 See people saying good night. It lets me know what area you're in for me. It's good afternoon 5 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Welcome to vlog Thursday number 367 I didn't have any particular or driving topics today. So I stuck tech news in there I Kind of missed doing the tech news stuff. I've thought about like do I do another live stream where I do tech news? It's kind of fun. Just covering all the silliness that I read I throw some of it in my newsletter. So by the way, I have a newsletter I'll go ahead and sign up for that at Lawrence systems.com if you're interested The other thing I want to throw in the beginning here though before I start shilling a newsletter is Thank you for the feedback regarding doing one-on-one courses That's definitely exciting that people were interested in that. I will work towards making that happen Some reached out to me randomly outside of this asking if I offered one-on-one classes and they didn't see it for my live stream Which I assumed that's why they reached out to me But nonetheless, I think it's kind of cool that people are interested in it And that is something I will work towards is, you know putting something together where I sell X number of seats I'm trying to do things to avoid Doing hello fresh or whatever popular trending thing is out there in terms of advertising Trying to do things a little different. I may still have some ads to sell I think I might sell ad an ad read for the blog Thursday. That is a Definite possibility I need to figure out how to fill some of the gaps that YouTube leaves with their Lack of ad revenue that comes in anymore. It isn't what it used to be which is unfortunate But you know, it takes mine to run things. So that's why I talk about that I always like to be honest and transparent with the audience. It's Makes it a lot easier. I don't hide anything from you That being said we can jump right into a couple news topics. I have here Actually before we get to the news topics. I have an AI topic. I guess that's news, right? This is this is interesting AI news. Share this out here And if you don't follow unsupervised learning, I think you should it's pretty cool if you're into some of the AI Things but they posted this on github. This is Daniel Messler's fabric. It's not fully released I will possibly do a video about it when it's fully released Because this is really cool This is all a series of prompts and tuning for chat GPT It's an open source framework for augmenting humans with AI and it is this is actually Really slick it's not a hundred percent complete, but he's got a lot of his prompts in here already it's just David Bobble did a video on it I already follow who dang yellow who's been talking about this and hyping it for a little while and it's just kind of novel You think this is all open source, which I think is really cool the nice thing is look at the patterns in here for example analyze claims and These are different prompts so you can start prompting chat GPT to get a more effective output out of it. This is one of the problems of chat GPT is The fact that yeah, it's not easy to get good output out of there It gives you very generic and bland stuff But with prompt engineering you can really narrow it down to produce something very useful This is how I use chat GPT you tell it like you're going to do these things This is your instructions of how you plan how you will respond to me What the input is it just really cool because you're scoping it down to what works Where's some of them in here too Extract a video ID and even look I haven't looked at all these yet. This is pretty recent released You're an expert extracting video IDs from any url So they can be passed to other applications take a deep breath and think about it a best way to accomplish goal using these steps Read the whole url So you fully understand the components find the portion of url that identifies the video id output just the video ID itself Now the reason it does things like this is because he does this all from the command line If you look at david bombles ai life hack video that he recently did he kind of explains this a little more because Let me pull that video up and throw it in here at the description as well It you can really see what it looks like in use and uh, yeah, I think it's fascinating This is what actually makes ai useful Pull it up Where's that video at I don't like david's title for it By the way, I'll I'll admit that it says hack your life with demos Um, I don't think that's a great title The video is good because if you jump and I'm at the 17 minute mark I've watched it already But I I was sharing this with some of the internal staff at cnw are And I was like he just started the 17 minute mark where they start showing how this works Because that's really what's the most interesting part to me is how does this work? How can you use it and essentially what he's demoing is the fact that he pulls all this and pipes it through a series of commands from the command line So instead of interacting with chat gpp by the website you can interact with it via The command prompts so you can actually now chain each one of these prompts together for the one I just mentioned with the video id you can say hey grab the video id out of this that take the video id And push that information over here and then build your next part of the workflow on here That is where there's a lot of value. There's actually another i'll mention it real quick for those of you that might be into this. Um See it's called crew AI This is another project kind of related called crew ai and what crew ai can do is It's a framework for orchestrating role playing a non autonomous ai agents by fostering collaborative intelligence crew AI powers agents to work together seamlessly Tackling complex tasks says what you're doing here is doing that prompt to a series of different gpt's Then from there you lead them into each other So you take the output of one and chain it to the next one chain it to the next one to get the project done Because if you can't get enough Prompt to make it do what you want But you know this prompt will make it do the thing you want to do Basically, then you can move on to the next one move on to the next one It's just kind of neat the way this works. It doesn't work with a lot more than chat gpt There's plenty of demos. They have some embedded in here of How to do this and there's videos of how to do this as well in terms of like tutorials and walkthrough So if you want to check this out, I'll leave a link as well. I'll throw it in the chat here There's a couple of the ai things that i'm working on It's just there's a lot of neat stuff you can do with it. It always impresses me It's one of those I don't try to follow any particular hype train But this has been around for a little over a year and now that ai because it came out in november of i think it was 2022 and it's now Like tuned a lot better than it was. It's got some practical applications I use it for a lot of little things i've mentioned before it'll do a summary of some of my videos when i'm done To be able to put the timestamps in it does a little mundane tests like that really well Sometimes it's just helpful for doing things. I actually had a consulting Session where I helped someone with their gray log instance and I was showing them how to Take logs and put them into chat gpt to have it write parsers And maybe that's a good tutorial because I want I don't want to just hype anything I like to show the practical application of it how it would be useful to you So hey leave me some comments if you want to sue me you want to see me do a chat gpt video on Gray log that might be kind of a fun one I don't know leave leave some thoughts on that share your insights I want to you guys for me my ai youtube workflow no scripting, uh, but the mundane stuff. Yes I actually tested a product today and I can't remember the name of it If I find it i'll i'll look for it's truly disappointing how bad it was I I've seen some of these people doing these garbage youtube channels where they have it produce the entire video it'll grab all the stock footage and It's grabbing the context of what the words are so it'll write a script Have an ai voice read the script and the whole video is just glued together stock footage That is contextual to what is being said in that particular moment Yeah, yeah, it's bad. There's it's it's not what I recommend Kyle hill did a video talking about some of these channels and it's interesting how many there are and how they're Just popping up all over the place Kyle hill's video on the topic is really good. I can probably find that one too. Just in case want people want to watch it Kyle hill's a good science creator. Oh, let's see Well, he's got a new one. I haven't watched I don't but It's this video here. So let me share this tab It's a good watch. It's it's a don't only a 20 minute video, but this is a really good watch by Kyle hill and it's just It's all the different automated content things and they're stealing his content as well It's it's the most generic bs channels, but there's people consuming it They have millions of views and it's wild how they're doing it The great luck would be helpful Is it as it's easy for someone to understand I have a hard time rack my head around AI So I'm so used to command line and working with a set of parameters. Yeah, that's what I think that's important is doing that practical You know, this is what makes something really useful is not that. Hey, look, it's shiny and cool It's the hey, here's the practical way. This can help you solve a problem I think that's just a better Use of it if you will I realize I have the wrong Got the right logo There we go Oh, do I have any AI around the elsis on gray log to spot trends and break the troubleshooting? Yeah, I think