Pain Flare Up

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I’ve spent the past two weeks dealing with a full on pain flare up.

I’m talking 5/10 pain constant for about two weeks.

I actually think I have fibromyalgia. I have an appointment with a rheumatologist in a couple of weeks. I hope I can get at least some answer. This is brutal and I don’t want to have to rely on marijuana (CBD and otherwise) just to make it through the day. Partly cause it’s expensive, but it’s also against my company’s policy and I don’t want to worry about getting in trouble for dosing at work so I’ve been going without.

Anyway, a quote that stuck with me:

“If you are a friend or relative of a Fibromyalgia sufferer, please consider this: In moderate to severe cases, FMS will cause fatigue from sleep deprivation and sympathetic stimulation on a level totally unknown to the average person. A famous radio host once said, “All men are wimps if they don’t get the proper rest”. Fibromyalgia sufferers go way beyond this.”

Source: https://drmattlanum.com/fibromyalgia.html

CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it first appeared

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“The recent CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it initially appeared, according to newly unearthed evidence. That evidence shows that the CCleaner malware infected at least 20 computers from a carefully selected list of high-profile technology companies with a mysterious payload. (credit: Talos ) Previously, researchers found no evidence that any of the computers infected by the booby-trapped version of the widely used CCleaner utility had received a second-stage payload the backdoor was capable of delivering.”

Source: CCleaner malware outbreak is much worse than it first appeared

 

Yikes!

 

Source papers for people who actually want to read about it:

  1. http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/avast-distributes-malware.html
  2. http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/09/ccleaner-c2-concern.html

Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression

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“The implication is that people with depression (or likely to have depression) generally have a “greater empathic concern for others,” in the words of Megan Speer and Mauricio Delgado, psychology researchers from Rutgers University, who penned a related commentary accompanying the study. People with depression just feel bad when others get a shit deal.”

While the outcome seems convenient for me to say “oh wow I just care _so_ much” and that’s why I struggle with depression/anxiety – still interesting thoughts.

 

Source: Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression

[SATIRE] SEGA Announces It Learned Absolutely Nothing From Sonic Mania Success

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“Coming off this monumental victory, we are proud to announce our next project is a Shadow the Hedgehog trilogy that features open world gameplay alongside third person shooter elements,” said project lead Takashi Lizuka to a smattering of confused applause. “It will feature a zombie mode and will be entirely motion-controlled.”

 

LOVE IT! Yet another company that can’t seem to get out of it’s own way LOL

Source: SEGA Announces It Learned Absolutely Nothing From Sonic Mania Success

Batesian Mimicry – Nature is awesome

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In the 1850’s, the naturalist Henry Walter Bates found a certain set of butterflies who were clearly not of the same species but whose wings looked almost the same to the naked eye. After thinking it over, Bates eventually figured out what was going on: While the butterflies which were toxic to potential predators (the “models”) were able to operate freely and relatively unmolested, there had also developed a “mimic” population of butterflies which wasn’t toxic at all, yet still went untouched!

Source: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/12/batesian-mimicry/

[$] Antipatterns in IoT security

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Lots of interesting talk about the fundamentals of a secure system and it’s applications to computers.

Quote I liked (empahasis mine):

The most basic security antipattern is to “do nothing”. That means accepting any and all risk, though. Another is to “do it yourself”; that leads to thinking the system is secure because of custom elements, such as non-peer-reviewed cryptography algorithms or implementations and security through obscurity. “Hand-rolled” security systems have not fared well over the years—developers have learned that implementing stream ciphers, for example, should not be tackled in-house. But there is still a fair amount of security by obscurity, such as “super unguessable URLs”. If a product becomes successful, which is what you want, the unguessable will become all-too-guessable.

Source: [$] Antipatterns in IoT security