The Iron Sysadmin

Welcome to Episode 123b   Announcements

• Patreon Update
• name_pending197
• Jeremy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• David
• S0l3mn
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• [email protected]
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Iron Sysadmin Snippets…. 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 

Chat

• [nate] 
• Finally had covid.. It wasn't so bad. 
• Switched back to Windows 10.
• Did not need to buy a new mixer  :D
• [unclemarc]
  • Great compatibility
  • Instant sleep/restore
  • Supports cloud based/streaming games
• Broken record, but Steam Deck continues to impress
• Playing GTA Online - it’s much more friendly for solo/private players now
• iPhone 11 got moist on the canoe trip. Had to replace

News

• https://www.pcgamer.com/mark-zuckerberg-spent-dollar10b-on-the-metaverse-and-all-he-got-was-this-stupid-selfie/
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23309439/crypto-com-layoffs-unannounced-july-august-bear-market
• https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/18/asia/japan-tax-alcohol-competition-intl-hnk/index.html
• https://gizmodo.com/epson-printer-end-of-service-life-error-not-working-dea-1849384045 

 

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This is just a quick update folks.  We realize we have not released a show in a while, and we wanted to give you guys some re-assurance that we're coming back!  Listen in to see what's up, and when we'll be back.

 

Thanks for being patient!

Welcome to Episode 122a Main Topic

• yes it is i the boy - who am i even

    -son of unclemarc

    -stevens type kid

    -longtime mathematics enjoyer

    -"pro" gamer

 

a quick personal history

    -first talk about how i got into older games

    -wii virtual console, snes emulator in 3rd grade (messing around with lunar magic, despite not knowing how to use it)

    -got into gba in grade 6

    -got into fe in grade 8, fell out a bit, got back into it in junior year

    -got into hacking in freshman year of college

 

retro gaming

    -old games are cool, but good luck finding the carts and consoles

    -if you're not japanese there goes a lot of games

    -solve these problems with emulation- play classic games, translate foreign games, etc.

    -pretty much every system you can think of has emulators developed

    -of note here is also the ability to play hacks

 

what the hell is a romhack

    -take a game that you enjoy, and use your numerous powers to turn it into something new

    -graphics, sounds, level design, mechanics- the whole nine yards

    -why do you hack? for fun, to learn about old stuff, to show off to people

    -it's like making a game, but you kinda have to be purely passion driven (no profit for you)

 

what do ya need, anyway

    -a rom, obviously (yeah sure i totally dumped one myself)

    -patience and perseverance

    -whatever hacking tools exist for the game you wish to tackle

    -god there's so many of them

    -game specific tools (ex. lunar magic, febuilder)

    -assemblers/disassemblers

    -debugging emulators (ex. no$gba)

    -graphical tools (ex. usenti, paint if you hate yourself)

    -sound stuff (usually working with midis, either custom made, downloaded, or ripped from other games)

 

decomp vs. binary

    -binary hacking is more straightforward to setup (usually)

    -decompilations/buildfiles allow much more freedom

    -buildfiles also give you powerful version control

    -if you screw up, bug fixing is far more merciful

    -binary has you burning edits into your rom- scary!

 

i just told you buildfiles are rad but anyway use binary hacking

    -that all being said, binary hacking tools are probably the best way to start

    -the simplicity allows you to acquaint yourself with the nitty gritty

    -gonna be honest, i started with very little knowledge on the specifics

    -never thought i'd casually pick up hexadecimal

    

you don't even have to do it all yourself

    -lots of hacking communities have tons of resources

    -graphical/musical assets for the artistically unable

    -engine hacks so you don't have to reinvent the wheel adding cool shit

    -documentation on the inner workings of a game

    

but sometimes you gotta

    -gba assembly haunts my dreams

    -thankfully, other options exist

    -pokemon decomps use C, CHAX is a somewhat recent thing in fe

    -with the gui methods, you can do a ton of stuff without ever touching asm

    -just gotta be clever and maybe rub an elbow or two

    

screw it, fe hacking scene history

    -nightmare (good old csv editing), various general use gba tools

    -apparently hackers used to map in ms paint

    -feditor is a nightmare hellscape

    -despite this, we still had hacks

    -shoutout to the last promise, made by a highschooler with the equivalent of rusty sponges

    

    the golden age begins

    -event assembler- insert data with a powerful and versatile tool

    -buildfiles insert most of their data through EA

    -in march 2017, skillsystem dropped- a revolution in the hacking scene to turn fe8 into a game as feature rich as modern entries

    -emblem magic- an all in one gui hacking tool dropped in august 2017

    -then febuilder dropped in september 2017 and kinda overshadowed it

    -an aside on pokemon romhacking making you download like 80 things

    -builder is a gift from a god known as 7743- easy to use UI with a ton of features and some underrated debugging power

    -skillsys got ported to builder early on, and it has a ton of ui to complement it

