Welcome to Episode 115 Main Topic 

• How has sysadminning changed
  • System Operator
  • System Administrator
  • BOFH references galore
  • The ability to automate builds made it easier to build faster
  • But systems were still mostly manually configured
  • Now systems were not bound to hardware in the traditional sense
  • VM Sprawl
  • Meant larger fleets to manage
  • Templating and cloning makes standing up new machines even faster/simpler
  • Pets vs Cattle
  • Disposable systems
  • Containerization
  • Infrastructure as code! 
  • On-demand functions like lambda
  • Any predictions on what Sysadmin will look like in 10 more years? Or even 5?! 
• Sysadmin in the classic sense
• Early Build Automation (such as kickstart, and ghost)
• Virtual Machines, and what that meant
• Config management and automation
• Cloud Deployments
• What’s next?

 

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Welcome to Episode 115b Announcements

• Patreon Update
• Z-Thor
• name_pending197
• Jérémy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• Matt
• David
• S0l3mn
• Trooper_Ish
• LiNuXsys666
• gimpyb
• Mark
• The-Mentor
• Jon
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
• 22532
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Chat

• [Jason]
• Had a “water event” dont buy a house from a plummer.  :P 

• [nate]
• I’m a space farmer now
• Trying to 3d print costume armor
• Yet another LED project, this will finally eradicate C by GE lighting from my household.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sd1m14/what_is_something_ancient_that_only_an_internet/

News

• https://news.microsoft.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-acquire-activision-blizzard-to-bring-the-joy-and-community-of-gaming-to-everyone-across-every-device/ 
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055222 
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904908/apple-ios-15-4-beta-1-developer-face-id-mask 
• https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-just-gave-you-best-reason-yet-to-finally-quit-using-chrome.html 
• https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

 

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Welcome to Episode 114

 

Main Topic

• 2021 year in #nerdlife? 
  • Framework laptops
  • Chip shortage & supply chain issues. Plus stupid scalpers
    • Crypto has totally jumped the shark and become Mary Kay for bros
  • • I can haz PS5?
    • I can haz new XBox?
    • I can haz video card?
  • The Occulus Quest 2 took Christmas.
  • • $300 entry into VR
  • Log4j sucks
  • • Large orgs running on undersourced Open Source projects continues to be something we just don’t deal with
  • Windows 11
  • iPhone 13
  • Pixel 6
  • Zuck wants to rule the virtual world
  • Movies
  • • Matrix, with old Neo
    • Dune finally is good
    • And we get a decent Ghostbusters as well
    • Encanto (surprisingly good!)
  • TV
    • Season 6, Final season
  • • Boba (black sheep) Fett
    • Bad Batch
    • Expanse
    • Lots of Marvel goodness on Disney+
• • Hardware
  • Software
  • Phones 
  • Culture

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Welcome to Episode 114 Announcements

• Patreon Update
• • Z-Thor
  • name_pending197
  • Jérémy
  • Arinomi
  • Andrew
  • Tatro
  • Bruce
  • Robert
  • Matt
  • David
  • S0l3mn
  • Trooper_Ish
  • LiNuXsys666
  • gimpyb
  • Mark
  • The-Mentor
  • Jon
  • Marc
  • Julius
  • Andi
  • J
  • Charles
  • 22532

 

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Chat

[unclemarc]

• Gaming on da PS5
• • NMS
  • Returnal
  • Deathloop
  • Ghost of Tsushima
• Skilling up on IPA for a new account

 

[nate]

• The alienware is now liquid cooled
• Animal crossing is.. Surprisingly chill and enjoyable.
• 3d printer upgrades.

News

• https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/us/habitat-for-humanity-first-3d-home-trnd/index.html 
• https://www.techradar.com/news/sonos-wins-patent-lawsuit-against-google-heres-what-it-means-for-you 
• https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected 
• https://www.techradar.com/news/norton-antivirus-under-fire-again-over-crypto-mining-feature 

 

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Welcome to Episode 113 Main Topic

• Virtual worlds, and metaverses
  • First let’s talk about VR 
  • Now, what is a “Metaverse”?
    • Principles of the web
    • The next evolution of the web
    • What we’re being sold… 
  • Meta, Facebook, and their metaverse
    • https://about.fb.com/news/2021/09/building-the-metaverse-responsibly/
    • Horizon Worlds - accessible on quest only now
      • Not sure if that will expand, data currently is vague
  • Other virtual worlds calling themselves Metaverses
    • The Sandbox
      • https://thesandbox-game.com/ 
    • Decentraland
      • https://decentraland.org/ 
  • Other things that are metaverse adjacent
    • Second Life
    • VRChat
    • Roblox
    • Minecraft
    • Others?
  • Open Metaverse Foundation
    • https://github.com/openmetaversefoundation 
  • Wrap-up

