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

(as an alternative or supplement to the GUI)

Ah, I was wondering if there were any legit online and/or free courses

There's definitely some out there, get your hands dirty with open source alternatives, but yeah wish I knew the best one. At least you've got the grant money.

Good luck though!

Thanks... I really wanted to use July grant money on a Wilderness EMT class or maybe a two month bushcraft school, but maybe that isn't wise. I am always trying to learn more skills so I can eventually have a family and be undoxxable

Last thing I'll say; always remember that paying debts or saving for a down payment on a house/car etc. is an option!

Or even day trading stocks, an investment, etc.

The aforementioned money is AmeriCorps grant. Very restricted usage and a built in expiration date. Otherwise I definitely would have bought an acre or three

Udemy has some great courses for cheap. I don't know if they still do $10 sales, the floor seems to have moved up to 12. Still cheaper than college.

Microsoft Edge PDF reader question: you can type notes on PDF documents, but how do you print the notes?

Sorry not experienced with Edge as I don't use it, let alone for PDFs, but I'd expect it to be a near-barebones PDF reader at this point. Can you find any options directed at the PDF reading function of Edge? If not, what about the ability to export PDFs from Edge to say...PNG files? Maybe it will export the notes into the image too.

The most vulgar/inconvenient way to do it would be screenshots saved as images then printed out, without a lot of tweaking it will look bad but you will get those notes...

@wolfwood ty for reply. I can’t seem to find the function, but I don’t know why they would have a notes option if you can’t print the notes