Company wide email last week: there is an emergency patch for some software you’ve never heard of. Please update manually NOW; if it’s not patched by Tuesday, your machine will forcibly reboot.
Me: o software management portal of my work machine, is this software even installed, that I might update it?
portal: it’s not installed, no.
[Tuesday comes]
Your machine is going down NOW in the middle of the workday because you FAILED TO INSTALL THE PATCH, SINNER.
@0xabad1dea I used to do macOS kernel driver development
One beta release, I could not seem to get the download to complete so I could make a VM for development
A week later I discovered IT had scripted something to instantly and silently delete the installer app if detected on disk and didn't see any flaws in their reasoning
@0xabad1dea Granted this is the same IT team who instructed me to use a reverse SSH tunnel for macOS VNC to my physical lab Mac Mini
When I mentioned I was having trouble connecting, I was informed that was expected because SSH was blocked. This was in the same ticket. 🙊
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