that would be interesting. I the tricky part is I'd have to get a local LLM to feed it into uh That would be the harder part because I'm That's a skill level not that it's hard for someone who's uh knows how to do it It's hard for tom to do but I the concept is definitely there I do like the idea There's an interview with the ceo of gray noise You'd find it in risky business one of their december episodes. They talk about doing that using Using tools to do anomaly detection and kind of filter through the noise I think there's going to be some good tools that come out in the future from that one as we get it tuned but But doing machine learning anomaly detection is still It's still kind of an art. It's not cut and dry. It's not Because it has the same problems we do. It's not an amount of data problem It's how do you identify when a log is malicious? How do you identify when an ip is malicious? Everyone's slapping the words ai on all of their fanciness But actually doing the work and figuring out what is or is not malicious is still hard work As best at filtering noise recognize patterns and presenting to those itms for further review take action it It can be It's certainly one of the things. It's really good at is writing code It doesn't write wonderful code But if you have basic functions that you need done, you know, hey, here's the file Can you write a bash script that does this for me? It'll do that really well for you I've been doing new deployments often paste my network switching configs into chat gpt and ask it to explain each section of configuration great for documentation Yes, that is actually a really good feature so you can have it analyze Something what was I I remember why I someone had sent me something and I wasn't 100 what it did And I could have spent time looking up the couple of the functions in it But I jumped in and chat gpt because I was like, oh, I can just have this do it What are the different functions in here and explain each one? Boom it'll even if you want you could even have it rewrite it to add all the code comments Then copy that output and paste it back in somewhere else Hello from sydney from the land down under um, I have picked on And we're gonna do it again today I have picked on in the past the folks at uh zyke cell and uh Yeah, they're in the news again Um, oh the answer is person's question How do you learn how to use ai like a bash grip you mentioned? Where do I go to see that and how to how to get ai Or write code there's a million youtube tutorials on how to get chat gpt to write code Um, you you just ask it to you said you better fact you prompt it and say you're you're a linux expert You're an expert at bash Then you tell it what to write, you know write me a bash script that does this and it'll start just outputting the code It's actually really Oh, yeah python it knows python as well Yeah, no doubt about that. So let me um, uh, let's see like if you want to uh make a bash script that counts from one to 100 on the screen I mean Obviously, this is incredibly simple what I asked it to do and It's not that hard Yeah, the plugins are a plus feature But yeah, it's it's really fun. You can even make it your code companion to teach you how to do coding um, I can say do the same thing And python And then you can just hit copy code. You can tell it to make it so it's downloadable. I mean, it's just it's so easy to use I use it for you can use it for other features as well Um, I this is like one of the plugins called chat with a video pro Matter of fact, so if I pull up because I threw it in a link in here, right? So this is that kyle hill video that I had just Mentioned so let me So here's that video That I was mentioning and you're like, okay. I don't got 19 minutes To watch that video. So we're going to hit copy and we'll go here make a two sentence That will make it three sentences. That sounds good enough three sentence Because this is a plugin. It's already been prompted to understand pulling videos And uh, here you go. Let me The video Friday youtube link discusses the ongoing problem of scam channels and AI generate account on youtube The creator who has been posting science for a content over a decade addresses the issue So, you know, here's a really simple summary that it produced that quickly So pretty um pretty fast to be able to get things done like that. It's just it works really well Oh, uh, if you want Here you can even do this so, uh for Make a linked in post For me to share about this video There you go. Now. I just uh, I copy and paste this and I can share this on linkedin Yeah, it's just using the subtitles I mean people ask how I get social media done I mean There I just I just revealed one of the secrets. How do you post so much? Uh, it pretty much like this You can do this and you can change the voice and things like that you can say, you know Do it in this person's voice. I maybe I'm I should hold some AI training stuff for how I use AI If people are interested in that Oh, it even understood my typo. Yeah, you know, you don't even got to spell anything right for chat gtb. It doesn't care Um, you this is something i'm working on is uh more automation I mentioned this in my video when I did my studio tour being a solo creator but I kind of plan to keep being a solo creator because With tools like this, I can keep iterating to make things work better. This is where You know, I can instead of hiring an assistant to do this. I could just okay. I'm just gonna automate this I'm gonna create a workflow. By the way, this can be built into automations Um, so that way there's an automation that it gets applied this So I post a youtube video that I also want a blog post about I can then have it rip through do a blog post Then I can have that blog post created on my WordPress site Then I can review this summary and then all's I got to do is look at the final going. Yeah, that looks right or this doesn't look right Um You know, we're starting to I'm going backwards and re summarizing some of our business technicalities videos and re putting in Summaries of the data that was in there so they can be converted to posts as well. It's really nice um I have But I haven't shared. I don't think I've shared this with the crowd here. Um Here here's a fun one I can share this as a link This is completely a test. Oh, no, I can think I can pull it up and you guys can hear um The audio So let me pull this up um Obviously that is me But I reswapped my voice. It's actually using not a script. This uses the inflections my actual voice and remaps it I can map it to anyone's voice I this is a a generic test one I did But I can actually take voice samples of other people and I'm going to be doing this with some of my friends And this lets me then play back In that voice. So listen, I tell me if you can hear this of 2023 and as some people have found out Google has lost some of their files now This seems to affect a very small number of people But of course, it's pretty traumatic if you're among those number of people and google engineers haven't really figured out what happened But apparently a lot of people's data got rolled back to some previous state and people had mentioned It was all the way back in may of 2023. I just see losing that many months of data is pretty critical kind of gives you down that's not um I wanted to make it sound completely not like me. That's It was fun I I chose to do a voice different than my own I did not upload to youtube other people's voices. I can have it emulate my friends voices Uh, you put training data in and then once you have the training model set up. I can do the voice swap It's a lot of fun to play with this was a rabbit hole I spent way too much time on if you want to know why I didn't get the data center video done This it's because I keep playing with different ai tools and having fun I enjoy this. This is a big smile on my face as I play with all these different tools for sure They are a absolute, uh It's just it's just fun. That's all I can describe. This is ai tom Actually even more so, uh Is the what do I say? Um, is not just the ai Well, maybe I don't know Hold on Um, I knew a new phrases and words and statements to copy that but use a woman's voice Yeah, yeah, that's kind of well. It's remapping the voice with my inflections. That's what's really cool So if I can imitate someone else's mannerisms To an extent the way they use their voice the way they behave you could then map you to them with their voice So you can train it on people's things. I'm maybe I'll do tutorial on how I do that It's actually kind of fun. Uh, and then I drop it in my editing tools and that comes out But I'm working on this is what my thought I had for us pausing that Can make it more concise If you go to my forums and my forums I'll pull it up real quick here Uh, do do do Pull up me. There we go So If we look at a summary In my forums of me So I have uh 5400 Post created so All my answers to questions 5400 Then I have 1900 videos on youtube right now 1800 videos on youtube. I know it's just shy of 2000 I plan to take all of that data Put it into an ai system And make me because this is the cool thing I have this much data that I've produced All this different content and then I'm going to make the ai tom And uh, yeah, it is just really cool it's I don't know it's fascinating to me like to be able to do that to think I have now created enough data I have the data sets available. I have this Large mass that I can train on and then say all right now build a chatbot people can interact with and Now there's more than one of me There's a higher availability of me where I can say if you want all tom's answers use the tom chatbot And then I put it on there and I'll put some notice this chatbot is ai It may not give you the most accurate answers, but you know, it it works good enough Um What