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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
My kineticist just leveled to 12 after the party completed book 4 of Strange Aeons. The chase is narrowing, but I'm hoping we still have plenty of time with our characters before we close this tale.
That was the annoying part, I literally said yes to their financing immediately. I can only guess the four hours was because it was after 5PM and their underwriters were off the clock or something.
When we picked up the Corolla for Cyz in 2010, I had paid a couple hundred dollars for an advisor online. (One of those 'here is my technique' book kind of thing, probably not worth it but getting the knowledge wasn't bad, if overpriced.) The idea was "Figure out what car and options you want, then call the dealerships around you and ask for the quote up front. You don't go to the lot until you have found someone with the car you want and the price you want." We drove out in like an hour with their financing, I think. It's dropped off my credit report by now.
When we picked up the Rav in 2018, we went to the lot of the closest dealership with a preapproved financing from USAA. They said they could get us a better rate and kept us there four hours while they did whatever they did. I hope to be in a better place the next time we look to purchase a replacement, because that was horrible.
Oh, no. Freehold has gone into manual breathing mode again. Let's hope it doesn't spread. Or cause people to become aware of when they blink. Or see their nose.
Scion game isn’t happening tomorrow either with schedule changes and players out of town. I wonder if I can get a Clocktower game running online instead.
According to their IT tool, they're only going to want my laptop back. I'm not surprised at the monitor; it may be going on 10 now. But the mic and adapter are only 4 years old; doesn't seem beyond their useful corporate lifespan. Ah, well, I'll wait and see.
When corp hires someone new, it doesn't look good if they're given equipment that's obviously been used for awhile. You can only clean tech so well to hide the use of years.
The number I saw on our national public broadcaster up here was $20 billion, over the next seven years, re-purposing the proposed orbital station for the Artemis mission. That still sounds ... rather ambitious, given what little I know from what catches my attention about NASA these days.
Much like the landing mission on Mars, I suspect the Artemis station will become the Artemis burrower if they try repurposing it as a moon base.
It's simple, they make the rules as complicated as possible to extract the most money from the customer for the least expense spent on care.
More medical (s)care information:
I tried looking at the insurance market rather than wait the 90 days for the new job to offer insurance.
The lowest deductible was $7500. The out of pocket maximum was $10k to $19k. With the monthly premium being at minimum $1000-1200.
I'm waiting to see what the actual costs for the company plan will be, since that actually has all of our doctors in-network. (The marketplace plans were hit or miss.) But the estimated costs are around $1000 a month for premiums, because the company only pays for part of MY premium, not Cyz's. And the deductible is still like 5k with a 10k maximum, at least for Cyz.
So we are continuing to pay the full $1700 COBRA premium from PF Changs since Shanna has already hit the 3k out of pocket max, until the new insurance becomes available. Then we'll have to start the maximum over, with triple the yearly expense going forward. US healthcare is garbage.
