u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 — reddlx

Insight Needed: How can I use SharePoint to implement a "hunger games" style tribute system?

In our school district, which is a historically under served area, we have issues getting enough funding to meet student's dietary needs. Federally funded lunches help, but they're not enough.

Separately, an area of focus that our school board wants to improve is win higher placements in Math Olympiad. Recently, a number of teachers and parents have come up with a way to kill two birds with one stone. Local businesses can sponsor our Olympiad teams to get good publicity. That funding is then used to pay for school lunches.

The part we're trying to solve is getting students interested. We were thinking that students could volunteer as tribute for Math Olympiad, and if they are placed on the team, this allows their class to win free school lunches. Basically, we're going to implement the system from the Hunger Games, but a lot more fair lol.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to automate it. I wanted to avoid anything too complex, so I was thinking of a SharePoint list based solution. Can anyone in education IT give me feedback on the technical approach?

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u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 — 3 days ago

▲ 0 r/LemonadeStandPodcast

There has been much doomposting about the acquisition of Vox Media by billionaire James Murdoch. I expect the effect of this on the podcast to be minimal.

The first reason for optimism is that the hosts were concerned with editorial independence from day one. Aiden discusses this in Ads, Spotify Video, and Vox Media FAQ:

>I guess the very last thing I want to touch on, and this isn't as important because very few people thought this, but just to be clear, is that Vox didn't buy us out. This is a partnership that allows them to sell ads on the show. Vox has no editorial impact on the show. We get to pick, you know, whatever we want to do in the same capacity as before.

I don't know exactly what the contract between Lemonade Stand and Vox says, but I would bet that it specifies that Lemonade Stand retains responsibility for and control over their content. We need to remember that this is not Aiden, Doug, and Brandon's first trip on the podcast circuit.

Practically speaking, if Vox did want to interfere with Lemonade Stand's reporting, the most they could probably do is to refuse to help them find advertisers.

The second reason for optimism is that the hosts have both creative integrity and alternative sources of income, whether that be Twitch streams, YouTube, or living on Ludwig's couch. If Vox's new owners threaten financial consequences in order to kill a story, I trust the hosts to sound the alarm. Further, they have enough alternatives to Vox that Vox's leverage is minimal.

In summary, everything is fine.

u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 — 17 days ago

▲ 1 r/linuxquestions

My Ubuntu server recently stopped being able to start. It was failing to complete a file system check on startup, with the error "fsck: Inode XXXXX seems to contain garbage," among many others.

I cleared these errors, and forced it to boot anyway, and found that most of the system did not work. For example, apt-get stopped working, and displayed an error stating that libc had incorrect magic bytes to be loaded as an ELF file.

I was able to get this into a working state, using a combination of debsum and apt install --reinstall. (It's kind of impressive how well dpkg tolerates this situation.) I suspect that I have a bad disk, as this is the only VM that uses this disk, and this is the only VM developing problems.

This situation made me think about switching to a filesystem with support for file/metadata checksums. I've heard btrfs has support for file checksums, but what option would you go for? Ideally I would use something that is capable of detecting problems like these.

I'm currently using ext4. However, I'm open to other options.

Details of set up:

Guest OS: Ubuntu 20.04.6
Hard drive: Seagate ST5000LM000
File system: ext4 with mount options (rw,relatime)
Hypervisor: Proxmox 6.4-4

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u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 — 19 days ago

▲ 112 r/ShittySysadmin

Hey guys, I have a lot of boring meetings about the AI platform I work on, and I often play Roblox when I'm on a call that requires no concious thought or input from me. Don't worry, I'm getting work done. I'm logged into the production database on my other monitor.

Every now and then, somebody needs to ask me a question, so I turn on one of the Robux farm scripts I have so that I can answer some stupid fucking question about GDPR or something. Once I'm done, I can get back to what I was truly born for: getting top 30 on Steal a Brainrot.

Trouble is, our EDR keeps flagging the Roblox farm scripts I am using. I'm sure they're not a virus - I have a legit source. However, the farm scripts need to use WriteProcessMemory and similar syscalls which are "virus like," so I suspect that's what's triggering CrowdStrike. How can I disable EDR on my work laptop so that I can keep playing Roblox at work without anyone suspecting anything?

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u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 — 27 days ago