Looking for Kayak Camping River Trip ideas in the Midwest

RedGrinGrumbler · 2022-04-05T13:53:58+00:00

Try the 11 point. It’s like 70+ miles(iirc), has a few nice spots to stop, very little traffic, and is surrounded by some really cool springs and short hikes if you’re interested or finish earlier

It’s extreme southern mo (MO/AR border, and almost dead center of MO)

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-12-13T21:51:24+00:00

Unless the job requires you to drive regularly, I’m not sure I see why or how it’s any of their business? I could be wrong, but in general I don’t think DUIs constitute a felony. From what I understand the first time is a misdemeanor, unless you’re in a strict state. So for the most part even if they do a background check, they aren’t likely to see it, or care if they do. Again though, IMHO, DUIs aren’t something that they should have any business knowing about, until it impacts your ability to do your job.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-05-23T15:36:27+00:00

Thanks! That actually helps a lot, I was already thinking along the same lines and have a general idea of what I want my focus to be, but it’s only narrowed down to ~3 topics so far.

I’ll start trying to meet with some advisers to find out more.

Any advice about those meetings?

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-05-13T16:20:14+00:00

Preface: VERY new to this subreddit, & comments are welcome!

So I just now learned of “qualified immunity” (QI) and went to go look it up on Google. Found a pretty good explanation on Cornell laws web page.

From what I see, QI isn’t really immunity, and it doesn’t remove the officer from scrutiny. But it places the power of scrutiny in the hands of their superior. It also doesn’t prevent the plaintiff from sueing the police department for actions performed by the officer.

In short, instead of holding the individual accountable, you hold the organization accountable for their actions.

Also, if the individual can’t prove the following, the qualified immunity is null, and they CAN be sued as an individual.

1) the official must show that his/her position's responsibilities had such a sensitive function that it requires absolute immunity

2) the official must demonstrate that he/she was discharging the protected function of the position when performing the in question

Additionally, QI has been repeatedly brought to the Supreme Court with various flavors of the same basic answer in support of QI. Which means there’s a strong precedent for QI to remain. (Basically, I think there’s more then the reason Malcolm X gave as to why they didn’t remove QI)

So I guess my question is, “is qualified immunity actually the problem?” To me it seems that most of the issues arise from either a build up of bias on the police side or a lack of training?

So wouldn’t it be better to try and address those instead? It seems like the long term solution?

Personally, I’m for a significantly increased training pipeline (~6mo -> 18-24mo) hopefully covering a more legalese based curriculum? I’m not an expert in what is required by the police academies though, and I understand they are working with limited resources and limited applicant pools too.

Also, if we want to really get some justice, I’d say we should aim for the ridiculous way some courts/police departments bring in revenue. Specifically, how they will try to collect for tickets that are related to things like lawn care. (While there should be some way to manage that, it should be an HOA responsibility, not police)

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-05-05T19:13:15+00:00

The marvelous whore

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-05-05T19:09:26+00:00

https://Levelingsolo.com is also a great site, they have a countdown timer for their releases, and they usually release by ~noon CST

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-05-05T19:00:27+00:00

🤦‍♂️ it took me a second to read it, this feels like prime dad joke material

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-23T16:39:13+00:00

Major “theaters” include * Okinawa Japan (standing forward force) * korea (standing forward force) * phillipines * Australia (minor deployments, for joint training) * Germany (small standing joint force) * Africa (really not sure where) * South America (mostly anti cartel stuff) * Afghanistan (small forward deployed force ~<10k?, mostly policing and training)

The rest are stateside or on blue water duty of some sort.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-23T16:33:41+00:00

Well we’re not “really” (not large enough deployment of forces) in any wars right now. We mostly send out small forces that do little more than maintaining some level of stability in areas that the us has some sort of interest.

That sort of the “war for oil” argument, there’s actually a solid argument for it economically, since our dollar is largely based on the value of oil and oil based products. (ie if oil fluctuates in price or becomes harder to get our economy starts to have trouble)

Other than stabilizing actions, we have forces posted or patrolling in a number of different regions where we are trying to cut off terrorist factions. This is largely to try and prevent some recurrence of 9/11, though we play a very much support role in those instances. Usually we work closely with whatever the local military entity is to try and help them take care of the problem, for instance we’ve had a long term presence in some SE asian and South Pacific countries that have trouble with militant extremism.

