Eichi🐺1d ago
Gotta love security that is so annoying it leads to using complicated workarounds that are both a chore to work with and are less safe than what I would normally do.
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As an admin myself, I have some Ansible scripts that provision a system depending on the users needs. I would move a lot of that to nixOS files these days but it works nonetheless.

The project I am in right now meanwhile gives me a Windows notebook that doesn't have
- WSL
- docker
- any way to run VMs
- a git client
- vscode
- notepad++
Yet they expect me do work on Linux stuff.
So naturally the work just gets done on a random linux notebook and I copy stuff to the "secure" work notebook.

Mar 24 at 4:56pmWeb
Show threadEichi🐺1d ago
Another guy on the team was fed up with the stupid proxy server and setup a private machine that logs in to that proxy and than acts as a proxy without any authentication for every other device on the network, lmao.
Show threadEichi🐺1d ago
I have no idea how the IT Department there has not done anything to stop that from being possible
Show threadKevin Karhan 5h ago
@Eichi maybe because they want that?
Show threadJonly1d ago
@Eichi sounds like some hr person is the middle man and ordered the standard homeoffice package from it
Show threadLegion4951d ago
@Eichi That has to be very frustrating and annoying.

At my place you would actually be allowed to go Linux if you dared. And we consider it inside the IT.
Show threadKevin Karhan 5h ago

@Eichi Ibrefuse to work for such companies as a matter of principle.

  • If they don't #trust me as a #sysadmin to setup my own system, then I see no basis of trust why I should expect them to pay me on time, cuz the latter one has a higher trust level than the former in my experience.
    • IDGAF what false pretense they put forward. #Windows is unuseable garbage and noone is even remotely able to compensate me for the mental health damages it causes to me.

Noone expects a Cardiologist to do a C-section whilst wearing boxing gloves and only having plastic knives but demanding the equivalent in IT is deemed okay, or.what?