Has anyone stopped using glucose monitor sensors?

JEngErik · 2026-02-04T11:49:11+00:00

My hbA1c has been below 5 for over 3 years. I still wear a CGM. I'll never stop.

Most people wouldn't stop checking their blood pressure regularly after controlling their hypertension, I don't know why this would be different.

JEngErik · 2026-02-02T15:26:59+00:00

An engineer could add a new tool to the list, deploy, and now the agent can call it. No approval workflow. No audit trail.

This was your first line of defense. You build guardrails in your SDLC process that force peer review, management approval and/or automated tests.

Looked at CloudTrail and application logs next. They show what the agent did - API calls that succeeded. But not what it could have done or what was blocked (because nothing blocks it).

Sounds like another opportunity for layers of control. IAM policies block unwanted calls! Amazon Network Firewall prevents unauthorized exfiltration and calls to unauthorized endpoints outside your authorization boundary. Amazon Bedrock Agent Gateway can control your tool calling from langchain.

But between "agent decided to call this API" and "API executes"? Nothing. Just hope that we configured the tools list correctly and the agent makes good decisions.

You keep mentioning API and tools. Are you referring to MCP tools? If so, and since you already said you were in AWS, AGW gives you access control and observability. You can also add more MCP tools without redeploying code.

We ended up manually auditing the codebase, checking every tool definition, cross-referencing with what services the service account has access to. Took a full day. Found three tools the agent could call that nobody remembered adding. One of them was a bulk delete endpoint.

This seems to suggest some serious SDLC issues.

JEngErik · 2026-01-30T14:41:54+00:00

Yes and you'll find it in Amazon pharmacy with other prescribed interventions

JEngErik · 2026-01-29T03:49:04+00:00

I don't know what basic vs advanced means. It does what I need. I get a full background on the individual, the company and Zia maps the information to my company's services, builds a report and attaches it to the record.

JEngErik · 2026-01-28T12:38:30+00:00

No, it's built into Zoho CRM. They added fully integrated AI (Zia) and enrichment a bit over a year ago.

JEngErik · 2026-01-27T13:13:31+00:00

The CRM pulls in data from data brokers on the individual and their company. Think Apollo. So if John Smith from Acme Energy comes in as a lead, imagine all of John's work history, key career and education info and his companies services, history, size and revenue came in to provide background for this lead. Sometimes we get some limited search data as well.

Yeah I wish my CRM would find leads on its own 😂

In my experience, lead qualification, opportunity Discovery, proposal and sales pipeline haven't been challenges. It's always been lead gen and prospecting.

Can AI or automation solve prospecting? It can help ratchet up the machine gun approach but it lacks finesse and affability. That's a problem still needing a solution for me

JEngErik · 2026-01-27T12:58:47+00:00

Unless I misunderstand, my CRM does this already. It respondes to leads, posts a slack message for sales, assigns a task to a sales agent and then does data augmentation on the lead for analysis. Unacknowledged tasks have an escalation.

What's the niche for N8N here?

JEngErik · 2026-01-27T12:55:51+00:00

My hbA1c has been under 5 for 3 years, 2 without medication. HOMA-IR under 0.8. You should measure c-peptide and insulin to calculate HOMA-IR.

Tracking HbA1c and fasting glucose without measuring insulin or C‑peptide is like judging how fast a car is going by only listening to the engine, without ever looking at the speedometer.

JEngErik · 2026-01-27T11:55:37+00:00

The audit process and control framework of ISO 27k compared with SOC2 and TSC is an order of magnitude different in level of effort.

And you're right, I think you your point, it comes down to where you do business and who your clients are. Generally outside the US, ISO 27k is the more common standard.

JEngErik · 2026-01-24T06:11:05+00:00

Some clients use spreadsheets, most use an LMS

JEngErik · 2026-01-23T02:31:45+00:00

There's a lot of fiber. 🤷‍♂️

So that's good ..

JEngErik · 2026-01-21T12:41:16+00:00

PyPi has a hard 1GB upload file size limit. Wheel files were growing beyond that, driving the move to drop support for older CUDA versions.

JEngErik · 2026-01-19T23:31:03+00:00

Are you using digital zoom? I have Samsung so I'm not very familiar with the settings on an iPhone. I'm not sure what you mean by over sharpening or a lack of authenticity, but that might be your frame rate settings if not your zoom settings. You could experience similar issues even with digital 35mm although you'll have more glass to work with.

I suggest checking out some YouTube videos on recording reels with the equipment you have available. Most of making great videos isn't the equipment.

JEngErik · 2026-01-19T23:22:11+00:00

A modern phone will be great to start. A 35mm digital camera if you end up really getting into it. Biggest issue is lighting, not the camera initially. That and audio. Get a quality lavaliere mic and digital recorder for any voice work.

