 All right, and we are live Welcome to it's early and Tom should have planned better at the channel con 2022 CompTIA, so I'm not going to do this vlog for too long. I found a little gap in my schedule here I mean I guess I could have done it when I first woke up if you can't tell I still sound like I first woke up the problem with doing conferences you lose your voice it is a challenge you face because For reasons, I don't understand Conferences like to play music at a loud level and then you're forced to talk over said loud level to have conversations with people and then you lose your voice and This is day two day three of the conference. So I don't have a lot of voice left Hey Travis Can you hear me and I actually wanted to do an audio check and I think it's working as I'm using these new DJI microphones and this is actually kind of cool because I can it should be able to just wander around and It should just keep working. That's they got quite a distance on them. I Always like to decorate my Yeah, gravelly, but gravelly has nothing to do with the microphone. It is completely a me thing, but uh Where I got to gather more of these this is my Official live badge I have and I like to decorate things. They had these little bands So I wrapped them in here part of the thing is, you know, getting a reason that people engage with you And in have a fun conversation. So that's a lot of what I've been doing wandering around here It has been a lot of fun So for those of you that aren't familiar you can just Google really quick CompTIA channel count live and if you're still here and you see this Yeah, Brett's here. We've had a great time at the conference. It's been a lot of fun I'm engaging with a lot of vendors meeting people. I had a great conversation with Linode You know might have heard of them if you've listened to the homelab show But it's fun because I get to sit down and have direct conversations instead of the emails back and forth with people and it just makes it kind of a an interesting Dynamic is you know, you're sitting down and You're less guarded. I guess so you're not trying to be like official business email and I think I get most of the same out of Conferences when I were conferencing when I'm doing a live, but it's it's nice to do You know sit down and have a direct conversation with people so it's really cool. Oh Hot in Switzerland. Wow Norway, you know, I figured a lot of my European people will be happy that I did it this early cuz it's just afternoon for your for you matter of fact, it's 935 Eastern time, but I'm another time zone over. I'm actually in Chicago So here's my view I'm in the big city so They got it cool across the way here right there because they got a pool on top of their hotel I do not have a pool on top of the hotel. I'm at I still like the hotel, but there's no pool on the roof So maybe I'll do more of these morning live streams, but for now You know do it here, but I cannot do this for too long because I do have several things to get to but nonetheless the things that are going to come out of this are I Want to do a few more interviews with some of the vendors I meant to dive into a few things this kind of relates to me talking about the sponsorship stuff Because right away, you know, I pitched it to many of you last week about how I want to do it I wanted to see if someone had like a better idea or things. They didn't like yeah that hotel Wi-Fi It works in the morning by afternoon. It's dead. Not everybody gets up as early as me, but uh None the less the One of the things I want to do is make sure you know, like I'm unaligned with I do some of these sponsors So drop talking directly to the marketing people that happen to be here at CompTIA Help me solidify some of those ideas. I had and so I'll be putting it together It's the thing I mentioned in my last walk There's a major mention at beginning if you want to go back and watch it But essentially it's taking on sponsors and saying hey This particular post will be sponsored now talk with one of their engineers matter of fact That's what's kind of cool They're marketing people and engineers are here and the reason why is because when you're standing around in the channel Combooth the you know, if someone has a more deeply technical question like this guy Then you go and move on to hey Let's go ahead and have you talk to our technical people But I want to make sure all of it comes off not as a product advertisement because it won't I won't let it It's going to be a deep technical dive with one of their engineers And I think that's going to be fun. I actually one of the companies I talked to we talked about diving into some esoteric details of How you track data that users are doing through the browser There's actually two vendors. They have two different ideas of how to do this So I think they're going to be a fun learning and understanding how the problem I mean, they of course they got a product of me solve the problem But I want to dive into the engineering that it took to get there and what the challenges are what you're trying to find And this was one my friend Jason did a good talk yesterday, which This is going to be fun and on security young in and Jason if you look up Jason's legal great guy He's definitely very interesting. So he is the bearded person there. Let me find a better picture of him and Let's see here Just in case you Get an idea of how the security stuff goes with Jason. He's quite the talented security person And here we go there's a good picture of Jason and You know, you can't have a good security talk that doesn't start with whiskey according to Jason He actually gets whiskey bottle out and cups at the beginning of his talk in the middle of the day because he's kind of fun So I'm going to be