 Welcome Actually, tell me how bad the echo is I just said this is I said welcome. I was like it's kind of echoey in here Anyways, welcome to vlog Thursday I would say it's sunny Florida, but is anything but sunny Florida at the moment Set the laptop town. We'll actually spin the camera around to give you an idea here that it's really really not sunny out This is a Yeah, not a sunny Florida But hey, you know, that's life sometimes you come down here for a couple business trips and a storm follows you From Miami push that back down here. I started out of Miami is at the Acronis event Cronus cyber fit as it was called met lots of you there shout out to all the awesome people I got to meet in person and everything that was great. Then I went to We'll drove Acronis provided us a bus to Orlando and we drove through a storm Tropical storm and now we're here in Orlando. I mean at the it nation event and it's been a lot of fun Please tell me if my audio is working. So someone commented say that I'm not just You know moving my mouth, but not actually something coming out since the background is so they will zoom in a little bit here Well down there you go. I think that's right. Oh look. It's looking at me Audio is good. Thanks. Willie much appreciated. So this is the it nation in 2022 event and I had Mentioned before when we were with Matt Lee the beard charity and that the beard charity and this is the video we did called how I would hack you and the reason we proton it because we Wanted to collectively and this is something that Matt started. I believe with a few other people and it kind of grew bigger and bigger to donate to charity and I want to share the results right now of What's going on with all that and we're going to go ahead and Share this particular thing. What do you guys think that it's up to you right now and money? If someone wants to throw a number for how much money was raised for charity to get people to shave their beards And we're talking people who have epic beards So that's your average beards, but some pretty epic beards So throw a couple numbers in there before I share it to see before I scroll down on this versus so I can hide it Yeah, okay, like share it. I can hide the number until someone Gets in there. Oh, I see actually the second number that someone posted the 500k is Closer than the 3k So we're gonna pull let me get that share screen back up. I'm just impressed that they pulled all this off This is just so cool of them So now I'll share it There we go and actually I'm surprised the internet hotel is is Internet the hotel here's as good as is so Actually, we're able to raise a hundred and forty two thousand dollars So I'm I was impressed. That is awesome. You know starts as a charity get people to shave their beard It's going to be going to the woman in code charity bites and bits cyber security Diversity cyber Saudi Council, so there's a bunch of good charities is going to it's awesome Some people have already lost their beard. You're gonna be more beard losing Unless you probably post a separate video about it because you know give a big thanks to some of the people involved But I wanted to mention it right here because I was like wow, and they've actually raised more than this Because there's a couple more things that are happening like at the final moments here I don't think they've got this number completely updated yet, but either way really cool That they pulled all this off. So I big head, you know Batley it is can't say enough good things, you know, here's a lot about the community and this is just one more thing in there now the other story and Let me see if I can put this in that same window Do this will it show up? All right, so I'll probably have to zoom this in a little bit There we go so this is my friend Jason and He has had some fairly public spats as he would put it with his Threat Locker on Threat Locker as well as companies that sometimes in the past had overstated their advertising a bit Maybe I'm a little aggressive and stated that they will protect you from all things all things just everything And you know overstated marketing is a trigger moment for Jason. So he's called them out on there 170k is part of it, but this is Threat Locker actually had a fun proposal is to have Jason wear their shirt So would you would you wear the shirt of someone you've had some public spats with I don't know But for $20,000 donated charity Jason decided he was gonna do that. I thought that was actually now Thank you. It doesn't mean lots me cause a lot for charity's benefits. I thought this was particularly cool That yes it's just Really cool that all this is going on is some of the stuff that's happening here at IT Nation Besides that because I don't have a lot of time because I'm getting ready to go Shortly back to the event. I was gonna train live stream from the event. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow if I find a spot It's just so noisy and there's five Thousand people at the IT Nation event and with five thousand people being at an event You can imagine it's not necessarily easy to find a reliable internet connection So that's been a bit of a challenge So oh and just so we'll throw this back up here This is the Matt this is I've been taking a few pictures of Matt just before he loses his beard So he's got a boost set up there, but I might be able to use this little area He has set up to do a live stream so Get that Get that body cam and a mic But what else do we have here? I can probably share if you want an idea of how big the event is here So I can pull that up there. We go So yeah, this is this was the keynote this morning to give you an idea of how many people are at the IT Nation event So it's a really cool event. This is put on by connectwise. I'm actually a limited user of connect wise products I come here for mostly the interactions with people also. I do some of the workshops Where I can learn about different things. It's a great education opportunity but and I'm gonna do a video on this and Details are coming soon, but we'll go ahead and put it up on camera. This is gonna be MSP geek on this is another event that a lot of you in the more technical side may be interested in coming to So I'll be doing some videos talking about that MSP geek. I've talked about them before there's a link I think I've got it and I think