PaddleMaster
@PaddleMaster@beehaw.org
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 13 hours ago:
You could get the malware vaccine. Just make sure to ask your doctor if it’s right for you.
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 4 days ago:
Have you had success with other certs in the past?
I know some people have poor test taking skills, which can make these tests harder. A old friend of mine took 3 tries to get CISSP.
If you’ve had success in the past, then maybe these exams are just giving you issues. But you mentioned attention/focus issues.
If your ADHD isn’t treated, first step is to go see a dr. Then you should be able to attend all the classes without skipping.
You could just not be a great test taker because of . Getting your mental health treated and being stable will help you with keeping focus during the test too.
You also need to understand that many of these cert exams ask questions and expect specific answers solely based on the materials taught. This means you must forget any of your other experiences and knowledge when takes these tests.
Certifications are like gate keeping. Some are more difficult so they keep “prestige” because the less people that can earn it means it carries more weight. Usually the marketing is something like “get this cert so you can prove x amount of knowledge”. And that’s not really the mindset you need going into the test - that’s just marketing.
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 4 weeks ago:
This is basically a forum. So, people will comment on their experiences.
I can give you a response on both sides, me as a candidate and me as an interviewer.
- Comment on New HHS nondiscrimination guidelines on AI use in Healthcare 5 weeks ago:
The link does not say anything about AI, nor does it give an option to submit a complaint about AI. I also cannot find the quote you posted. Not saying I don’t believe you, but did your quote come from a different page? Or did you link the wrong page?
As an aside, this is probably best posted to a privacy community or a healthcare community.
- Comment on Meta Is Blocking Links to Pixelfed 5 weeks ago:
It is very difficult to motivate people to move to a different platform.
Meta continues to do shitty things. I deleted all my accounts 10 years ago because of said shitty things. The list of shitty things keeps growing.
I can try to be optimistic about the Streisand effect. But it would have to be towards positive experience with pixelfed. Enough people would need to move for it to not feel empty. Sort of like BlueSky during the election. Enough people frustrated with twitter, and (most importantly) see enough people, including celebrities, politicians and other influencers migrate to make it worth checking out.
- Comment on Honda teases reveal of two new Honda Zero EV prototypes 2 months ago:
Yooooooo! I love that. I’ll admit, if Subaru releases a “Baja” like car again, I’d be the first one to buy it.
Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on China: Elon Musk's X must immediately end shadow ban of prominent account run by exiled Chinese human rights activists, group says 2 months ago:
It does make sense. China can monitor the account for intel to squash any non-desirable gatherings.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 2 months ago:
Schedule slips of capability installs, and fighting fake status updates. Oh joy! Nothing like having a vendor report that something is working and delivered and it’s completely missing. But somehow, it meets requirements, so contractually, they’re good.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 3 months ago:
Funding was cut by 20%. So I have to figure out what the team can’t get to.
Super fun. Also, I’ll probably start looking for something else. This stress is not worth it.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 6 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 8 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 8 months ago:
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.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Looks great!
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 9 months ago:
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.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 9 months ago:
And most news papers were acquired by the same handful of media companies. In turn these companies ravaged local markets and there’s just no coverage of the actual truth, even on local happenings.
There’s an article about my hometown covered by NY times or something (I forget, it’s been a few years). We had a flourishing newspaper that employed a decent amount of the community, when that article came out (2010ish) the same company had 3 reporters and 5 staff. The newspaper would cover legitimate issues locally and nationally. They had amazing journalists that promoted great things happening too (local studies, non profits doing the hard work to benefit the community, etc). Basically, the boring stuff that isn’t flashy enough for social media. And now it’s all gone.
I legitimately have a difficult time finding news stories on any platform that I can trust.
- Comment on Implementing Least-Privilege Administrative Models 10 months ago:
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.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 10 months ago:
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?
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 10 months ago:
That’s a neat project. Are you looking for trends, or something specific?
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 10 months ago:
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.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 11 months ago:
Sounds like a fun assignment! Glad you got some interesting results!
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 11 months ago:
Sounds thrilling!!
I’ll be on vacation for our audit next week. I’m thrilled to miss it.
- Comment on Threat Thursday - CTI, vulnerabilities and discussions 1 year ago:
We’ve got a threat briefing on all the recent PLA activity. I’m going on vacation, so I’ll miss it which is a bummer.
The hospital my partner works for had a ransomware attack. They haven’t publicly disclosed, so I’m hoping that means they had actual back ups and nothing was compromised.
Personal anecdote: so many things were breached lately. I have an extreme uptick of calls from my “best friend” Scam Likely. I get more calls from Scam Likely than anyone else, hence the “best friend” designation.
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 1 year ago:
There’s more than enough time. I took my time, and didn’t really get anxious about the time limit. I finished with extra time left.
- Comment on Training Tuesday - Discussions for certs, training and learning-at-home 1 year ago:
If you mean CompTIA, then yes! Security+ is a great entry level certification. It helped me land my first job outside of my internship.
- Comment on HW Security Keys - 2023 - State of Tech? 1 year ago:
YubiKeys are pretty great. I use it. I hate when you have to authenticate via sms, and apps are slightly better.
If you get a YubiKey, you can use it to authenticate into your password manager. I know some people who do only that and they use the randomize password function that’s long and would never be human memorizable.
If you don’t do that, support for the key is listed on their website. There’s enough support on various platforms to make it worth it. But I was surprised the list was so small. I do wish more financial institutions would get with it. Most of my banks only do sms.