"You don't seem autistic. Autistic people are supposed to be withdrawn and difficult to talk with. You are great at carrying on a conversation!"
(Concise) Thank you.
(Honest) I appreciate that, but it didn't come to me naturally. I've spent many years studying how people communicate and taught myself certain strategies to better fit in. It takes work and mental effort every time.
(Humor) That's because "carrying on a conversation" is my special interest!
(TMI) I've played lots of CRPGs and treat every conversation like a dialogue tree where I'm trying to run through all the options. My goal is to "win" by scoring conversation points for things like "witty insight", "saying something that kicks off a larger discussion", "summarizing what someone else said in a way that makes more sense to the larger audience", or "successfully filling dead space with useful comments".
(Sarcasm) If you really feel that way, congrats on your autism diagnosis.
(Anger) Fuck you, buddy. Go read a Wikipedia article before opening your mouth and spouting ableist talking points like a smug "Autism Speaks" mom.
Glare silently.
@ActuallyAutustic #ActuallyAutistic
Microsoft:
You know what would be funny? What if we renamed the "Save as" function to "Save a copy"? It's not actually going to "Save a copy". It's going to do the exact same thing that "Save as" did but we're just calling it "Save a copy". I know other applications have "Save a copy" where when you use it it "saves a copy". But not us. We're just renaming "Save as".
You know our old saying: why do it right?
That's it; that's the whole saying.
#SaveACopyIsNotSaveAs #SaveAs #SaveACopy #MicrosoftOffice #Microsoft
Played about four hours of early access Titan Quest 2 this weekend.
It's not bad for an early access title.
The engine itself looks great. The voice acting I've heard is to notch. There are only four available masteries right now and the controls feel a little weird. I tried with kb/m but gave up and switched to XBox controller. I didn't see anything that told you what the controls were other than occasional onscreen prompts. I briefly looked for a way to remap but didn't find one.
For accessibility, it has three different colorblind modes and a "neophyte" difficulty setting. I didn't dig much deeper than that.
I was always terrible at the first Titan Quest but loved the world. I was much better at Grim Dawn.
The new Titan Quest 2 team seems to be trying to pay homage to the original while adding their own ideas. I'm not sure I like how they've complicated the skill masteries. But I'm only four hours in. And I had to restart half way through that because I couldn't get my the first boss on normal difficulty and had to start over to lower it.
I know I should just "get good" but I'm over 50 and don't feel like it.
I haven't tried it on my Steam Deck yet. I've heard it works great which is more than I can say for Grim Dawn.
#TitanQuest #TitanQuest2 #TitanQuestII
Since there has been a huge influx of new users, I decided to write a new #Introduction and actually pin it to my profile.
I'm pushing 50 years old and I live in a Red State that is trying to make me illegal. I'm a #pansexual / #bisexual #transgender woman married to a heterosexual cisgender woman who frequently talks about the current hellscape for people like me in my Toots.
I'm #NeuroDivergent / #ND which is probably why all of these sentences start with "I".
I've worked in #InfoSec for a little over 20 years. I've had lots of roles in #SecEng, #SecOps, and #ThreatManagement. I taught myself #Perl, #Bash, #SQL, and #PowerShell. I'm decent at #JavaScript. I can read #Python and #Ruby. I enjoy automating things and turning manual processes into scripts.
I've been the primary #CareGiver to my wife for 8 years since she developed a chronic condition and went on disability.
My hobbies including #writing #paranormal short fiction, journaling my #dreams, and playing #PCGames on my laptop and #SteamDeck.
I prefer #StarGate over #StarTrek over #StarWars. Still waiting for Amazon to do something, anything with the Stargate property.
While we loved the #ArrowVerse including #Stargirl and #SwampThing, in general we prefer #Marvel over #DC.
I'm a fan of #Horror / #HorrorFam, #HorrorMovies and #HorrorBooks, especially the existential dread of #CosmicHorror or #LovecraftianHorror. I tend to sympathize with the nameless terrors. I am not a fan of mindless slashers, unrelenting gore, or torture porn. Over-the-top, egregious gore that crosses into the absurd is fine, though, so I am a Sam Raimi fan, obvs. Also, #HorrorComedies are underappreciated.
I'm slowly reconnecting with my #Pagan roots. I knew some stuff about #Tarot and had a friend who as a tree a lifetime ago and I'm trying to rekindle that.
We've got #Cats and they are our kids. I also happen to love #Frogs, but we don't have any of those.
#BLM #BlackLivesMatter
#TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
#ThePandemicIsNotOver
#ClimateChangeIsReal
#SexWorkIsWork
When I dream, I often feel like I'm borrowing someone else's life for a little while. My age, race, and gender are often different from my waking life. I occasionally feel like I'm visiting a "what if" version of Earth, an alternate. Sometimes, I even find portals between possibilities.
These stories are all based on dreams I've had.
I'll add more as time goes on.
#WhenIDream
The first I will post, I think, is the best one to show the confusion I often feel when I "wake up" in the middle of a life other than my own.
My Eyes Open
#Elements #Elemental #Floating #Phasing
Sometimes, in my dreams, an endless stream of things will come out of my mouth. Glass, metal, living things, goo. Sometimes, things come out of other places.
Metal
#BodyHorror #StuffInMyMouth #StuffInMyBut
Sometimes, when I dream, there are magic spells, and elemental manipulation, and communicating with anything, animals, insects, the earth itself.
Sometimes, I'm in danger.
Guardian
#Magic #Magick
Sometimes, when I dream, I walk through walls, I peer into directions that I have no names for, I breakthrough to some greater understanding of the universe.
Sometimes, it starts small. It starts with self-preservation, with fear.
But that's not how it ends.
