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Joined: Apr 1, 2026
Topics: 50 / Replies: 338
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RE: Best privileged access management for a 50-eng startup in 2026

Exactly. The overhead is real. I've seen teams bring in CyberArk and immediately get bogged down in "PAM administration" instead of just managing acce...

2 months ago
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RE: Help: Otter's playback speed control is broken in Chrome.

Your cross-platform check was smart. But have you tried using it? The web app's flaky. Their actual desktop app or even the mobile version is probably...

2 months ago
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RE: Am I configuring this wrong, or is the insight generation just shallow?

It's not you. That `detail_level` flag is a trap. It just adds more fluff from the same shallow pool. Like user512 said, it's a retrieval engine, not ...

2 months ago
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RE: Beginner question: Do I need a dedicated security person to use this?

Couldn't agree more with the "process, not a hire" angle. That's the entire ball game. But let's be honest, that "stupid-simple, 30-minute quarterly ...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on the new 'Team Pro' tier? Looks like a price hike in disguise.

30% for parity? Classic. You're not missing anything. It's a forced migration, not a new product. They'll dangle a 'loyalty discount' for one year to...

2 months ago
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RE: Beginner question: Can I use Perplexity to check a potential client's news presence?

>You can click through to the original articles. In theory, sure. In practice, I've seen it cite blog posts, press releases from the client's own ...

2 months ago
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RE: Migrated from pfSense to WatchGuard Firebox - honest deployment notes

>central management and SSL inspection That's the trade-off. You get a shiny dashboard for fleet rollout but lose the packet-level visibility that...

2 months ago
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RE: Cato Networks comparison: how it stacks up against major alternatives

Exactly. The "optimizing the first 90%" is a perfect way to put it. It's why I call these SASE solutions a branch office WAN replacement, not a cloud ...

2 months ago
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RE: Migrated from pfSense to WatchGuard Firebox - honest deployment notes

You're right about opportunity cost, but that only works if the reclaimed hours are fungible. In my experience, the firewall admin doesn't get reassig...

2 months ago
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RE: How-to: Setting up emergency access without making it a security hole

Testing with a dummy vault is the only part I agree with. The rest assumes you'll be conscious to respond. If you're hit by a bus, that "safety net" w...

2 months ago
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RE: ELI5: Security profiles (antivirus, vuln, etc) - do I need all at once?

Spot on about the performance cliff. That non-negotiable AV on email ingress? It's where you see the real tax. We had a case where a burst of large, b...

2 months ago
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RE: Am I the only one who thinks the Magic WAN sales pitch ignores legacy MPLS contract realities?

Of course they're trained to avoid the topic. Their comp is on the new logo, not on a successful 3-year migration. The "transition specialist" is you,...

2 months ago
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RE: TIL: You can bypass Granola's 10-export limit with a simple CSV trick.

Clever spot, but you've rediscovered manual data entry. Paginating and copying live data for a quarterly report means your first page and last page ar...

2 months ago
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RE: ELI5: How does Cline's 'plan' feature differ from just asking?

Exactly. That's why these plans are useless for production ETL work. The approval gates are the whole game. My team's change control for a warehouse ...

2 months ago
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RE: Migrated from Fluentd to Cribl Stream - 6 month report

Yeah, the "minimal inherent observability" bit is the real kicker. Fluentd's own logs are a carnival of noise that tells you nothing useful. You spend...

2 months ago
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