is the Best free tool to get an inventory of your network host name mac address Make model serial number or dried vices I don't know Just wait till it goes on a rant Yes We need to train one on jason slagle as well I would say like end map is your free tool to Um Mac I mean make model serial number of devices. That's not there's not necessarily a tool that's going to know that uh End map will give you like network data But actual device data that you're gonna have to input that there's not like unless you're loading a tool on each computer But even then it may not have the serial number of each one I want the tom g gpt to generate a video and and audio giving you the answer I You know at some point i'm gonna have so many stupid videos I'm gonna need some type of ai system to index them all so I can ask can I do a video on this already? Question with pf sense firewall and unify switches is their way to isolate devices on the same subnet subnet No, that's because on the same subnet. They're not isolated They're uh when they're on the subnet they're able to talk to each other without the gateway So that's not going to work Uh, didn't they have a fake? Yes, they have a fake thing calling people. Um, that's for sure Uh, does unify do private vlands? I don't think they'll do private vlands, but they do for wi-fi offer host isolation So if it's on wi-fi, I believe you could just turn on host isolation But I don't think you can do that on a um on the wired side When you have a rack with networking and servers What's your opinion on connecting to servers direct from the back of the rack to a switch? Yeah, generally back of the rack to the switch is fine VMware is dead dead Ah long live vmware Actually, that's it. Uh, one of the things my project for today We do these luncheon learns at cnw are we train people on different things Today's luncheon learn tom was doing a talk on xcp ng so that's uh, definitely Where a lot of stuff is going I've never really messed much. I don't think they have the ability to do rules that segregate like that. Um Not with unify. I mean it can be done with other there's other switch manufacturers that have very fine green port access controls Unify doesn't have fine green port access controls to Do that or they're not very advanced. It's not something I spent a lot of time testing because there's not a lot of people that have a use case for it Yeah, broadcom happened Broadcom is doing what everyone knew broadcom would do It'd be mac filtering or pvlands. Yeah, I don't think I mean we can we have google Does unify Support pvland sounds like they do not according to the forum post that I pulled up Um, people ask if I'm using wi-fi 7. I am not Have you ever thought of doing some intro to hacking or blue team specific videos? I know others do it I have videos that you can consider that the how I would hack you is a red team perspective with a blue team response So we have two how I would hack you videos that me and jason slagle did um I think that would make sense Uh, what do you think if unifies one ssc multiple password of different vlands, you know, I want to test that I don't know anything bad about it. Uh, it's it's kind of neat What happens if we get to the point where tom asks tom asks a hi tom questions You know, what if there's a future where I have to do that because I'm not as sharp as I was because I'm old I Sometimes I feel that way right now. I sometimes look back at the things I did that were more complicated. I was um Just going over a few things and I'm like, oh wow it's um It is going to be interesting that I probably should document what I know now because there's a there's a future version to me that may know less But maybe there's a there's a future Where we have some type of restorative thing. So my brain function doesn't decline over time But they can keep fixing it I don't know But I want to bring up the zyke cell real quick here They're in the news again, and I don't know why people like zyke cell at all I've never really liked them And uh, they have another uh, I didn't even This just dropped today. It's not an advisory about uh, a remote command execution another rce for them I don't they just have a bunch of path traversal problems and They used to have a few back doors. I think they got caught with two different back doors I've never liked them that much in general. I don't get their popularity at all and Uh, it seems like anytime if you start digging through they have a lot of dumb problems of just not Building them to a high quality. Um, I seen in the news it popped up today and it's like, yeah another one of those On a more positive note, we actually had a win for the privacy people Uh, this is pretty big deal Victory ring announces it will no longer facilitate police requests from footage for footage from users They the police had this whole thing where they could just get all this other footage It led to of course rampant abuse and privacy problems shocking right government abusing power That they were given too much of by ring. So ring decided after all the problems this created They're going to stop this and uh, yeah Years ago after public outcry and criticism Oh, actually we'll read the bigger part here the announcement will Also not stop police from trying to get ring footage directly from the device Owners without a warrant ring users share also know that when police knock on their door They have a right and should request that the police get a warrant before handing over footage And it's there's been a lot of public outcry around this it's funny because back in the days of the When me and Xavier were doing the how I got hack channel, we talked about a lot of the privacy problems We talked about ring. We talked about project green light going on and here in the Uh, Detroit area and other cities as well But you know, we're in Detroit We discussed it and it led to the false arrest of a lot of people because of the way they were using it And once again lots of privacy. So I was just excited to see this. I wanted to share the news on that Um, that yes, that's definitely um, you know a win for privacy for a change. I want to celebrate that So the okay, I never used excel back in 2004. So there was a time when they were popular Under security problems means they've got the same problem since 2004. Yes Uh with the pot with the video the pi 5 the other day. Have you used pi max? I have not 20 years tom ai wearing a shirt that says nas Um Nass is not a brain backup. I don't know why I pause to read that for some reason brain pauses cash misses Um, I instead of brain fart. I've replaced that with cash mess every time I pause because I can't remember something Exactly because it's being pulled from long-term memory. It wasn't in the short ready available memory Thoughts on unify udr unify dream router I mean, they're fine. I've thought about re viewing Some of the unify lineup now that they have any better ones. I really like the little one. I just reviewed I think that one's pretty cool. Um, I don't think I've tested the unify dream router one though Yep, false positives from facial recognition software led to a wrongful arrest of guy here in detroit. Absolutely Uh, this has been a problem more than one person was arrested as well There's been I think two or three incidents on there I don't understand the weird obsession running VMs and containers and underpowered small arm based devices I had kates cluster as a demonstration, but whenever actually use it Yeah, I think it's a learning experience. Um Because of the resource constraint and maybe for a home user I and I don't even I'll go a step further and say outside of learning Uh, setting up kubernetes stuff. I never use kubernetes in my home lab People seem like surprised and they're like tom. Why aren't you doing kubernetes video? You like home lab stuff? I'm like, why do I need kubernetes in my home lab? I just I mean I I like I use fresh rss all these news stories i'm pulling This is my you know, people ask like tools that you want to use all the or tools you use all the time Uh in in your home lab and one one's going to be fresh rss I did a whole video breaking it down I don't need this on a kubernetes high availability raspberry pi cluster If for some reason the single server running my fresh rss decided to stop doing so I would just fix that server and not read the news until then I don't know And it's backed up with the config backed up all the time So it's actually easy to restore it to another server because it does run in a container um Yeah, as uh, it's in a uh docker container. So yeah, I don't know If a customer rules out unified gear for their network, what's your next go to Oh fun topic Um our go-to can be quite a few different things But we were just talking me and jason slager we're talking about this today The customer self selected by the way they want to architect their network or the way they have to architect your network You can split hairs on that. Uh, they really need a bunch of acls and layer three policy type routes So that selects away unify, which was actually their inbound request. So we need a bunch of switches We need them to be unified. Well, you know, if I can't do what they want it to do So the core switches arista Arista sysco are going to be a couple go-tos that we have Jason can chime in here. Those are for people who need those advanced features. Those are good The downside is you have to have the budget that allows you to do that That's definitely going to be one of the things Oh, just get one of those 98 uh, 234 things patrick reviewed. Yeah, some of these other small mini pcs Definitely going to be a lot faster than raspberry pi. Matter of fact, jeff gearling He just did a video and it's funny because I talked to jeff Jeff can't believe how polarizing his video was he's got people in the comments telling