Thracky Spackoid

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Vulnerability Researcher and Canadian politics junkie.

This season of CANADALAND COMMONS podcast is pretty great so far. Can't start to convert oil & gas zealots without having a good understanding of the industry and its history, as complicated as it is.

The first episode re: chemical valley is pretty heartbreaking.

Love my dog but can’t wait until he stops teething and sleeps past 4:30 AM 😑

#corgi

Since I've been off here for a while, here's a couple pics of my new corgi pup Jasper, who is pretty much a crazy monster.
Oh hi Mastodon, it's been a long while...

Finally put up a new blog post. This one is about getting a Yubikey up and running for SSH authentication in Windows. Don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

https://suchsecurity.com/gpg-and-ssh-with-yubikey-on-windows.html

#Yubikey #infosec

GPG and SSH with Yubikey on Windows

An extensive walkthrough for using a Yubikey for GPG and SSH auth on Windows.

Such Security. wow.

My own mother passed away over 10 years ago from pulmonary fibrosis, which she had for 3 years. I know what it's like to watch your mother suffer, and go through all the shitty things. I know what it's like to lose a mother way too early. And now I have to watch my wife go through this and it is the shittiest thing ever.

I know I can't fix anything, and I know me being there won't stop it from being shitty. So basically, things suck rn, but at least they'll get better.

This probably isn't the best place for this but I need to vent somewhere so here goes.

My wife and I both have parents currently dealing with fairly serious cancer. My father has pancreatic cancer and my mother-in-law has very aggressive cancer basically everywhere.

My father has been responding to treatment quite well, having reduced his tumour by over 50%. My mother-in-law is going quickly in the other direction, to the point where they thing the chemo isn't working.

I'm having one of those weeks where I generate good ideas/theories to direct my research, but I dread writing the small amount of code to test these theories.
This then leads to the whole "people who are on social assistance for more than a few years are lazy" line of thinking, which is just tremendously unhelpful and insensitive.
People really still subscribe to the whole "hard work solves everything and can completely change your life" mantra, completely ignoring the fact that luck and various privileges play a huge part in how well that hard work pans out for you.