Totally. And we can’t do anything to improve the situation until there’s laws or regulations passed.

Personal project: trying to get OP-TEE to work on a rpi3. Seems like there’s some known issues in my way of success. It’s annoying. But once it’s working, I’ve got some experiments I’d like to try out.

Looks like there’s a metasploit available. You can use that on your router to see if it’s susceptible. A quick google search indicates that this is only successful on older routers without input validation.

In general, follow good cyber security hygiene, and update the firmware on your router. If your router no longer is supported by the vendor (no more firmware updates for vulnerabilities found), then it’s old and you should upgrade.

I love coffee. I started with a French press, then moved to an areopress, then an espresso machine. I still use all 3, and experiment with what beans are best brewed with the different methods. Very fun hobby.

I love tea as well. But it’s to relax after a stressful day. It’s a different vibe for me. I usually go for tisane or a mild green (sencha).

The act of making coffee, opening the bean package, grinding the beans, preparing the brewing method, brewing, cleaning up, then enjoying the coffee is very zen for me. It’s like practicing mindfulness.

I cannot have coffee after like 1pm without it keeping me awake. And I certainly would be climbing across the ceiling with 5 mugs of coffee.

Got back from vacation yesterday. Today, the Blue Angels are practicing for their show (exhibition? Not really sure what they call it). Super fun to get to watch them play in the sky all day.

Looks great!

I’d really like if this line of work wasn’t completely doom and gloom all the time. I’m burnt out of telling people what seems like extremely dramatic, doomed scenarios of the “state of security” all the time. I feel like I’m always the asshole in the room all the time.

I’m assuming any risk management or actuary job is similar. It can be soul crushing sometimes.

Some of that, yes. I work for a university that’s government adjacent, so we have to get audited pretty often. Part of that is proving that we STIG and conform to other frameworks. But within certain labs, access is remote only, so I’m not sure how they would handle having a PAW, when there’s probably just a few admin accounts that have strict rules and limits applied.

That’s neat. I’m curious about this now. With “normal” search engines that have generally gone to shit, AI chat bots are on trend to give better results. If the robots.txt file is blocked from OpenAI, can I assume it hits other chatbots? And would that extend to Google/bing?

That’s a neat project. Are you looking for trends, or something specific?

Project Management crap. It’s the money season in the government, so I get to ask for lots of money to try to do cool things.

I’ll third this. I get this message on just about every website.

I was going to try to explain it, but realized I’m not very good at calling menus and such their proper names. So whatever I tell you wouldn’t be very helpful.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/turn-a-focus-on-or-off-iph5c3f5b77b/ios

Apple also has a YouTube video that’s about 5 minutes long. The article is probably faster.

I’m not a power user, so I don’t use the majority of features on my phone. I generally set my “do not disturb” at bedtime. It allows calls through from my favorite contact list and my morning alarm. I have friends that set focus time and they love it.

Edit to add to the conversation. I disable all notifications, except for things I really want: calls, FaceTime, texts and to update my food diary if I haven’t done so before 2pm.

When I need to use Uber, I just keep watch on the app. I guess I’m a bit of a psychopath. But when I’m waiting for a car, I like to watch it move on the map. There’s nothing else I would use that would need me to have a notification.

Ha! Very appropriate response.

It’s too bad the programs that actually help people aren’t given more money and people to make it large scale. Instead, we get this.

I use KeePassium

Sounds like a fun assignment! Glad you got some interesting results!

Sounds thrilling!!

I’ll be on vacation for our audit next week. I’m thrilled to miss it.

I work at a place that brags on %30 of applicants are hired, and it’s associated with a higher education system whose ego is larger than it should be for a non-ivy. And of course this trickles down to the people who work there. Lucky for me, non of my coworkers or bosses are like this.

Whoever fucked up, must have really fallen hard. The managers made a spreadsheet to track these items now. We are generally give copious amounts of leeway. Seniors on the team are expected to be thought leaders who work autonomously from leadership.

I will continue to maliciously comply. And track every piece of email on this excel spreadsheet, even if it’s a “understood” or “have a great weekend”.

I laughed when my coworker said it’s demotivating. I said wow, if anything, this will motivate me to produce worthless information to break the system. I get paid regardless of my actual productivity.

Can I complain about work instead? My workplace instituted a “quality review process”. Now anything that is sent external must be reviewed by middle management.

My entire job is external facing. Have fun reviewing every email and document I produce.

Here’s to hoping many others do the same, and totally DoS middle management back into the previous review process.

Preparing for multiple mid year reviews to justify my existence on research projects. Academia is pretty exhausting.

I don’t even have meaningful results yet because I’m so busy giving PowerPoint’s to people explaining my research.

Here’s to hoping they like me enough to give me more money next year.