I think there’s something I hate more than people using LLMs as if they think – corporate capture. I never thought I’d get involved in actual politics. Never thought I would speak at local hearings – what’s the point right? That was, until Goochland County decided to encourage data centers to construct a few thousand feet from my house with
These issues affect everyone, regardless of political affiliation, and we need to make our voices heard. The internet has become an essential part of our lives, enabling us to communicate, work, learn, shop, and entertain ourselves. However, the internet also poses significant challenges and risks, such as cyberattacks, identity theft, data breaches, and censorship. That is why we need regulations
How I will test and review the latest gadgets and devices for your home Hey everyone! It’s 2024 and I am officially trying to get back into blogging! If you haven’t read it yet, I just posted an in-depth analysis I conducted last year on Alexa, aiming to determine if it listens and reports back to Amazon when the wake
TL;DR Intro: Something always appears to be creeping on conversations. It can sometimes be felt when you have a conversation, and without ever googling the topic, you suddenly see ads related to the product. Perhaps the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is truly what’s happening, but there’s always a chance it isn’t – given how sketchy a lot of aspects of social media
Introduction to How to Blue Team: There’s a lot of documents on how to use pen testing tools, how to crack, hack and break into things. Not a lot is written on how to detect these things, especially at the “Enterprise” level where a lot of the blog posts seem to give use cases that do not scale well. So,
Introduction to How to Blue Team: There’s a lot of documents on how to use pen testing tools, how to crack, hack and break into things. Not a lot is written on how to detect these things, especially at the “Enterprise” level where a lot of the blog posts seem to give use cases that do not scale well. So,
Introduction to How to Blue Team: There’s a lot of documents on how to use pen testing tools, how to crack, hack and break into things. Not a lot is written on how to detect these things, especially at the “Enterprise” level where a lot of the blog posts seem to give use cases that do not scale well. So,
The Truth About the Splunk versus ELK Arguments I feel the need to write this because of how many dishonest articles there are about the Splunk vs ELK debate. It seems like either the writers used both applications for a single day and knew the bare basics or that they have extraordinarily simplistic use cases to test. So, naturally, I
One of the things that makes doing Splunk operations and infrastructure work so much easier and faster is having a bashrc profile (assuming you’re running Splunk for Unix) that aliases a lot of the common commands. This is a quick step by step on how to create a bashrc profile for Splunk. Create a bashrc profile for the default ssh
Over the years I have collected some basic (and advanced) tips and tricks for utilizing Splunk – both from an operational standpoint of server maintenance as well as from the standpoint of alert, report and dashboard creation. Below are some of the most basic search tips that I have, additional posts are to follow for more advanced tips and tricks.