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tactlessbastard posted:Eww, do your own dirty work the last time i got a request like this the parents wanted me to confiscate the laptop from the kid while he was in class by making up some story about how i needed to do something to it. when i asked them why they didn't just ask him for it at home they told me that they feared he would react negatively. no poo poo, he's a teenager. i'm not going to lie to your kid for you because you're afraid of having a difficult conversation
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# ? May 12, 2021 17:37 |
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Do you owe it to the parents to hand over the browsing history of their kids? I'd try to avoid doing it. A blanket statement like "we operate a robust content filter and haven't received any alerts for this user" would be fine, but I can't see any reason to hand over a list of sites that a teenager has been viewing to their parents.
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# ? May 12, 2021 17:40 |
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Thanks Ants posted:Do you owe it to the parents to hand over the browsing history of their kids? I'd try to avoid doing it. A blanket statement like "we operate a robust content filter and haven't received any alerts for this user" would be fine, but I can't see any reason to hand over a list of sites that a teenager has been viewing to their parents. Because a content filter won't catch inappropriate things like leftist thought or lgbtq friends they chat with
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# ? May 12, 2021 17:53 |
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Thanks Ants posted:Do you owe it to the parents to hand over the browsing history of their kids? I'd try to avoid doing it. A blanket statement like "we operate a robust content filter and haven't received any alerts for this user" would be fine, but I can't see any reason to hand over a list of sites that a teenager has been viewing to their parents. the laptops are owned by the families and the history is stored locally so i can't actually prevent them from looking at it if they want to. some kids just use incognito mode all the time for this reason which is fine with me. i wish they all did that but this one didn't. i refuse to make the determination of what is "inappropriate" outside of what's blocked by the filter but i don't really have a good reason to refuse access to the parent. hopefully she looks at the size of the list and gives up instantly
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# ? May 12, 2021 17:54 |
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I would stick to the spaces you manage. Taking the local browser history from a machine seems to be out of scope. I am a tad confused on how these systems are managed though, because how they are managed might put you in a weird spot both legally and ethically.
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# ? May 12, 2021 18:08 |
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Sickening posted:I am a tad confused on how these systems are managed though basically not at all, they're not on our domain and the kids/families have local admin rights. here's the rundown: we order computers on behalf of the families, charge them the cost per unit and the computer is considered their property. we place the order in like, july. ordering them earlier in the year is apparently a complete impossibility because our budget rolls over during the summer and carving a chunk out for pc purchases in the spring is the most insane idea anyone has ever heard. they usually arrive about two weeks before school starts. i spread out 10-12 at a time in the school library and get to work with my flash drives. each one takes about ten minutes so if i'm running them simultaneously i can get a lot done in a fairly short amount of time. then once they're all imaged i go through them one by one and set them up for the kid they're going to--logging into microsoft services, making sure their licenses are working and doing all the post-login config that i could automate if our endpoint manager setup wasn't totally hosed. (i have never been clear on why this is but it makes any kind of gpo/remote deployment stuff a complete non-starter. i'm sure i've already complained about this itt.) then on the first day of school the incoming sixth graders get their new laptop and it's ready to use as soon as they open the lid. my goal is to approximate as closely as possible the ease of setup of a chromebook, since we are the only school in town that doesn't use them. i'm pretty much hands-off from that point on unless the kid comes to my office with a specific problem. we use meraki for filtering but in my opinion their filter lists could really use some work. not sure why nintendolife.com is blocked under "games" but nintendo.com is fully accessible. anyway. i know it's a bad process but i have such limited tools available to me that this is my only method of managing the fleet in a way that isn't a pain in the rear end for everyone else everything i do at work puts me in a weird spot ethically because it's a catholic institution, but then i get that vatican gold direct deposited into my checking account
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# ? May 12, 2021 18:45 |
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You couldn’t pay me enough money to work in educational IT at any level. I’ve had enough experience in that arena, and no thank you.
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# ? May 12, 2021 18:50 |
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I can't imagine any reason at all that a parent should be in a position to ask a school IT person to look at their child's browser history. If that's a necessary function of the school, then a tool should be in place so that the school administrators can handle that problem and not involve IT in any way other than questions on how to use the tool or assistance if it breaks.
