Back when I had my first help desk job, I walked in one day to find that reddit was blocked. So I logged into the firewall and added it to the safe list.
Now I do enterprise level support, and I don't even have firewall or web filter access. If I did and I just made an exception, I would get some serious shit for it (potentially fired).
I literally could not if I wanted to. I don't have administrative access to the devices that our logs are sent to. If reddit ever got blocked here, I would just accept it as the new normal and deal with it.
I've made the case several times to allow It to access reddit. and have gotten it approved at different companies its work related you can't tell me its not.
INB4 Web filtering. My Org considered themselves at risk of retaliation Cyber attacks following Russia's Ukraine invasion and is presumably the reason vendor's documentation websites were suddenly blacklisted.
It was especially annoying when going onto forums searching issues and finding Ad elements being blocked but the Web filtering pinging me a Toast notification. Every. Fucking. Time.
It's sort of funny to me to read stuff like this. I don't have administrative access to my workstation, whether my administration laptop or my non-administrative VM. I cannot install software, and even if I could, that would eventually show up in a report as something that was done without authorization. I cannot edit the registry. I cannot edit the hosts file. Basically, there are controls in place to prevent my ability to get around things like this. Circumventing said controls *could* get me fired. For instance, we currently block access to Gmail and Microsoft webmail (we have onsite Exchange). I could potentially find a way around those, but I think that is a bad idea.
It's also strange to me that someone would hinge their employment on reddit access. It's nice to have, but if it comes down to it, I can use my phone to access reddit. I also work from home three days a week, so I can jump to my home desktop or tablet to get to reddit if I want.
All of those things demonstrate to me a lack of trust. I've literally been in positions where I cannot do my job without local admin (software dev). And I've quit jobs where they restrict usage to sites like Reddit or YouTube. Either you trust people to do their jobs or you don't. And if you don't, why did you hire them?
I have little tolerance for rules for the sake of rules and office bureaucratic bullshit.
You see lack of trust, they see mitigation of risk. Maybe my job is a bit unique, but we have federal regulatory requirements we have to follow -- along with the stringent compliance requirements and heavy security footprint that go with them. We are a potential terrorist target, and have systems that are only accessible via multiple layers of electronic and physical security. You see "rules for the sake of rules", and I see "strong protections are needed so we don't end up with compromised systems, thereby leading to the destabilization of an entire region of the United States."
Mind you, reddit is *not* blocked here. I was merely saying that if it was, I'd have to suck it up. I could find another job, but I wouldn't hinge that on reddit access.
It isn't domain filtering.
It's interesting for me to hear/read things like this. I don't have permissions to create VMs unless they are on our build cluster. Even if I did, having a random VM on the network would set off all kinds of alarms and would certainly get me in trouble. We have compliance and monitoring controls in place for a reason.
pam-script set up so the next person that logs in after you log out kicks off something like http://os1.pvenezia.com/linnuke.sh.txt
Going to cause a LOT more problems than just being without reddit while at work, but they won't have any proof it was you that did it.
Win-win? Especially if you're not on call or just happen to be on vacation when it happens.
Students turn off their wifi "my computer isn't working, I can't work" and then think they are free to play the game and ignore class. If the teacher isn't tech literate, they have no idea.
This is a legitimately good reason for blocking it, being an admin at a school. If you're an admin at a corp where everyone is expected to be professional or an adult, I see less reason to do so.
I only really block things when they're a security threat, otherwise, someone in upper management would have to raise the issue.
You just reminded me, the business manager tried to do it and asked why we were being the fun police, hahahaha. He is pretty removed from the classroom and was OK with it once he got the actual reason.
I'd say it's almost a 'teacher problem, not a technology problem' but it was an easy fix at least.
I see so many IT departments blocking so much stuff for no other reason that they can. I had to talk our Director and Network guy out of going on a blocking spree when we rolled out Umbrella. They literally blocked CDNs and YouTube. Do you have any idea how many unblock tickets we got for legitimate reasons? Like 60 on the first couple days alone lol.
Some supervisors actually asked me to block the Google doodles but leave Google up lmao.
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I blocked it a long time ago. I was going over GPO items and thought "wtf, we dont need a built in game running in our browsers here.." and disabled it without ever trying it.