attending. He did a security union talk. I will be working with him Probably to help get he's working on a good security onion video and I Fully support this. So that's something I want to work with Jason. He's a content creator. He's newer in it, but Me and him are friends. He happens to be close enough. He's out of Toledo. I'm out of Detroit Those are about an hour apart. So Gonna be having some more fun with that and I want to do some cyber security videos with them So I think it's just gonna be a Fun time putting that together. So that's definitely high on the list I know a lot of you want to do it and Jason's talked Yes, it was called, you know how to do threat hunting on a budget and I I might just steal the name and Put it together kind of as a similar talk because there's we're gonna cover it differently But I think there's a lot of interest many of people have Even if it's not something you commercially use security union is awesome for learning and understanding what a sim stack does what threat hunting really is from the reality of doing it and I Think it's just great that he did that talk here. So I'm just in it for the whiskey there. There is some small chance that I was definitely among the people who was in it for the whiskey so Where's that at There is somewhere how maybe I didn't take a picture of Jason doing his talk I Didn't have a picture Jason doing to talk with all the whiskey stuff set up on the table, but it was fun definitely in good time but We can at least take a moment to say Right here. I'll drop this back in there. Hey It was a cool it Chicago is a cool city. So that's definitely It was kind of cool hanging out and doing all the photos. I I haven't been to Chicago Well, technically I went to Chicago not that long ago, but I haven't been in the city for a while I went to a place adjacent to Chicago, but In the photo the first one as well This is some of the hystericalness is he did happen to acquire that sign He took it from one of the county of people so It part of part of doing things is, you know, social engineering them and things like that. So it's definitely Definitely a lot of fun when you Participate with the social engineering aspects of it because Jason has a fun hobby that he's been doing at all the events so we have these badges that we print out and Jason has a thing for a very there's this pretty Not well known in the industry CEO here Jason has his badge because Jason thinks it's funny And I completely agree with them that whenever he knows that person's going to be there He prints his badge because they both have the same first name. So he becomes that person It is and even at the CEO's own events He has been able to print the badge of him and they're not sure they are on the watch for it Or like because they Jason's got the big beard. He's a quite identifiable person So it's been a little fun game. He plays is can I print the CEO's badge and put it in mine? And so far that answer has been yes at all the recent events, which has been just great it's definitely I Want to bring a lot chance. I want to talk more about some of the social engineering aspects and stuff I think these are fun topics to talk about of course, definitely an audience interest because if you work in tech You work in IT you really should have even if it's not what you do You should have that adjacent understanding of how all the cyber security thing works How any of these things may affect you because even if your job is just you know, even this is a database admin or something Like that understanding and thinking about the security around the thing you do is always important I know a lot of you work in the IT industry or even work as the you know IT business and that's extremely and if you're just a simple, you know at the basic one tech You're just getting started the more you think about how cyber security will affect it also gives you a Chance to think about how your career path will go and how you want to shape it So that's one of the reasons some people say and I always loosely answer if I'm a cyber security person and I mean I did get an endorsement from my friends over at Huntress and I stated like my friends or at Huntress to Let you know they're biased like cyber security expert Tom and I'm always hesitant maybe it's imposter syndrome to call myself some type of expert but Yeah, it's it's just because I know how broad it is It's one of those things like people start out saying I'm an expert and then they go Oh, wow, this is a broad scary topic How could I possibly know everything and then you kind of shy away from that? I'm just someone who's an enthusiast about tech. That's that's generally how I like to word it but nonetheless these I Have about five more minutes if you want to ask questions or whatever I did not have a lot of pre-planning which is why this went out so early I may because I have to drive back to Detroit tonight Maybe depending on how I feel I'll do another live stream tonight or Saturday, but yeah, the Event has been a lot of fun and if you happen to still be at the events. I'll be here all day today Well reach out and say hi If I had to figure out Something I and maybe if someone wants to leave in the comments down below some ideas Me and Brett were kind of laughing about this and sometimes people like are you that guy from YouTube? And yes, and how do I? Besides doing it in this video, but not everyone's gonna watch this particular video And how do you tell people that ain't I don't mind if someone wants to take a selfie or whatever? You know what I mean? I like engaging with people that follow me to content and I've had some wonderful conversations It's a nice icebreaker when you go out to people and they say things like hey, Tom I think you're Tom or one person