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Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months
  • Part of the point behind Ventoy is that you don't need to prepare the USB to be bootable. You can just copy/paste the whole iso into Ventoy and it will be bootable. New release comes out? Just copy it onto your USB drive. Don't even need to remove the old version of you don't want to.

    Makes things much easier in the tech world for having a single USB with 50+ bootable tools and installers on there like with MediCat (which uses Ventoy as a base).

    Only thing I've had issues with booting from Ventoy is the ProxMox install iso. Everything else has worked first try.

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    Edge
  • Open PowerShell and run:

    winget install 7zip.7zip

    Winget is built into windows after around Win10 1903, so you don't even have to launch a browser to download most apps anymore.

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    City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack
  • Locking a company out of their systems isn't the most lucrative part of ransomware anymore. Data exfiltration and threatening to release the data to the highest bidder is now the norm.

    Ransomware also typically sits on a system doing nothing for ~6 weeks before ever starting to encrypt and upload data. Even if companies have backups to restore from, they need to choose whether they're going to restore entire machines quickly and risk still having the ransomware on the restored machine. Or they can take the long a painful route of spinning up new machines, then restoring just the data itself to individual apps/services to ensure you don't still have ransomware after the restore.

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    So is the global IT crash fixed yet?
  • This is actually the worst type of end-user.

    Doesn't make a ticket or notify anyone that there is a problem and then proceeds to try and fix it themselves incorrectly. When it does become a ticket, they won't remember exactly what steps they took to troubleshoot and will waste 5x as much time from support staff trying to fix it than if they just didn't touch it in the first place.

    Guaranteed didn't wipe the machine from the built in reset/recovery screen and instead used a windows installer that was created on a different computer and doesn't have the correct network drivers in the image.

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    Anon thinks about Google
  • iPhone still can't report the RSSI of a wireless network. Until they make that work, anyone who works in it/tech has to carry a different device to test wireless networks.

    The wireless hardware is in the phone. Just let me use it.

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    You can fit two cars there
  • Fr, I would call every single one of those a "crossover" before I called them station wagons.

    That Volvo v60 is the closest thing to a modern station wagon. If it doesn't have 3 big side windows from front to back, it shouldn't be called a station wagon.

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    What Router can you recommend?
  • +1 for Mikrotik.

    Get one of their routers that have an Arm or x86 processor and you can run PiHole and a DDNS updater on there as containers. Wireguard support (client and server) is built in.

    Even their cheapest hardware that runs routerOS has access to all the same features as their enterprise level gear.

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    US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
  • The directed scope of the bill is going to do the same thing to TikTok that legislation did to Juul.

    If you target Juul with legal repercussions for all their flavored vapes, then only Juul stops selling flavored pods. Now a million other disposable vape companies fill the void with flavored vapes that are worse for the ecosystem.

    Targeting TikTok will just lead to another foreign data-harvesting social media app popping up to fill its place.

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    How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
  • I don't think these two are related.

    Change Healthcare (company who handles most electronic prescription platforms) had a ransomware attack a couple weeks ago that took down their entire infrastructure for multiple days.

    Doctors and pharmacies were likely using paper scripts because the entire electronic prescription platform was shutdown.

    https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/03/05/hhs-statement-regarding-the-cyberattack-on-change-healthcare.html

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    A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
  • State vehicle registration where I'm at is based on vehicle weight. Costs about $400 to renew the registration on my daily driver and $600 to renew for a larger truck. Motorcycles are only like $80 to renew.

    Consumers are being taxed more for larger vehicles, it's the manufacturers trying to avoid safety regulations that are seeing the cost benefits.

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    A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us.
  • Could be a student or military or live in an apartment.

    Not sure any of those establishments are going to be thrilled with you running an extension cable across the parking lot or sidewalk to charge your car.

    Also pretty sure they meant their family lives outside of the range of a single EV charge and there's no charging infrastructure on the way. What would be an 8 hour drive to visit family for the holidays turns into a multi-day trip with a stay at a motel/hotel to wait for your car to charge.

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    These days, it's the Nissans more than the BMWs.
  • Every time I see a Kia Soul in my rearview I know they're going to be tailgating like an asshole and using turn lanes to pass traffic.

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    key chain?
  • I use an S-Biner keychain. https://a.co/d/7nuHlqm

    Let's you take you're yubikey or thumb drive off your keychain eff effectively infinitely without it wearing out.

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    How responsive is your Nextcloud?
  • Spent a full day setting up Nextcloud so I could file sync my machines and share files externally. It was slow as hell and didn't work half the time.

    Spent 10 minutes spinning up Syncthing and FileBrowser containers and have had zero issues with them since.

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    Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?
  • Yup. Our RMM tools work best on Windows machines. Honestly, Linux is fine too, but MacOS is the worst to manage.

    If anything needs to be modified/deployed on MacOS, I have to create a new PPPC and deploy it through Intune/Jamf/Addigy, otherwise you can guarantee the end user won't accept the correct security prompts and things won't work.

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