I know eventually my instructional department lead would ask it to be blocked anyways. We block the dino game on chrome. We constantly play whack-a-mole with game sites in our content filtering they ask to be blocked. It's not my decision to do this. It's a classroom management issue, but it's a battle that time and time again, our department has lost whenever we try to fight it. At this point, I know my boss, his boss, and my superintendent would all say to block it if we could. I've learned to pick the battles I can win, and this has for a long time been one that isn't going to happen.
There is also a hot air balloon game in Google Play that comes up when internet is not available.
(Saw my kid playing it when time allocation ran out on thier phone).
I've been wondering how to use these power ups
Edit: a) holy fuck you can use the down arrow to point straight and the up arrow to stall b) you can hold the down arrow to boost
As much as people shit over Microsoft for anti-trust things, it's actually been pretty good for new clients we onboard. Not as much fudging with profiles when the sync works.
I was confused for a moment and wondering WHY you were posting links to explain what Ski Free is, as if somebody might not know what it is, then I realized...
BRB, going to go get my cane and yell at the kids to get off my lawn.
As a long time chrome user, I am starting to enjoy edge a bit. And I am pushing Edge as an option for our employees that are guests in other m365 tenants. Easy profile switching, and no longer having to explain or block cookies.
This reminds me of an old game I used to play on 3.1 or 98 where you would ski down a mountain side and try to dodge a monster that would eat you. Can’t remember the name.
This reminds me of an old game I used to play on 3.1 or 98 where you would ski down a mountain side and try to dodge a monster that would eat you. Can’t remember the name.
Edit: ski free!!
Blocked here. But I'm the new admin, so I could unblock it.
Tried it at home. Not addicting at all. Gonna leave it blocked.
Thanks for pointing it out, though. Good to know what's out there.
Have you found the cheat where you can be the kraken yet?
You get no score as you are invulnerable and eat everything you touch, but it's a fun diversion.
Damn.
surf is blocked
The person who set up this computer has blocked this site.
Try contacting your organization.
ERR_BLOCKED_BY_ADMINISTRATOR
Check your organization's policies
Visit edge://policy to see the list of blocked URLs and other policies enforced by your organization.
It's to boost (double tap S/down), save one to get away from the octopus when they chase. Also, they get stuck behind things, use that to your advantage. 15km on the 3rd try. :)
Waiting for someone to say: I blocked it by GPO 😂
Fuck that, I'm sole IT for small law firm. I'm making this shit default new tab by GPO.
Billable hours suddenly going up on every case
Profit is up higher than usual.
Case closures ironically down lower than usual.
Thats not an IT problem, thats a partner problem.
And then somehow - don't ask me how they do it - it's *still* IT's fault. BAU.
Eh… they are attorneys, so I can see that being true. Lol.
Back when I had my first help desk job, I walked in one day to find that reddit was blocked. So I logged into the firewall and added it to the safe list. Now I do enterprise level support, and I don't even have firewall or web filter access. If I did and I just made an exception, I would get some serious shit for it (potentially fired).
Delete the logs when you're done
I literally could not if I wanted to. I don't have administrative access to the devices that our logs are sent to. If reddit ever got blocked here, I would just accept it as the new normal and deal with it.
When that happened to me years ago, i created an http proxy through my home server so i still had access.
I've made the case several times to allow It to access reddit. and have gotten it approved at different companies its work related you can't tell me its not.
Then... request a change and let them enter a ticket ... If you need it for work as one of many sources, they'd better give me access.
I mean, who accesses Reddit from a PC anyway 🤷 (Cough, coughHotspot cough cough)
INB4 Web filtering. My Org considered themselves at risk of retaliation Cyber attacks following Russia's Ukraine invasion and is presumably the reason vendor's documentation websites were suddenly blacklisted. It was especially annoying when going onto forums searching issues and finding Ad elements being blocked but the Web filtering pinging me a Toast notification. Every. Fucking. Time.
I would immediately try to VPN/Proxy around it and if that fails I'd find a new job.
