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Startech, maybe.

Edit: Close, but not quite enough USBs.

Double Edit: This is closer to what Changs used in their managers offices.

Final Edit For Real: I think this is what you want.

Yeah, that's what TOZ was talking about. Cradlepoint is a brand name for a carrier agnostic version of the same thing.

Your assumption is likely correct.

And I somehow doubt he knows how to "rewire" that to bypass all the stuff he thinks isn't necessary.

I barely know how to troubleshoot the damn thing, let alone set one up. I know he doesn't.

Owen Stephens and Alex Augunas talk AoN.

It’s like have the video cable plugged into the wrong port.

We have cradlepoint backup circuits for our other offices, that the network fails over to when the hardline ISP connection goes down. Every now and then they wouldn’t pick up the connection and I had to troubleshoot why.

Turns out the network address was static for those connections, so when the provider changed the IP lists, it fell out of the acceptable range. I’ve set them to dynamic on the recommendation of their support team, haven’t seen it cause a problem just yet. But you never know with network schematics.

I can’t even find the reviews of the product I’m looking at. Just reviews of other products.

Not really.

Huzzah for Maya!

Can’t say I have a stake in this argument having been out of OP for awhile, but I do think the stat block removal will be a problem that gets revisited.

Called it!

Infuriating to lose Black Lagoon from streaming before anime night finished up the rewatch. But at least I have the discs.

Strange Aeons scheduled for Sunday, but beyond that, not much. I did get my character mini ordered from Hero Forge, but it won't be here for around a month.

What's Demiplane?

I don’t think Paizo is the company I knew back when Pathfinder started. I love a lot of the people working there, but they aren’t the same people I used to know. How much of that change exists in the upper management, I couldn’t say. They have certainly made steps that feel out of sync with what I remember, but who can say how accurate my memory is? Much like Paizo and AoN, I left Paizo behind long before they left me. So maybe that’s why I’m not angry over this. I think a lot of the response has been overblown, but I’m not going to call the feelings invalid just because I don’t like the tone.

They come off looking heavy-handed, something they have always fought against...at least my opinion.

I don't believe the examples are related, so...

I think Paizo is looking at their resources and choosing to eliminate overhead that doesn't have quantifiable revenue. Maintaining the agreement with AoN has some kind of cost and the revenue AoN generates cannot be shown to balance it. So it is one of the workflow elements that gets eliminated.

Alchemander Andy wrote:

"I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."

Didn't the Sith Lords of WotC just try this with the OGL1.0?

Maybe, but I don't see how that is relevant to Paizo and AoN.

NobodysHome wrote:

NobodysHome: Noooooo! Taco Bell!!!!

Impus Major: At least I was already willing to risk explosive diarrhea when imbibing taco bell products.

At least you won't have to deal with stained pants...

I picked up fruits and vegetables for lunch yesterday, got halfway through and remembered the outbreak. So hopefully I don't notice any changes the rest of the week.

Blog post.

I am waiting for the other side to speak, but I do not have high hopes for what I will hear.

Strange Aeons continues, with some very interesting desert traveling companions. I hope we don’t have to explode them once we reach the end of this “pilgrimage”. I should really get my mini ordered from Hero Forge before the campaign ends.

I’m going to enjoy the hell out of the new show and it won’t effect my enjoyment of past versions at all.

I think we might start Hellsing Ultimate tonight, before I go back to Black Lagoon.

It's grill day for us. Then we have Strange Aeons tomorrow.

On top of that, when you stop paying for the AI, you’re lucky to have anything to work with. At least someone like me can go in and find where something is broken by looking at logs and reviewing scripts. As someone wrote in an article “the AI just bills you for the outage”.

Of course, we’ve been able to do exactly that with automation for decades. Maybe the LLM can handle exceptions better, but I doubt that it does it better than existing script tools for the price.

I like doing just the tater tots for breakfast at sonic.

I had Chick-Fil-A for awhile, especially for their ice cream, but once they made their politics known I swore off them for good. Canes is a great replacement though.

I do that by running the scenarios with changes and not for credit. Problem solved.

We can still have the horrific depictions of evil we're all used to. We just don't have to have ALL depictions of a race be that one.

Least of all Paizo.

Steven Schopmeyer wrote:

If anyone wants it, I am creating an edited chronicle with appropriate gold table.

