There are dozens of us! My glasses and contact RXs always got a comment. Mine are on the extreme side in difference too, plus astigmatism in one eye and not the other. When contacts were finally available for me, I had to relearn how to live in a 3d space.
I'm definitely going to follow the development of this as attention to edge cases and details like this are a good indicator of quality. It definitely has beta version battery life which I'd hope they'd address in a v2 as well.
As someone with excellent social skills in a technical field, I constantly get pushed towards management. In terms of upward salary momentum, I understand why a lot of women go that route. Investment of time to return is high if you are successful there. If you are constantly being told that you'd be a good fit for management, it makes sense that most people would gravitate towards it as a career.
I like to say that I am happy to be a leader in a technical role but have zero desire to be 'in management'. Interfacing with other teams and departments is critical for the long-term success of my work, but the bulk of my time is spent on heads down technical stuff. I wish there were more opportunities for everyone to try out having direct reports without it being a path of no return (or path of difficult to turn back). My experience with being a supervisor 10+ years ago was very valuable in that I found that while I was moderately good at it, the constant required social interaction for 90% of the day was massively draining and left me a blob after work.
I unfortunately also have had the experience of being pushed towards management, even though I'd say I have only slightly above average social skills. At a former job I was told I could be promoted to a senior software engineer in "3-4 years" (this was 8 years into my career after multiple years of "greatly exceeds expectations" reviews at this company) or I could become a manager. I held off for awhile since I had no real desire to manage, but I could talk to people and organize things so eventually that felt like my only way up. I did it for a year and hated it, then quit to be a technical founder at a startup, which is actually less stressful and way more enjoyable. I guess it worked out for me in the end (though I should have left way sooner), but I know I am not the only woman who had similar experiences at that company which makes me sad.
I like Arkime (used to be called Moloch). My only pet peeve is that the documentation for the search bar is not separated from the tool. Their site docs tell you to go to the tool instead of just having the information mirrored. But for large scale pcap analysis that still lets me look at individual packet data.. it's my first choice.
9/10 resumes I have been seeing are the default auto generated ones from LinkedIn. Sometimes those look alright but the rest are 5+ page monstrosities.
Maybe a mild food allergy? I know someone who has that reaction to rosemary and another friend who has it from tomatoes. A simple skin test showed both to be an allergy vs palate issue. Could just be sensitive to spices but it is a fun thing to figure out.
I wrote a data integration between two internal, siloed tools at a major ISP. This let me build security alerting on social engineering attempts and successful compromises. These se campaigns were using information from other corporate and gov data breaches to access accounts that had not been setup with pins/passphrases, and going for quantity over quality for targets. Anyone was fair game to them and if they couldn't steal money then they'd resell the access and PII to even more unsavory types for identity theft. At the time, if a caller had the account holder's PII, they'd be able make limited changes to the account. Unfortunately, those 'limited' changes were things like forwarding phone or email service.
They did pool the data eventually and the alerts continue to be used today to identify compromise and lock email/phone to prevent them from being used for bank fraud. The reduction of financial fraud on normal people was significant. My work kicked off a ton of other initiatives to prevent other avenues of compromise as well. I went from working customer compromise investigations in the scale of thousands a year to a few hundred after implementation. Having clear data of malicious access that couldn't be ignored prompted those initiatives to be seriously funded and maintained. Moving from reactive to proactive on these was very satisfying.
The last batch of SocGholish I encountered had virtualization checks on each stage and required user interaction to run/open the payload. Used iframes or modified google analytics on the compromised site and used webpress plugins vulns to get access.
The sandboxing checks were crazy good. I ended up getting an old laptop to do the analysis as it detected every other security sandbox tool. The only positive is that the payload (6 months back) itself is easily detected by most edr. Defender caught it on download.
+1 to the enjoyable dissection. Rooting out the underlying infra was also very fun.
I can't agree more. I've used every main 'competitor' now and nothing can compare to splunk for hunting across massive logging pools. It genuinely feels like magic with advanced SPL and solid regex.
My frustrations with Splunk have been around their certification and training changes over the years. Used to be able to get a solid tool certificate and decent training materials all for free. It only hurts Splunk though as less people have experience with the tool it lessens their advantage. Makes me disappointed as I really do like the tools itself but literally everything else is terrible. I'd much rather deal with Elastic or go open source with Security Onion.
As one of the younger but not young crowd, I have a form of auditory dyslexia which is why I've used CC and subtitles most of my life. Good sound mixing and actor enunciation helps to a small degree, but my brain garbles the first part of conversation starts and when dialog happens without visual cues.
My hearing is good, but the delays in processing dialog to content make watching movies or tv very frustrating when I can't see the actor's face to lip read or don't have CC to catch what I miss.
On the other side of things, I have a very high level of internal voice so when I am reading text I can 'hear' the dialog in my head. I can listen to the first 20 minutes of a movie or episode or two of a tv show, then watch it muted with subtitles and will hear the actor's voices. It's nice because I can watch shows with my own background music or without disturbing anyone with the audio.
I enjoy caffeine, and swapped in chocamine to my late afternoon and evening energy boost. Tastes delicious and feels like a treat to have a small hot chocolate drink. It's not on the same magnitude as caffeine but is still an excellent way to get a second wind without the negative effects that come with caffeine. The active ingredient is the theobromine and I liken it to a cocoa version of matcha, a little goes a long way.
About a half cup of hot almond milk + a gram of the chocamine. Fits into a small teacup perfectly and swapping the almond milk for water is alright but I like the hot chocolate style drink. I add a little dash cinnamon but it's got a nice flavor ok its own.
I'm definitely going to follow the development of this as attention to edge cases and details like this are a good indicator of quality. It definitely has beta version battery life which I'd hope they'd address in a v2 as well.