SECURITY RESEARCH AND DATA PRIVACY
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Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits
Personal Paradox: Trying to rid myself of nearly 5 years of oblivious hostile dependency but more importantly bringing them to a place of self-reliance.
The subject hates the fact that I help them repeatedly yet does nothing to put themselves in a better financial position. A cycle that will never end.
So I simply left the arena and watched. GAME OVER.
Jumped into Twitch.tv to find an unusual treat. Sabrina Chevannes playing 500+ viewers at Chess.
Sabrina is a Women’s International Chess Master and smashes all the chess player stereotypes. I ended up being distracted and stayed on the stream for a couple of hours. She’s been playing chess since the age of 8 and would kick my ass in 5 minutes at the game.
Why are Super Stars like this not highlighted more? To my shame, this was the first time I ever came across this Champion. Anyhow, seems she’s busy managing her Digital Design company in the London. Nuff respect.
Naturally, she won against the stream. A real education.
It seems crazy to start thinking about the Winter months but I’m seldom ready for it emotionally, financially or physically.
This year, I determined to make it a good one so I’m heading to Florida in August to stock up on heavy winter gear. As of now, I need a couple of super heavy coats, boots, and thermal under clothing.
Tech upgrade to PS4 Pro.
Gonna spend around €1000 to get started.
The words Summit and Peak will never be the same again for me.
Yesterday, I inadvertently ended up trekking 612 metres up to Alpl 14, Krieglach, Austria. I’m a born Londoner so pretty much used to staying at no higher than 35 metres about sea level.
It was a combination of crowd trekking and sheer mental concentration to push my body to do what it didn’t want to do. Reaching the Summit was absolutely wonderful, my heart filled up with massive waves of happiness and my aching muscles were quickly forgotten.
The mountains in Horizon Zero Dawn are brilliant but the real-life view and air from the top of an actual mountain is simply to die for.
40 minutes of hiking up blindly ended up being a really important life lesson to self. I now know why people train for months and end up being addicted to trekking and conquering mountains. A work colleague reached the Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro which is over 5000 metres up, now the magnitude of their achievement has suddenly dawned on me.
Today, I’m reflecting on my shock achievement and trying to soothe my muscles.
I WILL do it again.
I can barely muster up an hour of daily quality gameplay lately. Game time suffers directly when the joys of the “Real world” kick-in and it’s hard to justify to non-gamers that you actually need time to play. I’m usually disgusted by gamers with poor commitment and find myself exactly in that position.
As this point, I cannot claim to be a gamer but a mere sporadic spectator.
My library is littered with unfinished stories like half-eaten apples. Of course, this is a common trend during Summer months as opposed to locking myself up in a Man Cave during the winter.
E3 gave us some nice treats to look forward to and, for me, FarCry 5, Assassin’s Creed Origins and God of War are simply must haves for 2018. Still waiting on news on Last of Us 2 though. In the meantime, I’m aiming to Platinum Horizon Zero Dawn but the end of August.