Another layer of protection is having a dedicated browser installation *only* for use with the VPN.

If privacy is your goal: basically, try to avoid being digitally "fingerprinted" at your real location with your online accounts.

For instance, if I switch over to VPN and keep using the same browser, all those cookies with login information and tracking (Google, anyone?) still persist.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a quiet high capacity sump pump? I want to upgrade before I sink a bunch of money into finishing my basement.

My current pump is a 1/2hp and it barely keeps up on rainy days. I also already have a water powered emergency backup but I'd rather not have that run unless it has to.

Also it definitely occurs to me that this probably isn't the right channel to ask this question in but we don't have a plumbing channel.

@Der Seeteufel - SD good point, created: <#469988837175721985>

Lol I was checking our zimbra logs one day and noticed a static IP constantly deauthing

It was out of china but wasnt from one of our offices and was trying to login under generic user names, so I blacklisted it on our gateway

Its been 6 days and the bot on whoevers foreign server has tried to auth in to our zimbra server over 10k times

@Deleted User haha. Good thing you're there.

yeah lol, I've also noticed there are a lot of chinese command and control servers being hosted out of israel

usually they appear to just be servers that the israelis havent apparently checked in a while and theres ching chong gibberish that comes back whenever you request data from one of their services

I set up VPSes on DO sometime, and almost immediately when they start they get pummeled by URL and port scanners from who knows where. It's not a major problem as long as your username/password isn't admin/admin

you can pcap with something like pfring if you have a ton of data. Usually I sniff the incoming traffic and filter for all of our site gateway IPs or NAT address and then blacklist almost everything else if its outside of the US

Yeah depending on the Use case I have different types of auth, but usually it's just ssl+basic auth behind an Apache proxy for services and UFW for ports I don't want open

have you ever used nginx?

Not really, I know it's popular but I always use Apache

yeah the companies at the end of its static IP range but I need 3 new services up. Im working on a reverse proxy with nginx for bitbucket, confluence, jira and maybe an ovpn AS for a subdomain. Learning it on the fly and getting it fully functional is a bit of handful with the other side projects I have going.

also working on starting an on prem voip service, but you have to be way too smart to do it straight from asterisk

Is there a way to track clicks on third-party sites?

<@&435155896780324864> How do you (git) version control crontab files and configuration files in /etc on Linux/Unix systems?

lmao dude idfk why do I have the tech tag

@John O - You probably contributed to something in the channel at some point, I'll remove it from your roles.

Thanks man

@John O - needs his electrician tag haha

@RevStench he has it!

Weird, I don't see it?

@RevStench on mobile hold your finger on his username, on computer hover the mouse on his username. You have the electrician role too by the way. You have a lot of roles.

Crazy, I can see everyone else's tags. But ok, you're the man @ThisIsChris, well not THE man😂

Anyone here have formal training in GIS? I am going to have some education grant money left over next semester after I get my bachelors and I think getting some kind of GIS cert or training would be my best bang for buck economically.

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN GIS?

Geographic Information Systems

Is that like surveyors? @Wood-Ape - OK/MN

Or like GPS?

Yes. GPS is one type of GIS software, afaik

Didn't know if anyone here had certifications or knee of the best method. My goal is to use it to fast track to grad school and/or get a higher paying job in the natural resources or recreation field

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN If it were a year from now, I could help you, haha. But for the time being, no cigar. I know Esri (the producer of ArcGIS, an industry standard,) offers some courses. Went through and wasn't impressed with their free 'demo' or broad introductory course though.

I mean I'll be taking a couple of courses for my major. And I know that a lot of federal agencies have a GIS department or personnel. It sounds like a good idea though, better than many other minors, particularly Comp.Sci IMO

I believe most all GIS software utilizes C++/Python Coding and terminal-type inputs as well