updated all my descriptions to put it, you know How to join MSP geek if you have Google you will figure out pretty quick how to join MSP geek It's a free organization run by friends of mine that will you know a good way to interact with other IT professionals specifically MSP stands for managed service provider. So it's a category of IT professionals like similar to myself who Are a managed service provider for groups of companies? So it but if you're just an IT provider you may find a lot of value in joining their group and interacting with other texts because well It's fun. It's to do that. So there'll be more on oh Get a get a GoPro on the chest and your road mics. Yeah, that's an option too So but nonetheless, I will be talking more with people about the MSP geek thing about the MSP geek conference The conference is gonna the goal is to really make it focused on, you know, the technicians and learning things and Putting on things that will help bring technicians, you know level up, which is of course if you're working in tech That's usually your goals to level up. How do I step up in my career? How do I get off this help desk and onto the network engineering team or whatever your goals may be? So it's a lot of that alignment that we want to bring, you know education for the community Huntress is going to be there. I'm pretty sure so once they get all the details thought out But they're gonna be doing training classes there. So some of the other Benders that are focused on a lot of that training are going to be there, which is just awesome But I was also at a cronus and I'll be doing some sponsored videos Here we find it so the a cronus event I mean I got a picture somewhere here I'll pull up Well, I have the after party event here give you an idea the a cronus event also had a few thousand people at it So this is a cronus in Miami So I have some sponsored videos that'll be up soon on the cronus But they were really interesting my opinion not the sponsored opinion is that they have a really interesting product base And they have a really interesting offer. They're putting together To create essentially a single dashboard to rule them all which I know we've all heard before But their perspective I'll be covering on it because I think it's going to be a really interesting topic I did they're coming out with a new EDR product a DLP for dental loss prevention EDR stands for Endpoint detection response. So there's a lot of good talks there. And of course they put with the conference they put on had Good speakers at the event. No, this is actually kind of funny one of the speakers To do to do me pull it up was of course My friend Matt who's getting his beard shaved. So there's Matt and That that beard will be gone tomorrow. So that's one of his last bearded pictures Fun times fun times for sure But nonetheless, it's it's exciting times This is I've been so busy in the internet I had time in Miami, but the internet was terrible. So I really didn't get anything done I was gonna record maybe I like a remote a video to do some things But I would have had to do all local on my computer and I wanted to do some follow-up XCP and G stuff Couldn't do it. The internet was terrible in Miami. Just really bad. Good news that the internet's good here But for the moment, I've been really really busy attending sessions Therefore didn't really have time to make any videos except for this But maybe I'll squeeze in a live stream tomorrow If I find if I find the right time slot and in a good spot to record it And maybe I'll record it with some someone else I find over at the show. So Definitely I Don't like not having videos published I kind of like to keep it rolling and keep the ideas flowing keep the education going but sometimes when you travel There's some challenges involved in all of that, but my travel I'm back on Saturday back in town doing stuff and Not paying for I I'm not a big fan of being at resorts at all It's it's like really expensive coffee. My wife bought some seven dollar Because that was the cheapest bag of potato chips seven dollars I was eight seventy one and I'm not gonna qualify. This is a large coffee eight dollars and seventy one cents for my coffee I was like that's not really a large, but it's the biggest one they had I um, yeah But I guess there's some good side to it even when it wasn't stormy. I did get to you You know have nice breakfast on the On the ocean if Miami at a fancy place, but of course the most important thing to me is they had hot sauce So that's that's really what matters to me is do you guys have hot sauce? Yeah, cool nice ocean guys Where's the hot sauce? I need some flavor That's my thoughts on that I don't know one feels bad for me for having small bottles of hot sauce But I still had to complain they weren't big enough But I don't have a lot else for you if you want to ask a few questions I have about ten more minutes before I kind of get going again and head back over to the event If not, I'm sure I can ramble on about a few things because I was trying to be me and me and Jay are going to do a video discussing Mastodon I've been reading a little bit more about it, but I don't know that I'm ready to switch to it and I want to explain essentially that although Epically, I mean in a most unpredictable fashion like I I don't know why I thought this I thought maybe Elon Musk would be Rational like he is an irrational purchase, but I thought oh afterwards He won't do anything that incredibly stupid, right? But but here we are and Well, he's consistently just gotten dumber And I'm just like But it's not enough for me to leave Twitter just yet But I had some thoughts on it and as someone who is starting to take sponsors on their channel I think a lot about that and I kind of want to put something more articulate together about how that works with sponsors and in the Problem not just Twitter, but all the ad market is facing when it comes there And it but any time account and a platform starts lacking Moderation and her content becomes toxic the advertisers move away Modestation and modernization are in Just absolutely linked to each other and a lot of people won't realize that it's not about like opinions and oh, no They shouldn't moderate they should just let it be a free flow of information and then you go Oh, wait, someone's got to pay the bill for all these