CISSP exam in two weeks, and I've no iudea how the exam compares to the practices
I feel like I know all the stuff, but feel like a 4 hour multiple choice exam I have to wake up at 6:30 am for is the least ideal way to test that
Any advice/assurances for someone who really just needs letters that tell well-meaning HR people that I am hirable?
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The Writer Will Do Something by Matthew S Burns
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.itch.io
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Fuck
I just realized why I'm always confused why my coworkers want an update in slack for PR changes rather than just using the automated emails.
It's because I've levelled to the point of being Email Driven
#SlackLife
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@silverwizard That’s why we do both at my job! 🙌
It still didn’t prevent an SRE from claiming no alert was raised. 🤔
@Hypolite Petovan Alerts are things that cause alarm. Email and slack both can only contain alerts if they also are alerting! They need to create attention, not fall into background noise.
But yeah, we do both, and I'm always weirded out by the manual slack.
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@Hypolite Petovan Just shark your wires! It'll be fine!
Or use some screen scraping! We're too afraid of writing software that lies to other software! Mouse clicks are just programs!
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Doing a vulnerability hunt at work. Finding everything that's low priority and triaging it.
Everyone is learning why they don't want to do my job!
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https://www.obscuritus.ca/RPGs/5_Minute_Workday.html
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I need to figure out what happened and then file a bug report for blueman >.<
Anyone have an issue where the default bluetooth controller is powered off, but there's a secondary controller, and so when the open blueman-manager the window closes immediately because the controller is disabled?
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I had a currywurst at a pub last summer, and I've thought about it on and off since. Went back to the pub a week ago, and now I made my own.
Currywurst is fucking amazing
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fuck, I vaguely cut a biscuit recipe in half and just guessed and made the fluffiest lightest biscuit I've ever soon
they're probably tasty for about an hour but who cares
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Aw fucking shit!
@Titan Up the Defense posted a fucking episode! I know it's a different show now but it doesn't matter! Fuck yeah!
I should make a neocities for this as well! To rival the amazing titanupthedefense.neocities.org
My mother-in-law still wont look at me, talk to me, or be in the same room as me, its been almost 6 months since I told her she couldn't blame my son for being bullied (and explicitly she couldn't tell him it's his fault). Apparently she just wants an apology.
Parenting sucks,
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@Erin the hard part is that it's his cousin bullying him and my wife and sister in law are super close, making it very hard to avoid.
I'm just mostly so upset how much non-parents think they are entitled to parent kids. And I know my mom is super bad about it to, we just have way more experience fighting with each other.
And yeah, trying to be better parents than your parents is the eternal struggle ain't it.
I am on my second cup of coffee today. I am dreaming already of my third.
I went off coffee for 3 months for reasons of "I try to force myself to not get too addicted", but fuck, I am so happy I am back on coffee
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What ever happened to that weird mess of uzbl, xombrero, surf and so on. I've heard so little about weird minimal browsers. Might be that I'm out of university - but I thought the Fediverse was filling that hole.
I never got into uzbl or surf - I was a Xombrero user due to the OpenBSD package being easy - I wonder how stable those are? Kinda the inverse of LibreWolf.
Welp, uzbl wouldn't build against webkit. They say I should build my own webkit... which maybe later. I needed to build a gnarly local.mk already to make it even get to that point.
Then I tried Surf from packages, which just straight up didn't load
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So I redid my phone homescreens to avoid having application links, and replaced everything with widgets.
For years I've felt like desktop widgets are mostly a gimmick and pointless, and basically after a day this way I've completely reversed my decision on them. I basically got annoyed at the way that the shortcut model leads to just a soup of icons and I usually just go to the display of all and then use the link from there, and I completely reversed my decision. Feels very weird.
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@Hypolite Petovan Got home assistant buttons for my few smart lights, got my media players, email and calendar widgets. Means I can quickly start and restart music, stop my kids turning on lights in the night, and so on.
It's very weird - I'm starting to worry that it's becoming a tiling window manager for android
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@Hypolite Petovan Yeah - I think the iPhone and how it grinds all the apps into your face and rejects the idea of organization apart from folders makes this more complicated.