him how much they love the raspberry pi And he did a good job and there's other people in there saying on that same video Why do you hate the raspberry pi so much jeff? He's comparing it to the uh, I think it's the n100 intel But yes, there's a lot of options out there for low powered computing Uh, check out my friends at hardware haven. They've talked about and covered some of the other Alternatives that are x86 pretty powerful You're buying them used off ebay, but you can get quite a bit of computer for Probably a little less than you'd pay for a brand new raspberry pi and it's faster Um, what's where your performance on a unified routers? It varies by each model I think they have their vpn speed listed on each model. I could be wrong But I think you that's listed on each like it's a cap It is what it is for each model based on the processor in it Do you have any comments or thoughts about the usw pro 48 poe? um I think I have one of those works. We've sold a bunch of them I think I have one in my rack as well at the south gate office But they work. I'm no I got no complaints all we have a lot of unified stuff at the office and it all just works fine Let me log into the um Yeah, here's some of the switches at the south gate office, but um, what do we have in here? Oh, we just got the aggravation rack Uh, some flex minis and eight port poe another poe Oh timed update the wi-fi confirm but Yeah, we all the unified switches are really been very reliable all this anything second gen is really reliable There's a ton of options on partial assist go to risco, but those are that's because I know and understand them by what you know Uh, or what you're going to learn. That's a really important thing There's people out there that really like beaker tick and I know they know it really well I don't know me kirtick as well. I know it's quirky, but I talked to an isp wireless isp The person took the time to really understand me kirtick and they use it a lot So they can make it dance because they know the ins and outs and the problems you run into Uh, jason is a long time sysco guy and knows the rista So and we have several other people that are sysco people at c and w are We go with what we know we configure Configure properly configure securely and manage and implement without scratching our heads So it's not just about price. It does influence your product decision based on knowing what will work And what you know how to make work Uh, fresh air assistant a raspberry pi is good. I mean it'll run on a pi Uh, I guess I could I actually um because I wanted to really try it I moved my docker containers all to my synology and I can't believe how good synologies Does it docker containers now? You know no complaints at all my synology is not particularly fast But I'm already using it so it seems logical uh to keep it running there Jeff has 15 000 raspberry pies Accurate Jeff Jeff has a lot of raspberry pies Oh, yeah, tom needs the rgb unify switch because You know that is a know your audience thing There is nobody in corporate it that cares about that like they're not ordering or paying extra for for that But as far as like the homelab audience. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's the video's not under popular. I completely get it Uh, I deploy extreme networks as part of my job. I've definitely drank the purple Kool-Aid Yeah, if you get to know them it makes a big difference Manage my first switch is a del power connect cli manage was a learning curve. Yes I think um The first time I learned Was pro curve was the first time I actually did pro curve before I did sysco got confused Learn pro curve. This is years ago. Obviously long before hp owned them. Um, and was doing some configs on that Uh, I just don't do a lot of command line switch configs anymore that that is I don't know. I got bad at it for it's it's attrition. Um, I just don't use it enough anymore I should sit down and configure networks all by hand Oddly the early Unifies you could do that on And the edge switches you could and I used to do edge switch But the early unifies had command line options and I think I have old videos from years ago By the way, completely irrelevant because when unify updated their product line, they actually took that out They don't have that anymore You've been enjoying the pod. Uh, the homelab podcast for now. Really good. Thank you very much I'm kicking hpe out of my house. Yeah Uh kind of on the news since we're talking about hp Who's seen this article? HP ceo says customers are a bad investment unless they companies buy drm cartridges Uh, yes He wants to turn printers into a subscription service because you know is uh 20 million dollar a year in compensation Isn't enough. He needs to figure out how to uh completely turn your life into printing hell as if hp wasn't doing it already But yeah, this the whole thing is just a mess I'll share that I'll leave this article here for anyone else to read through it But it's just showing you that uh corporate greed taking another worse turn Uh as if uh, yeah And I think jason's got a good point about this right here Don't worry hp will eventually buy whatever you replace it with yes No, that yeah, it's hp consumer Yeah, they they broke their uh Divisions into different companies. I know It still made me think of it. It's still got hp in the name It's still the namesake Oh, yeah, yeah, the whole discussion of uh, they needed to lock them down So they don't put an in cartridge that has a virus in it or something I Yeah, you know, I don't even I'm aggravated right now with uh, sony Sony cameras, so I updated the firmware on my cameras And now oh this I now it has angered a lot of people I can deal with it I'm mad about it, but I'm not as mad as some of the photographers The new sony update the firmware update not this is not in the firmware They have a whole list of things that they change in a firmware update this this this and this right Fixed bugs enhance this But when you update to the latest firmware If you don't use a sony battery It lets you know that you're not using a sony battery You must wait a second and click the confirm button So you can't just turn the camera on you have to actually Let it, you know Confirm that you're using and it's uh not supported by sony battery on there You know, there's a lot of third-party battery companies very angry They've been selling third-party batteries for a while and sony decided a firmware update Would then give you a warning whenever you weren't using a sony battery It's stupid I appreciate you time slicing your vlog. It's extremely helpful. Yes, because I babble on I mean I'm 46 minutes in and not stopping yet. So yes, um, I know it's very helpful to I use an ai tool to go through and parse Uh these after the fact it takes it takes the live stream a little while before it gets ready I think like an hour within an hour of the live stream I have a tool called taja.ai that grabs time stamps and summaries of what happened in the video Good evening sounds like we need a good open source printer. No, we just need to stop printing That's my I'm on the bandwagon of why do we need printing? that's the I uh, I think we can just figure out ways to stop printing. That's the way we win We just don't print anything anymore. I am I'm like perfectly fine. I can only see upside to not printing things I don't like touching paper paper bothers me Paper is like stuff that comes in the mail that I never want. I don't get anything in the mail I want that's on paper like just stop printing. Why do we do this? We're we have technology. Um, don't print things anymore that's Uh What is my preferred ups brand? I don't have I like the ones that are on sale. So if you buy a good brand name one apc Uh, I can't remember the ones I have in the office now. I did a video with the guy I think they're extreme networks or extreme power Uh, I think it's extreme power if you look for a ups guide I did a good video breaking down all the ups features and how they work Uh, that you'll find on my channel, but my favorite ups is sort of one on sale Quintar, thank you very much for the donation of ten dollars. It is greatly appreciated I like when people throw money at me. I'm just Throwing it out there. I'm not asking anyone to but I don't mind if they do. It's like tipping. I guess tip your favorite youtuber Put put money in the beer thing for me Yeah, my wife my wife works in a financial industry. They they are keeping the uh paper industry very busy printers are an IT manager which never Worse than me. I told you we're banning them. Yes 50 four-year-old building my first homeland my brain hurts. Uh, thank you for videos Hey, I'm it's never too late to start Uh, we most easy cyber power is a good mix of affordable and supportive features. Yeah, the cyber power ones are good There's a school district You know, I can't remember if I did a video on this or not I should look in there and see if um, I have one You know, it's all those things they call out the specialist. That's us and to figure out why One huge segment segment of the school is down And we get there and we start wandering around and we realized that the problem was the um, one of the racks the Teacher didn't like the beeping anymore because it was letting them know the battery is bad So they unplugged the ups and the switch that was there killing half the network It was just funny because the teacher didn't think it would affect anything They just didn't want to hear it beep anymore in the teacher's lounge. So they just went and unplugged it Um, but they had a whole lot of cyber power ones and they were all beeping because the batteries were going bad because they were so old Oh, let's see here Hey, thank you for the dollar the dollar. Oh, I get he's telling the dollars at me Oh, yeah, and the rg45 on an apc is not an ethernet jack. Yeah, um, but