servers. Who's gonna pay? Oh, we're gonna get the advertisers to pay well The advertisers don't want to be here because it's a toxic community or anything like that So I I don't think Twitter has become so toxic that I want to leave just yet So I'm gonna remain on there for the foreseeable future until it becomes bad. It actually has it dramatically There's like everyone wants to get the popcorn and watch whether you're for Elon or against Elon Everyone gets the popcorn and watch the things happen, but honestly from the circles. I'm in on Twitter The cyber security people I follow. They're still doing the same things. They do like hey look at this vulnerability Hey, is anyone seeing the CVE here? Like there's still a lot of good solid information Doesn't mean you don't have a backup plan And you look at things because I do think a more federated system such as Macedon's awesome But is it ready? Can it stand up? To the number of users that a large media platform social media platform needs. I don't know That's the questions that are gonna have to be You know a real question and it's it's really about Good moderation with any of these because even Macedon because you can federate with other servers But there still becomes a level of moderation that comes in and you're gonna find that the good communities they will federate Only with other good communities where there is a level of moderation I am someone who runs forums and I have to delete things that don't make it to my forums because Mostly it's spam. There's a couple of people who like to drop hate messages. I don't know why they do it I'm like Connecticut. I don't I mean we got filters I don't know why you signed up register You got an email address and then dropped a bunch of really awful Things and tried to post it in my forums. I don't know why people do that My forums though get almost like 15,000 views a day with a good user base because of the moderation To focus on what my form's purpose is and it's to curate the tech community so Everyone says, you know, ooh censorship bad and freedom and I'm like, yeah But if you let the truly awful people which actually make up the smallest percentage You'll take any community the awful people are always a tiny tiny percentage But boy, they can really poison the well quickly. They can certainly create a lot of Just, you know spew hate all over the place. I'm not sure why they do it I think they need something else to do but if you don't moderate or make sure those people aren't there Well, the other people the larger community of people will go well, I'll go hang out somewhere else It's the same in real life. People just behave a little bit better in real life You know, you give people a mask and the anonymity or at least pseudo anonymity. They have will sometimes have them acting not as Good as a will in person, you know, it's like if you went to and obviously gonna be at a large event here and it's only that large event were to just misbehave at a Exponentially terrible level the general people behaving around them would just move away from them But if we couldn't move away from them security would move them away from us So that happens in real life in much the same. So, you know, I Yeah, I'm all for though Not centralizing the power of the social media systems and having a better federated system anyone who follows me on Twitter Will know that I retweet a lot of stuff that Corey Drow has I Posted and talked and recommend a lot of people to read Corey Drows books He's got a lot of really good thoughts on how to solve many of the monopoly problems We have in technology and especially around the social platforms So, yeah, I'm definitely for the change But I'm also realistic and realize that change can't just happen immediately because people think it can The systems have to be ready for it Question unified is every camera G4 and capable of objects and the cameras don't state that specifically I am not clear on that ease either. I need to kind of dive into all the new object stuff They're doing it in camera, which is kind of cool But unifies a lot more fuzzy versus the Amcrest cameras I've talked about with Synology and their AI platform that they have where they have the object recognition that you can tie to a Synology obviously it's more implicit With those but I'm a little bit fuzzier and how that works in the Unify world so Yeah, unifies a little bit different on that I've been keeping up with that. We have a unified system at my office. We have both We actually have a unified system and Synology Camera systems. That's how I can bounce rack and do videos on both Okay, actually, I think Cody's definitely played with it more so Cody from Mac telecom networks G4 bullets can do vehicle and person detection. So The G4 line. Yeah, so Cody's got the answer He has spent more time with the Unify recently than I have I kind of want to get back to it I've been putting together like a big unified video idea And I've been scripting some of it because like just well, I don't script the what I say I just put together all the talking points for it. So I said put together. I'm like, okay I need to do an in-depth unify video That way I can break it all down put little time indexes in there and talk about the well unify Networking I'll talk about separately the unified camera But I want to bring back to unify camera system and do like dive into it again because there's been a lot of changes Since I realized it's been a long time since I did a video on it. So Yeah, as expected just want to be sure with something from EA. Yeah Yeah, and also thank you Cody because He drops a lot of knowledge on there That's on my to-do list though is one of the expansions that I'm really working on is I'm going to After I sort out more of the business things that I'm doing on the back end of my company I want to focus on Building out and hiring more people to directly help me with my YouTube channel That's high on my list right now of things. I'm really strategizing for This is why I've been talking to sponsors because the sponsors are going to help pay Because everyone says get an intern. No, I want to pay a person To help me review products and help me with some of the back-end stuff So I can I don't mind being the one who presents at all But I'm right now not only the one who presents but also the one doing all of the back