Also - yeah - smart lights are very nice for making sure kids can't turn their lights on in the middle of the night and stay up and play.
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Honestly, with my startup job starting to fall apart, and my CISSP exam, and my kids sick, and me not really sure what the purpose of the economy is - I just
I feel like things are in chaos, and I need to figure out stability for the next little bit, somewhere to ride this out
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some people's parents bring them computer problems
my parents message me with DeltaChat to tell me SSL is broken and I realize someone *else* deleted the nonprofit's DNS entry for their domain
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https://tann.itch.io/slice-dice
an indie game that works perfectly in my brain is awesome. I want the devs to do more so pay them for me!
Hope you will soon land something great 😉
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Ah, gotcha.
Yeah... the day did not start quite so good.. meeting was rather annoying
Oh well, life can be fun sometimes 😂
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That's a awesome keyboard
whats the switches and keycaps or is it custom from ground up?
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ICMP application containing random images as payloads
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@Hypolite Petovan Listen - I parent by playing Pokemon with a 4 year old. I had to name two pokemon "y67u" in order to make him happy. My mind wanders!
But yeah! You sold pokeballs painted as ultra balls, no one would know
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Microservices where every service is just different inputs into the same container, and if any of them fail, it's just a blank screen.
I love microservices, but we need to stop making that
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If a house cat is a felis cattus, what would a plush cat be? felis puppa? Felis pulis? Something else?
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if you drop your phone in the toilet and get a new one, all your old messages are gone and you're TOFUing new keys
@unixroot buddy,
pal,
fellow traveler on this wet ball of gas and rock,
if I were upset, I would have expanded my blocklist without saying a word.
I am merely annoyed.
please attempt to comprehend the following:
popping out of the digital undergrowth unbidden and saying, effectively, "ah but you're incorrect and here's several reasons why" to strangers comes across as - at minimum - extremely rude and thoughtless.
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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev I refuse to use the decrepit and broken Matrix protocol. I use XMPP+OMEMO quite regularely. I don't use proton mail, I do mail myself.
How do you backup keys? Do you just huck them on an unencrypted Samba share? Managing keys is a thorny issue, and I don't want to do that for low end and low importance messages. Threat modelling matters.
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I do mail myself.
why am I not surprised from a guy who's domain ends in .email have you tried Delta Chat? Its a modern e2ee instant messaging application handled via IMAP.
but it's relatively convenient for people I'm interacting with.
how has this gone for you? Save getting my mom to swith to it to video chat with my daughters after Google shit the bed on the hangouts/duo/whatever-they-call-it-now transitions, the response I usually get form family& IRL friends is "why should I download a new app just to talk to you?"
@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu Ok, so you don't want E2E encryption, you want... what? S2S? If you want S2S why the concern about DB dumps, since a DB dump will reveal the key?
For key management, I guess you need to do *more* key management, every single thing I work with has its own keyflow and backup strategy, and needing to do that for another things sucks, and is an onboarding burden for a new device, and why should that be default.
*Also* if you don't trust your admin, why would you trust your admin to do the encryption they said they would?
Fundamentally I am.unsure how your threat model works, and what the attacker model is, and how you balance it within the CIA Triad.
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@Nick | OneThingWell.dev @Ji Fu well, optional means both sides need encryption to be turned on to get a benefit, so sure, but use signal
As for DB dumps not revealing keys, how do you envision them stored. Cryptography doesn't exist without key management, and it's *hard*. And thus network isn't designed for it, so LARPing crypto is way.more dangerous
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if I fail I basically have to spend another 1k and take it again in a week
and then I have an eclipse chasing vacation and my brother's wedding, which I hope will make me less stressed
bah - 2024's first half is intense
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BB :verified_cool:
•@silverwizard: if I can pass it, just about anybody can. There is certainly a lot of stuff to take in, but it is learnable.
I should admit that it took me two tries, but i got there 🙃
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@BB :verified_cool: I really hope I don't have to find another fee, that's my main fear!
but thanks!