moonpiedumplings

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moonpiedumplings @programming.dev 5d ago

Did you try meshcentral? It's a selfhosted MDM.

moonpiedumplings @programming.dev 6d ago

It's easy. Mumble. Or the thing you used probably still works.

But you see, people never actually seek a discord alternative. They want a discord alternative that includes all the features in one app that is also federated, AND end to end encrypted, and each one makes things vastly more technically challenging and resource intensive and then you want them together.

A little secret: Matrix is much, much easier to host if you disable encryption and federation. Federation to many servers is the main performance killer, and "failed to decrypt message" will all disappear if you disable encryption.

moonpiedumplings @programming.dev 6d ago

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4315942/netlogon-(zerologon)-cve-2020-1472-patch-for-windo

This looks promising except it looks like MS took it down :/

moonpiedumplings @programming.dev 6d ago

If your software updates between stable releases break, the root cause is the vendor, rather than auto updating. There exist many projects that manage to auto update without causing problems. For example, Debian doesn't even do features or bugfixes, but only updates apps with security patches for maximum compatibility.

Crowdstrike auto updating also had issues on Linux, even before the big windows bsod incident.

https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/

It's not the fault of the auto update process, but instead the lack of QA at crowdstrike. And it's the responsibility of the system administrators to vet their software vendors and ensure the models in use don't cause issues like this. Thousands of orgs were happily using Debian/Rocky/RHEL with autoupdates, because those distros have a model of minimal feature/bugfixes and only security patches, ensuring no fuss security auto updates for around a decade for each stable release that had already had it's software extensively tested. Stories of those breaking are few and far between.

I would rather pay attention to the success stories, than the failures. Because in a world without automatic security updates, millions of lazy organizations would be running vulnerable software unknowingly. This already happens, because not all software auto updates. But some is better than none and for all software to be vulnerable by default until a human manually touches it to update it is simply a nightmare to me.

moonpiedumplings @programming.dev 6d ago

Second comment, but also investigate Wazuh. It can audit systems and report vulnerabilities. It's not an external scanner, but I have found it to be more effective and less annoying than greenbone/openvas.

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moonpiedumplings @programming.dev 6d ago

Instead of trying to automatically scan your environment, it's probably better to figure out how to automatically update applications first. CVE's eventually get patched.