Sure, until the VC firm that bought overdrive (backend for Libby) decides to run it into the ground even further. Z-lib and MAM all the way. Can’t sell my reading habits if they don’t collect my reading habits.

Phillip DeFranco still makes videos? Huh. TIL.

Scanning isn’t a problem, it’s when someone gets in and sets up a c&c client that you’ve got issues. If you have open ports and out of date software, or bad password practices, it’s only a matter of time before someone turns automated port knocking into embedding malware in your printers and IOT devices.

I watched an over the air TV show recently, and they rolled an ozempic ad every single break. I would rather watch an hour of the save the children or ASPCA ads to be honest.

Be thankful you don’t have the drug ads. They’re an infestation down here. The companies advertise the crap out of a drug that costs the patient 3-4k+/mo, it enters the doctors subconscious so they’re more likely to recommend to the patients, pharma company makes bank, the lawsuits roll in right around the time the copyright on the brand name ends (they’re all shit drugs and barely more effective than placebo, yet with knarly side effects), they close it down and let the generic manufacturers fight it out while they pump the next shit pill or shot. Rinse and repeat.

Sports betting needs to go too, but I bet they’ll just move those into shows like big tobacco did.

I’m not a UI designer

You are now!

For 25 hits and 5 grabs a day, yes

Drunkenslug is still doing signups

As others have suggested I would stick to internal only until you’re comfortable. Dealing with automated port scanning from all over the globe is a nightmare if you aren’t running a tight ship, and a collasal headache to deal with if they get in. I started with pihole, jellyfin, and some other simple docker services. Check out linuxserver.io if you go the docker route, they have good prebuilt compose files for you to use and the community has good info on their forums. You don’t need a domain but it’s preferred if you want to host something public-facing. Make sure you have fail2ban configured if you open stuff up to the web, it makes dealing with the automated attacks easier.

I’ll do you one better, shoot a BFG to kill a docker container. https://github.com/gideonred/dockerdoomd

If you have more than one VPS to manage or multiple people that need access via SSH, you may want to look into using SSH certificates instead of keys. Keys get messy when you have to wrangle a lot of them and it’s a real pain in the but if you need to revoke multiple. It does require more than just generating a key pair and giving it to the server to trust though.

Same here. Professor was an absolute clown too, his example HTML boilerplate for some project we had to do had © 1996 professor dipshit This was early 2010s. He also took points off my midterm one semester for not surrounding my JS with comment tags since, otherwise it wouldn’t run on Netscape"

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China is about as communist as the DPRK is democratic.

GPS gets down to 1cm or finer precision with an additional, stationary receiver, and time corrections. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-build-a-diy-gnss-reference-station

People have built DIY mowers utilizing tech like this. Problem is, the RTK receivers are far too expensive for all but the higher end mowers.

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You can’t inspect encrypted packets, what China does is network traffic analysis - examining headers and figuring out patterns based on metadata. They don’t care much about what’s being transmitted if using a VPN alone is enough to land you in trouble.

YouTube series by BurningIceTech, and either spin up VMs yourself to familiarize with group policy, management console, services, event viewer, and basic CLI in Linux, or buy the labs from comptia. 1101 and 1102 are heavily focused on ports and protocol overviews, raid, windows settings, and basic troubleshooting. Take good notes since you’ll build on the A+ stuff in Net+ and Sec+ if you take those too.

If we approach it from a game theory perspective we all lose. Third party ftw

Donnie and Joe are one foot in the grave and RFK is positively nuts. I’ll write in Mickey Mouse if I have to.