NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr 9 points 2 months ago

Where is DOGE when you need it?

[–] NaibofTabr 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but you don't need an LLM for that. That's like using a bazooka to kill a housefly.

[–] NaibofTabr 12 points 2 months ago

There was trust?

[–] NaibofTabr 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Great, a ridiculously expensive lorum ipsum generator.

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think people who have never used AD don't really understand - there is no equivalent for a busy sysadmin. There's no open source alternative that has the same functionality - I've looked. You might be able to cobble together a similar level of capability with 5 or 6 different applications, but good luck getting them to all play nice with each other and remain stable enough for an organization with hundreds of users.

[–] NaibofTabr 3 points 2 months ago

Ah, but OKTA only provides authentication?

How does that replace the infrastructure management?

[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Some parts of the theory have been demonstrated. For instance:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2279115-this-is-the-most-detailed-look-at-individual-atoms-ever-captured/

This is a scanning electron microscope image of a crystal structure (PrScO~3~). The bright spots are atomic nuclei.

The full paper is here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg2533

To interact with us in any meaningful way I think we have to assume that the aliens exist in our universe composed of atoms. Regardless of how they perceive the atomic structure, the structure would be the same.

[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

"Oh hey, you guys have liquid water? We'll take that!"

"Well I guess we could trade you a few thousand liters..."

"Trade? Liters? No, we'll just take it. All of it."

[–] NaibofTabr 9 points 2 months ago

We look for things...

[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 2 months ago

Easy, you just subtract a higher voltage from a lower voltage. Thats just maths.

Alternatively, just swap the red and black probes on your multimeter, and now your positive voltage is negative.

Or, just twist that knob on your oscope.

[–] NaibofTabr 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

So yes but... there are still no good alternatives to Active Directory in the context of managing IT for an organization with 10,000+ users, thousands of endpoints, and millions of files which need to maintain proper association with individual user accounts and be delivered to specific endpoints on demand.

Google Workspace is the most feature-rich competitor, but it is a pale shadow of the level of IT infrastructure that Microsoft's ecosystem provides.

For Microsoft to fade away, someone needs to build a competing large-scale IT management system that provides the same kind of functionality that Active Directory does.

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