Tag: Unforgiving

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What are you current priorities?

Keeping focus is a critical tactical skill nowadays.  There are so many distractions and attractions where you can very easily wander down a non-revenue generating rabbit hole.

I’ve debriefed myself from InfoSec Europe, London’s annual Circus gathering of Security folk but now deep into the flashing press releases, demos and surprises at E3.

My upcoming game list is still hooked on Last of Us 2 but the surprise new free game in the Life is Strange Universe promised for this month is perfect timing as I get to the end-game of FallOut 4.

Last of Us 2 - release date unknown
Skull and Bones – release date 2019 unknown month
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit - June 26th 2018
The Division 2 – release date March 15, 2019 – Beta expected

Today’s brute force attacks on my site were routed through Panama 45.227.254.252…interesting.

STAR WARS Battlefront II – step back on focus
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Make your head Nod

Day 1 –  EU Data Laws come into force today.

Look out for the Article 33 – 72 Hour breach notification debacle.

I can only imagine the litigations that are cued up and ready to go.  Enterprise is all lawyered up but Small Business owners must be wondering what to do.  The first cases will definitely hit the media.

Will it make the end-user safer or just cause admin hassle and change the strategic position of hackers and miscreants? A new era of Lawfare where regulations are used to tied up resources of a target, distracting them and potential weakening their infrastructure.

Policy, procedures, standards, compliance will someone please wake me up.

…but yet I’ve already had some vague clueless queries from worried business folk.

Data enemies approach – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

No matter, your friendly neighbourhood CISSP is here for ya.

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Crypto Fool

My Omnia Cloud mining has yielded disappointing results so far but this is not surprising considering the massive drop in values.

After an initial investment of 500 USD
Current mining Earnings 0.72 USD per day
Means it will take a whopping 694 Days to break even,
...that's just under 2 years.

It seems Omnia makes more money from the Multi-Level Marketing aspect than the actual mining at the moment.  The Pay-out procedure is very rigid, ridiculously slow and non-transparent only allowing me to withdrawal my cryptocurrency once (1) a week on Thursdays.

With this scenario, it’s easy to see why Newbie Crypto investors would be sceptical but it all depends on your reasons for getting into Crypto.  For me, the opportunity to remain unseen by central banking is attractive.  Also,  sidestepping the technical hassle and cost of setting up mining servers is excellent.

Today’s Lesson: Define your Crypto goals whether it’s short-term profit to be transferred back to Central banks or leveraging the ability to buy or sell using Cryptocurrencies.

After all, Money is just one big Game anyway

Where’s my Hash Power? – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
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Resigning over Windrush

At the highest levels, it can be hard to dodge when political Rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) are coming at you from all angles. The Windrush generation has some vindication by the resignation of the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd. It’s all over the news but I just need to post my 2-cents.

Amber Rudd resignation

I can’t help feeling that this resignation will be a negative distraction for actual solutions for the Windrush generation.

Anger management

I was faced with zombie level rage on Saturday and it dawned on me what it was like for the target or even an observer of real life uncontrolled anger.  More importantly, looking into the eyes of rage made me reflect on my behaviour.

A found an interesting reference to a good source of controlling anger

Below is an approach to anger management used by 
Dr. Kim Masters, of Charter Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.

1. Admit that you are angry, to yourself and/or to someone else.

2. Believe you can control your anger. Tell yourself that you can!

3. Calm down. Control your emotions. Take some time for yourself, 
breath deeply, count to ten, cry...

4. Once you actually calm down. Decide how to solve the problem. 

5. Express yourself assertively. Ask for what you need. 
Speak calmly, without yelling, and people will listen to you.

Source 
Masters, K. (1992). The angry child: Paper tiger or sleeping giant?
Santa Monica, CA: Psychiatric Hospital Division of 
National Medical Enterprises, Inc.

 

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Life is Strange (The End?)

I concluded Season One of this unusual emotional gaming drama and the authors created a brilliant environment pulling you into actually caring for a character and then dropping you into the ultimate dilemma of sacrificing that same character.

Titles as deep as this are few and far between but thoroughly enjoyable like a good book or fine wine.

IRL I’m getting some pesky weak web application attacks from 193.201.224.193

person: Bondarenko Viktor
address: Ukraine, Kiev, Jilyanskaya street, 12
phone: +380684956523

Dear Viktor, please go away.

Life Is Strange – Tough decisions
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Turning

I stand again in the “How the mighty have Fallen” category.

Having sidestepped adversity as a borderline miscreant, wondered through three marriages and fathered two beautiful daughters.  I now find myself in a single room sharing with two random strangers.

This is my time for healing and solitude.

It’s a quiet Saturday morning and I have nothing, literally not a pot to my name. I walk into a 1-Euro store to sounds of “Turn, Turn, Turn” playing in the background.

God is trying to tell me something again

"Turn! Turn! Turn!"


To everything - turn, turn, turn
 There is a season - turn, turn, turn
 And a time to every purpose under heaven
 
 A time to be born, a time to die
 A time to plant, a time to reap
 A time to kill, a time to heal
 A time to laugh, a time to weep
 
 To everything - turn, turn, turn
 There is a season - turn, turn, turn
 And a time to every purpose under heaven
 
 A time to build up, a time to break down
 A time to dance, a time to mourn
 A time to cast away stones
 A time to gather stones together
 
 To everything - turn, turn, turn
 There is a season - turn, turn, turn
 And a time to every purpose under heaven
 
 A time of love, a time of hate
 A time of war, a time of peace
 A time you may embrace
 A time to refrain from embracing
 
 To everything - turn, turn, turn
 There is a season - turn, turn, turn
 And a time to every purpose under heaven
 
 A time to gain, a time to lose
 A time to rend, a time to sew
 A time for love, a time for hate
 A time for peace, I swear it's not too late!
Far Cry® 5 – A Time to Heal