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  1. UK based network consultancy required. Anyone?

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    Hi folks Keeping in with the theme of people of Tildes are generally really good people (hopefully), I may have a gig early next year that I want a quote on for a network redesign. It's not...

    Hi folks

    Keeping in with the theme of people of Tildes are generally really good people (hopefully), I may have a gig early next year that I want a quote on for a network redesign. It's not massive at 3 sites of roughly 100 people per site, 2 sites are dark fibred together, a couple of IPSec routes between UK and USA. It's mostly building out IP subnets, correct router and firewall configs, vLANing up the sites correctly.

    If anyone is interested or knows anyone, please reach out to me on this thread for a bit more info, we can take it from there.

    Else, I'm going to reach out to some UK based tech companies for the work. You may ask "Why not do this yourself?" That would require planning and testing which I don't have enough time for; I'd rather a Pro designed, and implemented.

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  2. Comment on United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reportedly said 'just let people die', COVID inquiry hears in ~health

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    He's counting down the days until the out-vote anyway. I'm not betting my first born on a non-tory government being in place at the next election, but I'd stake a hand made lemon sponge cake on it.

    He's counting down the days until the out-vote anyway.

    I'm not betting my first born on a non-tory government being in place at the next election, but I'd stake a hand made lemon sponge cake on it.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Can we have a fresh batch of invites? in ~tildes

  5. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I'm still deeply in The Division 2 on PS4. If anyone else is playing, shout me on here because I'd love to join you. We're in year 5 of TD2 and they still have content coming, however they have...

    I'm still deeply in The Division 2 on PS4. If anyone else is playing, shout me on here because I'd love to join you.

    We're in year 5 of TD2 and they still have content coming, however they have now announced 3 so I expect it'll dwindle. I'm definitely going to need a console upgrade for that. If you love a FPS looter shooter, with great mechanics, I can highly recommend it.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on 4G networks - does SMS and standard voice calls still work if 3G/2G networks are shutting down? in ~tech

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    GPRS will remain (2G-ish) and that is for legacy devices that need to text. Many cars and systems like that depend on it. In the UK, 3G will be gone by 2025 on all networks. If you rely on that or...

    GPRS will remain (2G-ish) and that is for legacy devices that need to text. Many cars and systems like that depend on it.

    In the UK, 3G will be gone by 2025 on all networks. If you rely on that or any of your devices, that's it, it's done. Many car manufacturers are annoyed by this due to them having their SatNavs use it.

    2G will be limited for text and calls, it's not designed for data (even though BBM worked great on it!), however, they expect that to be gone by 2033 too.

    tl;dr: Upgrade anything you want to work on data to at least 4G before the end of 2024, or be disappointed.

    11 votes

  7. Comment on PowersHell and graph - setting SharePoint folder permissions help in ~comp

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    It's not the same thing. We're essentially trying to access advanced permissions as you would in the file system. By default, MS turn on Owner and Members as Write to everything and inherited....

    It's not the same thing. We're essentially trying to access advanced permissions as you would in the file system. By default, MS turn on Owner and Members as Write to everything and inherited. What we're trying to achieve is turning off inheritance on a folder called Confidential, and allowing only Owners access. You can do this in the SharePoint GUI under advanced permissions, so it's definitely possible.

    This is different to "Sharing" permissions, which is about creating links to things for others to use. Essentially, it would enable those same permissions underneath, so maybe we could do that and set $email = false so it sets them, but it doesn't seem like it's quite the right way to do it. Also, knowing MS, they'll set a timeout on the permissions if done this way.

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  8. Comment on PowersHell and graph - setting SharePoint folder permissions help in ~comp

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    I wrote a lot of scripts a couple of years ago, and we've had to update them as we go. Suddenly, MSOnline went, then PNP broke for part of what we were doing with files and folders. After a bit of...

