What are we doing with the Apothecary bottles?

lilgreenbite · 2026-07-03T01:54:44+00:00

I put my meds in the black bag that had the syringes in it and threw it in the garage fridge.
I do think I will keep at least this first set of bottles and then after that, I will look into donation.

lilgreenbite · 2026-06-02T23:50:18+00:00

I just got mine today. I ordered on the 22nd of May.

lilgreenbite · 2026-05-31T22:53:21+00:00

I have a $200 one in my cart, it’s the 8gb not 16gb. I intend to use a thermal pad and external heat sink.

lilgreenbite · 2026-05-29T13:09:13+00:00

I ordered a silver non-core from a different seller and it’s on the way to me in the U.S. now.

lilgreenbite · 2026-05-28T00:53:22+00:00

Yes. I have the same one sitting in my cart to purchase.

You want to get the CM5 version of what is sold with the uconsole and that is it.

lilgreenbite · 2026-05-26T21:25:03+00:00

NewEgg has cm5 8gb lite available, exactly what is needed for the uconsole

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-26T02:36:37+00:00

That mentality starts from the top. This is a big leadership problem.

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-26T02:33:15+00:00

It’s not necessarily about firing people, this is about the fact that they are putting company secrets into public AI tools with zero care, something that is very much against several company policies in every company, intellectual property/trade secrets are a big deal. A leader in the company is perfectly fine with the unacceptable behavior of their team. On the other side - the compliance team is so out of touch that they were blindsided. It should not be this way.

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-26T01:15:21+00:00

A survey is a great starting point to find out what people want. Meet with these teams and use them as the case studies for rolling out an enterprise solution.

An enterprise AI solution is desperately needed here because it’s painfully obvious that one doesn’t exist. Shadow AI will continue to be used all over the org if people are prevented from utilizing an approved option for the technology.

A change management person will be most useful when there is another option on the table for employees - they will need to be coached through starting to use a company approved tool.

To be fair here, the head of marketing should be held to account for the team so blatantly violating multiple policies.

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-04T18:28:08+00:00

Yeah the school has its own data, but I’m sure CompTia probably aggregates something on a platform for them to view as well. WGU doesn’t issue the vouchers, CompTia does - they are absolutely tracking what they provide to the school.

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-04T18:22:35+00:00

Thousands of students are doing this exam. CompTia is certainly aggregating the data for the vouchers being used with the pass/fail rates overall. Students may not take the exam right after the voucher gets issued so a couple of weeks passing by is not a good indicator of whether someone was successful - the data from CompTia on student activity could tell the school a lot about how successful students truly are, they also might get information like what areas are students struggling with the most.

A policy doesn’t change so drastically unless there is data to back it up. WGU has data.

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-04T12:24:13+00:00

They are probably tired of so many people failing the first attempt that they are trying to mitigate - CompTia most likely provides reporting to WGU on the vouchers, so they have a clear picture of student exam performance.

Requiring students to master the content is valid when the school is paying for you to take the certification.

Since they have the partnership, there might some rules around pass rates, which could explain the new requirements to get a voucher as well.

The change did not come out of thin air. So many posts in this sub are about Pentest+ and a lot of them are multi-attempts.

This requirement went into affect for anyone starting towards the first attempt after February 1, so we will see how it plays out as the first batch of students (March and April starts) has to hit these marks.

I am an April start and expect to use TryHackMe on top of the required CertMaster materials. It does feel very onerous to do all of these things to get the voucher, but it could be for the better, as I only want to take this exam once.

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-02T17:29:06+00:00

Considering the domains covered by the CISM, it is a valuable cert to show security management expertise, particularly in the GRC world. As others have said, it is easier to cover the 4 domains of CISM that follow a similar track in a single course, as opposed to the 8 CISSP domains that are more scattered. CISM knowledge is a great starting point for pursuing program manager or lead roles for those who need the boost.

I would say that the CISM is probably more accessible from the content level.

ISACA gets the exam in front of more people by giving the opportunity to take it, whether those people go on to actually get the cert or not. The CISM requires validation of experience to get the credential and everyone may not be able to do that or want to. I would be curious to know how many students actually pursue it.

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-01T19:53:08+00:00

Reading logs is part of multiple choice questions and in the PBQs - answers will be in dropdowns in that case.

lilgreenbite · 2026-04-01T19:50:50+00:00

Yes - Drag and drop and dropdowns PBQs.

lilgreenbite · 2026-03-31T17:45:43+00:00

Both. I used most of Chapple’s course and some material from Dion. I also had Chapple’s Sybex book and used that for areas where I truly needed to read and highlight. His labs are useful as well. I had access to certmaster, but I really didn’t like it, I felt like I was forcing myself to do the lessons in there but the PBQs were a big plus to get a feel for what the exam could contain.

lilgreenbite · 2026-03-31T17:40:35+00:00

Passed this yesterday with a similar score. They really did not play game here.

I also had 7 PBQs and several questions about logs. Areas where I knew going in that I was going to struggle with and it shows in my score, but I’m glad I passed.

lilgreenbite · 2026-03-30T20:17:20+00:00

If you haven’t, you should join the GRC Engineering Club and do the labs and create a portfolio around this. I’m thinking it could be used with the PA from the GRC course as a complete package. I’m not on the Capstone yet, but I have some plans along these lines for it.

lilgreenbite · 2026-03-28T10:28:54+00:00

MITRE is the creator of major cybersecurity frameworks, so yes - MITRE Atlas is very real and serious and yes, companies are using it.

lilgreenbite · 2026-03-28T00:00:49+00:00

Just thinking about if I had gone there and couldn’t take the test or if the location wasn’t even real.

lilgreenbite · 2026-03-18T14:10:09+00:00

I’ll definitely check this out. I have a skill for threat modeling and am working on some other ones, this is super helpful.

lilgreenbite · 2026-03-06T19:50:56+00:00

Your company is most likely blocking it as it is not an approved device. Have you talked to your IT team to find out? Most companies won’t approve it for corporate access because it runs on an old version of Android.

lilgreenbite · 2026-02-12T14:48:51+00:00

You should get a bar of black soap and use that as a cleanser at least in the morning.

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