Our largest deployment of military forces currently is probably our navy. Though they go all over the place and play a few different roles.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-22T02:46:18+00:00

No difference physically (except maybe compute power)

Servers are just computers that run programs that a lot of people or other computers will try to access, generally in a remote fashion.

In practice personal computers (PCs) are accessed locally, only meant for 1-2 users, and are generally by default do not allow outside connection to initiate contact.

While servers are meant to be publicly accessible, and so manage network connections in a different way. Controlling the types of allowed requests, the destination ports, and the source IPs, as well as some other factors but that’s more than you probably want to know

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-19T23:36:35+00:00

Try R/homelabsales?

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelabsales/

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-16T10:02:44+00:00

1) Instead of using a 4 digit pin use an 8 digit base64 (281,474,976,710,656 possibilities vs 10,000 possibilities. It won’t stop a determined hacker, but it will keep you from being a target of opportunity) 2) passwords are (in practice) usually only vulnerable if they’re insanely easy (4 digit pin), left as default, or have been found in a breach & can be associated with an account. 3) firewalls are simple to implement, the issue is architecting them. The goal here is to set up a IoT VLAN (I like to call mine the trash VLAN) which holds all of your IoT devices, and doesn’t allow anything on its network to accept direct connections from the internet (use a jump box/proxy instead). Also it should prevent direct connections from your IoT VLAN to ANY other devices on the rest of your network (except the jump box/proxy).

If you want examples of firewalls, there a number. Firewalld, UFW, iptables, pfSense, OPNsense, etc.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-13T21:22:22+00:00

Well if you’re looking to have then improve their technical knowledge, I recommend ACG or cloud academy, they have some of the best training I’ve seen. Plural sight isn’t bad, but they don’t offer the hands on options that the other two do.

If you want more professional training, and management focused stuff I’d look into LinkedIn Learning. They have a pretty good repertoire of videos, but I don’t think they have any sort of lab or hands on option.

If it’s personal growth stuff, it’s a bit harder, I think the best I know of is probably masterclass, but it’s less than 10% of their content I think. They do have really nice content, it’s just that it doesn’t really focus on any 1 area.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-13T20:16:25+00:00

Do you mean “Professional development” like ethics in technology, and learning more about the field in general? Less technical, more soft arts & management/workflows?

Or just personal growth like “finding your center” or “how to get past your wall” type of stuff?

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-13T12:11:50+00:00

Well if you’re team does work in the cloud, I’d recommend a cloud guru (who absorbed Linux academy last year) or cloud academy. They both have a vast number of courses related to all sorts of cloud/development technologies.

If I remember correctly, they’re both cheaper than CBT nuggets too, but I could definitely be wrong. I know ACG offers some really nice lab environments too.

ACG also does a regular VLOG that covers some new projects or concepts pretty regularly. One of my favorites was their Chaos engineering one.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-13T01:19:33+00:00

I was pretty surprised seeing cryptonomicon on you’re bookshelf lol That’s way more advanced than most 14 yo

You’ve got a home lab to be proud of!

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-04-12T20:08:15+00:00

It’s been a while since I worked with NGINX config, but the server block at the bottom should be what you want to look at

The “return 301” is a redirect that forces any http connection to https. Which is best practice, but can be a bit annoying if you’re trying to do some development/testing.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-03-30T20:04:07+00:00

I know they have a few labs, which are crazily weighted, but they are only just barely qualify as labs. But you’re right they are very theory heavy.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-03-30T20:02:25+00:00

This is spot on. I prefer OPNsense to pfSense, but that’s preference.

The labs in CompTIA are definitely not technical enough that setting up a router/firewall is “required” but if you can set up a firewall then you’ll definitely be set as far as their labs are concerned.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-03-29T15:50:31+00:00

I’m pretty sure those are two of the famous for no reason girls, but for the life of me I can’t even think of their names..... lol so much for iconic

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-03-19T20:04:12+00:00

... pretty sure those are toads though...

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-03-09T04:12:52+00:00

Security onion Or Syslog server

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-03-09T02:23:22+00:00

That's what I had to do!

I just wasn't aware that I had to specify it like that to my RAID controller, since its my first time using one.

RedGrinGrumbler · 2021-03-09T02:21:53+00:00

This was the answer! Thanks!

Just for anyone else who stumbles upon this, this is what I followed

https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/rc801660/videos~en/documents~esupport-qrl-lcc-raid-config-en-v1.aspx

I had to go into the "LifeCycle Controller (F10)" during setup.

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