• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My company blocked the Microsoft store. But I convinced the IT guy to make me an admin on my machine so I can install anything I want. I still can’t unblock the Microsoft store and no one I can talk to in IT knows how to unblock it. So I have to spend time finding websites that have the software I need (like nugget package explorer or other Microsoft apps that IT doesn’t officially support) and hope that the download doesn’t kill me.

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      1 year ago

      People use the Microsoft store? I moved to chocolatey and if it’s not there install things like it’s windows 98.

  • 0xtero@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Once, many moons ago, a group of devs at my old work got deny on internal zone-to-zone Firewall open request that they needed for integration between two internal systems, so they ended up making a script that e-mailed the info to a hotmail.com (SMTP was open) account and then wrote a script to login and screenscrape the mail info from hotmail back to the other server (https was open through surf proxy).

  • xavier666@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I no longer waste time.

    Because i have already broken all the company security policies.

    Protip: convince the IT team that Linux is essential for your development work. Small percentage of the IT team is aware about security on Linux.

    • Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s been ages since I did IT. If I had a user who wanted to run Linux then I knew that, on average, they were going to cause me a lot less headaches with random user issues so I wouldn’t mind being flexible. Endpoint security will be different, but a lot of network security is handled through network devices that don’t care what the client is.