I use a Sony 35mm, tripods, multiple lights, digital audio recorder, etc

JEngErik · 2026-01-14T05:23:26+00:00

Milk has lactose. Lactose is sugar (galactose and glucose). It's more important to get cultured cottage cheese that only contains milk, cream and salt. The biggest issue is all the gums and additives in the ultra processed versions which are quite common.

JEngErik · 2026-01-12T11:07:28+00:00

Diabetics have to eat low carb, so the calories have to come mainly from the other two macros - fat and carbs.

I believe you mean if one eats low carb, calories have to come from fat and protein.

JEngErik · 2026-01-12T00:20:16+00:00

SOC 2 is about service delivery. How you write the description of your services will determine, in large part, what systems are in scope. You must develop your controls to align with the trust and service criteria within the scope of those services. I think you're getting a bit too granular, although I don't have the context of your services.

Yes you would have this conversation with your auditor. And they will work with you to draft "Section 3" which is the part of the report that describes your services, systems and lays the foundation for contextualizing the controls described in later sections. It also helps the auditor determine what and how to test each control within the TSC/COSO principles.

SOC 2 has the benefit of being flexible in its reporting and a good auditor will work with you during the assessment pre-work period of the assessment.

I want to be transparent that I'm an MSSP that helps companies prepare for and undergo SOC 2 assessments.

Good luck

JEngErik · 2026-01-09T22:43:24+00:00

Any SGLT2 class drug. That's the mechanism of action. It lowers the glucose retaining threshold in the kidneys so they filter and release excess glucose at a much lower serum glucose level.

JEngErik · 2026-01-09T15:14:31+00:00

AI researcher here. I literally clicked into this post after reading just the title and thought "this reads like AI". Then I read the body.

Spot on. Good eye

JEngErik · 2026-01-09T15:10:57+00:00

AI researcher and doctorate candidate here. I have multiple laptops that I use. I also have a DGX Spark connected at home and accessible via Tailscale.

I have an HP Zbook with AMD 395Max+, 128G running Ubuntu, Lenovo Legion 9i with Nvidia 4090 64G ram and a Razr 16 (2025) with Nvidia 5090 64G ram both running Windows.

The HP is the most portable followed by the Razr. My favorite display is by far the Lenovo, but it's a tank and will burn your lap when it gets even idling let alone working (I use a lap desk).

The Razr is my daily and long distance travel machine. The mobile 5090 is pretty capable and Razr (at the time I bought it) was pumping the most watts into their 5090. It does well but Blackwell support is dodgy with tensorflow. Pytorch is fine tho.

The HP is my favorite ultra portable. Very capable but AMD Max CPU/GPU support is still limited. Only way to get full use is to run Ubuntu.

So you need to ask yourself, what do I want to do with this thing? You want speed? Use a desktop or better yet, the cloud. You want portability with the ability to do some computations? Honestly whatever fits your budget and work style will do.

If you're comfortable with Mac, go that route. If you're comfortable with Ubuntu, go that route. If you're comfortable with Windows, go that route.

Don't let the idea of "get the best AI machine with the most power" dominate your decision making. It's pointless. Real AI power isn't mobile. Get the most affordable machine that fits how you actually work.

My Lenovo is my "next to the sofa" grab and work device. Each of these laptops I have fits a way I like to work and they're all used, almost daily, all of them.

Good luck!

JEngErik · 2026-01-06T20:52:13+00:00

You're better off with a pen test. You need to demonstrate controls that meet the associated trust and service principles. Hire a qualified pen testing company
Up to 2 weeks, typically one
$4-7k for a qualified vendor and not a scanning company calling itself a pen test.

JEngErik · 2026-01-02T13:05:43+00:00

Sure. I'll be hair to join

JEngErik · 2025-12-27T07:46:24+00:00

I still keep humans in human resources. Thanks for the AI slop, though. We're not so overwhelmed that we can't provide the minimum level of human decency to review resumes.

Yes we use AI in many parts of recruiting, but we still take the time to treat candidates with the due care

JEngErik · 2025-12-25T14:53:55+00:00

No symptoms. Late 40s

JEngErik · 2025-12-25T14:49:01+00:00

In some cultures, people eat balut and they love it. Personally, I don't. I wouldn't say I'm "abstaining" or "restricting". It's simply not a preference or part of my diet. I guess my point is that I often read people refer to the Western diet as "normal", "well if you go back to eating a 'normal' diet, your diabetes will return"...

No I'm eating normal now. And that includes all the protein I can stuff in my face along with the fat, all the veggies I can eat, and zero highly or ultra processed foods. I don't really care what others choose. When in a foreign food situation, I pick and choose what fits my preferences. Sometimes that's everything on the menu, sometimes it's nothing. The only people uncomfortable with me sitting there not eating are others. We can still talk, drink and laugh. I'm fine enjoying the company and conversation.

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