but I actually have and I think I have it Uh, it might be at the office still I like it someone's just making it rain. I'm keep throwing bearded it dad throwing me the dollars This is how i'm visualizing it, right? It's got me laughing, uh but There was a stupid stupid vulnerability in apc. I think it was their smart ups This is so stupid. So the way they I I shared this on twitter because I couldn't believe how stupid it was No, there's apparently no one at hp or an ip apc that thought of this use case You would go and take your ups the only way to get it online with the aps smart feature If you wanted to use it you'd plug it in you'd punch in the serial number of your apc on a website And it only had dhcp. You couldn't configure it. So it would get an ip address it would reach out to their site And give you status information Then all's you had to do was put the serial number in and you might have thought about this for two seconds and go Someone could put the serial number in And I could put different serial numbers in and then I can initiate a ups test over and over again Cycling it until it went bad. It turns out. That's exactly what people did I guess they don't have if I remember right there wasn't even rate limiting You could just keep dropping serial numbers in uh to do testing and diagnostics on it And I'm like no one thought about this in any secure way I had an issue uh passing my amv gpu through windows vm and xp and specific might help um There's a there's a write up on how to how to pass it through I maybe I'll do a video on it I just don't use it On my day today. That's why I've never bothered doing a video most of my videos I I take the easy road to doing them. I just talk about what I know um And exactly what jason said here, but let's pull something up for you that might even be more helpful If you haven't read this, uh they have A walkthrough on how to do this with pcipaths through This isn't a documentation how to find the device how to Remove the devices from dom zero once you this is the blacklist thing that jason's talking about here This is the command that you'll do it once you figure out what you want a blacklist and from there You can then pass it through into that particular vm. Uh, this is under um xd docs dot xdp and g.org slash compute I've had an issue of passing gpu through windows xc. All right so when I Is your way to have all my xo8 instances synced I have uh backup jobs All on one instance and need Get on another Then I mean no Yes, there's there's not a sync because why would you sync them? You don't need Multiple xo8 instances synced at least I can't I don't know the use case for that. Um I mean, there's probably some hacky way you could do it It's just a database and you could write a script to sync the database over to another one I don't know why you would do that as I said, but I mean you can And if you're in xcp and g um, one of the things you can do is like Here's like some of the things are so this is my lab one I can go through and export the config. So if I uh take the exit config I can download the config and upload it to another one But I don't know any reason to synchronize another one Uh enterprise question anyone use ms in tune um, we actually do Uh a tool called imibot um, we imibot gives you I'll pull a page up. It's a paid commercial product that You might be interested if you're trying to do it does a lot more than what you can do with uh like in tune This is a lot of automation. Uh, so if you're looking for an immy bot Use case for xwc because you want a primary dc and the backup in another Maybe i'm thinking about ha with Yeah, I don't know I I completely don't know why you'd want to do it that way Just put your zen orchestra instance on a Resource pool that has high availability and it will restart on one of the other hosts if the main host goes down So yeah, you haven't Watch my video on how zen works. I have that video on how zen orchestra works. Maybe that would help um, it's I posted it within the last 30 days But I mean you can go through all their documentation. There's not I don't I still don't understand that as a use case because you Use cases x oa sync if you want one in a primary data center and the backup in another Yeah, no, I know you don't need That because by the way zen orchestra If it goes down or if you stop zen orchestra none of the vm stop they still work zen orchestra is just for doing orchestration tools So if my zen orchestra instance itself comes to a stop it doesn't stop any of the things that are running Uh Are you gonna quickly show us bare bones configuration tool for xcb and g as an example if a company did not want to use zen orchestra? No, not really. I mean Learn the command line and that doesn't make a lot of sense You can do everything from command line calls through the zen api That's not a tenable manageable way to do it. I don't think so. I would definitely Not recommend it it you can go through the command line and like, you know X o vm uu id and tell it to start and stop that particular vm or You can issue all the commands to change the vm from the command line But it's tedious. There's a reason there's a web ui for doing that Yeah, zen orchestra 6 ui is very good. Not sure when it's going to be released later this year. Uh, it should be out there Um, it seems extreme. Uh, yeah, well that seems to usually slow. Perhaps the disc is trying to okay wrong one So orchestra nothing is what you're saying pretty much. They're going to have xo light out pretty soon xo light will give you some basic functionality Uh, so you can use xo light to start and stop vm's that might be enough That's something they're working on It's making some small but incremental changes as it gets better That is going to be an alternative for people that don't want to use that orchestra But it's not going to have any of the backup functions in it or anything like that It's like vSphere versus exi if the vSphere goes down the vm's Uh, none of the vm's go down. Yes, that's a better analogy Treat xo a like any other vm. Have it move to another server to pool. Yep That's as simple as that matter of fact, you can run zen orchestra outside your pool I talked about this the other day and I can Pull it up somewhere. Hold on Too many things running. Um Pull up virtual box here. I have a local instance Actually, let me fix this too I have to stop a tool it turns out I found a weird conflict if I run barrier so I can Move my mouse and keyboard over to the windows computer that I have that runs my studio um If you have barrier turned on And you are running virtual box on the same system you mean lose the mouse. It just goes away Uh, it's kind of weird Yeah, this is definitely a question I've had for people who Seem to want to use something other than The uh zen orchestra and I don't really I mean if you're going to use xcpng you kind of got to deal with zen orchestra if you want all the features And if you're in the open source community where you just want to play with this to your lab You can absolutely um run all of this But uh, this host here uh dot 46 I gotta remember the password to it Well, that was easy. It's a lab system. So I didn't only had a couple different passwords to try Uh, this is what the zen orchestra light interface looks like So you can see things that are running, but most of the other stuff is just All under construction right now. There's not much here I mean I can fire things up like right here's my lab I can say start this particular one. It's it's coming along. So it'll do Really basic tasks k8's and dr. Swarm for a home lab is one easier setup long-term than the other um I if you do it for learning, I don't know. I don't really use any of the kubernetes stuff It just adds a layer of complexity. I don't need but I will say my friend over at uh He's got a channel called gyms garage. He's actually compared Dr. Swarm and some of the kubernetes stuff. He's he's done some good videos on it I don't use either. I don't use dr. Swarm and I don't use kubernetes. So I'm not the right person to ask Yeah, the uh xcp ng with Like even like right here. So these vms were already running actually this one wasn't I started it with uh xo But if I stop the virtual machine that runs in arkasha, these keep doing their thing That's a matter of fact. That's why I had to turn it on. I don't even leave it running The only time I started up and run it is when I want to do a backup So let me go ahead and actually I need to destroy one of these I don't need this vm anymore If I go up my uh windows 10 This one can stop boot up my window system here Uh true nas is a nice platform to get into k3s. I think I disagree It's not showing you anything about the k3s. Are there k3s running underneath it? Sure We've got some version of kubernetes underneath but you know that's not the same as uh you know actually Running kubernetes and setting it up. It's it is running underneath but Check for updates cool It's up to date Oops, I made it too big shut it down Back it up. When was the last backup? Is it old? That's like 10 days ago We'll run it anyways, so I have a new version of it. This just backs up to my uh true nas Uh, the only thing I'm lost on the license for xcv engines works That sounds like it's open source free for home lab But as soon as you're in the core production environment, you should buy a license Yeah, I mean you should support the development and continued use of this product if you use it for a business I don't think that's unreasonable I wouldn't let my devs deploy k8s because it uh, they didn't understand it and if it's broke could be like Hey jason come help me You know, this is this is the challenges me and jason, um It just is completely jason's problem now because I uh, I sold my it business to jason for the use of you that don't know jason slagels president of cnwr