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I'm surprised he's appointing high paying jobs to new positions during hiring freeze and revoking remote work to cull employees and reduce head count...

Welcome to The Purge: Circle Centre Edition in c/indiana@midwest.social

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Bold statements.

It took reading pretty far before calling for action from city leaders finally turned to calling for parents.

I think most rational people believe that law enforcement alone can't properly protect kids from themselves and there likely isn't enough manpower in the system to start locking up all the teens. Maybe that would taper off as the rules got enforced more.

I want to believe this should be a combination of parents and city, but mostly parents. I don't think I'd let my son run around even until 10 or 11 at night.

So what's happening here that isn't an easy solve? If it was as easy as telling parents to get your kids inside, we wouldn't have the article.

There was plenty of politics mentioned, but is that what's at play or far more complex social issues?

Indiana SOS signs federal agreement to identify noncitizens on voter rolls • Indiana Capital Chronicle in c/indiana@midwest.social

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess I don't understand how you can vote in our state's elections and not be a citizen.

I consistently find myself frustrated by the government's inability to maintain our identification systems in an effective, accurate, and efficient way.

Some ID is free, some costs money which I disagree with, some has to be done in person which is annoying for less mobile people.

Maybe if we could get those things addressed, it could also accurately track naturalization and allow new citizens to vote without allowing non citizens. Doesn't seem impossible in 2025, and yet ...

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Indiana SOS signs federal agreement to identify noncitizens on voter rolls • Indiana Capital Chronicle (indianacapitalchronicle.com)

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Indianapolis lost federal funds for replanting trees in the city because of the word “diversity” in biodiversity in c/indiana@midwest.social

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your desire for fresh air is "woke" and "extremist". We Christians have determined you're somehow headed straight to hell...

/S

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No more hybrid schedules for state workers as remote work slashed (www.therepublic.com)

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Article covers Braun's intentions to reduce state employees by revoking remote work - my opinion.

Anyone have really good support for removing remote or hybrid work?

All I hear is rhetoric about productivity in person and collaboration, but too many studies say that's unnecessary.

Is this a veiled attempt to reduce headcount or is there actual legitimacy to removing remote work?

EV tax credits might end even sooner than House bill proposed in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Sucks if you wanted a different EV, like Rivian, Leaf, that toy battery truck coming soon...

Indiana taxpayers pay nearly $500K for Attorney General Todd Rokita’s disciplinary defense • Indiana Capital Chronicle in c/indiana@midwest.social

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

It's like living in the upside down from the Netflix show

Cigarette, gas tax hikes coming to Indiana July 1 in c/indiana@midwest.social

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Anyone going to bat for the smokers here?

I'm not at all upset by taxing tobacco, but I'm sure plenty of people have good arguments backed by studies regarding alcohol and sugar.

If they start trying to add sugar taxes to candy bars and cup cakes, I imagine people would riot.

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Gov. Mike Braun says tolling needs to be an option for Indiana's road funding future (www.wfyi.org)

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Could anyone explain this in a way that doesn't make me hate it?

The usual arguments I relate to are things like: we are taxed multiple times for vehicle ownership. Purchase, plates, mandatory insurance, gas tax, parking. Did I miss any?

Now I know there's plenty of people who would rather have robust public transportation, which would be nice, but I don't see that happening as a result of all this money I'm already paying.

People who make just enough or barely enough to afford to drive to work could now have to pay for the right to trade their precious time for money.

Insert tirade here about that.

I've heard view points regarding tolls:

recover costs to maintain interstate infrastructure used by commercial trucking to move the rolling warehouse of America around so Jeff Bitchboy can have a Venice wedding and I can have my materialistic lifestyle delivered to my door possibly the same day...sorry slipped into rant.

Should I be looking at this a different way before I exercise the almost non-existent power I have as a resident and voter, which is sending emails to my elected corrupt aristocrats and beg them to consider regular people, darn did it again.

Indiana taxpayers pay nearly $500K for Attorney General Todd Rokita’s disciplinary defense • Indiana Capital Chronicle in c/indiana@midwest.social

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This was a long article, but I appreciated the details and perspective.

Now, personally, if we're going to argue weather lawsuits are political or Justice related, and if it's a waste of money, then since he was found at fault in two of the six reported cases he can pay back a third of what we spent, right?

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Indiana taxpayers pay nearly $500K for Attorney General Todd Rokita’s disciplinary defense • Indiana Capital Chronicle (indianacapitalchronicle.com)

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Hoosier can't sue BMV for damages related to agency error • Indiana Capital Chronicle in c/indiana@midwest.social

[–] redfox@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

I don't know enough about this legal principal to attribute it to political parties or not.

I don't like it thought 😕

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Hoosier can't sue BMV for damages related to agency error • Indiana Capital Chronicle (indianacapitalchronicle.com)

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My reading of the article shows a decision that the right of residents to sue the government for neglect actions was not specifically granted in this instance.

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Sophos XG Firewall Home Use (www.sophos.com)

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Have you checked out Sophos XG Firewall for home use lately?

It's basically an enterprise firewall fully licensed for personal use.

All the firewall stuff
Normal IPS
Built-In easy transparent SSL/TLS proxy
Web Application Firewall

I like it better than PF/Open Sense right now.

https://youtu.be/Ui8UC8-MeJU

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Permanently Deleted (indianacapitalchronicle.com)

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Not sure why the original post was deleted, but I voiced anger at the hypocrisy of the article subject

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State settles with anti-abortion group; will release terminated pregnancy reports • Indiana Capital Chronicle (indianacapitalchronicle.com)

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I consider myself slightly in a conservative, Christian viewpoint camp. I say slightly because as I get past middle age, all those views or opinions have shifted.

I'm not a huge fan of abortion, but my opinion is slightly more nuanced and that's not a topic I think will be fruitfully discussed online.

Button line, seeing things like this however make me slightly lose my fucking mind.

Insert huge rant here about hypocrisy and unreasonable people, laced with outrage and much profanity.

I know others in my circle who also feel similarly. My hope is that people might know even church going conservative people think this is fucking bullshit and that piece of shit attorney general need to go. Fuck him.

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Keep Tier-One Applications Out of Virtual Environments (www.darkreading.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by redfox@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world

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After reading this article, I had a few dissenting thoughts, maybe someone will provide their perspective?

The article suggests not running critical workloads virtually based on a failure scenario of the hosting environment (such as ransomware on hypervisor).

That does allow using the 'all your eggs in one basket' phrase, so I agree that running at least one instance of a service physically could be justified, but threat actors will be trying to time execution of attacks against both if possible. Adding complexity works both ways here.

I don't really agree with the comments about not patching however. The premise that the physical workload or instance would be patched or updated more than the virtual one seems unrelated. A hesitance to patch systems is more about up time vs downtime vs breaking vs risk in my opinion.

Is your organization running critical workloads virtual like anything else, combination physical and virtual, or combination of all previous plus cloud solutions (off prem)?

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Question: What do you use for configuration management? (infosec.pub)

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I've seen companies do all sorts of home grown things.

One uses a spreadsheet that is just the configuration row by row, they turn it I to text file and copy to startup, reload.

I have used git servers to do the same thing, but with obvious change tracking history of git.

What real or home grown things are you using?