumpCloud LDAP option for desired JumpCloud User Groups. I would only get listings of users, but no individual logins worked - corrected via manually enabling bind on each user.

Note - ignore the password expired, it's a test account.

I use a Synology NAS with NFS for manual backups from Proxmox. Works pretty well.

spent some time last night on this (I'm terrible, but its addictive)

experiencing the joy of multi-part Google Takeout for the remains of my Google Play Music collection

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller it's pretty scary that GovOzle (I should trademark this now!) has even been tabled

It really is. But it's kind of matching the impression that the news here gives us of Australia. Most of the news is pretty scary stuff - offshore concentration camps and five eyes stuff. I'm sure we get a skewed view, but the way Australia is presented here, this is the least scary thing that they are doing.

There's definitely have some major issues going on and I've no doubt there is skewing in the media (after all, boring news doesn't get views). I'm not certain the broader issues are unique to Australia, which is also alarming.

-- apologies for taking this off the tech topic a little

@scottalanmiller it's pretty scary that GovOzle (I should trademark this now!) has even been tabled

@NashBrydges I'm also watching this space a little more closely. Not that we need "Enterprise" level NAS but I have some ageing Synology 4 bay units that should really have a succession plan. The convenience is nice and they've been reliable (some Syno-isms), but I've provided clean, consistent power, regularly removed dust (ESD precautions taken), upgraded RAM* and HDDs** etc

* RAM - So far I've avoided needing to pay the inflated price and limited availability for the vendor's labeled RAM
** HDD upgrades are meant to be a no-brainer in these devices..... but I do wonder if pushing the proprietary drive concept into the top end, might have some trickle down before too long. the RAID acronym might not be applicable for these products at that point

Just my 2c

@scottalanmiller the taxpayer only pays taxes, very little say on how they are spent :expressionless_face:

@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Greens float publicly owned search engine

The Greens are calling on the government to establish a publicly owned search engine if Google makes good on its threat to withdraw from Australia.

https://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/7110893/greens-float-publicly-owned-search-engine/?cs=9676

NOTE - "The Greens" are a political party in Australia

Greens float publicly owned search engine

The Greens are calling on the government to establish a publicly owned search engine if Google makes good on its threat to withdraw from Australia.

https://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/7110893/greens-float-publicly-owned-search-engine/?cs=9676

Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes.

And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB
NAS spinner's drives are Toshiba tin with custom firmware

Synology has introduced its first-ever list of validated disks and won’t allow other devices into its enterprise-class NAS devices. And in a colossal coincidence, half of the disks allowed into its devices – and the only ones larger than 4TB – are Synology’s very own HAT 5300 disks that it launched last week .

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/02/synology_enterprise_nas_drives/

@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews as someone who is subject to the un-qualified whims, continual mis-steps and hamstringing of the Australian Govt on all things IT related, I can only shake my head. I used to use Dogpile back in the day, surely that still works

They seem a bit clueless about anything more technical than pen and paper.
IMO it's an ass kissing exercise becuase the governemnt will be targets of smear campaigns by the organisations that stand to benefit from the arrangement... as in it'll hurt their re-election chances.

WHOA - slow down there with your "Pen" talk..... that's at least a decade away

@CCWTech I'll wait for it to become "stable". I'm aware this term is a very loose one when it comes to firmware or updates from ubiquiti. 4.3.20 downgrade and disabling everything I could find in relation to Automatic updates was my solution.

@mlnews as someone who is subject to the un-qualified whims, continual mis-steps and hamstringing of the Australian Govt on all things IT related, I can only shake my head. I used to use Dogpile back in the day, surely that still works

@DustinB3403 agreed!

Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations - January 2021

... just in case you know of anyone with 3389 exposed. Apologies if someone has already posted this elsewhere

" When enabled on UDP/3389, the Microsoft Windows RDP service may be abused to launch UDP reflection/amplification attacks with an amplification ratio of 85.9:1. The amplified attack traffic consists of non-fragmented UDP packets sourced from UDP/3389 and directed towards the destination IP address(es) and UDP port(s) of the attacker’s choice. In contrast to legitimate RDP session traffic, the amplified attack packets are consistently 1,260 bytes in length, and are padded with long strings of zeroes. Approximately 14,000 abusable Windows RDP servers have been identified, to date. "

from Netscout

@Nic I'm not sure what's left for Disney to reboot!

@scottalanmiller good times!

I had an a500, 1MB Ram Expansion. Amiga Boing and Juggler demos blew my mind.

Pov-Ray overnight renders of very simple (static) scenes I'd build - were not uncommon.