I'd be okay with that.

Somehow I never came back to this, so the edit can be found here.

Man, I am not looking forward to doing that next year, no matter how necessary for my health.

I just hope that more corporations get hit with AI cost overrun and they learn to not use it. Pipe dream, I know.

I have arrived in South Carolina, the pup did amazingly well for his first flight on a plane. Going to be here for the next week and a half, got a long weekend for Memorial Day and then working remote until we head home next month.

So not much gaming but a lot of relaxation!

I need to use more of my 3PP options.

TOZ wrote:

Hey, I'm just happy to know some of the old guard are still alive.

35,000+ posts and counting!

(And that's just for Pathfinder.)

I think you and I are destined to do this forever. </joker>

That sucks. If only it was like my 90 day review here. Just got a 5k bump in salary, so they apparently like what I’m doing.

I really would have liked for today to be Wednesday. We got through Monday just to have to deal with Tuesday? So unfair.

Playing in my friend's game on Saturday. He said there will be door prizes. I'm suspicious lol.

What's going on with everyone?

So, were there prizes? All I did was Clocktower, where I made mistakes constantly. Which is like a prize!

Blerg, best of luck to WW. I’m still waiting for a rug pull with my new position.

It's a Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q running Debian. Doesn't need much in the way of graphics 'cause all it's doing is streaming video to the TV.

I’ve got an M90n I might try wiping and setting up that way then. One last thing I got from the old job.

Can you send me the specs?

It’s my free weekend, so maybe some Clocktower tomorrow but otherwise I will be doing nothing and loving it.

De-Militarized Zone?

Yeah, having a high security area where it's less likely for activity to be missed. Anything that isn't a regular occurrence gets looked at as soon as possible.

TriOmegaZero wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Question 2: Why is password authentication only performed when connected to VPN?

I have no answer to this other than the most likely, "It's easier to set up that way."

Oh hey, I know this! Most of the time when you take a computer away from the company network, it stores the current login info so you can get in without a network connection active. When you are on the internet, it doesn’t have a reason to reach out to the company server just to log in. When you activate VPN, it connects to the server to check the authentication, and that’s when it sees the password needs changed. Disconnect, and it has no reason to check again. Otherwise, you’d have to be on VPN all the time to use the computer. Some setups may require that, but most non-IT people hate that so it doesn’t get implemented.

And there's the crux of my question -- seems like the corporate password servers should be OUTSIDE of the company network to prevent such breaches. Or is that a no-no because of targeted attacks?

Effectively, yeah. If your authentication server is outside the company network, it doesn’t benefit from your firewall and other protections and has to do double duty. My infrastructure skills haven’t been used in awhile but typically there is a DMZ set up past the firewalls where things are scrutinized closer to guard against attacks, and the authentication server lives there. With cloud options now. A lot of companies outsource authentication to Microsoft, basically putting their authentication outside of their own defenses and placing them inside Microsoft’s.

Edit: or like getting dressed at Sears before going into work, I guess?

Question 2: Why is password authentication only performed when connected to VPN?

I have no answer to this other than the most likely, "It's easier to set up that way."

Oh hey, I know this! Most of the time when you take a computer away from the company network, it stores the current login info so you can get in without a network connection active. When you are on the internet, it doesn’t have a reason to reach out to the company server just to log in. When you activate VPN, it connects to the server to check the authentication, and that’s when it sees the password needs changed. Disconnect, and it has no reason to check again. Otherwise, you’d have to be on VPN all the time to use the computer. Some setups may require that, but most non-IT people hate that so it doesn’t get implemented.

I’ve had to deal with so many users getting their remote machine desynchronized with the company server and not being able to connect. I’m glad our passwords are cloud managed and don’t need VPN now.

The awards are just a popularity contest, I don't give them any thought.

Continuing Strange Aeons, but not much else.

The endless categorization debate continues! (But yeah, what the heck are they using to define electric?)

Monthly drunk night is happening tomorrow, minus the drinking. (I guess the stock has been depleted, so it will just be games and good food.)

This is also Wrestlemania weekend, which I am...not excited for, for once. Sunday looks like it might be entertaining, so we'll have it on. Not sure if/when we will watch Saturday.

At least we have anime night on Monday!