And uh, these are the things you have to think of as a business owner is there's solutions You may be very technical and adept at But before you sell those solutions Do you have a team of people that can actually support those solutions because if you don't you have to support those solutions Uh, I've made that mistake numerous times and jason I don't know if it's through the learning of others or just being smarter to me. He knows exactly what the problem is There's uh, I've definitely over the years put together solutions that I then couldn't find anyone besides me to support because of the complexity Uh, this is one of the reasons I pitch so much for When possible use it's about solutions that you can sell that you can support That's an it's an important distinction If you make money off their products, uh, they want to as well It's how I understand it. I mean you want to support the further development of it It may be open source and they've given away the code for free But the time in engineering and the furthering of the product does require some revenue Um, even though the people that work at vates may enjoy writing code for xcp and g and zen orchestra It still requires that they pay their bills every day They don't get a free pass on all the other expenditures of life because they write code Actually the invitations of k3s on truenas is quite junky Pob man or even docker would have been a better choice. I find it to be very buggy myself Hey, mr. Systems fair enough. Um, if you're running some docker containers on an instance of debi Linux How would you back that up to back plays? uh I just back up the data if I was to back it up I mean, I don't natively back up any of my linux stuff to back plays, but there's tools to do it There's ways you can build tooling around it Oh, that's true Yeah, there's there's a sco vmware project that um That we sold Yes, sco as in look that up because it's a new if you're if you don't know what sco is You're probably a lot younger than me and jason And uh, yeah, we actually did this for a client. I think we should turn that into a video jason like how we Like let's turn that into a video outline because I think it's a fun topic how we rescued a sco system And it's It's intricate for sure and involves all kinds of fun Things because the computer we rescued it from doesn't even have usb. I don't mean like it doesn't have usb 2 I don't mean it doesn't have usb 1 I mean the computer we rescued it off of doesn't have usb It's that old and it was still running That's the first impressive part about the entire thing. It had not died and had been running for over 20 years And uh, jason rescued it. It's just it's a fun project Uh, what's my opinion on zero trust? It's a wonderful marketing term There's a lot of people selling it. They I don't know if they always know what it means, but they're definitely selling you zero trust um If you want to talk about like a different vpn solution trust but verify Uh Is a better way I would probably describe it zero zero trust is more often used as a marketing term is my unfortunate So get a little more specific on your ask so I and I can definitely speak to it If you're talking about just other vpns that are authenticating using the same tools that maybe Are your oauth login for example, actually someone reached out to us today that a consulting project on on exactly that um, but yeah, definitely um, I mean it it's better to have a Computing solution where you don't automatically trust things based on where they are in the network So if they're inside the perimeter, you don't automatically test them that's actually I think a really good security practice We do that as well like even when you get into the vpn for our network That's only layer one then you have to authenticate against the services that are inside of there I mean, I'm sure this came on floppies and it was installed on the system via floppies Just not usb that when you think about when there's no usb And the drives are really really old scuzzy from the 90s. How do you get data off of that? That was the first challenge we did it and that's why it's kind of a fun thought process to walk through everything We did to make that work I figured out how to get scale apps showing in the data I had installed true nas Install true nas net data app not true charts ah I don't use the truth. I'm not using true charts on anymore. So Change the group from dimension of k8s namespace neat And then shows data on a per application basis. That's pretty cool You should probably is there a write up in the true nas forums about it. That would be interesting To make that easier to find How's the weather wet? It is very wet here in detroit. It has been non-stop raining Absolutely non-spot. Um You know, I don't remember exactly what processor was in it. I've I don't know I didn't work on the project I observed other people working on the project. I did have a suggestion for how they could get the data So I did participate in the project Briefly, that's it. I was like that looks like a jason problem. I just didn't mess with it It was a fun challenge Found it in it. So ah, this was my rant two weeks ago I don't understand And this is the perfect example of the problem. You found it in the true church discord It if you would have had it if true charts would instead of using discord use a proper forum Where all this data gets indexed a search engine would be able to index and find this um I think that is Such a loss right now everyone's sticking data in discourse and it just gets locked in there and It you it's not well indexed and you now have to specifically go not just to discord to search it But the specific discord server that hopefully has the data you're looking for And that is the most dumb thing You're giving a proprietary company A big pile of data. What do you think's going to happen at some point to that company? They're going to lock that data behind a paywall. They're going to charge for access They're going to extract whatever value they can until nobody uses anymore And yeah, that's why i'm just not a fan of uh that at all Have you tried Microsoft co-pilot for office 365? I have not um Maybe i'll try it. I don't know Not i might not high am i to-do list Uh does your company take on any home automation wearing projects? You just let me your house commercial office project only Pretty much the commercial office project because doing home stuff is way harder uh It It's all those things like I mean could we do it? Yeah I mean if someone Wanted if someone to start the bidding at like 20 or 30 thousand dollar project I've done home ones that were pretty large scale. We've done them for some of the owners of businesses There's times when we've worked on it, but it's our field of expertise is a lot less in home automation So it really has to be worth it for us to get into it. We focus mostly on the commercial side email my true nest server Eight currently unreadable pending sectors dev d uh it's friday yet. Oh, yeah. Yeah Sir eight currently unreadable pending sectors. Yeah, isn't that fun? Fun times uh linux general How-to maybe Local indexing. I'm not exactly sure what you're asking I do need to grab more water though. My voice is getting worse So I will be right back after I grab some water. I'm gonna throw up my little Be right back banner Where's that at? Oh, there it is be right back. Oh, let's see Welcome back. Oh if anyone's wondering it is a uh Come on focus focus Jack dangles, there we go And uh Someone said that I need to make my microphone look like a beer can because that has been suggested that it is a beer can hanging partway in the thing Thank you for all your tutorials, especially to pf sense ones. I learned a lot long time pf sense user sense monowall Wow, that is a long time Let's see From the way I understand it zero chest is bpm Which allows you to connect to the after users identity permission systems Seems like a bpm but with a little bit more That's what the selling people. Let's actually let's do this I thought about doing a video. What is zero trust the problem is everyone's got a video But everyone has their own take on it. I'm not selling you anything So we're just gonna read nist because I'm not selling you nist I'm just telling you nist exists an enterprise cyber security plan that utilizes zero trust concepts And encompasses component relationships workflow planning and access policies therefore A zero trust enterprise is the network infrastructure physical and virtual and operational policies that are in place for an enterprise As a product Of zero trust architecture plan a security model as a set of system designs panels and coordinated cyber security system management Strategy based on acknowledgement. They throw it exists both inside and outside traditional network boundaries The zero trust model eliminates implicit trust of any one Component node or service and instead requires continuous verification Of operational picture via real-time information from multiple sources to determine Access and other responses So it's a continuous verification of the operational picture via real-time information From multiple sources to determine access and other responses That makes sense Or did the security spin make more sense and now people will done It's it's defined in nist and it's taken from nist and extracted into marketing you do a cost benefit analysis if A server is more effective in the cloud or if it's more effective On prem The big driving factor is almost always the amount of data. We have some video editing Companies like that do movie production like movies. You've watched movies. You've heard of definitely series you've heard of and some of them are our like one of them their biggest client is a netflix and We're a tear down from netflix that these companies do the editing on it's not practical