 

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Welcome to Episode 113 Announcements

• Patreon Update
• • Z(ed)-Thor
  • fferauu
  • name_pending197
  • Jérémy
  • Arinomi
  • Andrew
  • Tatro
  • Bruce
  • Robert
  • Matt
  • David
  • S0l3mn
  • Trooper_Ish
  • LiNuXsys666
  • gimpyb
  • Mark
  • The Mentor
  • Jon
  • Marc
  • Julius
  • Andi
  • J
  • Charles
  • 22532
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Reviews

• Nothing New

Chat

[unclemarc]

• I snagged a PS5!
• Project Zomboid server deployed! (RHEL 8)
• • https://projectzomboid.com/blog/

[gangrif]

• Finished a number of projects
• • Painted sailor moon! 
  • HestiaPi is now in service
  • Cat armor
• AND….. I bought an Alienware R10.. 

News

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43527 
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2021-44228 

 

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Welcome to Episode 112a Main Topic

• Holiday Hack with Ed!
  • Did the pandemic hurt? Help? Any noticeable difference? 
  • It’s open! 
  • Anything new in how the challenge is hosted? 
  • What can new players expect? 
  • Who should play? 
  • • Is there some level of experience required to get started?
• • Who’s Ed, for folks who dont know. 
  • And Who’s Jared?
  • What is the holiday hack?
  • How did last year’s challenge go? 
  • This year’s challenge

 

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Welcome to Episode 112 Announcements

• Patreon Update
• • Z(ed)-Thor
  • fferauu
  • name_pending197
  • Jérémy
  • Arinomi
  • Andrew
  • Tatro
  • Bruce
  • Robert
  • Matt
  • David
  • S0l3mn
  • Trooper_Ish
  • LiNuXsys666
  • gimpyb
  • Mark
  • The Mentor
  • Jon
  • Marc
  • Julius
  • Andi
  • J
  • Charles
  • 22532
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Reviews

Nothing New

Chat

• [Nate] - Christmas time!  Lots going on.  Not a ton in the way of projects
  • Vr chat is a scary but interesting place (Furries?)
  • https://www.undrground.org/2021/12/04/virtual-reality-online-worlds-and-metaverses/ 
• • Jeep is driveable again (spent a month otherwise)
  • Working on printable stuff for gifts
  • VR continues to be fun
• [Friz] - What day is it?
• • Ordered an ESP32 from Tindie, gonna try this automation thing?  Sort of?
  • Also ordered a Pinecil..  It’s been all over the world at this point and is in Illinois now for some odd reason.

News

• https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/22822332/amazon-server-aws-down-disney-plus-ring-outage
• https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/9/22825139/meta-horizon-worlds-access-open-metaverse 
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/google-says-bug-with-teams-and-android-can-cause-911-calls-to-fail/ar-AAREVFK 

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Welcome to Episode 111 - Elevens Main Topic

• Ghosts of Linux past
  • https://www.maketecheasier.com/history-of-linux-distros/ 
• • https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/download-original-red-hat-linux-09-halloween-release 
  • History of distros
• Linux From Scratch
• • https://www.linuxfromscratch.org
• Linux Daily Driver Challenge
• • https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M

 

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Welcome to Episode 111b Announcements

• Patreon Update
• • name_pending197
  • Jérémy
  • Arinomi
  • Andrew
  • Tatro
  • Bruce
  • Robert
  • Matt
  • David
  • S0l3mn
  • Trooper_Ish
  • LiNuXsys666
  • gimpyb
  • Mark
  • DeMentor
  • Jon
  • Marc
  • Julius
  • Andi
  • J
  • Charles
  • 22532
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• BSides Delaware is happening NOW

Reviews

• Nothing New

Chat

• unclemarc
  • Goals: Rise of the Resistance, build a BB droid, Universal on Thursday, moar selfies with princesses
• • The new Animal Crossing update and DLC are here!
  • Going on vacation this Sunday to Disney
• Nate
  • Valve index “knuckles” controllers
• • New vr controllers
  • Working my way through the Dresden files.. Again.
  • Learning to airbrush acrylic paint… for the creepy doll. 

News

• https://boingboing.net/2021/11/09/an-apple-1-computer-hand-built-by-jobs-and-wozniak-sells-for-400000.html
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5qbq4/robinhood-says-it-was-hacked-and-extorted-but-nobody-lost-any-money
• https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/11/22774301/patreon-jack-conte-video-player-podcast-youtube-launch 

 

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