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Are anyone else's texts getting delayed after the RCS switch?

So I’m not sure if this is the problem affecting your friend, however, RCS messaging uses additional ports rather than just the standard tcp/443 port to send traffic. This port is specifically tcp/5223. If your friend connects to a wireless network that has a firewall that doesn’t have the port open, then the RCS messages will fail to send/receive until they are either connected to their cellular network or a wireless network that doesn’t have that port blocked.

The catch is, if you try to send a message while you are on a network where the traffic isn’t allowed, the RCS message doesn’t attempt to resend right away after changing to a network where the traffic is allowed.

I have a firewall in my house that has very strict rules and I had to enable a firewall policy to allow this traffic to be able to send / receive RCS messages when I was connected to my home’s WiFi. My wife’s company WIFi network has that port blocked so she doesn’t connect to it anymore and RCS works just fine.

If you want to see if this is the case for your friend’s phone, have them use their mobile network while sending / receiving RCS messages to test.

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How can I ask ChatGPT questions from the URL Bar?

Unfortunately, the coding that the site uses to post your questions and return data back to you does not function in that matter. If you want to interact with the Large Language model without using you web browser, you would need to so by using other software or applications to hit their API (you do have to pay for this service) and then return the data back to you. So it is possible, but not in the manner that you are suggesting.

On a side note, I signed up for a 3 month trial of access to hit their API using a session code and a post shortcut on my iPhone. I created a iOS shortcut that allowed me to use OpenAI as a replacement for Siri. It was a fun little project.

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Belkin is killing off parts of the Wemo Line

I have Wemo light switches, outdoor plugs, mini plugs, and the original plug. Since they are HomeKit enabled you don’t have to set them up with the Wemo app. You can set them up directly from HomeKit. I’ve never downloaded a Wemo iOS app.

Sucks that they aren’t supported anymore but my warranty ran out a while ago. I may lose firmware updates with patching for security vulnerabilities but I have these running on an IOT VLAN that is very restricted and only has the access that my firewall lets it access.

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How to remotely reboot a Linux host if SSH fails to connect?

Ok, I grabbed a few screen shots for you as well. Here is a site that will link you to MEBx setup that enables AMT: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03883429

When power on your ProDesk G3, you can access the MEBx setup by pressing Ctrl+P or they also say F6 or Escape will get you there. Intel AMT runs on a different IP address than what your OS gets. You can assign DHCP or a static IP address and setup your admin password. You can then access the portal from http://ipaddress:16992 There should be a method of access what would show on the screen through a KVM like access but I use MeshCentral for that so I couldn't tell you how to do it without.

Hopefully, that gives you a start. Feel free to reach back out if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Sorry is this is a dumb question, but where exactly can I watch anything?

Here’s my go to when I’m trying to keep it legal: https://reelgood.com/

It well tell you the service where your show / movie is playing if there is a service that offers it. Unfortunately, your shows aren’t available on any service.

So step 2 would be searching EBay or step 3 pirating. Torrents are the easiest platform in regards to file sharing. There are other downloading services like XDCC send via mIRC or NZB via Usenet.

Not sure it’s a good idea for me to tell you how to use Step 3, but Google searching can get you far. 😃

By the way, if you are going to Pirate, make sure to use a VPN to safeguard your file sharing.

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New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser

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We have 80,000 people that work for my company. That’s not going to happen. Now we have 10,000 VMs running a combination of Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, and Centos. But our employees choose the OS they want to run on their own work devices whether it be Linux, MacOS, or Windows and no way is everyone is going to Linux, even if that is my own OS of choice. Especially the C-Level and board member types.

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Interesting OSS project: Holesail creates instant P2P tunnels between networks (like a VPN)

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This VPN protocol usually uses a private key (client) / public key (server) combo that is used to connect through a public IP address (the 2 nodes can’t communicate it without) using the specified TCP or UDP (more often lately) and port to create the VPN tunnel that’s gets established during the handshakes.

There is a whole lot more going on with the process but that’s a high level view. But I have a WireGuard VPN service running on a raspberry pi that I put in a DMZ on my perimeter firewall.

But a port scanner would be able to see that port is open. Make sure you keep your software up to date. Hopefully the software devs of the VPN application is keeping their stuff up to date to avoid any vulnerabilities getting exposed in the code and a backdoor getting created because of it. As long as that doesn’t become an issue, no one will be able to get through without the private key. And those are usually uncrackable in a lifetime with the complexity and length of the key.

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What do you use to track BMCs/KVMs/IPMI?

Look into getting a CMDB and keep track of all of your hardware. That can store the hostname / IPs of your KVM / OS or virtualization layer, vkernels, storage adapter IPs, your vCenters and so on and so forth. If your data is getting so big that spreadsheets are getting tough to manage, then you probable need a more enterprise method of storing it.