end a lot of times My staff has become so busy. It's actually if you look there's there's a little bit less Videos but part of it is because I Don't always have the time to do everything all at once and I could rely on my staff to an extent And I still can rely on them to service customers, but they don't always have all the time to participate in everything else. So yes Hiring someone is definitely like directly. Hey, let's it is a great idea. You get to play with products I'm gonna get enough though products out there and I need someone local I think it's gonna be the best way to do it I mean remote cool for some of the aspects of it But local because I actually need someone like especially with all the Wi-Fi testing and camera testing like it's just If I'm the person moving and doing it all it makes it harder if that person's local to me and works in my lab to do it Also, they get to work in a lab and play with technology. So I think it'll be fun Has unified proved at all or still better to use PF sets. I would definitely use PF sets they're routing just can't hold a candle so how well PF sense works I mean, they're trying they're improving it, but it's not it's not leaps and bounds Yeah, and Travis is one of our recent hires and he'll tell you yes, we're busy busy. So Things Things keep getting busy or we keep landing more jobs more projects and hey, that's part of the fun of it though, that's what you're supposed to do a business is keep growing and things like that All right, any other questions people have before I wander off here I Think I think I showed people all the other stuff Let's try to look and see if there's anything particularly new that I've covered but it really Isn't a lot Yeah, there's not anything interesting I even took a picture of just all the people at the events and everything else My wife's making a face that I'm supposed to be leaving now I guess I got to go get an Uber and go back to the events place. So The last couple questions will answer the military unifying our supports multiple IP and when yeah, that's something they finally added Like that's a basic feature by the way. I took them a long time. They've had it for a little while But yeah, hey, you want to submit or homeland I'm struggling between your R7 40 and a custom weight box style thread ripper I'd like to hire a course in clock speed. Our server has either or one of two the problem with I Like the custom weight box. That's why we built those recent servers But you can it all depends on the deal you can find it where your budget is Then I say about building custom weight boxes They're the ones we built are really really quiet which I mean the R7 40 is modern So it's not it's gonna be as loud as the previous generations, but it is probably gonna use a little bit more wattage So it's a hard call to say which one also building things is kind of fun So you lose out on that when you buy something that just works Also, you buy something that just works that works really well and you don't go through some of the troubleshooting and by the way This is a problem. We've run into Where the the one thing I didn't mention in that video I just slipped my mind is that we don't have the memory clock at the fastest speed possible There are some bugs apparently if you clock the memory and let rise and build video I did to the fastest memory supported by the board. You have to go one notch down Not a problem you run into usually when you buy a Dell it just works For me pfSense is confusing in reverse Reverse mode policies. I don't know what reverse mode policies are So that's maybe a forum post This clock speed essential and virtualization game server kind of depends Clock speeds is relevant to your workload. So that's really what it comes down to It does your workload need faster CPU it most of the virtualization stuff for a lot of people It's usually running out of memory is the problem. That's why I did that video on dynamic memory With xcp ag running of memory is way more frequent. They're running our processor unless you have something that is requiring Peak processor power all the time. Then you just have to say well, I'm peeking out the processor So I need to have a faster one to get my workload done, you know, if you just have something that's hammering the system with heavy-end queries Yeah, that's a challenge. So It's not It's it's you can virtualization works on even low-end systems And if you don't have something that has a ton of cpu demand, well, you're gonna work fine with that But thank you all for joining me. I'm getting the stare from the wife. She's making faces Do you want to go? Would you like to leave honey? Was she going a car ride? She's giving me the finger now She's giving the finger that says we should leave now All right, I will turn over to some palm trees real quick. Let's just point at the palm trees with the camera because Why not? It's it's cool looking How am I gonna knock this camera over? Maybe Maybe not. Let's see You can watch the breeze in the trees This is where I'm staying apparently. It's like a golf course, but no one's golfing because it's so wet Oh, yeah, also I can zoom on stuff. Yay neat All right, that's enough Thank you everyone who joined me I'm standing up now. It's like I'm pointing at my face. Thank you everyone who joined the live stream Uh, maybe I'll do another one tomorrow and talk more about the stuff But comments down below head over to the forums for a more in-depth discussion That's where you can engage me ask your more detailed questions about policies and pf sense I do check the forums even though I'm in florida In not Detroit where I'm usually at I do check the forums daily I've been replying because one even I have my laptop at the event So I've been you know, I stay engaged with the community. That's why I built it And that's how you keep building communities you stay engaged and there's also a lot of other people on it It will help engage with it. So Yeah, I just want to remind you the forums are a great place for all that. So thank you for joining and I'll see you next time Oh, someone donated money. So let me give a thanks Awesome. Thank you for that Uh, awesome. Awesome Uh, UDR have link integration. I don't know But thank you very much for a donation Awesome. Take care everyone Florida Austin. Oh, all right later later from florida right now