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1. BSD/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 01:42:03 JST BSD/r000t

   :EkkoNone: Emailing the vendor again asking for a 1 day extension on the eval license because it expired over the holidays and *now* these guys want a demo

   :EkkoThis: Roll the system clock back to when the license was valid, continue demonstration :ekkor:

   • BSD/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:40:15 JST BSD/r000t

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     @Suiseiseki
     Show me the FOSS ForensIT Profwiz. Must support Azure AD and fully automated deployments.

   • 翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:40:16 JST 翠星石

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     @r000t >Emailing the vendor again asking for a 1 day extension on the eval license because it expired over the holidays and *now* these guys want a demo
     vs
     >Don't run proprietary malware to implement things, instead use free software, thus things don't constantly stop working due to "expired license".
   • BSD/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:53:01 JST BSD/r000t

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     @Suiseiseki
     Ultimately, the people paying the bills decide what gets rolled out to an army of mall cops, the primary qualification, according to multiple members of the C suite, is a body temperature somewhere roughly in the high 90s.

     Windows seems like a good choice here. Even if it wasn't, people paying the bills and what not. They aren't paying me to be a *nix weenie, they're paying me to get it working to spec.

   • 翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:53:02 JST 翠星石

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     @r000t GNU/JIHAD AGAINST "FOSS" AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF PROPRIETARY DEGENERACY.
     
     There is free software available for GNU/Linux that supports automated installs and management on GNU/Linux and windows, although the name escapes me now.
     
     I'm sure you could get it to support "Azure AD" if you hated humanity that much.
   • BSD/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:57:13 JST BSD/r000t

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     @Suiseiseki
     ZUG HIRE GRUG FOR JOB
     ZUG HAVE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
     GRUG TOLD MAKE ONE SPECIFIC CHANGE TO WHOLE FLEET
     GRUG INSTEAD TAKE TEN TIME AS LONG DEPLOY NEW THING THAT MAKE GRUG FEEL BETTER THAN EVERYONE
     THING GRUG TOLD TO ULTIMATELY NOT DONE
     ZUG MAD
     ZUG NO PAY

     † top dog :pedomustdie: likes this.
   • 翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:57:14 JST 翠星石

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     @r000t That's a lot of words that says absolutely nothing.
   • BSD/r000t (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 15:14:17 JST BSD/r000t

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     @7666
     Nailed it.

     They've been pushing back on that even. I'm like 3 subcontractors deep, and I was supposedly brought in to automate the process, but then one person started whining about not seeing immediate progress same day and they sat my ass down at a phone and gave me a list of 300 people, 90% of which don't answer the phone.

     So our plan was to develop the solution behind their back and say "Look, unless we can get calls down to around 45 seconds each, including the time spent getting the user on the phone, convincing them we aren't scammers, getting them to open a web browser, telling them to type in a certain site, dealing with them getting typosquatted and hit with malware, remoting into their machine which may have 4GB of RAM and a spinning disk drive installed, and etc..... Then you will be spending 10x the money on an automation engineer to do basic bitch intern shit. Your choice."
     @Suiseiseki

   • 7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 15:14:20 JST 7666

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     @r000t @Suiseiseki unironically powershell that you dump on github and license as FOSS. SID history and all that jazz can be handled via injecting LDAP attributes. azure/entra support via existing O365 APIs (graph or whatever). domain join can be done via PS easily. deploy via GPO or the RMM of your choice.
     
     the problem is that their software is so darn cheap that nobody will go through that effort. many companies can buy a pack of 5 of profwiz for under $1k. and $1k of billable hours these days is like 6 hours. no way to do all the above and test it in 6 hours.