says I love your videos. I think I know you and I'm like Yes Asymmetrically and the guys like yeah, I've watched a lot of your videos But you don't even know who I am do you and now I'm feel awkward it was just that's the fun conversation starters We had so it was Yeah Hey, you're that guy from the YouTube video Yeah, that's it's just I don't mind like I really like engaging with people and getting feedback on things and you know Sometimes people and I would say to the majority of people based on the number of views versus the number of comments It's pretty Asymmetrical like I think a lot of people just don't comment But sometimes I learned something that I didn't know before or a tip it the feedback from the audience helps drive to me to Make content more focused on what the audience wants. It's always my goal To make it, you know, if I do a tutorial I always want to make sure I understand What I may have left out that would help you have a greater understanding of how to get something done The ultimate goal is to make sure when I'm done with a review or a tutorial that you Understand the product have all the information you need or you understand how to get the software or thing Running so that's one of the things I think is really important. So I do appreciate comments and feedback I mean well, some people just They just make comments. There's no real action item in there But I don't even mind the comments to just say thank you and stuff like that. I I've you know, it hasn't been complete Dumpster fire that people joke about with the YouTube comments occasionally. There's there's a few people that have been blocked But for the most part, they're pretty good See Hey, thank you Keep playing to a video on CXR and G auto start reboot system I don't even know what that is. I don't know what CXR and G is so Love your channel and content Ben low-key labbing for years. We really got more into networking been great help That's what I love to hear that is done there CX Some type of search engine Okay, it's not something I use so I don't know maybe I'll look at it I don't really know what it is so, I don't know it posted my forums and Explained why I would need to do that. So it's difficult to comment on the TV. I usually watch, you know I think that's a lot of it. I I get some device statistics for where these things are watched I think that might be a big part of why some people don't comment and I'm the same way I actually very I Don't watch I don't watch it I guess I watch a decent amount on the computer But a lot of my YouTube consumption my I would say my personal YouTube consumption like I watch motorcycle videos or whatever I rarely comment because I'm watching it on TV. So I think it's probably a really good point I am not I am going to get to be part because I did not dive into because of the other things I did here any of the upcoming search changes, but One of the reasons I'm here is to meet the people on the committees so I can get involved in that and then I would be bringing a better understanding from The certifications and there's several committees that I also am exploring belonging to so I can you know Have my influence on how tech is Implemented in contia. So absolutely I don't have anything cool at channel con just the conference itself meeting all the people hanging out with cyber security people Being out till 2 a.m. Just having these fun topics and discussions. I mean There's just I mean, let me see I can probably just jump through and We're trying to give a picture of the event only anything in here. Yeah, nothing in here is Stuff I can't share It has not been shared your muscles gonna end up on LinkedIn or whatever But uh, yeah, this was like these are the after-party events me hanging out with Sean and This is from the business technicality channel. We interviewed her. It was a great interview Me and Sean eating cake pops Fireworks blah blah blah, you know, most of it is like the part that matters to me This is Finn. I talked about mine in relationship of being an investor in fin security. So we're having conversations there Yes, they're wearing life jackets because it was kind of entertaining Really great time hanging out with Keith. He's just a lot of fun great conversations me and Brett hanging out But yeah, uh ninja one hanging out with those people So that's a lot of what I do is just go down there and engage and talk with a lot of the people on there So definitely a lot of fun I might do some if I have time do some interviews or talks at the inside the conference bug But so there's a lot going on. I'll have to really think about what what was the best one. It's all over CXNG allows anonymous searching without being tracked by Google interesting Hey, man, have a great time be safe as an engineer with around eight years experience your passion for pf sense homeland Really up my game. I'm definitely an knowledgeable. Thanks. You awesome. So love hearing that. Yeah, there a few other search engines as well I don't know. I'll have to look to see What the angle is and is it actually is it useful? That's the biggest thing People get really concerned about the tracking stuff But is it useful google is useful and uh, I'm not saying that they Are good at the way they track or it's just benevolent. No, it can it's a real concern I think awareness. It doesn't mean if you're aware of something No, you shouldn't use it you should use it with the awareness that you're using it With the awareness it's kind of like how I use facebook I use it with the awareness of how I craft my online persona what I have put in there now granted That's me and many of the audience here who think about things an awareness level of it But you're right. There's the average person does not think about that So but also