Mine are 95 percent county funded in a blue zone. State is already trying to lay down the law only to discover they don’t give much in the way of funds. No bucks no leverage. Only law they passed got overturned.

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I was gonna charge the guy 500 dollars to rename thirty thousand images to match the directory names. Since the guy had switched cameras several times it would have involved more than one simple script but I wasn’t being paid for the script. I was being paid to do the job. Except my bash prompt scared the guy. The truth of it is he used me to leverage the company that specialized in data recovery into lowering their price down to a still absurd but much smaller amount.
Its not the first time I’ve seen it but when they do something like that to me they burn a bridge.

A related scam is charging absurd amount to convert and catalog microfiche to images or PDF’s. Granted a machine to do this quickly and efficiently is in the 10 to 20 grand range. The process is boring and repetitious and in no way worth the amount some companies want to charge.

I knew that one was bullshit or probably just simple ignorance. I use ssh and scripting to control my macs. Its easier than using ios depressing GUI tools.

Nothing morally wrong with working around a artificial limitation.

Wireguard so you are always seen as being on the local network. This bit of assholery is easily defeated.

Boxcar Willie. I read a pulp book series about travel between universes where they took the popular stuff on one world and hocked it on another. That was the reason that boxcar wilie albums existed.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/42908-g-o-d-inc

That moose looks whooped.

If you grew up in the 80’s and 90’s and saw all those time life ads for oldies then you have heard of fats domino.

Try as hard as you can to keep calm about it. Sometimes it annoys the hell out of me. Not that I was interrupted but it unnecessary. That always annoys at least a bit.

There was a star trek novel dealing with it. I read it but don’t remember any details. My favorite along those lines was the ringworld books.

If I had been running a school in 2018 you wouldn’t have been able to get to the control panel anon.

Another thing you can do under certain circumstances which I’m sure someone on here will point out is depreciated is use TCP Wrappers. If you are only connecting to ssh from known IP addresses or IP address ranges then you can effectively block the rest of the world from accessing you. I used a combination of ipset list, fail2ban and tcp wrappers along with my firewall which like is also something old called iptables-persistent. I’ve also moved my ssh port up high and created several other fake ports that keep anyone port scanning my IP guessing.

These days I have all ports closed except for my wireguard port and access all of my hosted services through it.

Looks like you got the point despite the poor comparison.

There are more than two sides.

Oh lawd, she comin’!

Too bad I’ve blocked reddit at the router as well. Not really.

I’ll keep it in mind but will probably just keep doing what I do. I only reload every three or four years.

Haters are weird in the maga way.

Its probably fixed now but for years vlc suffered from several bugs on ubuntu the worst being it launching multiple windows despite having that disabled in settings. I started using the PPA and now I just skip ubuntu maintained versions.