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Jam

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

What is a VPN and why do I need one?

stands for “virtual private network”. gives the user a false sense of privacy, at least as far as anyone you would really want to hide your activity from.

These days, VPNs are necessary for anyone who works at home to get into their host network. I’m sure Hog uses VPN connections daily.

I have governmental access that is token-protected as well as password protected and security comes down to how tightly protected is the host gateway.

Once you are logged in through the gateway, then it comes down to internal firewalls downstream and routing.

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

These days, VPNs are necessary for anyone who works at home to get into their host network. I’m sure Hog uses VPN connections daily.

I did up until last year but they’ve replaced the way I access internal systems with something caled ZScaler PRA which is just a regular https address that runs the remote system desktop in the web page (it’s kind of shit but then so is everything else about IT where I work).

I’m kind of glad really since that’s one less thing I have to explain if the government ever coming knocking on my door and questioning what I’m doing. And there was always the risk that they’d one day decide to arbitrarily block VPNs in this country and then I’d have to fly to another country at no notice just so I could continue working.

On VPNs for most people:

Sure, use them if you want to get around region blocks on content (not an issue for most Americans)
Otherwise, you’re just exchanging your ISP for your VPN provider in terms of securing your privacy and there are a fuckton of shady VPN providers.

rote7

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I think it’s .5 TB unless metric TBs are smaller or something?

Machine has 5 terabytes of RAM which the dude almost maxed out by consuming 10% of it (or nearly all of the free memory) for his report.

Sounds like a poorly coded application on the machine if it uses 4.5TB of memory just to run it and leaves the poor user only 500GB for doing actual work with the tool. I would get rid of my offshore contracted programmers if I were them.

The machine is used by 10K people for hundreds of different processes but, yeah, something’s fucked if one guy came in over the top and consumed 500gb just by running a single report.

I don’t know what the issue is but I’ve been forming the opinion that them running the BI tool on the same hardware as the ERP is a mistake. But I don’t know; it’s all above my paygrade and I don’t have enough info to even make informed speculation. I only even hear about it when it’s close to hitting the fan like today.

Modern Linux systems offer plenty of mechanisms for resource limiting Lusers. What OS isrunning on that impressive machine?

@rote7 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I think it’s .5 TB unless metric TBs are smaller or something?

Machine has 5 terabytes of RAM which the dude almost maxed out by consuming 10% of it (or nearly all of the free memory) for his report.

Sounds like a poorly coded application on the machine if it uses 4.5TB of memory just to run it and leaves the poor user only 500GB for doing actual work with the tool. I would get rid of my offshore contracted programmers if I were them.

The machine is used by 10K people for hundreds of different processes but, yeah, something’s fucked if one guy came in over the top and consumed 500gb just by running a single report.

I don’t know what the issue is but I’ve been forming the opinion that them running the BI tool on the same hardware as the ERP is a mistake. But I don’t know; it’s all above my paygrade and I don’t have enough info to even make informed speculation. I only even hear about it when it’s close to hitting the fan like today.

Modern Linux systems offer plenty of mechanisms for resource limiting Lusers. What OS isrunning on that impressive machine?

Dunno, I think it’s Linux but the stuff I do is so far removed from the OS I wouldn’t even know.

Justice Department officials are considering what remedies to ask a federal judge to order against the search giant, said three people with knowledge of the deliberations involving the agency and state attorneys general who helped to bring the case. They are discussing various proposals, including breaking off parts of Google, such as its Chrome browser or Android smartphone operating system, two of the people said.

How do you spin off loss leaders like an open source browser and operating system? They are just pure cost on their own and are only worth anything to Google because it can set the default search provider etc (which the judge will also nerf).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/technology/google-monopoly-antitrust-justice-department.html

Gustaf

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@rote7 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I think it’s .5 TB unless metric TBs are smaller or something?

Machine has 5 terabytes of RAM which the dude almost maxed out by consuming 10% of it (or nearly all of the free memory) for his report.

Sounds like a poorly coded application on the machine if it uses 4.5TB of memory just to run it and leaves the poor user only 500GB for doing actual work with the tool. I would get rid of my offshore contracted programmers if I were them.

The machine is used by 10K people for hundreds of different processes but, yeah, something’s fucked if one guy came in over the top and consumed 500gb just by running a single report.

I don’t know what the issue is but I’ve been forming the opinion that them running the BI tool on the same hardware as the ERP is a mistake. But I don’t know; it’s all above my paygrade and I don’t have enough info to even make informed speculation. I only even hear about it when it’s close to hitting the fan like today.

Modern Linux systems offer plenty of mechanisms for resource limiting Lusers. What OS isrunning on that impressive machine?

Dunno, I think it’s Linux but the stuff I do is so far removed from the OS I wouldn’t even know.

This is more Hog’s area.

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Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google's woes mysteriously vanishes | TechCrunch

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that

Someone needs to tell this noob how technology and the internet works:

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.

It would not be surprising if it was at the behest of the talent. “I misspoke about Google and their work hours,” said Schmidt in an emailed statement to TechCrunch. “I regret my error.”

Several news publications have already run headlines about the video, and 1.4 million people viewed a clip of Schmidt trashing Google’s remote work practices on X.

At another point in the video, Schmidt tells the audience to keep what he’s telling them private, then acts somewhat surprised when his interviewer points out cameras in the room. At another point, he tells the audience that AI startups can steal IP and hire smart lawyers to clean it up later, once they’ve created a successful product. Presumably, the former Google CEO did not know the entire interview would be posted online.

tigger

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. It’s quite simple.

Kilemall

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. It’s quite simple.

I loved how first do no evil got road killed the moment they needed to monetize.

tigger

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. It’s quite simple.

I loved how first do no evil got road killed the moment they needed to monetize.

Look, this is nitpicking but it’s not technically true. Google has a brilliant business in that the better search results it serves, the more users come, the better ads it can serve. And in Eric’s time, (2001-2011) this was indeed so, and the scale of growth was massive, so there were no pressures to make it not be so, and there were practically no efforts to do quality-vs-ads trade-offs or other bets.

tigger

I’m not saying he’s not a jerk, just that you cannot blame circa 2019- moral decline of Google on him.

Kilemall

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

tigger

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

OK, I thought for a second we were discussing real world, not imaginary stuff. Carry on.

Kilemall

@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

OK, I thought for a second we were discussing real world, not imaginary stuff. Carry on.

Uh huh.

Gustaf

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

oyaji

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

harvested data early on without consent

when you harvest something from someone else without consent, that would be like me bringing my combine harvester over to your field and taking your crop while you weren’t home.

there are words for that, aren’t there? i think it is called “stealing”. or how about “theft”?

Kilemall

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

harvested data early on without consent

when you harvest something from someone else without consent, that would be like me bringing my combine harvester over to your field and taking your crop while you weren’t home.

there are words for that, aren’t there? i think it is called “stealing”. or how about “theft”?

I’m told that’s imaginary. Billions in sales says otherwise.

Kilemall

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

Blanks

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I’m saying they started selling harvested data early on without consent and that’s evil.

Coming the Trainlord, that’s rich. Nothing is more evil than trains.

Trains don’t take things without permission. Well eminent domain but that’s a process.

Instead you pay to get stuff moved. If you ask for it. Nicely. And have your money ready.

I’m pretty sure all those innocent people didn’t ask the trains to take their lives