@scottalanmiller So what's the current situation with Fanvil? Did anyone ever try them out?

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

looking into tailscale & comparing it to zerotier.

anyone used tailscale?

I saw it mentioned a few days ago but I don't know anyone who has tried it.

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

BBC News - Toshiba shuts the lid on laptops after 35 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53721016

End of an era.

Was never a fan.

Agree

@Grey said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

What is Tencent?

Based in Shenzhen and founded in 1998, the Chinese company Tencent enjoys huge popularity - and profits - in China.
Its cute penguin symbol is as familiar to Chinese children as the McDonalds "golden arches" logo is to children in the West, says the BBC's China media analyst Kerry Allen. "Tencent is thought of as so much more than just a Chinese company in China - it has gained a reputation as a family-friendly organisation that connects families, friends and work colleagues in a digital age," she said. "It has a business model that other Chinese companies can only envy - it can reach an audience of, basically, everyone." But many people in the West have never heard of it. That doesn't mean it isn't present in our everyday lives, though - Tencent also owns chunks of some of Western culture's most popular games, music and movies.

Ive got a little stock in them, they have slowly but consistently grown in value.

I don't usually pay much attention to Motley Fool, but a month ago they said to watch gold. After investigating, I bought some KL stock, and it has done well. They also had suggested Roku last year and I wish I'd done it, because it's tripled.

yeah I've read that they are pretty good with predictions.

@scottalanmiller I'm the same way, I get that habit from my Av days. I bought Allen & Heath mixing boards, QSC amps, and small Community speakers. This is all professional equipment and it had more options and lasted a lot longer. In fact all those pieces are still working today.

Long day of studying algebra. Trying to wrap my head around some of these concepts isn't easy for me. Just doing it for fun.

@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:

Hey guys, COVID makes a perfect time to work on your DuoLingo! How is everyone doing?

Was easier for me when i was working at home. Now that I drive an hour each way to work, I'm exhausted by the time I get out of car.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got a load of 5M of redgum, we'll be splitting and stacking tomorrow.

Did that my entire childhood and teenage years with Dad. He still cuts and splits his own at 77.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

going through my purchases after a big Bandcamp Friday spendathon
100% of sales to artists.
it's saturday 5:57pm.

Awesome, thats a great way to do things.

@DustinB3403 said in Local Encryption ... Why Not?:

@jmoore said in Local Encryption ... Why Not?:

I've advocated we store nothing on our laptops but so far its had little effect. We are very backward here unfortunately. I think storing mostly online is very good and makes services like Nextcloud very valuable in this scenario.

Keeping files on a laptop aren't really the issue here. The customer in Scott's case setup disk or file system encryption and had no recovery method to get into the file system. Seemingly with some hardware encryption that once set it just had to get tossed out.

Encryption of any kind is a good thing generally speaking (not including ransomware) as its an easy to add level of security, but you need to have recovery methods otherwise you're up the creek without a paddle.

Yeah totally agree. The person at our school had a bunch of financial data on it and got it stolen. So big fail there for us.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

What is Tencent?

Based in Shenzhen and founded in 1998, the Chinese company Tencent enjoys huge popularity - and profits - in China.
Its cute penguin symbol is as familiar to Chinese children as the McDonalds "golden arches" logo is to children in the West, says the BBC's China media analyst Kerry Allen. "Tencent is thought of as so much more than just a Chinese company in China - it has gained a reputation as a family-friendly organisation that connects families, friends and work colleagues in a digital age," she said. "It has a business model that other Chinese companies can only envy - it can reach an audience of, basically, everyone." But many people in the West have never heard of it. That doesn't mean it isn't present in our everyday lives, though - Tencent also owns chunks of some of Western culture's most popular games, music and movies.

Ive got a little stock in them, they have slowly but consistently grown in value.

I've advocated we store nothing on our laptops but so far its had little effect. We are very backward here unfortunately. I think storing mostly online is very good and makes services like Nextcloud very valuable in this scenario.

Thanks Scott for all these videos. You cleared up a lot of actual and implied questions, along with correcting my erroneous thought process. Much appreciated. I'll be questioning things I read much more now.

@JaredBusch Ok thanks for the sample config. I see what your talking about with the rules.

@jmoore said in Redoing Home Network:

@scottalanmiller Ok appreciate the video. That was enlightening. Half of what I studied is probably wrong lol. I didn't realize that cert was so bad, or I would have just skipped it entirely. Their blanket statements about things definitely caused me to make some bad decisions. However, I should have dug deeper into the material. I just figured I would encounter deeper info in later certs. So, thanks for the explanation!

So in what situation do vlans make the most sense and what is their purpose there? Just security to keep machines from talking to each other?

@scottalanmiller Ok appreciate the video. That was enlightening. Half of what I studied is probably wrong lol. I didn't realize that cert was so bad, or I would have just skipped it entirely. Their blanket statements about things definitely caused me to make some bad decisions. However, I should have dug deeper into the material. I just figured I would encounter deeper info in later certs. So, thanks for the explanation!

@scottalanmiller said in Redoing Home Network:

@jmoore said in Redoing Home Network:

@scottalanmiller said in Redoing Home Network:

@jmoore said in Redoing Home Network:

Thats why I planned things out the way I did. I had setup vlans before and wanted to do it the other way now, since I was under the impression it accomplished the same thing.

It does. One is just the virtual version of the other. In the old days, we always had physically separated hubs. Once we got big switches, people wanted to recreate the physical separation sometimes, hence VLANs.

Ok cool, thanks. If I have to end up separating traffic, I'll just use a vlan and be done with it.

No, there is really no scenario where that would make sense. You can't separate the traffic on a single network.

Ok. Hopefully it won't be an issue with her boss.

@scottalanmiller said in Redoing Home Network:

@jmoore said in Redoing Home Network:

@jt1001001 said in Redoing Home Network:

Question: does it make sense to segment certain traffic because of security concerns? I'm thinking of the blanket statements (never backed up with fact, by the way) I've seen to segment "IoT" devices in the home because of lack of security (E.G they get hacked and said hacker now has access to your entire network).

Well in my readings, they say either method will increase security, as traffic is not supposed to travel between vlans for example. However, as I've learned today, not everything you read in cert books is accurate. So definitely get a few opinions with details.

They don't, unless those VLANs go into a ROUTER! LOL

Yep, and that wasn't explained in my readings. Hence my inaccurate impressions.

@JaredBusch said in Redoing Home Network:

Yes, if the router has a switch chip like the ER-X does, it could be your core switch, but you seriously should not think like that.

Got it, I won't forget this lesson either. I was going to do the separate lans for a learning exercise in getting it set up, but from what it sounds like, it is pretty worthless even as an exercise. Thanks for your opinions!

@scottalanmiller said in Redoing Home Network:

@jmoore said in Redoing Home Network:

Thats why I planned things out the way I did. I had setup vlans before and wanted to do it the other way now, since I was under the impression it accomplished the same thing.

It does. One is just the virtual version of the other. In the old days, we always had physically separated hubs. Once we got big switches, people wanted to recreate the physical separation sometimes, hence VLANs.

Ok cool, thanks. If I have to end up separating traffic, I'll just use a vlan and be done with it.