Good thing they have all the millions of more important things solved than Wikipedia 😡

Yeah, damn, I always forget about that…just like they want…

Sucks if you wanted a different EV, like Rivian, Leaf, that toy battery truck coming soon…

Ha, “regulatory action”…

Only when corporations feel pain do they ever utter the words…

The only time corporate enshittification is fun to watch is when they’re doing it to each other. Of course, normies still pay for it…

I mind the work much less than the general corporate organization and interacting with it.

I usually enjoy system building. I agree it’s taking many technologies and pieces and putting them together. Where we differ maybe comes down to the why, for whom, and how much good it does? Maybe if you’re any good at it?

I have no interest in duck taping things. Any solutions I’m involved with need to be balls out, bullet proof, maximum effort, or not at all.

I wonder how many of us agree with the ‘dona few things really well’ vs being a generalist.

How is their stock price still so high? Especially after their recent beach denial?

Knowledge primarily, since I’m not running a business.

At this point, like they say in Chips, TLS inspection is standard…

If your enterprise isn’t doing TLS inspection on everything other than banks, medical, gov, they’re doing it wrong.

Some times people think the hard part is getting the CA trust setup, but I find it’s far more tedious to deal with certain sites and mobile apps especially that do certificate pinning.

I like OPN also. I’ve always appreciated the stability of the BSDs.

My only personal complaint with OPN/PF was the TLS inspection.

I’ve read about adding the modules to *Sense, but I haven’t figured out the configuration pieces.

It just works with Sophos UTM and XG firewall, and the configuration was super easy.

You always use what you like though.

This is true, the 6 GB RAM limit and four cores.

I run a pretty enterprise home lab, and I haven’t ever seen the devices hit the resource limit.

I have around 3k IPS rules and TLS inspection for most categories of sites except the normal stuff like streaming, banking, etc that you’d not want or need to inspect.

For anyone it might help, I use these as inline proxies rather than as the gateway at the moment. So they have more than just internet traffic going through them, they also have segments of my LANs getting evaluated. Performance has been great so far.

hates him and sabotages him at every step

Isn’t that also describing his children?

Won’t someone please think of the investors…!

I’m just glad they’re still distracted with torrents…

rawdawg some torrents

LOL! Did you spray 1’s and 0’s in their face when you were done?

Good comments.

Do you think there’s still a lot of traditional or legacy thinking in IT departments?

Containers aren’t new, neither is the idea of infrastructure as code, but the ability to redeploy a major application stack or even significant chunks of the enterprise with automation and the restoration of data is newer.

Lol, even in 2024 with free VPN/overlay solutions…they just won’t stop public Internet exposure of control plane things…

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Funny how that seems to often be the case. They need to see the consequences, not just be warned. An ‘I told you so’ moment…

Agreed.

Dont we all use centralized management because there is cost and risk involved when we don’t.

More management complexity, missed systems, etc.

So we’re balancing risk vs operational costs.

Makes sense to swap out virtual for container solutions or automation solutions for discussion.

Yeah, that’s pretty risky for this point in time.

I guess the MBA people look at total cost of revenue/reputation loss for things like ransomware recovery, restoration of backups vs the cost of making their IT systems resilient?

Personally, I don’t think so (in many cases) or they’d spend more money on planning/resilience.

Seems like your org has taken resilience and response planning seriously. I like it.

contract “options” are indeed normal. You could also lump in government contracts into the category your thinking about. I’ve never heard of a scenario where the vendor broke contract by not honoring the options. I also have never dealt with a vendor getting bought out and then not honoring existing contracts. Super fun to watch the corporate drama. I personally don’t care for the private equity style business that seems to be an even bigger problem than the investor first/profit centric model that I thought was the worst thing.