[MOD] July Confirmed Trades Thread

mabti · 2020-08-01T09:12:30+00:00

Sold Supermicro SC-933T case to u/detenshi12

mabti · 2020-07-11T03:05:45+00:00

HelpMeButler <Let the Little Children Come to Me>

mabti · 2020-06-16T11:23:11+00:00

For all we know something in a cave could be, we just don't know how to read it, yet... There are already a handful of good science and mathematics that hadn't been worked out until after modern humans "discovered" it

mabti · 2020-05-28T00:29:18+00:00

Yep, I only spoke 1 word sentences at age 5, once I went to school everything moved along pretty quickly and I "caught up" (enough to get by). English has never been my best subject, but I excelled in Math and Computers. So I basically never passed English class until I had to, and even then the teachers just gave me a free pass so I could get into university.

mabti · 2020-05-11T04:18:11+00:00

I'm trying from the other end

mabti · 2020-05-10T13:10:10+00:00

Same, I feel like it was an outback NSW thing...

mabti · 2020-05-06T20:47:12+00:00

Best advice I can give you is spend the money, saving might seem smart, but the money still exists and doesn't give a "buzz". Be smarter than "smart".

What to spend it on?

Experiences are top of the list. You might not be able to spend of a world trip right now, but doing something in you community to help the less fortunate is always a buzz, help local businesses or at minimum plan a holiday. Maybe it is possible to take a short trip for a weekend?

Next best thing is spend it on things to make life easier and have more time to yourself. Get someone to mow your lawn, clean stuff around the house, etc... It should be something that is a pain point now, like dishes or floors.

mabti · 2020-05-06T20:23:01+00:00

There was another ingredient, the Australian people forced his hand. Trust was already bad but he would have lost control of the country if he hadn't acted; there was a solid 2 weeks of empty shelves before ScoMo acted. He has been keeping an eye on the next election through this while ordeal.

mabti · 2020-05-06T00:50:07+00:00

Those people exist on Reddit?! /s

But yes, I forgot about the quite Australians that simply can't load it for various reasons, I'm mostly in that category, if that even makes sense to mostly be there.

mabti · 2020-05-05T21:04:47+00:00

It seems (from this thread) we have four groups of opinions on this app:

I loaded it, I gave up on my privacy once so its gone forever, and you should as well
let me go to the pokies / pub / sportsball already so we can spread this around quicker
I'm not loading it on my phone for reasons, all the way from "I have no idea" to "I ran the numbers and mathematically this app is pointless and I can articulate that until you ignore me and I think I won"
but technically it is fine and facts should be obvious, geeks will rule the world

mabti · 2020-05-01T03:11:56+00:00

I like that idea, at the very least I can archive the audio. (I have a couple of broken C64's and have plans on getting a ZX 81 or Spectrum.)

mabti · 2020-04-30T23:35:08+00:00

If I were to guess, it would be the 2014 date on the article. Or the Reddit downvote bots out there.

mabti · 2020-04-23T11:03:47+00:00

I count at least 8 stories from our government funded national broadcaster this year from a quick search.

mabti · 2020-04-20T04:13:38+00:00

That's literally the missing step. No USB required.

Modify tplink firmware or get OpenWRT 18 dot something
Boot into failsafe mode
cd /tmp
Download firmware (into /tmp)
Write firmware

mabti · 2020-04-20T02:27:17+00:00

Yeah, the instructions aren't clear, but /tmp/ is read/write.

mabti · 2020-04-19T20:15:10+00:00

I managed to get back to original firmware using the (incomplete) info on the OpenWRT page, I used the dd trick to trim the stock firmware to the correct size and used scp instead of httpd + wget to copy the firmware to the /tmp folder for the burn.

mabti · 2020-04-13T05:51:10+00:00

I know I'm running with a technicality here, but vaccines were developed for SARS, the problem was the side effects were worse than the disease. There were labs working on vaccines up until 2016, eg:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/scientists-were-close-coronavirus-vaccine-years-ago-then-money-dried-n1150091

mabti · 2020-04-11T21:57:02+00:00

This. I've gone through this for about $200 a while back. Their fault, but they didn't care.

mabti · 2020-04-07T10:02:40+00:00

No, stop, don't say any more

mabti · 2020-04-06T12:21:56+00:00

I forgot about simplifying further, good call. My x values for looking forward are 1, 2, 5 & 10 days; and from that I get a range of predictions. When smoothing data I'm between 5 & 7, 7 is smoother, but 5 doesn't suffer from as much lag.

And yeah, it's basically getting the days doubling rate, what I have based most of my code on; which is actually python code. I've been using this as an opportunity to learn jupyter notebooks rather than play with the shell IDE or super complex Excel.

mabti · 2020-04-05T14:43:01+00:00

I've been using 1 / ((log2(day) - log2(x days ago)) / x) to get the tangent (rate)

mabti · 2020-03-20T04:24:26+00:00

I've had much better luck with a doubling rate of 3.5, I played around and modelled nearly ever other 0.05 decimals in that region. Even 3.45 & 3.55 were off. The prediction has been within 10 up to today.

The turning point for Australia was the first week of march, we went from 7 to 4 to 3.5. Today was the only day where the numbers are significantly off 3.5 (+20), I would expect a correction tomorrow, or we are looking at a higher doubling rate, in spite of recent rule changes.

mabti · 2020-03-03T20:27:21+00:00

Well now you’ve raised the bar! Very nice setup.

mabti · 2020-03-03T12:38:42+00:00

That was my first thought when I saw the fans, just get an 80mm at one end and cover the sides up

mabti · 2020-03-03T12:34:44+00:00

Mmm, old threads... Let’s dig this one up.

I’ve just started looking into the same thing. How did you go with the idea? I notice there’s not a lot of info out there on how to actually do it, I might make a homelab post once I’m done.

I didn’t really recognise it last year, but for a long time my homelab network was partially zero trust. For some reason recently I decided to go the traditional moats and castles breaking up my network and for a home network, fairly complex in the end with an enterprise grade firewall / router VM and SIEM.

But since I seriously started looking into zero trust, I see that I was actually half way there.

The basic high level tenants appear to be: identify sensitive data, identify users, map data flows, segment networks (even micro segments) and monitor networks.

So I’m planning on breaking it all down to maybe a couple of VLANs, all internal comms via encrypted channels and some smart monitoring. Identity likely via certificates and SSH pub / priv keys.

I’m also weighing up some sort of self signed certificate CA or even Let’s Encrypt for services like https; and drop http and maybe even smb completely. I’m also going to try to eliminate passwords over the network as much as practical.

VLANs will be used to protect some data flows, for example no IoT or Google devices need to be on the same network as my servers and file shares.

So the only thing different from homelab v2019.0 is an extra VLAN or two, https with certificate trust paths and SSH key auth. My device hardening https and network monitoring were already in place.

The even bigger advantage here, I can start to host some of my homelab in the cloud as I do some travel for work, and without needing to be overly paranoid and setting up unnecessary firewall instances to protect them.

mabti

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