Very difficult song to cover — she nails it.
Month: January 2020
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38. There are very few network restrictions creative and determined use of ssh(1) port forwarding can't overcome.
39. This is both incredibly useful and concerning.
— Jan Schaumann (@jschauma) January 25, 2020
True. If I can log onto your network, even if you’ve “restricted” me, I’m getting the data I need, despite what your security team thinks. You might slow me down a little but definitely won’t stop me.
AD no HD
Think I will read American Dirt soon if this many white women pseudo-feminist writers are coming out against it to “protect” brown people. That means it’s probably good and that there’s a lot of professional jealousy involved.
Strange way to choose a book, but the world is how it is.
How I Passed the CISSP First Try
Here’s how I studied for the CISSP to pass on my first attempt. (Test has an estimated first-attempt failure rate of 50-60%). Not to lead anyone to think the below is likely all they will have to do, I have an extensive background in IT and have been using computers since I was four years old. This certainly helped a lot. Either way, though, the CISSP takes a great deal of studying no matter your experience level. You certainly don’t need my background but absent that advantage you’re probably going to have to study much more than I did. Anyone with 5+ years of IT experience I think can pass it, though, with the proper preparation — it just will likely be more involved than the below.
My first and main resources were these two books:
(ISC)2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide, 8th Edition
CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, 8th Edition
I read those cover to cover and then went back and took notes on what I didn’t know or understand. This ended up being 62 pages of notes, and not in large type either. With the Official Study Guide, I did all the practice tests after each chapter and made sure I understood the answers fully, especially for the questions I missed.
Also, I made extensive use of the Boson CISSP ExSim practice exams. Crucially, they explain in detail why the correct answer is in fact correct. This was invaluable. I think I still might’ve passed without this expense but the exam would’ve been much, much harder.
In addition, I spent time on the (ISC)2 website to study any available free material regarding the exam, including the free CISSP flash cards.
I did not watch any videos or use many other resources. Videos generally aren’t helpful to me in most cases — your results may vary.
The above resources, though, were what I spent nearly all my study time on. I estimate I studied about 200 hours for this exam over about two months. That’s about three hours a day for two months, every day.
Gaining and Complaining
Even though exercising doesn’t really work for losing weight, it’s very hard to gain weight while working out intensely and frequently. I’ve eaten 800+ calories a day more than normal over the past months and I’ve gained maybe 1.5 pounds.
Open B
Bombs and blood feuds: the wave of explosions rocking Sweden’s cities.
How’s them open borders workin’ out for ya?
Bully For Them
I think one of the reasons I have such a visceral reaction to liberal shenanigans lately is that it’s obvious that most of these people are the “cool kids” in middle school who would’ve ground me into the dust.
Bullies are something I don’t tolerate, and most of them are bullies. Simple as that.
Boredom Time
Lately, people — especially liberals — seem to greatly desire art that doesn’t challenge them, is expressly designed to not make them think, that instills torpor and demands nothing.
I should not really have to say this, but that is not art. It might be entertainment (though not by my definition), but it is definitely not art. If all you want are works that comport with your every trivial thought and opinion, that cohere exactly with what you believe (or believe you want to believe), you are not engaged in any artistic practice but rather self-gratification and self-stultification.
I want no part of this. I want art that I disagree with. I want art that makes me ponder what it means and exactly why the artist made that choice. I want writing that challenges me to understand and to attempt to get inside the head of the writer and the characters therein. I want aggressiveness of extrapolation and daringness of argument.
Thus, I firmly and fully fucking reject the “progressive” consensus and its censorious nature and its prudishness in every aspect.
Not My Liberalism
Shit like this that liberals do is inexplicable.
In a statement following the story’s removal, Clarkesworld owner and Editor-in-Chief Neil Clarke confirmed that Fall was a transgender woman living a closeted life and that harassment had forced her to out herself. Clarke also stated that Fall’s deteriorating health and well-being, as well as her acute distress over criticisms of her story as “harmful,” prompted her request for the story’s removal.
Note that it was all liberals harassing her. But they are making the world a “better place” with all this censorship and harassment. Sure.
Here is the story, if you want to read it.
Getting Out
I am curious, sociologically, what liberals get out of policing everyone so stringently, being so contract-oriented, denying joy and creativity in many to “protect” a tiny few who don’t even care or need protection? This seems like just plain old conservatism reframed to me, with a heaping dose of prudishness and white saviorism.
Of course that doesn’t answer the question of what they get out of it, but I don’t think anything will. Psychological problems are not easily diagnosable.
Speaking of Weight
Two days ago, I set a personal record of 120 pounds on the standing military (overhead) press. That’s as much as my partner weighs. Feels pretty good to put that much weight above your head.
American Dirt
So now we’re canceling another author because some identity-obsessed fuckwits thought she’s not some color or other enough? No thank you.
I find it hard to believe that liberals are really so fucking clueless as to think that prohibiting people from writing about anyone not exactly like them will help. Do they really believe this? (Of course they don’t; it’s all about elite competition and virtue signaling.)
Weighting
Training with Tonal, the ‘Peloton for weightlifting’.
There is no weightlifting happening on that; I see no weights. While machines aren’t worthless and are even superior for some exercises, if you want to see results and get massively stronger free weights are the way to do it.
Still, I think this thing might be worth it if it were $300. However, it’s $3,000. And for that you can buy some really great free weight-based exercise equipment and have money to spare left over. You’ll get stronger faster and won’t have some machine telling you what to do.
Albaking
Come on, who hasn’t planned to do that at one point or another?
Ops
Pay attention.
The new Google Search result layout is an op.
My theory is that it's meant to condition people to not be able to recognize the difference between valid/organic information, sponsored information, misinformation, disinformation and corporate/govt propaganda.
— AoverK (@AoverK) January 23, 2020
That’s exactly it. This was planned long in advance to destroy the distinction between neoliberal capitalism and its propaganda, real information, and government control operations (usually the same as corporate ones in most areas). Now that Google has de facto control of the collective nous they are using that power. It will be very effective indeed. The past decade or two has just been a prelude to what’s about to happen.