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Internet Explorer posted:I can't imagine any reason at all that a parent should be in a position to ask a school IT person to look at their child's browser history. If that's a necessary function of the school, then a tool should be in place so that the school administrators can handle that problem and not involve IT in any way other than questions on how to use the tool or assistance if it breaks. its a private catholic school, thats par for the course from everything I hear
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devmd01 posted:You couldn’t pay me enough money to work in educational IT at any level. I’ve had enough experience in that arena, and no thank you. if you're lucky you get a union and all the respect and admiration that education professionals receive from society and parentHAHAHAHAHAJAHAJAJAJAHAHAHAHA
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# ? May 12, 2021 22:38 |
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if you're really lucky you get to integrate 25 new pieces of EdUcAtIoNaL sOfTwArE with your SIS every semester because each department just decides it wants to use NEW SHINY THING and IT is gonna support it and there are no checks and balances to confirm IT has the resources to support NEW SHINY THING before the contract is signed and once the contract is signed you can't say no because "we spent all this moneyyyyyyyyy"
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# ? May 12, 2021 22:45 |
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:if you're really lucky you get to integrate 25 new pieces of EdUcAtIoNaL sOfTwArE with your SIS every semester because each department just decides it wants to use NEW SHINY THING and IT is gonna support it and there are no checks and balances to confirm IT has the resources to support NEW SHINY THING before the contract is signed and once the contract is signed you can't say no because "we spent all this moneyyyyyyyyy" but surely the new tech actually can do the thing it was sold as do-habahbaha i can't finish that
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# ? May 12, 2021 22:51 |
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Nuke the kid's browser history from orbit and tell the parent you found nothing.
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# ? May 12, 2021 23:46 |
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Weedle posted:everything i do at work puts me in a weird spot ethically because it's a catholic institution, but then i get that vatican gold direct deposited into my checking account
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Carth Dookie posted:Nuke the kid's browser history from orbit and tell the parent you found nothing. I've done this lol
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# ? May 13, 2021 00:30 |
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the worst is when you find elementary school kids searching for stuff like "how to kill myself"
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# ? May 13, 2021 00:31 |
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:the worst is when you find elementary school kids searching for stuff like "how to kill myself" Chrissy Teigen is getting around, huh?
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# ? May 13, 2021 00:33 |
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Renegret posted:I've done this lol Good. ChickenOfTomorrow posted:the worst is when you find elementary school kids searching for stuff like "how to kill myself" Bad.
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# ? May 13, 2021 14:42 |
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I outed a kid who was downloading scads of porn because 1) he was using lab computers to do it. 2) he was storing said barnyard porn in his student folder. 3) He was using some virus ridden torrent software to do it and we had to flatten and reinstall every computer he touched.
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# ? May 13, 2021 15:29 |
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When I did network monitoring I only escalated two incidents. One was a guy that didn’t stop running torrents after a warning, the other was a guy that kept using a public vpn when on the corporate network.
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# ? May 13, 2021 15:32 |
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our Okta instance is hard down. Oh boy, this is gonna get ugly.
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# ? May 13, 2021 19:13 |
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everyones is also lol Impotence fucked around with this message at 19:25 on May 13, 2021 |
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devmd01 posted:our Okta instance is hard down. Oh boy, this is gonna get ugly. I just received 4 emails related to outages of various IT systems. I'm not too familiar with Okta but I'm guessing we're wrapped up in it.
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# ? May 13, 2021 19:44 |
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I want one of those outage monitor pages to have an "Outage Monitoring System" item and it's the only thing red, everything else green
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# ? May 13, 2021 20:28 |
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Weedle posted:basically not at all, they're not on our domain and the kids/families have local admin rights. here's the rundown: lol this is insane
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# ? May 13, 2021 20:41 |
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Mr. Clark2 posted:lol this is insane it's the result of years of "quick fixes" to work around "temporary" problems that never get fixed properly because the "quick fixes" are "working" so this is just how we do things now. kill me
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# ? May 13, 2021 21:08 |
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https://twitter.com/NapVeg/status/1392936713622675457
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# ? May 13, 2021 21:23 |
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forums.somethingawful.com
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# ? May 13, 2021 21:25 |
240.159.146.169 I guess
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# ? May 13, 2021 21:35 |
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# ? May 13, 2021 23:44 |
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DNS but it translates domains to emoji
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# ? May 14, 2021 00:28 |
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Data Graham posted:240.159.146.169 I guess Nice.
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# ? May 14, 2021 00:28 |
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klosterdev posted:DNS but it translates domains to emoji Closer to clownpenis.fart every day
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# ? May 14, 2021 13:16 |
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🤡🍆.💨
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# ? May 14, 2021 18:06 |
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☃.com exists but unfortunately it's squatted on.
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# ? May 14, 2021 22:23 |
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So wait. It's not on your domain, the parents paid for it, and it's their property? Why are you doing support on it, I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole.
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# ? May 14, 2021 23:03 |
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In non poo poo tech news, in direct opposition to the thread (heh). I sat for my RHCE 8 today and loving passed it Now, to drink.
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# ? May 19, 2021 21:17 |
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Nice I’ve been think about getting the rhca, I don’t have to do much with it now but rhel7 is all over the place in our environment
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The Fool posted:Nice The 8 is really different than 7. It's essentially the previous Ansible and automation cert that used to be part of the RHCA track. I'm going to try and knock out my A by the end of next year, then just sit whatever test I'm feeling every 3 years to keep it current. That, plus IBM starting AIX and power certification again gets me very well positioned for my goal of hitting contract to contract in the next 5-10 years.
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