    I wrote a lot of scripts a couple of years ago, and we've had to update them as we go. Suddenly, MSOnline went, then PNP broke for part of what we were doing with files and folders.

    After a bit of research and a few very clever people stating that Graph is the way to go if you want to manipulate a lot of M365 functionality, I started with my colleague to rewrite a lot of what we wanted to do in graph and be damned with the other modules. You can also thank /u/Galahad for coaxing me along.

    We have our New User script working wonderfully, along with short_term_archive and a couple of other useful scripts. The big rewrite is Teams. We create a lovely folder structure, and we have that now, we had to go the API App way rather than delegated permissions to get that working. Now we're at the point of trying to break inheritance, and MS are not making this easy.

  9. Comment on PowersHell and graph - setting SharePoint folder permissions help in ~comp

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    Thank you for the pointers. It's not just me writing the scripts, matter of fact, it's one of my seniors but coming from Bash and using PS modules to using pure Graph is... horrid? I think that...

    Thank you for the pointers.

    It's not just me writing the scripts, matter of fact, it's one of my seniors but coming from Bash and using PS modules to using pure Graph is... horrid? I think that about sums it up.

    1 vote

  10. PowersHell and graph - setting SharePoint folder permissions help

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    Hello folks Recently we've been playing with Powershell and having to move on to graph to do all the fancy things we want to achieve. MS forced this when they suddenly decided the MSOnline module...

    Hello folks

    Recently we've been playing with Powershell and having to move on to graph to do all the fancy things we want to achieve. MS forced this when they suddenly decided the MSOnline module was retired and things stopped working.

    We've built a great New Team with SharePoint and including folders script. One of the things we used to do with the PNP module is set folder permission on two of the folders in a new team, making them only accessible to Owners. How the devil does one achieve this with Graph?

    Any pointers would be grand.

    8 votes

  11. Comment on How do you feel about AI and the future? in ~tech

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    Hello Microsoft 365 subscriptions, meet Bing Chat licensing costs - you'll have a lot in common.

    Hello Microsoft 365 subscriptions, meet Bing Chat licensing costs - you'll have a lot in common.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on How do you feel about AI and the future? in ~tech

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    There's a line in I,Robot which stands out. I cannot remember the exact quote but it's something along the lines that if the robot caused the death of the scientist, it'll be equivalent to an...

    There's a line in I,Robot which stands out. I cannot remember the exact quote but it's something along the lines that if the robot caused the death of the scientist, it'll be equivalent to an Industrial Accident.

    That's how AI could turn out, in theory.

  13. Comment on How do you feel about AI and the future? in ~tech

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    To go along with /u/DefinitelyNotAFae though, AI is supposed to be used for artificial true cognitive thought. AI at the moment is still more of a natural language search engine and response for...

    To go along with /u/DefinitelyNotAFae though, AI is supposed to be used for artificial true cognitive thought. AI at the moment is still more of a natural language search engine and response for the most part.

    8 votes

  14. How do you feel about AI and the future?

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    Off the back of all the chatter and conspiracy theories being thrown around because of the OpenAI Boardroom drama, I thought I'd ask how people are feeling about AI in general. For those of you...

    Off the back of all the chatter and conspiracy theories being thrown around because of the OpenAI Boardroom drama, I thought I'd ask how people are feeling about AI in general.

    For those of you with your head in the sand, have you heard about AI or interacted with anything knowingly?

    Those of you surfing the AI world right now, what are you looking forward to AI doing and are you fearful of where it's leading?

    I'll start by saying, as I've said before, I'm looking forward to living in a world where the start of "I,Robot" is a reality. Robotics and generative AI are going to be amazing, as shown in its infancy by Boston Dynamics. If we stick to the way things are going, we could end up very Star Trek with our very own "Data" androids.

    My fear is that the human race isn't ready, and we're too stupid as a whole, so we end up more with T1s being actually made by the military and at some point, AI will become cognitive and conscious.

