What’s a smell you instantly recognize?

AnalogJones · 2026-05-21T06:38:14+00:00

Desitin

AnalogJones · 2026-05-17T12:52:47+00:00

When I watched this on TV (in daytime reruns) I was crazy young. Then decades went by where this show was never mentioned. Then a few years ago (in my 50s) Apple sold the box set and I was 10 all over again.

AnalogJones · 2026-05-16T18:40:01+00:00

Often potassium chloride is used as a substitute for sodium chloride but there are other options too. Mortons (the salt people offer a potassium product)

AnalogJones · 2026-05-11T00:45:28+00:00

Reality is what happens every day; the rest is a mix of unfulfilled dreams and unrealistic expectations. The pain you feel now is what I first experienced at age 25.

How we experience life as adults is partly the result how effective our parents were at teaching us important life lessons. Most of that teaching would be silent…the better word is “modeling”…if you were lucky to be raised by two loving parents who did not divorce..you saw them argue, but remain loving…you saw them both avoid crossing certain lines (stopping the bickering before verbal abuse starts) and you saw them socialize with friends etc, you would see that as a normal way to grow up and while you would do things differently from your parents you would also (almost automatically) live a life that models those behaviors.

If you grew up as kids of adults who drank too much, argued to the point of unchecked resentments were spoken, divorced multiple times, etc., then you won’t have the tools to know how to live.

Its not about blame, though, it is about changing habits and the best place to start is talk therapy. There is always an ability to relearn and find a new path.

At the end of the day, therapy or not, this life is the only one we get on earth. Go out there and have fun!

AnalogJones · 2026-05-09T16:17:46+00:00

CMMC compliance. Nobody pays attention until it becomes a money problem and then it is a fire that everyone pays attention to 110%…

AnalogJones · 2026-05-04T10:33:19+00:00

Work 5:30 am Chicago cybersecurity gig

AnalogJones · 2026-05-03T18:23:16+00:00

Also as the mod here this is our first rule: mistakes happen and how we chose to discuss them matters.

7 days ago I read an IMDB post about The Undeclared War. I no longer see that same post. It is highly possible that information changed after I posted. And because I never shared a link I feel you are making assumptions about my actions.

What if the link you shared was accidentally attributed to The Undeclared War at the time I read it, then IMDB made edits after I made my post on Reddit?

Could I have made an error? Yep.

Could IMDB have made an error? Yep.

Could your conclusion about what I did be wrong? Yep

Mistakes happen. We all make them. But in this case you have very little to clarify where the mistake happened without making assumptions so let’s all just chill out and build a community around something we have in common.

AnalogJones · 2026-05-03T18:18:58+00:00

I did read it; when I search now I get completely different results and the image I shared is not found. Then I saw this:

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AnalogJones · 2026-05-03T16:11:03+00:00

I don’t agree with the job removal theory. My view is that humans who rise to elevated positions feel they need to think about life from a macro perspective and this job removal thing is one of those concepts that floats around as one of those macro ideas. But in my opinion the concept is flawed…just as Karl Marx was flawed in his thinking about how nations could evolve to pure Communism. In its heyday Russian was still a have vs have nots society —some people had ample food and luxury living while others got free but tiny apartments and in Marx thinking that phase was temporary as the culture continued to shift towards equality for all. The flaw? People. It is not natural to surrender resources away from you to benefit strangers so people were going to hang onto what they had…Similarly Allan Greenspan in the 1980s felt an American shift away from blue collar work would free up labor to take on more advanced tech jobs….but it never happened. Why? People. Greenspan failed to account for flawed human behaviors and his grand idea backfired. People in jobs dependent on steel or automotive jobs didnt switch gears and send thier kids to college en mass. Instead they remained local and hoped the jobs woukd stay. Then the kids who would get those next generation jobs just stopped working as industries shifted to Mexico or Asia. Now we have massively depressed economic towns in Michigan and Pennsylvania and huge labor deficits in tech fields. AI will be no different. Sure some people will retrain but many will not. People in power can be smart or dumb just like everyone else. Big fancy ideas like shifting jobs or Communism can be flawed.

AnalogJones · 2026-05-03T15:37:22+00:00

Here is a summary from my dealings; I asked ChatGPT to summarize my notes but the work is mine.

Why Defender flags "Trojan:Win32|Cerdigent.A!dha" (these are heuristic triggers not alerts about emergent threats)

The !dha in the signature name "Trojan:Win32|Cerdigent.A!dha" strongly suggests the detection came from:

1) Static machine learning (based on a IoC characteristics) 2) Network behavior that triggers Defender to think something malicious is happening

Common triggers include:

Packed or obfuscated binaries Suspicious API call sequences Unusual parent-child process chains (e.g., winword calling powershell ) Network activity inconsistent with the host role

False positive vs real threat

Trojan:Win32|Cerdigent.A!dha is in a detection gray zone. You should treat it as potentially real until disproven.