The In Between
#WalkThroughWalls #HigherDimensions #FifthDimension
#Dreams #Dreaming #Dreamlands
Temple of Carnelian
This is based on a reading I did with a deck of Oracle cards before the pandemic. I'll try to get a good image of the card and add it it to this post later.
First paragraph to get you started.
In the Aether there is a temple, a pyramid of stone, missing the capstone, forever bathed in the red-gold light of a setting desert sun. The doors are always open and the inside is filled with long shadows that provide respite from the heat. You are welcome to sit, relax, contemplate. You've earned your place here. If you explore, you may find the goddess of the temple, Sekhmet, she with the head of a lioness, arbiter of courage and inner strength. She may smile, she may beckon or direct, but she never speaks. It isn't necessary. In this case, she glanced at a passage off in the distance, one I hadn't yet seen. It danced with a curious flickering array of colors and so I moved toward it. Even before I could see it clearly, I felt it, like an oven, but I was strong, so I pushed forward, I had to see. My skin felt as if it may peel away, like the worst sunburn you've ever had, but still I pushed. And I saw a corridor, lengthy and filled entirely with flame.
#Fiction #Writing #WritingCommunity #Oracle #Sekhmet #Hope
This story was written in 2013. I'd been on #HRT for a year and half and I'd only been "out" as #transgender for a few months.
In an ordinary forest sat an unremarkable pond brimming with countless identical tadpoles.
Mottle did not like blending in. βSomeday, Iβm going to stand out,β she said to no one in particular.
βWhy? Do you want to get eaten?β exclaimed Spishβ¦ or was it Bloit?
Click the link below to read the rest if you want to.
Mottle the Purple Frog
I submitted it to a writing contest. I did not win or even get an honorable mention. Of all the things I've written, this is the one that my wife likes the best.
It seemed like a good time to post it since there is a culture war against our right to exist.
I can imagine a world where being different is celebrated.
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
I rely on RSS feeds and I was pretty sad to see browsers abandon them.
I'm using LiveMarks which is a Firefox extension which recreates their old built-in RSS reader.
This website lists the Top 100 Information Security RSS Feeds but I'm not sure who curates.
I'm going through some of them and, if I like them, I'll add them to this list.
Here are nice RSS Feeds for #InfoSec news (in alphabetical order):
0dayfans
404 Media *MOST ARTICLES BEHIND FREE REGISTRATION OR PAY-WALL BUT IT'S PROBABLY WORTH IT SINCE THESE FOLKS USED TO BE VICE MOTHERBOARD *
Ars Technica
Ars Technical - Just InfoSec
BankInfoSecurity.com
BleepingComputer
Blog - Lenny Zeltser
BPI
CISA Advisories
CSO Online - Security
Cybersecurity Blog β SentinelOne
Cybersecurity Careers Blog
DataBreaches.net
DataBreachToday.com RSS Syndication
Datadog Security Labs
GitHub Security Advisory Feed
Hackread β Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
Krebs on Security
Malware-Traffic-Analysis.net - Blog Entries
NIST - National Vulnerability Database
NIST - News and Events Feed by Topic
Outpost24 Discover our cybersecurity articles
Packet Storm β News
Palo Alto - Unit 42
Project Zero
SANS Blog
SANS Institute | Newsletters - Newsbites
SANS Internet Storm Center
Schneier on Security
Securelist
Security Hacks β Hackaday
Security Intelligence
SecurityWeek RSS Feed
Sophos AI Research
Sophos Security Operations
Sophos Threat Research
Techdirt
Tenable Cyber Exposure Alerts
Tenable Research Advisories
Sysinternals Blog
Threat Analysis Group (TAG)
Threat Research Blog
Tripwire Blog
US-CERT Alerts
US-CERT Bulletins
US-CERT Current Activity
WIRED - Security LatestγChanges on 2023-05-04γ
added because they seem reasonably active.
Blog - Lenny Zeltser
Tripwire Blog
Outpost24 Discover our cybersecurity articles
Security Intelligence
Tenable Cyber Exposure Alerts
Tenable Research AdvisoriesγChanges on 2023-11-08γ
turns out Naked Security killed their feed and rolled the stories into Sophos proper. I'm leaving the Naked Security one in place because it will be an archive but adding the new ones.
Here's the article about it
Here are the new feeds.
Sophos AI Research
Sophos Security Operations
Sophos Threat ResearchγChanges on 2024-02-15γ
removed The Hacker News. They've always been kind of shady, but this article sealed the deal hakpop - TheHackerNews.com Profits from Deceptive AdvertisingγChanges on 2024-02-27γ
added 404Media and Techdirt.
404Media is not a free news site. Some articles are available after registrering for free and others are behind a paywall. But these folks are doing independent tech journalism at a time when big media conglomerates are firing people and replacing them with LLM-powered bots.
404 Media
TechdirtγChanges on 2024-03-15γ
new feeds added from https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/112099639983257365
Ars Technical - Just InfoSec
Threat Analysis Group (TAG)
GitHub Security Advisory Feed
Securelist
Datadog Security Labs
Palo Alto - Unit 42
CISA Advisories
CSO Online - Security
Cybersecurity Careers Blog
Hackread β Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
NIST - News and Events Feed by Topic
SANS Blog
WIRED - Security Latest
removed
eWEEK - RSS Feed
99% of the articles are about AI so if that is your jam, keep it in your feed
also removed Naked Security for good since it is no longer getting updatesγChanged on 2024-12-13γ
Packetstorm changed their RSS news feed.It's now https://packetstorm.news/rss/news
So replaced this one
Packet Storm β News
with this one
Packet Storm β News
#RSS #RSSFeed #RSSFeeds #InfoSec
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