to put it in the cloud If people try to say hey, put that in the cloud. No problem You'd be paying ten thousand dollars a month in cloud fees and your connection would be slow So it's about the amount of data Indexing in linux. Is it possible? Yes, but i don't know what you're trying to index Plus one. Thank you for the pf sense videos my basic router Finally died i'll soon carked Not heard that word before It had to do a crash course at pf sense 3m fun times your videos were a godsend awesome Continuous verification So there's a concept that's easier to explain related to zero trust. It's operating under assume breach Assume you can't trust someone just because they're inside the perimeter of your network That is a extrapolated view of zero trust. I can't trust you because you're on my network So an example is going to be and we'll pull this up because I think this is probably just an easy example is So if I go here I am inside my network And I have a login screen I now have to verify my identity in order to log into this service But i'm already inside my network now on a non zero trust model I trust because of your position on the network you got on my network so you can access the resources Zero trust says verify this most people do this anyways most services have some type of login on there Uh, so this is kind of a basic overview of like zero trust Uh, can you auto export pf sense config every day to churnass and keep the last seven? Uh, let me come back to that You don't need to do that every day, but I mean there's a way to do that not well No, there's not actually there's not a way to do it to a churnass You'd have to write you can write a script to do it That's probably my easiest answer if you wanted it auto exported to a churnass. You'd have to write a script Uh any thoughts and recommendations on securing risk-assisting iot devices in a typical office environment In general would say they need to be consideration Uh, I mean I just put them on a separate network. That's I there's not much more Tooling than that. Um if an office has random iot stuff just put it away from the other stuff Put all that random things that someone bought to monitor the fish tank on a separate network Uh wasn't on a wall the firewall that could use an extra keyboard to flash num lock and scroll up and caps and Uh lock likes to show traffic I feel like that's correct, but it's been a long time and I can't remember It makes sense. Just uh, not sure we couldn't Do this with our own hardware Uh on prem. Yeah Last live I joined you said you expect some synology notifications. I asked About to work. I got a chance to dig into over the weekend. I found a simple Setting I missed and the remote nas and the camera settings awesome. Awesome. Awesome. That is wonderful to hear that you got that working It's always one of those simple little things you overlook. Um when you're going through there it's always so aggravating, but What can really help with that is when you do something when you set something up It is kind of handy. I do this for my video scripts, but we do a lot of work instructions at c and wr we go through and document things and you once you've documented them in detail and you've done it a few times You know, okay, here's the steps that way when you go to configure another one You check you use the document like a checklist like set this check set this check set this check boom and then you can get it right so that is a um It's definitely one of those things so you don't miss those as much and it takes it takes time though Some of it becomes muscle memory because I set these up so much especially for my labs Before I do a video. I build it tear it down build it tear it down build it tear it down I kind of go in cycles like that to be able to really Get good at it. If you will let's see here Did you get the vid on monday done? I don't know what vid that was monday So if your pf sense ties needs me to recover your last config or you just re-image pf sense on mere drives I mean getting the config is easy. I've done a video on pf sense backups I've done backup and restore videos on it. You know, all you need is your last known config You can also and i'm gonna show it here on the screen in a second I don't use this because I don't need to but you can use this if it would be easier um Hold on Where did it go? Is this a service? Here we go There's an auto config backup And this will automatically back up to pf census servers So you could use this and have it automatically have a backup And if you have to restore pf sense you reload it get it online and pull the config down So that I've done a video on this if you if you type in like pf sense auto config backup you'll find a video No, this is not enabled by default Yep, it is off by default now what pf sense does do by default if you go to diagnostics backup restore um, the default config history Is uh 30 I have it Not at 30, but the default config history is 30 versions I've got more apparently What reverse proxy product do you most often deploy for customers if any? um Not that many there's not that many people that need a reverse proxy ha proxy works perfectly fine But we don't have a big customer demand on reverse proxies ha proxy works quite well though 69 versions. Yes. Yes. I I love using internet funny numbers whenever I can I love the internet funny numbers So if your pf sense sd dies um The the nice thing about Mere drives is you is it supported in bf sense? It's a great way to do it. Uh, just use mere drives if you're really worried about um a drive failure Drive failures though are really rare in pf sense because it's not like it's a high intensity device writing A absolute ton of data So it's not it's not like a big concern It's when I look through our ticket history of problems we've had with firewalls I'm not going to say it's never been a firewall drive that went bad But it's not that often it's not it's not the common underlying cause of firewall problems It's a good risk to prevent against but you know, we We don't have that many raid arrays running our you can actually do a z3 array Raid z1 so you can like put three drives in that's actually supported I that one. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that one's supported in pf sense as well. Not just mirrors Can't been contemplating moving from traffic to blocky on true nas To a j proxy and acne and pf sense but can't make up my mind. I like the um a j proxy because I have it all in one place. I have my proxy I have my dns My one place with all my configs that are really easy to back up matter of fact because right now i'm running This device is a neck gate 4200 Oh, let me see if you can pull this up. Yeah, there we go So this is a neck gate 4200 I'm doing testing on it. Um, I wanted to test it like in production use So this video is running through it right now the whole live stream But the neck gate 4200 here. How did I set this up for my other one? All I did was upload my config to it It turns out the configs match. So I downloaded the config off one upload the config here Reboot the modem and It works that includes all my proxy setups everything In terms of the certificates my different vpn servers my privacy vpn, which is pia All of that just worked and that's one of the reasons. I love the backup config It just makes it really easy to restore Seems like a gproxy easier better if I want to have a fully quad dns for things that aren't on my scale machine Yes, I mean, it's just kind of an all-in-one place that can figure everything Yeah, I like how quick I mean I keep every time I make a change to my pf sense. This is a habit for me I make a change to one of my servers like pf sense or even true nas if it's a back end change, uh, then I download the config file and I have a A place I store config files and you just store them and away you go I have a backup copy of every one of my configs and I only really need the backups one. I make changes if I'm not making changes, which most of the time I'm not making changes. So I don't care about the backups Uh, I don't care about backing it up on a daily basis. There's not any day-to-day changes I'm making when I do make a change before I make the change. I well, I have a backup before from the last time Maybe I'll make another backup if I need to generally I'll make some rule changes make some modifications I'm happy that it works download config. Have a great day. And there's a backup of it Which lu could take a hot sauce as you go to and that would be lu could take a black I do like the lu could take a black sauce that one's really good You know someone named Lawrence awesome My last name is Lawrence. So it's technically not my first name I'll talk about neck eight boxes how quickly and top where out the storage. Um I've been running it for years on boxes and it hasn't been an issue. Uh, it just doesn't seem to have a problem How do you get a shunas config file? pretty simple go to your Here we're pulling up. Hey, well, we'll pull up my Home lab 15 server You just go here And somewhere is a option. Oh managed configuration download file There you go. This will back up and save the configuration. I have your shunas. What up son? What are you doing? Still streaming there's uh 161 people staring at your one piece shirt Hello people. Yes Lawrence jr. Oh We'll call you Larry jr. Oh Do I need to order you a pizza? Is that what you're You don't know Okay All right, I'll be done shortly Uh, have you done a multi-man video on pf sense? Yes, I have You can if you look in like multiple man pf sense on my channel, you'll find that What up son sounds like dad speak? Yes Oh, I big on his door all the time in his room and I open his door and I'm like at first time He's not because I'm polite uh that up his door. Are you winning son? I love saying that I say that all the time if he comes