Lol so you do not have a security clearance.
If you'd paid attention, you'd notice that I never said I had a security clearance. Hell, I even outright said "My agency doesn't use clearance level to determine security requirements".
The fact that you put so much effort into proving me wrong that you lost sight of what I was actually saying says more about you than it says about me.
From the article;
I think that this debacle could've been avoided if Plex had just taken a more careful approach with its app overhaul.
So, they separated out their photo app from the rest of it, and people got mad because they did a bad job of it. I don't see the problem. There's a lot of reasons to be mad at Plex, but them taking their photos service and putting it into a different app isn't plex trying to make things shittier for money. It's just the regular development required to keep things running well. Except for how badly they did it, apparently.
I don't use Plex. Never did. But I just don't see separating photos from the main app as anything worse than a side-grade. The article mentions how they didn't have a photo app for the TV users, which okay, that's worth complaining about, but if they had done that part right it would actually be less effort if all you wanted to do was display photos on your TV.
JavaScript Date objects are cursed
JavaScript date objects are 1 indexed for years and days, but 0 indexed for months.
Oh that's not nearly the only thing javascript fucks up about their Date() implementation. https://jsdate.wtf/
Health records for veterans don't require a security clearance to be managed. (Personnel records for active military only require a Secret level clearance) You'll wanna take it up with whoever manages security for the VA about the 'massive liability' involved.
https://www.va.gov/securityinvestigationscenter/frequently_asked_questions.asp#q006
Yeah. My agency doesn't use clearance level to determine security requirements. It's likely your password manager policy is agency-specific.
Not gonna get specific, but, I have access to a shitload of sensitive personal data. It's more likely you ran into an agency policy rather than a federal policy.
My federal job came with one pre-installed.
The fact that this didn't come up on his yearly checkup means he either has a shit doctor, or he doesn't regularly go to a doctor. Either way, it's a good sign for his continuing health.
As a fellow bureaucrat, I absolutely understood his frustration. Why go through the entire process of switching insurance, risking missed coverage days, and other bs, when you could just call and have a person look at the generated evaluation numbers to fix things? He wasn't mad at me; just had his professional bride bruised when he found out that I was getting the same effect as the official process by doing (in his eyes) even more work than a simple call would be.
I actually love finding these things in my job. Whenever someone does something that looks really silly on the surface, but as soon as you look into it from a user persective you find out it's just as good (or better) than the official process you originally expected. It's always trippy finding them because you have to turn your brain around to understand why they did it. And you always wanna keep it in your back pocket if you ever end up in a similar situation.
Live every day like it's your last
Dude mixed up living with dying. Rookie mistake.
I switched to windscribe last month because the proton CEO starting spewing politcal BS, and I wanted port forwarding that wasn't locked behind a shitty GUI.
As far as I was concerned setup was super easy, the VPN speeds were great, and port forwarding worked really nicely. The whole price for a fixed server and port forward, + unlimited data was a bit much (at $95/year) but for the ease of use and speeds I was getting, I was happy to stick with them.
My setup is a always-on server with a 1gbps connection, where yes, I fucking seed my shit, all of it. I have about 30TB of linux ISOs and counting, and it's rare that my combined upload speed is less than 1MBps, ever.
Which lead me to getting banned from windscribe with no notice or warning in the middle of last week. This lead to me having to spend tracker points to avoid HnR, and i'm also unable to grab any new ISOs until I find a new VPN provider that won't ban me for actually using the service full time.
I did shoot them an email (after talking' with their AI bot first), and they were actually helpful enough. The offered to restore support, so long as I promised to not torrent with them again (which, I honestly did promise not to. I'm not sticking with a VPN service that can't handle me actually using it for what it's advertised for) and they did unban the account. Whole email chain took about three days to get resolved.
My sticking point is that they still have instructions on setting up torrents on their own website, and that they specifically allow for unlimited data (with the plan i paid for) so long as it's just one user. I did not break those rules. After clarifying that in the support email, they still said that I was using too much data (despite the unlimited data advertisement) and that torrenting was not allowed on their service.
TL:DR: Windscribe bans you if you use a lot of data, and support says torrents aren't allowed, despite their website advertising such. Proof in the attached images.
If y'all have any other suggestions for a VPN that allow port forwarding i'd really appreciate it.
You can do this with Charles Proxy. https://www.donnywals.com/throttle-network-speeds-for-a-specific-host-in-charles/
I would strongly suggest this as your first choice. Bad website experiences are like alarm clocks that use your favorite song. You may love it at first, but you'll hate the website within a couple months, every time.