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by notakio 4y ago
It has been illuminating for me over the past few weeks to have lost hearing in my right ear as a result of a lingering sinus infection; I understood that identifying the direction a sound might come from would be difficult with only one ea
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by notakio 4y ago
I've found the Pis to be surprisingly resilient, heat-wise. I built a handful of inline monitoring servers running suricata, pulling yml configs from puppet, and forming an ad-hoc network with one another, with devices in a reasonably
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by notakio 4y ago
Can confirm. I've been stuffing configuration files inside images and storing them on Twitter for a couple years now; they remain untouched, and any newly-booted VM on my home network can pull the files down via API, strip the payload
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by notakio 4y ago
It's tough, until you stop caring. And obviously, hitting the "don't care" point is pretty sub-optimal, so far as being able to muster any enthusiasm necessary to keep doing the job.
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by notakio 4y ago
Yerp. As a former *nix admin, around the time that "DevOps" became a term, I read it as "system administrator, who also now has to fix developer code." Which, honestly, was already part of the job at a lot of places I&#x
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by notakio 4y ago
I was burned out in 2015, and abandoned the entire field in favor of a move into law enforcement. That didn't end up working out, which is for the best, in retrospect, because what I wanted wasn't a job with less thanks and more d
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by notakio 4y ago
So today I learned the reason I was in that category is, in fact, my visibility to my employer's trades, not visibility of the stock feed, itself. I'd been under this misconception since 2006!
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by notakio 4y ago
The SEC has real, legal teeth. In this case, Ms. Kardashian took a legal settlement to avoid a criminal verdict. In a prior job, a mutual fund startup, I was restricted from purchasing stocks unless I ran it through an internal company proc
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by notakio 4y ago
Part of what I do first at any new employer is ask myself the question, "if I wanted to burn all of this to the ground, how would I do it?" I generally don't share the fact that I'm going through this little thought expe
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by notakio 4y ago
Obscurity, by itself, may be an ineffective security strategy, but it does provide an additional layer on top of other layers of security to improve things, overall. There's a Spafford quote on this, but I'm failing to find it. Le
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Comprehensive Guide to the Protective Combat Uniform(itstactical.com)
1 points by notakio 4y ago|1 comments
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by notakio 4y ago
The US DOD spent a lot of time and money coming up with a multi-layered clothing system for special forces, pulling in expertise from private sector textile and 'adventure clothing' people. This is a decent explanation of how the
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by notakio 4y ago
Ironically, some of that military money would go back to Patagonia, through their discretely-held control of the current PCU contract, under which they provide a government-spec'd 7-layer uniform system to special operations units. The
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by notakio 4y ago
There was a place in North Texas (Frisco or Plano) that had a miniature indoor town, where kids could play as various professions, from hair stylist to firefighter to banker and other things. It struck me as a pretty neat use of what used t
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by notakio 4y ago
A large number of cloud providers will likely have a blend of their own datacenters as well as installations within other providers' centers. I've been in that data center at 200 Paul Ave in San Francisco, back in early 2010, and
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by notakio 4y ago
Not Bill Burr, rather George Carlin. But that theme is present in both comedians' work, to be sure.
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by notakio 4y ago
I went through the Apple interview process in 2006, and would say that my experience was definitely not predominantly a "technical interview panel". It was an all-day event, to which they had flown me in to do, and though I was as
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by notakio 4y ago
I will second both recommendations made here. Wardle's tools comprise a majority of my suggested macOS security stack on machines at work now.
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by notakio 4y ago
A substantial chunk of code I've written in the last decade has been written to a Meshuggah soundtrack. I love the music, and find the more complicated time signatures (well, more complicated than 4/4, at least) interesting enough
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by notakio 4y ago
Done. Anonymized receipt: https://poipaas.com/img/pp_donation_receipt.png We live in interesting times, it seems.
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by notakio 4y ago
You have vastly overestimated how much money that one sale will net me, but I will be donating twenty dollars of other origin to Planned Parenthood, as agreed upon.
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by notakio 4y ago
I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams! Thank you, both from me and on behalf of my daughter.
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by notakio 4y ago
The first one: https://music.apple.com/us/album/3n69r9x105706/1468162713 The second one: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-first-annual-report-of/...
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by notakio 4y ago
I have a three year old daughter. In her three years of life, I have recorded hours and hours of high quality audio of her. I've also encouraged her to bang on keyboards and drum pads and guitars, and recorded all of that, as well. I t
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by notakio 4y ago
My answer to your question of how to fill those knowledge gaps is "experience". Whether it's work experience, fiddling around at home experience, or classroom environment experience, this is going to be your best bet. The mor
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by notakio 4y ago
I should have included a link to his company, the Black Swan Group: https://www.blackswanltd.com/
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by notakio 4y ago
Voss teaches classes, as well; they are useful well outside the bounds of hostage negotiation, in almost any context where soft interpersonal communication is a determining factor. My introduction to Mr. Voss was through an immersive traini
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by notakio 4y ago
Primarily, similarity to forensics samples I've seen via incident response. But you're right; the individual aspects of this aren't particularly outstanding or complex, it's the lack of uncrossed T's and undotted I&
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by notakio 4y ago
It certainly feels like a nation state's work, or, at the very least, an "advanced persistent threat" group. The packet capture pre-filter aspect, at very least, is strongly reminiscent of code I've seen from a couple of
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by notakio 4y ago
I am rather compulsive with my approach to anything, whether work or leisure, and have a strong tendency to pour myself into the task at hand. I wouldn't categorize this as "toxic productivity", in that I don't feel like

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