out of his room. That's my first question. Are you a winning son? Have you tried wire guard tells on pf sense? So that's about yesterday Uh, yeah, we've actually done a lot of site to sites with wire guard Um in pf sense it really solid Are we rolling out? IPv6 to our clients. No, we're not I'm not we don't have anyone asking for it and we're not running around pushing it So no, I'm not worried about ipv6 I I said this in someone You know, of course this always starts an argument. Um The reality is this is the world we live in today I think something will replace ip in general Before ipv6 becomes a thing that's my opinion and I've got almost 20 years of everyone telling me it's the year of ipv6 and uh, not Not seeing it happen. So Yeah, I don't uh I don't really perceive it as necessary right now, which will definitely cause some anger in the comments Ah fun stuff I use the crown job to back up my true nas configs each night and syncing the copy to config to another location Yeah, you can do that. I I don't back up the configs daily. I back up the configs when I make changes That's fine for me. But automation is good. I mean if you got a way to automate it That's probably better Would xcp and g run fine from a usb flash drive and if I was able to redirect this log to a separate box And have some a little bit tiny pcs. Could you hack it together? Would it work? Yes. Would it work long term? You better get a usb with some high write endurance because even if you move our log, there's still a lot going on I mean, it could be done. I don't know that. I'd recommend it Thank you very much for the donation. It is greatly appreciated Uh, what other topics do I have here? You know, I don't really have that many other topics Yeah, no, but I mean there's all kinds of Ways you can just get in there and tinker with it and I encourage people That's a great learning opportunity to really make it do what you wanted to do I I'm all for that. Do I think it's practical? Not necessarily Um, it's not basically what I'm saying is it's not something I would use in production But for learning, I think that's the best way you can learn is just kind of hack away at it until you get it working The way you want it to work Because sometimes that's what I do so I can figure out how I want to use it instead Oh good. My my windows backup worked Successful Now I'm wondering I was backing up some data. This is my uh, this is the 45 drives homelab 15 Mm. Good. Looks like all 11 terabytes of data have moved over. I uh, I've been synchronizing a lot of data on this How much data is left on it storage wise? 36 Tergabytes of data That's a lot of data Oh use is only 20 25. Okay. We're 60. We're getting a little full on this thing Uh, does anyone have an issue when a unified client shows the ip wrong Shows the wrong ip address using a third party firewall some of the phones show Threat ap some addresses that were shown I mean, yeah, that's gonna happen if you're if you don't have a complete unified system It's going to show some of the wrong information. Uh, when it pulls that Thank you time for all your pf sensor tutorials and videos and info sharing. Awesome. Glad it was helpful I do have another meeting though and and I actually have a meeting with some friends tonight online. Well a new friend So I'm gonna have to jump off here in about 10 more minutes the uh All the different I have to update more of these servers. They should always one of them is out of date Which one was it? This is my True nas mini. This is what hosts all my videos and this I need there's an update that just came out yesterday for Um, it's a minor update that doesn't directly affect me, but I still I still update everything right away Hey, there's there's the backup job running that goes to my true nas Turns out all my videos don't take up that much space. This is what I added all my videos on so there's um 21 terabytes terabytes of video I'm adding in to be our pro to my unified system now two of my cams and two apps appear to dropping off reconnecting like 4 10 times today Are they wi-fi ones? You gotta figure out and look through the error message to figure out why they're dropping Are they wi-fi and are having trouble connecting or are they wired and they're having trouble connecting? Uh, how do you keep up to date on all the firmware updates out there? I don't know. Um, I mean for some tool there's tools out there. There's actually a tool called What was that? Mostly I do, you know, I'll be honest. I mostly just read it all through news updates Uh for things more than anything else That's probably the easiest way I would say to do it is through news updates But there's some there's some tooling out there if you remember the name of it There's some tools out there that will do some testing to determine if you have the latest versions of software Oh, the notes changes are easy for any one of these sites when you um When you go to any one of the sites for the different updates that are available They all have and I mean this one this is actually a site and maybe I should set up an rss feed for this You can read the changelogs. It's all detailed out very clearly on the true nas notes So you can They have each date and when they release it. So here's like the january 24th changelog And it's a small hot patch. That's why I don't have it loaded And it's for their true nas enterprise ha platform. Once again, I'm not using that. So I wasn't in a hurry to load it I'll load it tomorrow probably Where's the message for their wired? I mean you look to see if the connections are dropping I don't know where unify keeps that information Just look to see if they're like set a ping up and see if they're actually dropping from the network interface try different cable If they're wireless then you have to look through some of the unify logs I apologize for harping on xcp xcp license I keep getting mixed up every time I read something new about xcp and g lysing So their system pays each month for xcp and g Yes Yeah, you you pay them on a subscription fee If you want to use the license version. Is that the question? Uh, that doesn't include if I don't want to but it's more confused when I read well Hopefully this There they have updated pricing And it's on their vates, uh I'll find it real quick I'll share this to make it easy to find for you You can find this I'm dropping a link in here This is on the vates dot tech The link I just shared it's got their pricing on there. This is their bundled pricing It just came out with this so you can get both at the same time So you can pay $2,000 a year for small infrastructure And that's going to include both your xo and your xcp and g support Hopefully that makes sense This is the link vates dot tech slash blog If you go to their blog, you don't have to type all that or I think you can click the link out of the livestream chat That makes more sense. Yes. That's why they did it. They I don't think they've gotten around to updating all of their other Uh stuff for that Hopefully that helps where is someone's messaging me And I can't find it That's always my challenge not that I got a message that I can't find out where the message came from because there's too many windows open Oh, there it is I'm building a homelab all unifying neck gear pro safe managed switches Uh that is still the box. Should I use it with poe injector or buy a 24p poe? all unify And I have a neck gear pro safe managed switch that is still in the box Should I use it with poe injectors or buy 24p? I mean You have to learn how to use if you're whenever you have a mixed environment You then have kind of a mismatch you have to create the vlands inside of the neck gear switch And then match the vland creation inside of unify I personally don't think that's a big deal. Maybe you do. That's where the pros and cons are When you have a network made of a hodgepodge of different equipment You just have to manage each piece of equipment because the networking standard for vlands is pretty standardized So as long as you set it up properly, you should all communicate just fine But that requires now if you decide. Hey, I'd like to add another vlan an unify controller Well, you still got this neck gate pro safe that you also have to create one for So that's a um You know just one of the challenges that'll come with it. It's not good or bad. It's just kind of a if that's fine not so But I'm going to wind it down here because I have another meeting. I got a I think ordered pizza for my son I don't know anyone's I'll figure that out because he was unclear while he was down here as you may have heard And hopefully that makes sense Pennsylvania people uh poe devices you want to power if you have a lot of poe stuff then get the poe Otherwise the injector is a way to go. Yeah, that's true, too. If you want to have um If you have a lot of things that you want poe to power Having a switch with a lot of poe ports is pretty helpful Oh, that's a whole yeah, I hate how neck here you have to um Change untagged vlan and it doesn't change a pvid There there's no standard for web interfaces on doing that type of stuff. So yeah I saw your video on art watch yesterday, but don't know if it works across subnet some vlands It art watch works for every vlan you apply it to so you choose which networks you apply it to network slash or vlan But when you choose it based on network segment Hopefully that makes sense, but I'm going to wind this down here. Thank you everyone for joining. This was fun as always Uh, love hearing all your thoughts and one not down in the comment like and subscribe to see more content from the channel Hit me up in the forums or whatever socials you'll find me on at loren systems.com And i'll end the live stream here Because I figured out who's messaging me and I do have another meeting coming up in about 10 minutes Later, thanks