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Synopsis:
Rogue infrastructure coming out of the Valley
1m - Valley cloud services are kind of like Hotel California, they did enough brain damage to Parler to knock them out for a week. Don't wait for that to be you. This will get worse before it's better, operatives on Twitter openly hunting Trump donors.
3m - What GOP/the rest of us could do to hit back at Amazon.
5m - What Parler can do - plan on more bans and switch providers, open source their app/backend to work around app store political oppression.
9m - How to check the safety of your tech providers, and find out where you can uninstall Silicon Valley.
10m - Shopify alternatives - WooCommerce, choose your host. Magento is the same, but for larger websites. We'll look at moving you for close to the same monthly cost as your Shopify.
14m - Amazon alternatives - who ordered AWS in your biz?
First tier alternatives: Oracle, Cloudsigma, INAP
Check LOCAL cloud hosts, there are many. Local businesses will take care of you better.
Best option - Build your own hybrid cloud, we can help, better performance and TCO.
20m - GoDaddy - TONS of alternatives
domain.com, hostgator.com, site5.com, local ISP/IT companies
21m - Cloudflare - Stackpath
21m - Payment processors - OpenACH or talk to your bank about their services, Skrill, authorize.net
23m - Big picture - this is what a civil cyberwar looks like.
Q - Elon's Starlink as second net? Who controls net? Nobody, entirely.
If cooler heads do not prevail, we will see a fractured internet between red and blue states.
Want to run MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98 on your vintage hardware but don't want to dig up floppy disks, floppy drives, CD-ROM drivers, etc?
I show you a shortcut using VirtualBox and a USB HDD dock.
Need to drive your old school RWD ride in the snow? With the right tools, you will be able to get around quite well, here's how.
StealthNet Labs team member Albert Bryant (who works in educational software development) tells us about how technology is changing the US education system and what opportunities are coming online for parents and students to have more choices in education. We'll have a full video as well as subject-specific excerpts of the interview up later this week.
Synopsis:
- How technology has changed the K-12 school system in the last 10 years
- New features and capabilities of online educational systems
- How the rest of us can help support educators and use of tech in education
- Startups and privatized education projects to keep an eye on
- Albert's martial arts background and StealthNet Labs' Scorecard software he developed for making martial arts tournaments paperless and easier to setup/operate for academies.
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday with their friends and family!
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."
Luke 2:14
StealthNet Labs is now an official sponsor of the GhostBSD Operating System.
I've been fascinated with UNIX and Linux since I first dove into it for a DIY loadbalancer project at work back in 2007. You can build almost anything out of these operating systems if you can learn some programming skills. We use Linux and FreeBSD a LOT for our product/services, and deploy FreeBSD where possible because of its amazing reliability and stability.
GhostBSD is a project to build a FreeBSD-based desktop/laptop OS you can run as an alternative to Windows or Linux on your own PC. I've used it at work for a few years now and it's just as solid as any other FreeBSD-based system with the ease of a point and click interface.
If you're a techie and you're wanting to check out UNIX, GhostBSD is a great place to start.
This project has come very far on very limited resources so we are excited to see what can be done with a little help.
If you do a lot of remote admin/support with RDP, VNC, SSH, even HTML web pages...here's a great tool to organize all of your connections and keep things moving quickly:
If you've used commercial or enterprise tools like LogMeIn, DameWare, BeyondTrust, Teamviewer, etc...this will put all of your decentralized connections on a dashboard just like those services and allow you to have multiple connections open in separate tabs.
