IHawkMike

@IHawkMike@lemmy.world

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Networking Gear Recommendations? (starting from scratch)

Hi, I hope its appropriate to ask this here, considering this is the most active community closest to this topic (Networking). I am moving places shortly and will need to start from scratch will all networking equipment. Including router and wifi-extenders. Am wondering what the general consencus is around networking gear, what...

IHawkMike,

I would never use their firewalls/gateways, but their switches are pretty good for the price and their APs are decent (although tbh after 3 generations my next AP will likely be an enterprise Aruba).

That said, I still use Unifi in docker, everything is up to date, and nothing is requiring a sign-in to the cloud. Am I missing something? If it’s just the firewalls, then I’m not surprised since I’ve never been remotely tempted to use them, but it sure isn’t all of their devices.

IHawkMike,

My firewall is a Fortigate 60F.

IHawkMike,

I believe you. I’m just saying their non-firewalls (i.e., switches and APs) don’t have that limitation.

Is cloudflare breaking the internet or fixing it?

I am a plebe who doesn’t understand these things but what exactly does cloudflare do? I see it popping up more and more often redirecting before visiting a site. I assume that this has something to do with bot traffic? It seems like every mention of cloudflare is about how it ruined someone’s day.

IHawkMike,

The definition I learned for web 2.0, as it was happening, was a shift from static web pages generated all at once on the server and delivered to the client whole, to using Ajax with in-browser Javascript dynamically changing already-delivered pages with back-end XML calls.

Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose “any authenticator” and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it’s...

IHawkMike,

This is incredibly well said and I agree 100%. I’ll just add that software TOTP is weaker than the MS Authenticator with number matching because the TOTP seed can still be intercepted and/or stolen by an attacker.

Ever notice that TOTP can be backed up and restored to a new device? If it can be transferred, then the device no longer counts for the “something you have” second factor in my threat model.

While I prefer pure phishing-resistant MFA methods (FIDO2, WHFB, or CBA), the support isn’t quite there yet for mobile devices (especially mobile browsers) so the MS Authenticator is the best alternative we have.

IHawkMike, (edited )

We can restrict the use of software TOTP, which is what companies are doing when they move users onto the MS Authenticator app.

Admins can’t control the other TOTP apps like Google Authenticator or Authy unless they go full MDM. And I don’t think someone worried about installing the MS Authenticator app is going to be happy about enrolling their phone in Intune.

Edit: And even then, there is no way to control or force users to use a managed device for software TOTP.

IHawkMike,

Look man, it’s okay to be wrong. It’s a natural part of growth.

But when you double down on your ignorance instead of taking the opportunity to open your mind and listen to the experts in the room, you just end up embarrassing yourself.

Try to be better.

IHawkMike,

We’re not as stupid as they think we are.

Aren’t we though?

IHawkMike,

Curious where that is. Here in Chicago it’s called the Boneless Meal Deal and it’s $16.99.

IHawkMike,

It’s on the higher end of battery usage but it plays remarkably well. I play locked to 45 FPS / 90 Hz and I think I’m using the default Proton.

IHawkMike,

Oh yeah, I had forgotten that too. UAC with separate elevated tokens and Session 0 isolation didn’t even exist until Vista/2008.

IHawkMike,

Same here. Parent poster needs to learn that other people have different needs and experiences than themselves.

IHawkMike,

What is hard? Learning? Besides, you’re only proving our point. Samsung (and the market) have determined that the “one size” that people want is the one without an S-pen.

But go ahead and downvote based on your feelings rather than facts. None of you own a foldable anyway so it’s not like your opinions actually matter here.

IHawkMike,

Lol okay. Where was I defending Samsung? This all started with OP stating “the point of a samsung flagship is access to the S-pen” and “this defeats the purpose of a foldable” as if it was universal truth. It is not.

But that how most people on Lemmy are, at least in the tech communities. They have no concept of nuance and are completely unable to see other points of view. They were wrong. You aren’t even making coherent points. I am happily moving on.

IHawkMike,

And what’s wrong with asking that? Plenty of email platforms let you change your primary SMTP address and/or add/remove aliases.

It’s a legitimate question. And it could be that the lack of ability to change it has a perfectly logical answer. It still wouldn’t invalidate the question.

IHawkMike,

Do you even know what an electrolyte is?!

what if the hacker provided the public key for https connection? (www.youtube.com)

So this video explains how https works. What I don’t get is what if a hacker in the middle pretended to be the server and provided me with the box and the public key. wouldn’t he be able to decrypt the message with his private key? I’m not a tech expert, but just curious and trying to learn.

IHawkMike,
IHawkMike,

In Chromium browsers you can simply type “thisisunsafe” to bypass even HSTS failures.

IHawkMike,

And conversely, when we lose weight the vast majority is exhaled as CO2, not excreted as liquid or solid waste.

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