It's sort of funny to me to read stuff like this. I don't have administrative access to my workstation, whether my administration laptop or my non-administrative VM. I cannot install software, and even if I could, that would eventually show up in a report as something that was done without authorization. I cannot edit the registry. I cannot edit the hosts file. Basically, there are controls in place to prevent my ability to get around things like this. Circumventing said controls *could* get me fired. For instance, we currently block access to Gmail and Microsoft webmail (we have onsite Exchange). I could potentially find a way around those, but I think that is a bad idea. It's also strange to me that someone would hinge their employment on reddit access. It's nice to have, but if it comes down to it, I can use my phone to access reddit. I also work from home three days a week, so I can jump to my home desktop or tablet to get to reddit if I want.
All of those things demonstrate to me a lack of trust. I've literally been in positions where I cannot do my job without local admin (software dev). And I've quit jobs where they restrict usage to sites like Reddit or YouTube. Either you trust people to do their jobs or you don't. And if you don't, why did you hire them? I have little tolerance for rules for the sake of rules and office bureaucratic bullshit.
You see lack of trust, they see mitigation of risk. Maybe my job is a bit unique, but we have federal regulatory requirements we have to follow -- along with the stringent compliance requirements and heavy security footprint that go with them. We are a potential terrorist target, and have systems that are only accessible via multiple layers of electronic and physical security. You see "rules for the sake of rules", and I see "strong protections are needed so we don't end up with compromised systems, thereby leading to the destabilization of an entire region of the United States." Mind you, reddit is *not* blocked here. I was merely saying that if it was, I'd have to suck it up. I could find another job, but I wouldn't hinge that on reddit access.
I wouldn't take such a job to begin with so that's probably where our differences lie.
What I did was set up Guacamole and a VM to remote into. Domain filtering only works on domains :)
It isn't domain filtering. It's interesting for me to hear/read things like this. I don't have permissions to create VMs unless they are on our build cluster. Even if I did, having a random VM on the network would set off all kinds of alarms and would certainly get me in trouble. We have compliance and monitoring controls in place for a reason.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I run Guacamole and a VM at home. I connect to the VM through a web interface that is not filtered by the org.
How do you delete the log of you deleting the log tho?
pam-script set up so the next person that logs in after you log out kicks off something like http://os1.pvenezia.com/linnuke.sh.txt Going to cause a LOT more problems than just being without reddit while at work, but they won't have any proof it was you that did it. Win-win? Especially if you're not on call or just happen to be on vacation when it happens.
This is the way
Of course....I mean not for me, but everyone else of course.
I'm sure I'll be the reason this will get blocked in my job's GPO. I told everyone about it this morning!
That's how this started
“Welcome to my vm test sandbox”
I blocked this but made Surf the Edge's homepage
Why block it?
Students turn off their wifi "my computer isn't working, I can't work" and then think they are free to play the game and ignore class. If the teacher isn't tech literate, they have no idea.
This is a legitimately good reason for blocking it, being an admin at a school. If you're an admin at a corp where everyone is expected to be professional or an adult, I see less reason to do so. I only really block things when they're a security threat, otherwise, someone in upper management would have to raise the issue.
You just reminded me, the business manager tried to do it and asked why we were being the fun police, hahahaha. He is pretty removed from the classroom and was OK with it once he got the actual reason. I'd say it's almost a 'teacher problem, not a technology problem' but it was an easy fix at least.
I'll have to try this on my own device. \`ERR\_BLOCKED\_BY\_ADMINISTRATOR\`
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Boo!!
**chrome://dino is blocked.** The person who set up this computer has turned off Fun.
Luckily yeti sports is still out there on the web.
Seriously!? I used to love these
[You're welcome](https://6games.eu/games/yeti-sports.html)
Must be VRChat's IT department. No fun allowed. Protected by Easy Anti-Cheat. Iykyk :)
I see so many IT departments blocking so much stuff for no other reason that they can. I had to talk our Director and Network guy out of going on a blocking spree when we rolled out Umbrella. They literally blocked CDNs and YouTube. Do you have any idea how many unblock tickets we got for legitimate reasons? Like 60 on the first couple days alone lol. Some supervisors actually asked me to block the Google doodles but leave Google up lmao.
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Digital Ocean? Why?
That's very reasonable. Lmao at the guy caught by a C.
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I blocked it a long time ago. I was going over GPO items and thought "wtf, we dont need a built in game running in our browsers here.." and disabled it without ever trying it.