    -ever since, we've had tons more hacks

• Links
• https://romhacking.net

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Welcome to Episode 122b Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z(ed)-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• The Mentor
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 

Reviews

• Nothing New

Chat

• [unclemarc]
  • First days
  • PS Remote Play
• I haz Steam Deck
• Killed Elden Beast!
• Trying Fiverr for a mashup
• [gangrif]
  • The jeep
  • The caddy
  • The other jeep
  • The washing machine.
• Everything is broken. 
• And we’re going on vacation.
• [retina]
• Morbin’ time, and bad movies

 

News

• https://www.teenvogue.com/story/conspiracy-theories-how-to-spot-them-and-what-you-need-to-know
• https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/25/duckduckgo-privacy-microsoft-permission-tracking/
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/27/stopping-mass-shooters-q-a-00035762?utm_source=pocket-newtab 
• https://hard-drive.net/remembering-the-gamecube-that-fucker-ruled/

 

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Welcome to Episode 121 Main Topic

• How do I get a hold of expensive software, for the purposes of learning?
  • Check with your school, a LOT of vendors have super-cheap solutions for education.  Your school may be able to provide you a learning license/sub for software you are interested in
  • Less than Legal alternatives
  • Red hat enterprise linux
  • Red Hat Developer Sub
  • https://developers.redhat.com/articles/getting-red-hat-developer-subscription-what-rhel-users-need-know# 
  • Centos literally feeds RHEL, Centos stream is an extremely similar platform.
  • Fedora feeds Centos,
  • Ubuntu
  • Ubuntu Server is free, but you can buy support from Canonical
  • Windows Server
    • Try it on azure’s free tier
    • Windows server will run for some time without activation
    • Talk to a partner about a trial
    • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/
    • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ 
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/trial 
  • Red Hat Openshift
    • https://developers.redhat.com/openshift/hosting-openshift
  • Trial, ask your account rep
  • OKD is the upstream for Openshift
  • OpenShift Online has a free tier
• First, are you a student? 
• What if i Just CANNOT find a demo?
• Operating Systems
• VM/Container platforms

 

• Vmware vsphere
  • https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html
  • https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7 .
• Vmware has a surprising number of public trials/demos, and even labs, here:
• Or just stand-alone esxi? 

• Industry Software
  • Included with most RHEL subs, but not the dev sub.  
  • Trials are available. 
  • The Katello project is the open source upstream
  • Oracle DB
  • Their site seems to steer you toward an account rep, or their cloud.
  • I believe that oracle will operate without a license, but I do not know that they have an official trial
• Red Hat Satellite
• Oracle
• SaaS and Cloud
  • Aws
  • AWS Free Tier
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/trial 
  • Also, amazon linux is pretty similar to RHEL… 
  • Google compute
  • https://cloud.google.com/compute/ 
  • You get a $300 credit to get hooked.
  • Azure
  • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free/ 
  • Effectively a 30 day trial, you get $200 to use for 30 days
  • Digital ocean
  • https://try.digitalocean.com/freetrialoffer/ 
  • Currently a 60 day/$100 trial
  • Linode
  • $100 trial credit
  • Rotating list of promotions: https://www.linode.com/promotions/
  • Github
  • Free for all, as far as I know
  • Enterprise: (includes a free trial link)
  https://github.com/enterprise

 

 

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Welcome to Episode 121b Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z(ed)-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• The Mentor
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
• Nate’s going to be helping host RHEL Presents. (as a guest host)
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 

Reviews

• Nothing new

Chat

[unclemarc]

• Elden Ring multiplayer - new dimension!
• Also, supporting the VR mod - https://www.patreon.com/realvr/posts
• Still waiting on my Steamdeck email
• I’ve volunteered to mentor a military vet
• May be hiring on my team soon

 

[gangrif]

• Playing Cyberpunk 2077
• And tried out Elden Ring
• Stadia controllers… yep, they work.  
• https://github.com/ViGEm/ViGEmBus/releases/tag/setup-v1.17.333 
• https://github.com/71/stadiacontroller/releases/tag/v1.3.1 

News

• https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/top-new-features-red-hat-enterprise-linux-86 
• Also, https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/10-big-announcements-from-red-hat-summit-2022
• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61423268 
• https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-open-sources-linux-drivers
• https://kotaku.com/starfield-bethesda-rpg-redfall-arkane-austin-delayed-20-1848915397 - in the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” column

 

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Welcome to Episode 120 Main Topic

• Learning new things
  • Certification
  • Sog, on twitter, 
  • Dive in and drink from the firehose and leverage the hyper-focusing ADHD ability to further accelerate learning. I learned Powershell, Go, and Rust in the last year-ish, in addition to a lot of pentesting-specific stuff. If you want it bad enough, you'll get it done.
  • The Mentor
  •  the way I learn new technology is by setting it up in my homelab messing around with it and messing  it up and building it up so many times until I fully get it 
  • Name_pending197
  • This is the way. I do the same, build it, document it, break it, repeat. I also find that learning and then presenting new technology to the rest of the team is an excellent way to retain knowledge. Explaining and demonstrating something to others is one of the best ways to understand it yourself. Especially if you know you will be questioned on it
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X48VuDVv0do&start=10725
  • https://kubebyexample.com/ 
• Home labs 
• Trial by fire
• Training
• Reading 
• What else?
• What do our listeners think?
• Kubernetes Zero to Hero:
• Kubernetes by Example:

 

•  

 

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Welcome to Episode 120 Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z(ed)-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• The Mentor
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 

 

Reviews

• Nothing New

Chat

• [nate] 
  • https://www.printables.com/model/54214-endless-customizable-interchangeable-shelf 
• Fighting with ISP
• Bought Elden ring, played about 30 minutes. 
• 3d Printing Some cool modular shelves. 
• [unclemarc]
  • I’m doing 90% mentoring and development with 10% business process stuff (pipeline and planning)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V613IR_rxOA 
• Elden Ring is still awesome, so is new Lego Star Wars
• Evil Manager life is pretty solid
• Still waiting for my Steam Deck. Not sure if I’ll buy when the email hits
• Unclemarc defeating the slug.
• [friz]
• HAHA.. I have my steam deck.  It’s pretty awesome.

News

• https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-reaches-deal-buy-twitter-rcna25806 (this may be a long discussion, depending on.. Feelings.  ;) )
• https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/28/tech/international-democratic-internet-commitment/index.html
• https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/04/28/146214/nsa-re-awards-10b-cloud-computing-contract-to-aws
• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/04/microsoft-finds-linux-desktop-flaw-that-gives-root-to-untrusted-users/
•  

 

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Welcome to Episode 119 Main Topic

• Staying Healthy while working at a desk
• Obvious things
• “Office work”
• Generally means you are indoors
• You are not performing physically intense tasks
• You naturally burn less calories in a day
• You are sheltered from the sun
• It’s a lot easier to snack
• And this is even worse if you are a WFH worker
• And a lot easier to make poor dietary decisions
• This can be improved by WFH, if you can be disciplined 
• Not so obvious things
• Sitting all of the time is just plain bad for you
• But standing all the time is also not so great
• Mental impact
• In office
• Remote/WFH
• So what do we do about all of this?
• “Water cooler” meetings.
• Don't forget to move
• Limit your snacking
• Drink more water. You’re not drinking enough. Really, you’re not.
• Make sure to take mental breaks
• Take a dang lunch break
• in fact. eat regularly in general breakfast lunch dinner
• Either get to the gym or go for walks/runs/cycling/whatever you're into
• convertible desk
• treadmill desk? 
• Articles
• https://www.businessinsider.com/how-your-office-job-is-destroying-your-health-2016-4
• Motivational meetings can depress people -lol
• https://blog.vantagefit.io/office-workers-health-problems/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934324/ 
• https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/understanding-the-hidden-health-impact-of-working-from-home/96027/
• https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2022/02/28/working-from-home-and-mental-health/
• https://www.mdlinx.com/article/the-surprising-health-effects-of-working-from-home/tsastCACwiPt6Al4ONUZL
• Products:
• Nate’s setup (amazon links are affiliate links that benefit the podcast) 

• Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge - Ergonomic Keyboard https://amzn.to/3M18PoE 
• With tent risers: https://amzn.to/3xodm0p 
• Logitech MX Ergo: https://amzn.to/3uGtE2Z 
• Herman Miller Aeron chair: https://amzn.to/3vhH9oW 
• I got mine from Crandall Office for a fraction of the new price: https://www.crandalloffice.com/ 
• Autonomous Sit/Stand desk.  https://amzn.to/3xqPM32  
• I absolutely did not spend that much though, maybe look for a lower cost alternative, the desk is not worth that price IMHO

Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z(ed)-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• The Mentor
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
• Get your Iron Sysadmin Merch at Teespring! https://teespring.com/stores/ironsysadmin 
• Support the Iron Sysadmin Podcast AND try out Riverside.fm by using this link: https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=ironsysadmin 
• Marc and Nate are doing a fun thing in Valheim on 4/20

  Chat

• [nate] 
• Windows hibernate is just as terrible as I remember
• Toying with DOKS (digital ocean kubernetes)
• I have trodden further down the apple path… 
• [unclemarc]
• Still Elden Ringing - Elden Ring - YouTube
• https://youtu.be/g3MSJl7lhnk Marc’s “wave motion cannon”
• Manager Life so far is great
• Got to return to the Mothership already!

News

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-purchase-offer-43-billion-private-company/ 
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkp47y/metaverse-company-to-offer-immortality-through-live-forever-mode (this was LITERALLY a Black Mirror episode. Black Mirror is a warning, not a How-To) - Be Right Back - Wikipedia
• https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/14/apple-says-meta-plan-is-hypocritical/
• https://www.science.org/content/article/thermal-batteries-could-efficiently-store-wind-and-solar-power-renewable-grid 

 

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