Painted the Mind Thief
First mini in 10 months.
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CISSP Certified
I got certified as CISSP this week. The preparation was grueling. So much material to cover. The exam itself was fair, but the test questions in the beginning were really weird. I was at first a bit taken a back but then onve the 25 test questions were out of the way it was smooth…
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Security+ Certified
So about a month ago, I decided it was time to get certified. I had been doing this work, and teaching this content for some years now and thought a certificate would be a good way to demonstrate the skills to potential employers. I registered for the security+ exam and got the bundle with 2…
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New Keyboard: Welcome Charybdis
After building the dactyl, I took a long break from building keyboards. In that time I noticed, no matter how awesome dactyl was, I still needed to lift my hand up to use the mouse. So I started dreaming about a keyboard with an integrated trackball. My dreams came true when I ran into Charybdis.
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Github Copilot and Sentiment Analysis in 3 Minutes
This week the conditions aligned, and I got to use two new (to me) technologies: Vader Sentiment Analysis and Copilot. It was a fortuitous coincidence that these two technologies came together, as their combined power was able to break me out of my comfort zone and still be productive.
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How to Sell Your Video Game?
Our new paper with Philipp and Hakan is just published in MISQE. For me, it is the culmination of work I have been doing since I wrote my first Steam scripts in 2014… I was very lucky in terms of my extremely talented co-authors, thanks to them years of confusion was distilled into this practitioner…
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Scripting for Kiddies
As part of our efforts surrounding the Danish Cybersecurity Championship, we are offering a course on Bash scripting. While we used Haaukins platform for some activities, one can carry out the exercises on any Linux machine (maybe a bit less easily). As part of the course, I created content that includes videos, tutorial documents, exercises…
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Two Minis in One Go
Today I painted two Gloomhaven minis, the spell weaver and eclipse. Both were depicted as night scenes in the character art, so I choose a simple wash based approach for both. The figures were primed with zenithal highlighting earlier, so the washes just gave the atmosphere for the minis. Eclipse was no frills, just some…
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How I Almost Got Rich On Bitcoin
Alright children gather around, it is story time. Today I will tell you about the time when I almost got rich off of Bitcoin. The year was 2011 and I was a fresh faced PhD student at ASU, looking for my first year project. The project we settled on was Bitcoin. At the time Bitcoin…
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Making Mailing Lists “Great” Again
A lot has been written on social media, polarization, radicalization, fake news, and propaganda. I myself have developed a module on the same and been part of some (stalled) research on it. These days I don’t have any social media presence, but being disconnected is not really a solution. How does one stay up to…
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Cragheart
Sat down and painted Cragheart from Gloomhaven. It was a simple mini, didn’t require anything besides the prime, baselayer, shade, highlight workflow.
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Processing Large Json Files on Command Line
So for one of the projects I am working on I have to deal with large Json files. My first instinct is to use what I know: R, python, bash… But this time I had to use a tool that was new to me, JQ, with great results. The problem with R is everything needs…
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Evaluating Cybersecurity Simulators
So we are setting up a lab and are looking at hardware and software for it. While the IT is giving us the go-around treatment (“We want to host vulnerable machines” doesn’t sit well with the IT), I get to play with nice toys. I checked out the haaukins platform from Aalborg university. It is…
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vÉ‘lˈhÉ‘ lÉ™ or wÉ›lhel’e
Hold on to your seats, its profound revelation time. Now many of you think of Valhalla as vÉ‘lˈhÉ‘ lÉ™. A hall full of brave warriors exchanging stories of guts and glory. A hall full of smokes from boars turning on spits, where the mead never runs dry. Danes think of Valhalla as wÉ›lhel’e. I am…
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Personal Privacy Online – New Course Materials
As part of an Industriens Fond initiative, we have been developing cybersecurity adjacent courses for the general Danish public. One of the courses we developed is personal privacy for the youth. The course is designed for high school students, and freshmen. The topics we cover are: Stalking and Cyberbullying Corporate Tracking and Add Supported Business…
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Wetblended the Shit Out of Plague Herald
I guess I am getting better at wetblending. In the past, I was happy with 3-4 tones of the same color to fake gradients, now I have actual gradients…
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A Different Kind of Ransomware: Cloud Services
Over the years, I recommended using a password manager to hundreds of students… I often recommended popular services on the grounds of convenience. Last month Last Pass announced it would seriously limit the free tier forcing me to do a lot of self reflection about those recommendations. From today onward, last pass would only work…
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Painted the Summoner
So tonight I painted the summoner. It was a relatively quick paint job. Begining to end less than 45 minutes, including the setup time for the paints, water and, palette. In this figurine I used lots of washes, and wet blending. It was also a trial for the object source lightning (OSL) as the staff…
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My Trials with Danish
I have been taking Danish lessons for almost two years now. I turn on the Danish news every once in a while to see what I understand, as my Czech friends would put it “Rozumim hovno”. “Alright” I say to myself, “no worries, you will understand it some day.” No need to freak out, learning…
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Improved Wet Palette and Quartermaster
Last night I painted the Quartermaster from Gloomhaven. After seeing the benefits of the wet palette, I wasn’t going back. So I went out and bought some white Swedish sponge (Those cleaning cloths made of cellulose fiber). I used this instead of the paper towels I used last time. I must say this wasn’t a…
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Made a Wet Palette and Painted Doomstalker
Last night I painted Doomstalker from Gloomhaven. It seems like it will take a while to get throught Gloomhaven minis… After a few false starts with trying to use glazes to bring out the zenithal highlighting, I said fuck it and did the classic, base layer, shade, highlight triumvirate. I am reasonably satisfied with how…
