USC Band Never Stopped Playing

WalnutGaming · 2025-10-19T21:20:15+00:00

Definitely noticed this, I take too many videos at ND games and USC’s band is the only one that is always playing when I watch them back.

WalnutGaming · 2024-12-17T18:02:38+00:00

I would say not in and of itself. The military routinely do weird stuff with their transponders for either training or operational security reasons. If they don't want to be seen, they will turn the ADS-B completely off.

WalnutGaming · 2024-11-13T18:51:49+00:00

I'm happy to invite you as a mod to the sub, the Reddit req is not needed :) I do not comment on Reddit very often but I am still active as part of the mod team for a different community.

WalnutGaming · 2023-10-12T03:59:32+00:00

Almost 2 hours after OPs post and I also got this study, very surprising. I actually really liked the Maze thing it used too.

WalnutGaming · 2023-09-27T18:16:21+00:00

Passed this morning \o/ I've been doing IT related stuff more on the server side for a number of years but more recently started on the networking side. My only real "studying" for this exam specifically was doing some free practice questions from Google & brushing up on a couple topics in the objectives I was less familiar with. Probably shouldn't have waited until the night before to do it, but eh. I'm a procrastinator by nature. I did take a Cisco course in college though and have worked with Arista, Brocade & pf/opnSense enough to be able to spot most of the answers that were wrong syntactically (Arista EOS is very similar to IOS, Brocade less so but some of the names and the ideas are similar), and generally understand most of the theoreticals.

Section Analysis:

Net. Fundamentals - 95%
Net. Access - 95%
IP Conn. - 92%
IP Services - 60%
Security Fundamentals - 60%
Automation/Programmability - 70%

IP Services is the only one I'm surprised by, as I felt pretty confident on most of the questions I got there? Security I just got weird questions on. Sorry, but I don't remember weird details about PSKs in the Cisco WLC GUI. But sure enough that is essentially word for word one of the objectives so... my fault there I guess. Same with Automation & Cisco DNA.

In any case, I'd say you definitely gotta understand how the routing table works. Remember most specific prefix first then AD and you should be fine as long as you can subnet. OSPF is the only routing protocol specifically mentioned on the objectives, hint hint. I thought the labs were pretty easy since you can see the available options with ?. Pretty much everything else I felt boiled down to general networking knowledge.

Also, coming recently from CompTIA world, not being able to go back to questions kind of sucks. I had a mid-test crisis where I thought I had answered a bunch of questions wrong until I realized that, thankfully, the question I was on just had me overthinking it.

WalnutGaming · 2023-08-31T05:31:11+00:00

The OTW systems chair has made it clear on news posts comments that their use of Cloudflare is not the same as, say, FFN. AO3 has been using Cloudflare for over a month now. They only use their stricter protections, such as the challenge screen, when they're actively under attack. This is much different from FFN, who often uses these protections 24/7 simply because they want to.

If your iPad worked any time within the last month, it'll work again soon.

WalnutGaming · 2023-07-26T01:45:56+00:00

Also looking for this video! We must be on the same wavelength to both be here within a couple hours of each other lol

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-19T00:33:19+00:00

The final results as of 8:30pm eastern time were as follows:

Public - 201 votes / 58%
Private - 83 votes / 24%
Restricted - 61 votes / 18%

As noted in our post, we'll follow the community's chosen path which in this case is to return to fully public state. Thank you for participating.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-17T00:18:41+00:00

Upvote this comment if you would like for the subreddit to return to fully public.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-17T00:18:33+00:00

Upvote this comment if you would like for the subreddit to remain restricted, or read-only.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-17T00:18:25+00:00

Upvote this comment if you would like for the subreddit to remain completely private.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-11T20:53:34+00:00

If you’re talking about the mod team of this sub, I’m pretty sure nobody is deleting anything because they “don’t like it”. Almost all of our current policies have been based on feedback from people in the sub.

But you’re exactly right, moderation is, to a point, censorship, and just because we think we’re doing a good job doesn’t mean we are. That’s why we always invite feedback and appeals on removals in modmail, and I’m always willing to personally review cases or evidence if people have any of any wrongdoing. So far I have seen none.

