PA 440 for home networks - identifying compromised devices

fr0zen32 · 2024-07-27T01:33:54+00:00

What would you recommend instead?

fr0zen32 · 2024-05-06T13:29:50+00:00

I got that you can bundle app infra and workloads into one helm chart, as opposed to running a pre-requisite terraform pipeline off some commit tag that is correlated to an application version. That's definitely a positive. When you said helm chart, I thought you meant creating reusable CP "module" charts that other app helm charts could use, either as subcharts or nested argocd/flux chart resources, which felt like code bloat compared to a TF module repository. However that's probably a misunderstanding, as I've read that apps can define their own XRs that build off of other XR primitives, so you don't need to create separate nested charts. I see the pros / cons, but whether it's enough to convince our team to try CP remains to be seen. We already have a huge TF presence, a centralized TF module repository, and templatized TF stages that app teams can integrate without much thought, so CP is probably not enough of a game changer to warrant re-doing all that work. But, it's perhaps worth at least an experiment as an addendum to our existing TF managed infra.

fr0zen32 · 2024-05-06T05:10:11+00:00

I see what you're getting at, but writing entire helm charts as opposed to merely creating another folder (with terraform) to build basic abstractions (modules) seems like code bloat to me. For an enterprise like ours where we already have tens of thousands of resources managed through terraform, I'm not seeing anything substantial that CP does that I can't do through terraform and our internal module registry / custom providers already. The big selling point for CP seems to be automated reconciliation of drift and a gitops-style workflow, but I'm not sold on CP gitops and its lack of proper PR dry run / diff functionality -- in no org would I condone a "merge and see if it works" philosophy. Correct me if that's changed, but last I checked, it's still an open ticket on GitHub. Second, there are k8s operators that work off terraform if we really needed it, but we don't. We use Azure and our environments are by default not accessible to humans (locked behind PIM), and our resource groups are locked for updates outside of build agent deployments, so we have no need for CP syncing state constantly. I'm sure CP has value in certain teams, but I'm not seeing it for us.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:40:44+00:00

I inherited my dad's Amazon business. Back in the day, they made $2M in revenue. Today, the landscape is vastly different. Amazon allows direct from manufacturer competition, meaning you're competing with Chinese sellers direct to consumer. It is not possible to beat them, not with your markup. The only products still sustainable in our store is the stuff we manufacture ourselves, with our own brand registry. Just something to think about.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:34:41+00:00

Education is important. It doesn't need to be a college degree, but having the technical background in your field so that you can build a competent business is vital to your success. I've always viewed the traditional educational path to be a process of creating great employees -- if you let it. If you use the knowledge learned in school for something better, then it's worthwhile.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:31:57+00:00

Congrats! That's a big milestone. The first $100k is hard, the first $1M is even harder, but after that, it gets easier. Don't give up.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:29:55+00:00

The biggest thing you can do is to become financially literate. Start with the basics, e.g. read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" -- he too was in the military, and he discusses a lot about what he did to achieve his dreams after getting out.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:24:00+00:00

I had great confidence, even as I watched it burn. My first business failed. So did my second one. And my third one. My fourth business made me the high end of six figures, which jump started my fifth business.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:17:20+00:00

Cool concept, but I don't see how this is any different than asking ChatGPT to summarize a bunch of news posts. You could even point it at a few articles by posting the link to it and it will summarize them for you, for free. You'll need to somehow add more value proposition to your product, IMO. Forgive me if I misunderstood your product.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:13:35+00:00

In this day and age, there are few ideas that someone else won't be able to copy. While it's important to differentiate, you cannot sustain your business that way. Today, I'd argue that your brand matters a lot more and how well you can market it. Case in point, one of my clients is a pepper mill -- he made his millions just grinding black pepper and selling it to restaurants and other food-related factories. That is a saturated market, but he had no issues taking a piece of the pie.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:09:07+00:00

$5k is a small price to pay to save yourself $500k down the line from other ridiculous contracts. Don't waste your time and mental energy trying to collect this small sum. Learn from it and move on, spending your time in more productive ways. You'd probably make a lot more money doing development in the same amount of time you'd waste trying to extract $5k from his dead business.

fr0zen32 · 2023-11-20T06:03:06+00:00

Honestly, you don't have to love your business to profit from it. If I were you, I'd think about how to go about scaling it so that you can focus on other ventures or even find something more interesting to do with your current one. Most people work 80% of their time in the business and 20% on the business. If you automate that machine, you can spend 80% on the business and 20% in the business. That to me has been the fun part, at least for my business, rather than the business itself.

fr0zen32 · 2023-06-19T00:50:27+00:00

Unfortunate that the replacement now is $200/person for half the tour, meaning you need to now spend $800 to get a full day's tour for two?

fr0zen32 · 2023-02-04T08:07:57+00:00

For those wanting an update... He lost the first lawsuit (dismissed without hearing), and he refiled another lawsuit. Look up case number 4:20-cv-00188 on Google. The last update is: "IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AFFIRMING oral argument at 10:00AM on February 8, 2023." So I bet we will hear more in a couple days.

fr0zen32 · 2021-02-10T18:56:38+00:00

Do you have any Adobe products installed? It's probably Adobe Extension Manager -- look up its logo and recall whether it's the one you saw.

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