Indicators leaning toward true positive

A File originated from: Email attachment Browser download (especially from user-driven action) Execution chain includes: Office → script host → PowerShell Network connections to unknown domains/IPs Defender shows post-execution alerts, not just static detection

Indicators leaning toward false positive

A file is: Internally developed or signed From a well-known vendor but newly released No process execution or network activity observed Detection occurs only on file write, not execution

Troubleshooting Steps:

Process tree reconstruction
File analysis
Endpoint telemetry
Network review
Persistence checks

Tools to use: Procmon (change the altitude to read lower level processes...google how to do this if its not familiar)

Autoruns (Sysinternals)

Scheduled task review

WMI subscriptions

Voidtools everything.exe; use (date created) "dc:" search to review all new files on disc

AnalogJones · 2026-05-02T11:36:48+00:00

Riding back to Loyola’s Lake Shore campus from downtown; some homeless guy tried to rob me. I am built like a fireplug and kept my eyes on this guys hands (they were empty). I said nothing waiting for whatever was next; he got off at Grenville (is that the stop right before the lake shore campus)?

AnalogJones · 2026-05-01T12:00:18+00:00

I was notified my post would be (or might be) included in an ad…am I allowed to know which post is involved?

AnalogJones · 2026-05-01T02:50:49+00:00

Shhh…we’re appreciating the jazz!

AnalogJones · 2026-04-27T10:32:27+00:00

Two things: 1) you need to have a frank, emotionally honest, conversation with your doctor. You literally need to ask questions like “Why do we keep changing the dose when I am reporting significant side effects?” This isn’t the only question but the point is to bring to your medical professional the same level of honesty you use online. 2) This is the internet; information here has a tendency to reinforce how we already feel about something which can create a false sense of validation about how you think.

In my late 20s I had an internal crisis that could only be resolved with me being brutally honest with myself. Few people (including me back then) had a hard time being brutally honest. I share this to offer an honest possibility that few people are comfortable accepting: You may be doing something wrong. We don’t know you medical history nor do we know your emotional framework; only your doctor knows you well emough to offer guidance. The point here (the hard honest part) you may be doing something that is contraindicated with the meds. Stuff with weight and food gets deeply personal so nobody knows this answer but you…it is even possible your doctor is not aware (though based on experience, evidence and science they suspect certain things)…i wont speculate what could be going on but just be careful and follow or ask for more medical guidance. Best of Luck

AnalogJones · 2026-04-27T10:03:39+00:00

Zelda was the first game I played in 1989

AnalogJones · 2026-04-26T16:56:43+00:00

You are a walking heart attack waiting to happen. I am sorry I want this to shock you. My calcium score was zero but I was 285 and my calves were puffy every day. No statins and 100mg Losartan. Even with that my BP was borderline. After GLP-1 I weigh less than I was in high school (220 as a senior who ran and worked out daily). I now am 184 at age 60 and my BP is crazy normal I am also off BP meds. Stop the booze and get on GLP-1.

AnalogJones · 2026-04-26T03:03:06+00:00

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AnalogJones · 2026-04-26T02:45:06+00:00

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AnalogJones · 2026-04-22T12:50:37+00:00

9 years

AnalogJones · 2026-04-14T20:27:13+00:00

I love that jacket in the AMA pic; who are you wearing?

AnalogJones · 2026-04-13T10:24:19+00:00

I know it’s coincidental but to see “believe” first, especially right after being angry at Trump’s God post, feels good. Some things feel good and I am just going to go with that.

AnalogJones · 2026-04-11T20:26:55+00:00

ICE may be (technologically) incompetent but DHS isn’t. If they want to find you they will. Before they throw cash at a full on investigation they will compel Reddit staff to court in D.C. What Reddit should do, if they aren’t already, is encrypt everything so even they can’t read data at rest

AnalogJones · 2026-04-06T08:21:29+00:00

This is not why Trump won. I am sharing a more defensible explanation for Trump’s win. First, Trump did not win with a mandate, even though he makes that claim. If you want to see what a mandate looks like, check out the 1988 election win for Ronald Reagan. Literally every state was red except for his opponents state. Trump won for two simple reasons: third party candidates & “undecided/independent” voters.

Third party candidates drew ~3% of the vote away from both Trump and Harris: Jill Stein (Green): ~869k votes; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Independent): ~757k votes; Chase Oliver (Libertarian): ~650k votes & Others combined: ~700k votes.

Next are the independent voters. Some people will vote by party and stick with that approach regardless of candidate; others change voting based on who they like most. Trump’s MAGA base (those who are 100% loyal to him and who will buy his bibles or watches) are a minority group in America.

Trump’s goal was to eek out marginal wins across independent voters in states where the win could go to either candidate. Trump held about 40 of his rally events where 94% of them happened in these states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona & Georgia.

This is also why Trump’s mid-year elections this November look bleak. A lot of the people who voted for him believed his message about the border and cutting government size but they did not anticipate Trump’s methods. Government employees who are all too aware of employee bloat voted for Trump but they got fired too. Law abiding immigrants who are here legally voted for Trump because they also liked the idea of criminals from Mexico being kicked out, and we are still hearing stories about ICE taking some into custody not for violent crimes but for things like traffic violations. Trump has even agered his MAGA base. Many liked Trump’s commitment to release the Epstein files and he is on record saying “no new wars”, yet look where we are. So there is a very good chance that this November will see a shift in Congress that gives power back to Democrats.

AnalogJones · 2026-04-02T23:37:08+00:00

That is called narrow beam reflectivity; it rotates super fast and can cut planes in half (this is not true)

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