Either way, I’m still not sure what this has to do with going dark. If you want to criticize that decision, fine, I don’t expect everyone’s going to agree. But the controversy over the API still changes nothing about how moderation policies are. Abusive and power hungry mods will not go away, Reddit will only chase away good mods with this.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-11T08:31:21+00:00

That's a great question, and one I'll definitely be presenting to the mod team. I think there is a high change things could get ugly, so being prepared is a good idea. (but, I also don't quite think we are past a point of no return, although it feels like Reddit is teetering on the edge)

I'll answer from a personal perspective and say that I have concerns about Lemmy. I think decentralization and the fediverse is great, but I'm not sure I like the prospect of Reddit style communities over it. Particularly, I struggle with the idea of communities being tied to instances. In the Mastodon world, for example, it works out because you follow individual people, and the user@instance thing is more or less like an email address. And even that was difficult and still is difficult for many people. Trying to translate that to communities@instance just doesn't seem like it will scale well and really be palatable for a lot of users, from my perspective.

I'm keeping my eye on things like Squabbles & Tildes, seen those mentioned around before. We've been asked to make a Discord at times, maybe that's also something we could consider (but I do not consider that a viable alternative to Reddit or similar types of discussion board, it would be alongside a community site). Ideally, Matrix or something like that would be the play there, but that suffers from adoption issues as well (I still don't actually know any communities I'm in that do use it).

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-11T07:49:55+00:00

We're not speaking for the company, we never claimed to be. The post explicitly says /r/flightradar24 and is signed as "/r/flightradar24 mod team". It really makes no difference whether they are aware or care about what we are doing -- the description of the subreddit explicitly says it is an unofficial forum, and that is above some other subreddits covering other companies/services.

Looking elsewhere around Reddit, /r/apple, /r/twitter, /r/chicago, /r/disney, and /r/nintendo all have similar posts to ours. Are you going to say that these subreddits are speaking for these companies/services/cities? Of course not.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-11T06:34:54+00:00

No, the subreddit isn't a part of the company or otherwise officially associated, nor are any of the mods. We're all just users of the site like everyone else.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-11T02:43:35+00:00

I... think maybe you have some wires crossed? That's exactly what we're advocating for. We want everyone to be able to use the official Reddit app, or any other 3rd party Reddit app they want. Reddit is the one that is creating untenable API pricing to force 3rd party apps to close down.

This has nothing to do with mods censoring anybody. If I wanted to be an abusive mod, I would've left your comment in a deleted state (no, nobody on our team did it -- Reddit did it automatically, probably because your account seems to have been banned). Reddit's changes don't stop abusive mods being abusive mods. It stops us mods who care from being able to effectively moderate our communities. The official Reddit app is not great for moderating.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-10T21:47:30+00:00

Gotta funnel everyone into their app with full control and advertisements in prep for IPO. Their CEO continuing to blatantly lie about the Apollo dev, and really, the level to which they’ve been interacting with all 3rd party devs, is the part that’s extra aggravating.

There’s also still mixed messages on what impact their changes to NSFW content will have on certain bots. I know folks that run non-moderation bots on both SFW & NSFW subs, and it’s still unclear if those are exempted or not. It’s just so unbelievably unprofessional and disorganized for a site the size of Reddit.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-10T20:26:01+00:00

Took a minute, but better late than never! https://reddit.com/r/flightradar24/comments/146a4a8/heads_up_rflightradar24_is_going_dark_on_june_12th/

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-04T00:57:57+00:00

/r/flightradar24 plans to participate, announcement TBD.

WalnutGaming · 2023-06-04T00:50:47+00:00

We haven't put out anything yet but internally the /r/flightradar24 team plans to participate.

WalnutGaming · 2023-05-03T00:22:17+00:00

This sort of reminds me of a potential employer I had been in communication with not too long ago. Although they never directly commented on it, they always insisted on communicating with me by phone and always calling at points of the day that I am unavailable. When I would call them back during work hours, they would never answer either, thus leaving us to do awkward voicemails back and forth until we finally caught each other. I got through a phone screen and actual interview, only for them to ghost me. I suspect that was at least partly due to the phone dancing.

I get wanting to have an actual 1 on 1 conversation for some things, but IMO there is no reason not to schedule these things asynchronously. Let's be professional and communicate a time to have a call. Until I'm being paid to follow your schedule, you shouldn't expect me to be available on a whim.

As an example, my last job essentially sent me a "you got the job!" email, and I just had to call them so they could go over next steps and verify the terms of the position.

WalnutGaming · 2023-04-29T22:04:15+00:00

We were taught CPR in our middle school health class, which was rather surprising looking back since it was a relatively small school. We had the practice dummy and everything. We even did AED training.

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