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  • Do a search for you server OS + STIG

    Then, for each service you’re hosting on that server, do a search for:

    Service/Program name + STIG/Benchmark

    There’s tons of work already done by the vendors in conjunction with the DoD (and CIS) to create lists of potential vulnerable settings that can be corrected before deploying the server.

    Along with this, you can usually find scripts and/or Ansible playbooks that will do most of the hardening for you. Though it’s a good Idea to understand what you do and do not need done.





  • Better analogy would be the killer in uvalde using a kid as a human shield while also shooting into the other classrooms trying to kill other kids.

    Do you shoot back or do you sit around like the cops did and wait till the killer gets bored, runs out of ammo, or runs out of victims.

    Just look up how many thousands of rockets and mortars Hamas has launched at seemingly random targets in Israel since October 7th.







  • It is fact:

    https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/essays/irs.html

    On 1 October 1993, the Church of Scientology obtained tax exemption from the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This ended 26 years of what the Church itself has described as a “war” against the IRS, in which it used extraordinary and in many cases illegal tactics - bugging of government offices, theft of mountains of classified files, private detectives pursuing senior government officials, thousands of lawsuits, full-page attack adverts in US daily newspapers, and so on.

    So perhaps it is not such a great surprise that the settlement itself came about in some very unusual circumstances, raising questions about the actions of both the Church of Scientology and the IRS. Neither party has been willing to provide answers, with the IRS refusing to disclose the terms of the exemption agreement in defiance of a court order and US taxation law. But with the leak in December 1997 of the secret agreement, the relationship between Scientology and the IRS is under greater scrutiny now than ever before.



  • https://thetvdb.com/series/futurama#seasons

    You can switch between all the different possible orders and season breakdowns and not make Hulu Season #11.

    By broadcast, the first 4 produced seasons were broadcast as 5 seasons with weird breaks (Typical Fox).

    Example, season 1 was produced as 13 episodes, Fox aired 9 episodes, then aired the last 4 episodes of season 1 as the first of season 2.

    This is the reason why Plex season 2 episode descriptions are off by about 4 episodes if you ripped your DVDs but play them through Plex.

    The fox run ends with “The Devils hands are idle playthings”

    The Comedy Central run starts with “Rebirth”

    Between the two there were 4 movies which are broken down into 16 episodes for broadcast.

    I can’t make it make sense…

    4 Fox (production) seasons + 1 season with the 4 movies + 3 Comedy Central Seasons = 8 pre Hulu seasons making the Hulu season #9

    Hulu season is #8 if you don’t count the DVD season

    Hulu Season is #9 if with Fox 5 aired seasons + DVD + 3x CC

    Counting each DVD as a season (which seems very wrong) makes it either 12 or 13.

    The view and season order I go by:

    https://theinfosphere.org/Episode_Listing



  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Leaded_gasoline

    On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.[7][13] However, the State of New Jersey ordered the Bayway plant to be closed a few days later, and Jersey Standard was forbidden to manufacture TEL again without state permission. Production was restarted in 1926 after intervention by the federal government. High-octane fuel, enabled by lead, was important to the military. Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning.[14]

    Not saying the Fukushima discharge is not safe (the radiation level is very low and the dilution factor of 500 swimming pools worth vs the whole ocean is huge), just that some folks will risk self-injury for profits.






  • Spanish omelette only has eggs potato and optionally onion. But no green peppers!

    Didn’t realize there was singular tortilla recipe that applied to Cataluña, Andalucía, Galicia, Extremadura, the capital and other regions. Guess I’ll have to let the Spanish side of my family know.

    Just like breakfasts in the US south are indistinguishable from breakfast in the New England States, or Pacific states. /s