the average person is not going to use crx and set that up So I don't know where the answer lies in there But if it if it's interesting and I think it's a very useful thing awesome if it's just I don't know. I have to figure out where the value is in playing with it. So Uh, searching docker docker compose restart unless stopped all to start redone Yeah, that's another thing too if it's a If it's that simple just putting it in there to start so I'm sure the cisa plate is coming out last quarter I'm also don't have any search. So I'm not the best search person to ask I like being influenced in some of the tech stuff, but I'm specifically not certified So I got to figure out where I land. This is why sitting down and talking with people who are on these committees is very helpful Take some things so much for creating all those tutorials. I was able to build My network using pf sense and run a true nas server on a dmz awesome. Love hearing it Uh Logged into google anyways have u2 premium google does uh Yeah I can't agree. It's kind of it's just an understanding what they're collecting and what you're putting in there. Um It's really as simple as that By the way, I still do Because I know it's ad driven. Um, I'm careful how I do a search in google In I do some logged in but then I do some not logged into google I split that it's why people like, oh my gosh, you use chrome You know google's slipping up your data and i'm like chrome is because I use it for business I use firefox for personal enough. I have something I don't want in my google search history. I'm not logged into google under firefox at all As a matter of fact with firefox. I have a lot of stuff to keep I just don't need tracking Uh, it's not necessary. So if i'm researching something, it's actually more helpful for me to start in a Incognito window and the reason why is I don't want my search biased by my history and google They're doing it not to bias you they're doing it to go. Hey, let's get this person the more helpful information therefore I like, you know being able to Get this unbiased thing when i'm searching for something if that's if that's necessary for what i'm doing Most of the time I actually prefer their bias because when I type in a restaurant name I don't want the one further for me. I want the restaurant with that same name in the same city I'm in so frequently the contextual helpfulness of google is exactly what I want to use Do I use brave browser? I don't have an interest in it. Um I use firefox and I use chrome and the reason why both those companies are good Because your threat surface is the browser the browser is a massive and I say is I mean there's obviously more threat services But I watch people spend so much time locking down their networks and Cool guys, but did you know that they're most likely is you know malicious browser plugins zero days and browsers? Problems and browsers that are exploitable through websites because you're going to the website They don't care what b-lan you're on so I don't I don't know for absolute certainty If brave is as on top of it google chrome is absolutely on top of everything The google initiative for how well and how fast is like a gold standard for how you should keep code bases up to date Google it's an amazing job. I keep it growing to date firefox Hey, they've held their own and doing it as well As it goes down through the other browsers about keeping them up to date my confidence level starts tailing off And so I don't want the browser to be the ingress for some problem. I have Run everything incognito. It really depends what I'm doing It's not like I said if I'm looking at a restaurant, I would prefer it. Matter of fact, I know I'm going to get restaurant ads You know what I want restaurant ads? Why do I want restaurant ads? Because I want a discount give me a coupon and that's what these restaurants do So I don't mind in that context to me google search is working perfectly fine I typed in I want to know if this place is a good restaurant Hey, look, there's a coupon for 10 off at that restaurant as an ad that came up awesome This is it showed me the local restaurant. I got an ad now I understood everything that went into that search. I understood that now they know a preference I have for a particular food because I claimed it I clicked on the ad But I'm fine with that and will this show me more food ads? Yeah, probably and I'm also fine with that Uh, I get motorcycle ads. I purposely if I'm looking for I said to buy new tires for my motorcycle I was able to get a discount because the ad someone had they knew what I was searching for and I was like Look a deal and if I did that all in incognito It may not give me the the same deal I had gotten because they're like, well, I don't have the tracking data for this person But I'm but I did this in in the context of I'm aware what the outcome is and that's I think the most important part I was able to get gray log set up and unify send data can't find documentation of what next to do in gray log to view the data correctly Go to just view it I I have I showed the data in mine you can just go through and look at it I kind of don't understand the question They gray log has a bunch of videos you can watch though if you want to know how to do regex and parsers They got videos on that too. So if that's the question Head over to gray log and they have good documentation. Well, they have documentation on it You still have to understand regex and how to parse things. So Oh, yeah brave and the crypto money thing I I think he got overblown. I but there's still some confusion I have about it and I don't care enough to look As soon as anyone says there's crypto and something I'm like, that's probably stupid It will crypto money cryptocurrency in