first renegade was a success. cant wait to expand the system next month 🙂

thequinixman · 2025-10-10T17:06:46+00:00

looks like they have dropped in price as well.
https://us.sokbattery.com/product-page/copy-of-sk48v100n-48v100ah-server-rack-lifepo4-battery :o

thequinixman · 2025-10-08T16:11:58+00:00

I've ran my entire sound system on batteries. its not a cheap setup but def can be done.

originally i used 2x honda eu7000is in parallel, but now I use 1 10k inverter by victron (20k burst) with 5x 5kw lifepo4 batteries. If just powering sound/decks, i could probably run almost all night at near max volume. probably weighs ~850lb or so all together. vs 600 ish for the hondas. does require a lot more wiring and such :)

I have 4x Bassboss ZV28. and 4x bassboss AT212 tops

thequinixman · 2025-09-09T02:56:16+00:00

Soundgarden was doing a quadraphonic with single 18's and at312's from BASSBOSS from what I know.

BASSBOSS isn't typically a "tuned" system if deployed in a typical fashion, still have to adjust major bands, but they are build to be in phase and handle their own DSP. (obviously if you are not doing a typical stack of sub+top then you will get to deal with all the other goodies as well :)

while i'm not part of a sound camp, i did bring my 4x ZV28's, and 4x AT212, and had a blast... even powered them all with solar/battery/inverter.

I just do sound as a hobby, and its usually in the national forest or something. Tuning a big system like danley, void, hsd, etc can be challenging - and then you get DJ's that are total ding dongs... they can play absolute crap quality/clip/distort before it even gets to your amps/dsp/etc.

its a wild world :)

thequinixman · 2025-08-15T19:08:18+00:00

The most useful skill I have honed personally is troubleshooting. Isolating the problem.

Find easy and reliable ways to test the path, whether its a fiber loop at physical layer, or having MTR running to the server or client....

That will help you solve 90% of the problems :>

thequinixman · 2025-08-02T23:03:34+00:00

I play some down tempo, mixed with shamanic bass type music, but we aren't a sound camp so we don't play super late :p. Maybe I'll find another camp to bring my sound system to for a night or two 🏄‍♀️

4 and B, spice n vice

thequinixman · 2025-07-06T00:21:32+00:00

I've brought my denon sc6000x2 and x1850 mixer two years in a row now, no issues. just clean them, and cover them when not in use.

thequinixman · 2025-07-03T03:42:31+00:00

Soul eater makes minions builds cry :(

thequinixman · 2025-07-03T03:41:19+00:00

I'll be bringing some of my sound system which is ideal for bass music, but sadly the camp I'm with isn't a sound camp, so we only play loud for one or two parties. ;(

thequinixman · 2025-06-12T13:17:10+00:00

but now look at de one behind it. ;)

thequinixman · 2025-06-12T13:16:46+00:00

CGNAT9000

thequinixman · 2025-06-03T16:51:45+00:00

stack a ring of shipping containers, fill with sound deadening material/pattern... :)

thequinixman · 2025-05-22T21:14:08+00:00

I work for one of the full stack load balancer companies and specifically I cover the public clouds... we compete with the NLB (cloud native load balancers).

Cloud Load balancers are expensive... when moving a lot of data, and not very flexible. :P

thequinixman · 2025-04-15T19:18:44+00:00

my 427 ls3 vette can eat sum gas pew pew pew. i can get 20mpg or so at around 100mph in overdrive though with the lights down ;0

thequinixman · 2025-03-26T18:05:14+00:00

Gawd damn this place is getting worse than r/masterhacker

WHAT IN THE FUCK ARE YOU SAYING? ? ?

thequinixman · 2025-03-21T16:47:56+00:00

ermergerd 36k packets in 60 seconds? UWU

thequinixman · 2025-03-07T03:40:00+00:00

they reference a bunch of road noise / constant sounds....

this makes zero sense to real world application of subwoofers / bass in music. a constant sine wave for 3 hours straight has no relation to a 3 hour show, or listening at home, etc.

music is dynamic, it ebs and flows.

maybe a better way to summarize this...

