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Category: Philosophical

The Power of No

Posted on: January 15, 2022 Last updated on: January 15, 2022 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 0
Article on how the word “no” is a powerful and positive sentence and rejecting everything you do not like is very good for your overall well being. Also talk a lot about how we tend to react to “no” in a negative manner and how that is very self-centered
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Growing up adjacent to toxic masculinity, patriarchy, etc.

Posted on: January 11, 2022 Last updated on: January 13, 2022 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 0
Description of my experience growing up cishet male without accepting the patriarchal messaging and control. A mini autobiography if you will.
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My negative opinion on make-up and the cosmetics industry

Posted on: December 28, 2020 Last updated on: December 28, 2020 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 3
I realize that possible no one wants to know what my opinion is on this topic, being a cis-male heterosexual middle-aged white dude. I still want to write it down. Those that do not want to know my opinion don’t…
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Death of online privacy due to SESTA and FOSTA

Posted on: April 22, 2018 Last updated on: April 22, 2018 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 0
There has been much written and talk about the Facebook data leak at the hands of Cambridge Analytics. What I don’t think folks realize is that has all been rendered pointless through recent legislatu…
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Of self confidence, social programing and more

Posted on: September 13, 2014 Last updated on: September 13, 2014 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 0
I’ve been thinking a lot about this thing we call self confidence and how there seems to be a big lack of it these days. I believe the root cause is in what I call social programing. Social programing are…
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Vanity where does it come from???

Posted on: May 10, 2014 Last updated on: May 10, 2014 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 0
I’ve been pondering lately about this thing called vanity that seems to be gripping the nation worse than ever. What is it, where does it come from, why do we care, etc. I get that one wants to look the…
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Bar stool economics

Posted on: February 18, 2012 Last updated on: February 18, 2012 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 0
Bar Stool Economics Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The…
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) debate

Posted on: October 23, 2011 Last updated on: October 23, 2011 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 2
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) debate has been going on for some time now and I just though I pen some of my thoughts on the subject. Just a quick thing about me first that I am super straight heterosexual…
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Are women better than men?

Posted on: October 24, 2010 Last updated on: October 24, 2010 Written by: Siggi Bjarnason Comments: 1
Are women better than men? Someone once asked me if I though men or women were the better gender so I figured I’d blog a little on my opinion there, what my thoughts are surrounding that and my reasoning. For…
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16 Jun

Emailing from PHP

In this article I'm replicating what I did with python with PHP and demonstrating how to send automated emails via PHP using he PHPMailer module.
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15 Jun

Secrets Management Conclusion

Third and final installment on secret management. In this article I give an overview of all the solutions I found that met my criteria.
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14 Jun

Secrets Management, a key less edition

This is a second installment on tools that will help you manage your secrets. This time I'm diving into a solution called AKEYLESS which looks like a great option for those needing a more fully fledged Secret and key management solution.
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12 Jun

Emailing from python3

In this article I deviate again from cybersecurity to continue with topic of how to send notifications from python, this time by sending fully functional email
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07 Jun

Slack messaging from Python3

In this article I deviate slightly from the infosec related topics and explain how one can add slack messaging capabilities to their python scripting..
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04 Jun

Mass shootings the USA

I wanted to pen some thoughts on the horrific problem the USA is facing in regard to mass shootings. For those that don’t know I was born and raised in Iceland but lived in Seattle WA, USA for most of…
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18 May

Docker and Doppler

My latest project has been to get more comfortable with Docker, how it works, how to set it up, etc. During that I started learning how to integrate Doppler into Docker. This article explains my findings.
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09 May

Secrets Management

In this article I talk about benefits of managing all the secrets you use in your dev efforts and how to do it efficiently and securely. I also provide a sample script to play with.
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30 Mar

Cybersecurity philosophy

I am not planning on waxing philosophy in this post, but I do want to discuss ideology or mindset of a successful cybersecurity professional. In my Vulnerability Management post I went over how to structure your vulnerability management program. Here…
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17 Mar

My thoughts on the Ukraine invasion

I expressed an opinion on Twitter the other day that I thought we should be responding to Ukraine’s request for full military assistance by sending NATO forces into Ukraine to expel the Russian invasion force. I got some interesting responses…
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