it be context. I like crypto but cryptocurrency. That's a whole dumb issue. Maybe I'll rant on one day Uh Looking up products. I like products looked up, you know provided. I want future ads for those products So we'll have it a qualifier to that like motorcycle stuff Oh, let's see Maybe one day I'll put the money into repairing my bike. Yeah Yeah Tom quick question. Uh, no coincidentally how to enable unsupported SAP models on xcp and g Uh, I don't know. I've never tried. I've never found an unsupported module So it's not only is a module that's not supported. It's usually some driver with the card You're gonna have to look up and it's just a linux question. It's not an xcp and g question it's It does linux support sfp with this card And that would be your search not xc don't add xcp and g to the search because That's not the relevant piece. It runs on top of standard linux So Start with you know, does it work in there? But I'm going to wind this down. It's 9 57 I'll give three more minutes because 10 o'clock was when I wanted to stop doing this You create a tutorial on how to use free rates of pf sense to assign vlands Um, I don't know. I don't think that's the most useful thing Uh Maybe it's not something I don't a lot of people seem to think it's used all over the place This is not a common use if something home users want all the time Um, I don't really have businesses setting that up. It's I don't know maybe that's a maybe I don't sure there's just a lot of details, uh to sort it out To get it working right. I I believe we've done it most I haven't steve I should say one of my technicians has done it a couple times Um, but it's it's always a going back and forth to get everything lined up properly I don't think it just works which is of course why you're asking for a tutorial. So yeah All right Well, I am as I said going to wind this down. I have to go to the breakfast I'm glad the microphones work because these are my new dji mics and I have some new fun things I'm going to be doing with these microphones to do some more interviews Um, I actually been collecting a lot of videos and I got to process them and maybe pretty soon I'm just going to have to hire an editor and surrender I don't I just got to find an editor who can take the mess I made and assemble it because I have so many Videos I put together but now I have to short and put them into a story Like I have a lot of on-site videos for wiring projects. I've done and my goal is to go do more on-site videos Uh, so yes, I I want to do them. I know a lot of people on there. So yes Oh, let's see. Yeah, if you don't have a um I I always start with you know the cards level of support or linux before I get the card I it may be just the cards you have But I know that can be a challenge. So hopefully hopefully you can find a card that supports the sfp It's also 99% of the time I go with like the intel like the 10 gig cards intel x5 20s. Um Like they just work. Uh, that's why we like them the the compatibility solid on those There's a few other ones. I know it's not the only one I just know I've had good to stay away from broadcom But the intel ones seem to have a good compatibility with whatever I plug into them. So What laptop you're running when you're on the road? Oh, yeah, you would be this thing's old I think this is like a five-year-old laptop. This is a uh, If you there's a review somewhere of it. Um I don't I gotta find it's like a think pad It matter of fact, it's one of the only think pads I've reviewed So hold on if I go on my youtube channel and type in think pad. It's a sad spec to laptop. It's a i5 something I don't need speed for this unless I'm editing Uh think pad x250. I bought it five years ago. No wait. No 2019 It's an l 480. It's a think pad l 480 and I do have a review if you type in l 480 on my channel You'll find it. Uh, I don't remember all the specs because I don't care Um, I'm not a hardware person. So it doesn't have a strong relevance to me, but Nonetheless, it's uh, it's just my this is actually the laptop. I use a lot Sitting outside at my house. It's the laptop. I use when I'm in my kitchen. Um, I go I I will not eat in my studio. Um, I never want to get crumbs in there or anything food related So, uh, I take this laptop if I go upstairs or I answer emails or sometimes I just work upstairs on my laptop Especially emails. I I like to Sit outside sometimes and just answer emails or occasionally I do sit in my garage because I sit in my garage with the door open because I got a nice view of some trees across the street Um, that's where I'm sitting on this laptop and type all my emails out and things like that So it doesn't need to be a super fast laptop on 99 of what this does the occasional travel vlog here Uh, never editing video. It it does have like a maybe I think this has 16 gigs of ram Now you got me curious because I don't know How many gigs of ram are in this thing? It does have 16 gigs of ram So that's so I can keep all the tabs open That's it Yeah, so all right, not to say but my next laptop I buy. I don't know. I'm probably Very very likely going to go with a nice system system 76 laptop. So, um, or I I know everyone wants me to review it It I I like them Corey doctor. I'll speaks highly of them as well. Uh, which is the Modular laptops. I can't remember their names, but they're they're cool. The one's lioness talked about there's plenty of reviews on them I think those are really good too. They, uh, definitely seem to be a solid option. So All right, thank you everyone for joining it was great seeing all of you here and uh, sorry for the Short notice on here leave comments down below on different thoughts you have on everything talked about Appreciate it or hit me up in the forums for a more in-depth discussion