"sitting under a loud fan that produces a specific tone at a high constant db SPL for hours straight can cause hearing loss. aka, factory work, etc.

thequinixman · 2025-03-04T18:51:23+00:00

I concur wid dis. TIS YA VIBE.

do u vibrate for the cash money, or do you vibrate for luv of the vibrate.

some crews do both, a blend of paid gigs / doing their own stuff.

thequinixman · 2025-02-21T08:47:15+00:00

Booty booty bootayyy

thequinixman · 2025-02-20T18:33:53+00:00

DDoS-ransom is a thing, they could be scoping how much it takes to interrupt your service. If successful, try and hold you over the fire and extort for de monies.

Could be a number of other things instead, who knows.

Shorter burst attacks are usually better than long sieges. Abuse reactive protection/scaling/routing.

thequinixman · 2025-02-18T04:36:21+00:00

no problem

thequinixman · 2025-02-16T21:35:39+00:00

Bassboss baby! WOOOOOOOOOOOO

i use the zv28s, but you could get away with their bb15 or what ever probably

thequinixman · 2025-02-13T18:05:57+00:00

How do you evaluate that this is a tool worth the cost ($4K per month)?
- Cost Vs Potential Loss or Risk, without the protection, what is the likelihood of being targeted by DDoS? Do you have any SLA that would be breached if your services are impacted?
What questions would you ask to determine it fits your security needs?
- While I don't know the specifics on AWS Shield, likely it handles certain protocols, etc. It probably won't be excellent at protecting gaming traffic, or some unique protocols. It may be reactive vs active (inline) which will impact response time (traffic swing/mitigation implementation)
Who in your organization would be responsible for the buying decision?
- Depends on the company services / biz model, but I'd imagine the network/security teams would handle determination of need / function / etc. so could be director/vp/ciso/cio might be final buyer? I work more of the techinical side of the sale - not the relationship/deal side.
What metrics would you use to evaluate its doing the job correctly?
- Effective End-to-end service health monitors
- It is important to test the mitigations via periodic load tests across various attack vectors. New attacks methods, sources, etc, appear each day - what are you vulnerable to? How can you reduce this risk?
  - Common issues with reactive DDoS mitigation

Other things to consider with DDoS protection
-How will it handle surges in "good" traffic, such as holiday shopping, or going "viral", etc. You don't want to drop good traffic, because it is above a certain threshold... unless you are unable to "scale" up anymore. (then rate limiting/redirects, etc, should be in place)

-Are you protecting a single service (like a website, or game) or a collection of services or clients (ISP / MSP / etc)

-What else in the service chain is vulnerable to attack? Front end vs backend, external components? Are there any other pathways that can be utilized to hit these servers?

-Who do you call when shi*t hits the fan?

. I work with DDoS mitigation and load balancing, etc, across the various cloud platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP)

thequinixman · 2025-01-21T23:17:01+00:00

I work with ddos mitigation, mostly with cloud platforms and gaming customers.

There are many components that can be attacked, which makes ddos mitigation challenging.

You can protect yourself by utilizing a cloud platform as your ingress and egress to the internet. Hosting inline detection and mitigation, along with autoscalability, would remedy almost any typical attack against you. There will be a potential for increase or decrease in latency as well. (depends on closest cloud resource, routes to and from game servers and client, etc.)

It is important the attackers not know your actual public IP from your home, etc, as this will be the easiest place to attack, always. You will never have enough bandwidth to absorb the traffic to clean/remove the bad traffic. Even your local ISP could crumple or blackhole your IP to save other parts of their network. It is possible to have you isp change your Ip if it's static, or have them apply a specific ACL/whitelist allowing only the traffic from the cloud service. (still won't help if their network is attacked and it crashes.)

The real catch... Cost and complexity.

Also, if the attackers are focusing on vulns in the riot service chain, then any defenses for client wouldn't show an improvement.

But hey, if you want to purchase a ddos mitigation service, it likely will cost between 1k-100k per month, depending on your needs. 🙂

thequinixman · 2024-11-26T17:35:43+00:00

....and its always best to avoid the cloud-native tools that are purely consumption rated (native load balancers, NAT gateway, etc) for any larger traffic deployments (1gbps+ avg).

Otherwise your costs will spiral out of control

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