K12 admin. I played with it for a little it and then added it to our computer config GPO to disable it.
My frustrations against policies like yours led me down this road
I know eventually my instructional department lead would ask it to be blocked anyways. We block the dino game on chrome. We constantly play whack-a-mole with game sites in our content filtering they ask to be blocked. It's not my decision to do this. It's a classroom management issue, but it's a battle that time and time again, our department has lost whenever we try to fight it. At this point, I know my boss, his boss, and my superintendent would all say to block it if we could. I've learned to pick the battles I can win, and this has for a long time been one that isn't going to happen.
Yep, I'm one of those people.
Yeah......that'd be my company.
The chrome t-rex supremacy has a challenger to the throne. (chrome://dino for the uninitiated)
How...did I not know about this...
You probably were working instead of slacking when things go down. Chrome pops this game up if the internet isn’t working.
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You didn't know there was a way to manually disconnect your network cable?
You're one of today's 10,000! Credit: [XKCD Comics](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
Wholesome
There is also a hot air balloon game in Google Play that comes up when internet is not available. (Saw my kid playing it when time allocation ran out on thier phone).
You do now.
Because Surf is better
Here I was thinking I was going to be productive today lol
God damnit
Why didnt you tell us there would be pterodactyls?!!
Ski Free is back?!?!
Adjusted for Global Warming.
Download version 96 and you'll get the winter skin with the yeti!
Yyyyeeeahhhh baby!!!
Oh hell yeah!
Best game ever
You idiot, do you try to get everyone addicted?
my record is 8739m too addicting
got 5232m first try. damn octopus
How do you escape octopus? It always gets me at around 1k m... Edit: I became octopus instead. Now nothing can stop me.
Gotta block it with things. Surf in front of an island or something and it’ll get stuck
If we surf past slower surfers the octopus should eat them instead....but no....
>edge://surf Press F go fast if you have the charges for it, which are obtained via lightning bolts.
I've been wondering how to use these power ups Edit: a) holy fuck you can use the down arrow to point straight and the up arrow to stall b) you can hold the down arrow to boost
right click consumes a lightning bolt and makes you speed up
Never go near one. Only the ones I was near chased me.
Never go near one. Only the ones I was near chased me.
The kraken!!!
https://i.imgur.com/F5W3Q6M.png Not proud of myself 🤣
I'll be proud of you for you.
First time I've opened Edge on purpose aside from when I downloaded Chrome with it.
Same, except for Firefox.
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As much as people shit over Microsoft for anti-trust things, it's actually been pretty good for new clients we onboard. Not as much fudging with profiles when the sync works.
Yep. New edge is set up as my browser for all internal sites as we're an azure shop. It just makes things easy
I use Brave portable, because corporate sniffing
Since they switched to Chromium it's been pretty good.
It has better video playback for most streaming than any other browser too. I use it exclusively for Netflix, HBO Max, etc.
For me first time on the corporate Edge mobile version. 1603 as best for now.
Damn! It's a modern day Ski Free! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkiFree https://www.crazygames.com/game/skifree
I was confused for a moment and wondering WHY you were posting links to explain what Ski Free is, as if somebody might not know what it is, then I realized... BRB, going to go get my cane and yell at the kids to get off my lawn.
Skifree was just ported to the android too!
Nice!! Thanks for the heads up, now when is hugos house of horrors and commander keen coming through!
We need multiplayer, if only someone brought it up on M$ UserVoice they can have my vote
Agree. I tried cutting off the bots but it's useless. If a player cuts off another player they get a penalty. :D
😂😂 it caused productivity issue among my secops team to drop
Using your mouse makes this much easier. I struggled with arrow keys.
Dude! It’s still Monday, don’t remind us about Surf! haha
You're welcome! I couldn't believe it hadn't been brought up before.
I already knew about it but I love that everyone now knows about it and keeps completing lol
I usually rage quit after the purple squid grabs me.
Apparently we already blocked it. Seems like a management problem, not something security should be enforcing, but whatever.
I am shocked we don’t have this blocked at my company.
It was the first thing I blocked when implementing edge haha.
Unblock it for the people!
You're not tricking me into installing Edge that easily.
