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  When technical problems become accountability problems
  undefined Madchatthew

  @phenomlab this is good. I see this happen a lot. It is unclear because usually it is a group talking and going over things and trying to plan according to the knowledge that they have with what is working and not working now. And yet some time down the road, something new comes out, something changes and now what was possible isn’t and vise versa. I have seen these kinds of situations, and I encourage taking very good notes and making them so they are always accessible to you/your team so that way a search can be done and the notes appear and you know exactly why, what, how and where the decision was made.

  When I say you, I mean anyone in a position to make decisions that bring about change in whatever area it might be.

  Discussion technical accountability

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  Torturing My Father & Mother In Law
  undefined Madchatthew

  @phenomlab and she has never used linux before. I have been able to give her step by step directions on how to do some things and that is over texting. Trust me, if my mom can keep Arch Linux up and running on 5 computers, then anyone can use Linux.

  She is doing a great job!

  General linux story kde plasma fedora

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  Arch Server Progress
  undefined Madchatthew

  @phenomlab that is what I was thinking. I will have to do some research and bend it to my will LOL

  Chitchat arch linux server web server

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  When technical problems become accountability problems
  undefined phenomlab

  At some point, most environments stop having purely technical issues.

  They start having ownership issues.

  On the surface, everything can look fine:

  • Policies exist
  • Controls are mapped
  • Risks are logged

  From an engineering perspective, nothing is obviously broken.

  Systems run. Changes get deployed. Issues get fixed.

  But there is a different question that tends to get overlooked:

  When a decision creates exposure, who actually owns that outcome?

  • Not who implements the change.
  • Not who maintains the system.

  Who is accountable if that decision is challenged later.

  That is where things usually become unclear.

  Decisions are being made every day across infrastructure, security, vendors, and delivery.

  But ownership is often:

  • implied
  • spread across teams
  • or assumed to sit somewhere higher up

  It works until it is tested.

  And it does get tested, usually by something external:

  • an audit request
  • a client asking deeper questions
  • an incident that needs explaining

  At that point, the discussion shifts.

  It is no longer about how something works.

  It becomes:

  “Who approved this, and why was that decision considered acceptable at the time?”

  That is the part many environments are less clear on than they expect.

  Discussion technical accountability

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  Torturing My Father & Mother In Law
  undefined phenomlab

  @Madchatthew And let this be a testament to anyone else looking to transition out from Windows to Linux. It’s perfectly possible with some minor changes to how you use a computer

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  Nord VPN renewal
  undefined JAC

  So far so good .

  Chitchat nord vpn renewal

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  OGProxy - a replacement for iFramely
  undefined phenomlab

  @DownPW Looks ok for the most part, but this looks like it’s truncated?

    return {
      ...ogsResult,
      metaProperties: metadata,
      faviconUrl: faviconB64,
    };
  }
  

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  Arch Server Progress
  undefined phenomlab

  @Madchatthew said:

  can you have add-ons that people can check that will only show up when they choose a specific product?

  I think you can do this in WooCommerce, but not entirely sure to be honest.

  @Madchatthew said:

  Can you also have a terms and conditions popup before they check out and if they don’t check it it won’t let them checkout but will let them save their cart?

  Yes, I think this is a WooCommerce setting.

  You could also get creative with some JS to provide the functionality you are looking for.

  Chitchat arch linux server web server

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  OGProxy - a replacement for iFramely
  undefined DownPW

  Don’t hesitate to tell me what you think of this modified code.

  Until next time.

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  Arch Server Progress
  undefined Madchatthew

  @phenomlab That is awesome! With that bundle, can you have add-ons that people can check that will only show up when they choose a specific product? Can you also have a terms and conditions popup before they check out and if they don’t check it it won’t let them checkout but will let them save their cart? Sorry for all the questions. I looked into some of those things and I would need to purchase a plugin that is over 100 dollars for the addons and the terms and conditions one cost money as well. So if those things are included in that bundle, then that is an amazing price for all of that.

  Chitchat arch linux server web server