Last I checked, Pearson doesn’t allow Linux for remote tests, nor will they let you use a VM.

I know there were ways to skirt their VM detection, but is that worth the risk for 10s of thousands of dollars in your education?

7 bytes! Look at Mr. Moneybags here!

True.

Surprised I had to come this far to find tumbleweed. Its hard to kill and easy to fix. Love it.

I think you just described every COBOL programmers retirement.

Netbox is a documentation tool. You can plug in Napalm to do some stuff but it mostly exists to catalog the intended state of the network.

It’s a wonderfully powerful tool, and Stretch has done a great job with it…but it’s not an analysis tool, it’s documentation.

Stretch is a pretty cool guy too. He strikes me as the kind of person that really wants to help colleagues “see the light” of the role Python and FOSS can play in network automation and maintenance. I respect that, a lot…finding enjoyment in the way you do things, and wanting to share that with other people.

Sup dawg. I heard you like microprocessors.

https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

Official Adobe software…idk. Probably doesn’t run too well in wine, but I never tried. Most people either say “work is more important” or they try a different tool…and either like it, or don’t.

Adobe is evil though. Never trust a near-monopoly to do the right thing.

Ditto.

Because people are dumb. Chalk is in milk, now, right on the label…even marketed as a feature. I’ve got two bottles of alt-milk in my fridge now, store-brand Almondmilk and Planet Oat. Both list chalk as the second ingredient.

But if you tell that to any random schmuck they either won’t believe you or they’ll be disgusted. And then probably keep drinking it anyway.

And that’s with the information right there on the label.

I’m not trying to downplay the example, but there were far worse atrocities fixed by regulations.

Exactly. There are better examples. Chalk is a bad one because it is, technically, edible, and still being used as an additive to this day.

Yeah. I get that…but the way it was phrased by OOP it was as of “chalk” was used by an example as if that makes it somehow worse. We still put “chalk” in milk, though.

Better example is like those people who say “eww” to hotdogs because there’s a regulation limiting how many bug parts are allowed in them…not even considering the alternative of “no limit on how many bug parts”.

Or my wife, who refuses to eat a cherry tomato if it fell on the ground.

Surely you could’ve come up with a better example.

Chalk is just calcium carbonate. Modern medicine uses calcium carbonate to as a calcium supplement.

We are still adding things to milk. Any milk that’s “calcium fortified” or “extra calcium”, and a lot of nut-milks, have calcium carbonate as an ingredient to this day.

I mean, I get your point…honestly, I do…but it’s coming across nearly as the same sort of anti-science drivel you’d expect from the counterargument.

It wouldn’t surprise me. We are a product of our environment, and Trump is a very clear example of that. He tends to mimic and amplify whoever he thinks is the strongest/most powerful around him. He’s a LeFou in constant search of a Gaston.

It wasn’t too early, maybe 1997.

I was like 12 or so and I had just installed Linux.

I figured out, from the book I was working with, how to get my windows partition to automaticallyount at boot. Awesome!

I had not been able to figure out how to start “x” though.

So I rebooted into Windows, for on EFnet #linux, and asked around.

Got a command, wrote it down on a slip of paper, and rebooted into Linux.

I should mention, I also hadn’t figured out about privileges, or at least why you wouldn’t want to run around as root.

Anyway, I started typing in the command that I wrote down: rm -rf /.

I don’t have to tell you all, that is not the correct command. The correct command was startx.

After I figured it was taking way too long, I decided to look up what the command does, and then immediately shut down the system.

It was far too late.

The executive branch of the US government.

There must at least be MFA somewhere on the path then.

Even just keys, I wouldn’t trust, unless they are stored on smartcards or some other physical “something I have”, require a PIN/passphrase. and centrally managed so they can be revoked and rotated. Too many people use unprotected SSH keys.

I…I don’t understand the question.

Also, yubikey or any other token. Plenty of MFA options compatible with sudo.

Nah just set up PAM to use TOTP or a third party MFA service to send a push to your phone for sudo privs.

Ooh I’ve been thinking about getting a VPS to set up wireguard from my house so I can get remote access (my ISP uses CGNAT and blocks inbound). I only do about 1TB a month, so these 3-4TB plans should more than cover my needs.