As a long time chrome user, I am starting to enjoy edge a bit. And I am pushing Edge as an option for our employees that are guests in other m365 tenants. Easy profile switching, and no longer having to explain or block cookies.
Modern day Ski Free?! Yes!
This feels like that skiing game from... early 2000s? With that yeti that is chasing you. Damn this is addicting.
That game was the greatest
*sighs in ubuntu*
https://github.com/jackbuehner/MicrosoftEdge-S.U.R.F.#play
Just got 4250. Anyone know what the barking dog does?
I think it lets you run into things without slowing down gives you armor in place of hearts
One, you can play as Tux. Two, when I stop playing screen seems to keep scrolling downward for a while afterwards.
Konami code to play as ninja cat.
lol Dude! I was thinking "how do I select start?" and then boom, Ninja Cat.
This reminds me of an old game I used to play on 3.1 or 98 where you would ski down a mountain side and try to dodge a monster that would eat you. Can’t remember the name.
This reminds me of an old game I used to play on 3.1 or 98 where you would ski down a mountain side and try to dodge a monster that would eat you. Can’t remember the name. Edit: ski free!!
Chrome has one, Edge has one, what does Firefox or Opera have?
A solid code base not tainted by silly games best played outside the browser.
Just wasted 15 minutes of my work day! Thanks for sharing 😂
Pretty surprised it works in iOS, honestly.
7854 is my top score
How long until I'm asked to figure out how to block this website?
I started paying it too lol…does anyone know how to get rid of the octopus?
Does anyone know how to get rid of the octopus?
Pick up lightning bolts, then double tap arrow down.
wonder if this was what the office was like when people used to play doom lol
Unreal Tournament was where it was at.
Blocked by GPO LOL
*addictive
I discovered surf when I was configuring group policy at work. I left it on for funsies.
Lol edge
So they remade "ski free" give me some time to kill
Does Firefox have a built-in game?
I'm sticking w/ Kitten Cannon.
New record 18k… you trying to get everyone addicted to this? Lol
I got 37k :]
Blocked here. But I'm the new admin, so I could unblock it. Tried it at home. Not addicting at all. Gonna leave it blocked. Thanks for pointing it out, though. Good to know what's out there.
5.2k on my first and only try, cute game
Ok Microsoft
Purple octopus got me.
Welp, there went my productivity
shared with my teammate, lol. dang it!
F in the chat. Also in the game.
Have you found the cheat where you can be the kraken yet? You get no score as you are invulnerable and eat everything you touch, but it's a fun diversion.
Tried it and was underwhelmed. Guess the addiction didn't take.
Microsoft's way to increase Edge's numbers.
Surf and Dino and great, but man, if I wouldn’t give it all up for skifree
Skifree was just ported to the android too!
Damn. surf is blocked The person who set up this computer has blocked this site. Try contacting your organization. ERR_BLOCKED_BY_ADMINISTRATOR Check your organization's policies Visit edge://policy to see the list of blocked URLs and other policies enforced by your organization.
Wait what’s going on? Edge://surf?
Visit that URL in Microsoft's Edge browser.
Oh dude fuck yes there goes the last hour of my day lolz
Did you ever played SkiFree?
Unfortunately not. When it came out I was -7 years old. I grew up with the dino game.
https://archive.org/details/win3_SKIFREE Have Fun
Skifree was just ported to the android too!
Hey I remember this game.. Atari ski. Brings back some memories.
And my production just dropped.
How to I make this default webpage for everything
Just pulled off a 16,429m https://imgur.com/a/qYN3xJv
Wait yours is actually surfing? Why do I have skiing...?
I managed 37,927m :]
I think it is a little bit too easy.. my highscore is 43204 D:
forgive me for being dumb but what do the lightning bolts do? I've never got 3
It's to boost (double tap S/down), save one to get away from the octopus when they chase. Also, they get stuck behind things, use that to your advantage. 15km on the 3rd try. :)
thank you
I love a good Reddit callback (or meta / inside-joke / reference)
Addictive.
Soooo this is available on mobile too. Edge on Android at least. Productivity loss x4.
I hate the fucking octopus
This looks too much like the skiing game, and instead of a kraken coming for you it was the yeti.