    So come on, folks of Tildes, where do you stand?

    34 votes

  15. Comment on Millions of UK households forced to unplug fridge or freezer amid rising bills in ~food

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    Calm down there. We get that governments are evil for the most part, but look at the long list the Conservative Government has achieved because of the austerity they had to put in place because...

    Calm down there. We get that governments are evil for the most part, but look at the long list the Conservative Government has achieved because of the austerity they had to put in place because Labour emptied the treasury.

    Here, I'll list them....

    See! It's a great list!

    We haven't had a government who cared and actually did for the people for as long as I've walked the earth, and I'm hitting on near 5 decades. They are all as bad as one and other, handing friends and family contracts and deals that keep them all rich. Name a politician that is genuine and for each one you can, you can probably name 15 that aren't. My faith in politics fell flat a long time ago.

    If you can give me pointers and why I should vote for a particular party in the next election, I'm all ears.

    9 votes

  16. Comment on Wordpress hosting in ~tech

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    WooCommerce is quite heavy on system resources, requiring more ram and CPU. Your average cPanel shared hosting restricts and load balances across lots of instances so you end up with a sluggish...

    WooCommerce is quite heavy on system resources, requiring more ram and CPU. Your average cPanel shared hosting restricts and load balances across lots of instances so you end up with a sluggish and barely useable experience.

    As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. One joy of Wordpress is that it's easy to pick up and move between hosts so you can start off cheap and cheerful and then move if required.

  17. Comment on Wordpress hosting in ~tech

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    If it's just a website and blog, most will do. As soon as you add something like WooCommerce your hosting will suddenly matter. For absolute basic Wordpress hosting, HostCheap cPanel works and is...

    If it's just a website and blog, most will do. As soon as you add something like WooCommerce your hosting will suddenly matter.

    For absolute basic Wordpress hosting, HostCheap cPanel works and is cheap as chips. It also has a bunch of features and the mail works fine.

    Anything more than that and I like 20i, which I buy from a reseller called https://wefix-pc.com/. Just email and say you're after hosting and you'll get the same service cheap as chips, but branded with WeFix-PC instead.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on I found a hobby in ~hobbies

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    Without an older photo there's nothing that could reconstruct that.

    Without an older photo there's nothing that could reconstruct that.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news

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    I followed this one. Now the question I have for the sheep is "Was the grass greener on the other side?". Unfortunately the answer is simply "Baaaaaa."

    I followed this one.

    Now the question I have for the sheep is "Was the grass greener on the other side?". Unfortunately the answer is simply "Baaaaaa."

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook in ~tech

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    This is quite amusing to me as an IT professional. You're using the new Outlook client which is cloud-side stored data to sync everywhere, and the way you access your email on an IMAP service is...

    This is quite amusing to me as an IT professional.

    You're using the new Outlook client which is cloud-side stored data to sync everywhere, and the way you access your email on an IMAP service is to send user/pass information. In the new Outlook client it needs those logins so it can work.

    It looks like it's poorly stored locally in a file for Outlook, in a file that you can easily check to get the creds. However, this is in your account, nowhere else. It's transferred over an encrypted channel though so it's not clear through the internet. MS then pull your email from your IMAP provider through their filters and evaluate your email before you see it. They're trying to give you a freebie feel for what it's like to have their Exchange Online service. Of course, at the same time they'll grab some stats but they're not stealing your credentials as this article is making out.

    The big vendors are moving their servers to no longer have plain old user/pass creds as they are easily hacked. Everything is MFA with oAuth2 and revokable token/access keys. This is the future for any secure platform. Don't blame MS for using your insecure user/pass IMAP service to give you a better experience when the issue is that your provider should be doing things better in the first place.

    I'm not a fan of what a lot of the bigger companies do with our data. However, some of the engineers are phenomenal and the services the companies offer are amazing compared to what was offered 5-10 years ago.

    25 votes