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ackatz

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akatz.org 1y ago

Companion Chat in in ChatGPT macOS App Is Great

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akatz.org 2y ago

SecOps Alert Enrichment: Tor Exit Nodes

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akatz.org 2y ago

Scheduled Scripts on macOS: cron or launchd?

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akatz.org 2y ago

SecOps Alert Enrichment: Recent related alerts

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www.warp.dev 2y ago

Warp, the modern terminal, is now available for Linux

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seclook.app 2y ago

Show HN: Automatic security lookups from your clipboard

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Cross-platform GUI apps in 2024

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pylaunch.com 2y ago

PyLaunch: Hosted, Scheduled Python Runners

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pylaunch.com 2y ago

Show HN: Hosted Python runners in a web UI

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pylaunch.com 2y ago

PyLaunch: Python Runners at Your Command

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akatz.org 2y ago

Built a bunch of apps, here's what I learned

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threatfeed.akatz.org 2y ago

A new threat Intel feed

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mailunveil.com 2y ago

MailUnveil

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whisper.page 2y ago

Show HN: Whisper.Page – Share secrets, notes, and code with someone you trust

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www.glyphdlp.com 2y ago

Show HN: Glyph DLP – a data loss prevention API

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: Seclook – Simple security lookups via CLI

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Working remote US job from random countries?

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www.computerworld.com 3y ago

Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks

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peloapp.fly.dev 3y ago

Entertaining fitness stats using Peloton API and GPT-3

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www.nist.gov 3y ago

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

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peloapp.fly.dev 3y ago

My Interesting Peloton Stats

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www.akatz.org 3y ago

Sharing My Best Bookmarks

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cyberfeed.io 3y ago

Using GPT-3 to Enrich Infosec News Aggregation

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www.sap.com 3y ago

SAP Crystal Reports – Business Intelligence Reporting Tools

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www.akatz.org 3y ago

Cybersecurity Grads Should Consider Consulting

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Is Source Code DLP a Thing?

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blog.akatz.org 3y ago

Block Hardcoded Secrets in Commits Using Pre-Commit

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fogofworld.app 3y ago

Track where you've been like a StarCraft map – Fog of World

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www.pysimplegui.org 3y ago

Python GUIs for Humans

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effectivepython.com 3y ago

Effective Python

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I started my IT career in emergency medical services. It was amazing to see the beating these computers can take. I have seen toughbooks (Panasonic, GETAC) survive after being run over by an ambulance, fall off the back of an ambulance at high speed, etc. They are very modular and easy to fix.

I created PyLaunch, a web UI for running scheduled Python scripts. For my personal use, it has usually been to send daily/weekly notifications about things: weather, metrics about my projects, news about TV shows and video games, shopping/prices, etc. I am basically sending stuff to push notification services like Pushover or Ntfy.sh. It has been working really well. I was surprised to see a few sign-ups already in less than a month.

If you're interested: https://pylaunch.com

The whole URL with the decryption key gets sent to the user one time when it’s generated. The key is tacked on at the end after a “#” symbol like you would see in a bookmark. It’s not used by the app as a bookmark, but the value is still accessible in the browser (window.location.hash). This way, I can send users their links and their decryption keys, but I will never be able to access the keys myself.

I love my job in cybersecurity automation. A lot of it is just shuffling data around APIs, making Python apps in Docker, working in AWS, and thinking of new ideas for automation.

I am making relatively less money than I could be at other places doing this work, but the work environment is extremely chill (100% remote) and I have already taken two 2-week trips to travel to Europe and Japan since I started less than a year ago. My manager and team are also good people who I trust.

I suppose it’s not all about the work but the work environment/benefits as well.

I like Notion but every time I come back and try it I find it very clunky and that key feature is missing. For example, I wanted to make a recurring notification on Mondays. Nope – not possible. A lot of other apps have these features and are free... so it just seems odd given the rest of the features.

Not sure – I would say 85%+ of the time it is available to me to use. If not, I just try again in 15-20 mins if I must use it. Sometimes there are network errors with generating large responses, but I find that if I just reload the site and try again it works. I'm in the Pacific timezone.

I use it every day. It is really good at succinctly explaining concepts that might require a Google search and sifting through things to find what you're looking for. It is imperfect, but still incredibly useful to me.

If you go into it without the mindset that you're out to discredit it and nudge it along with the prompts to find what you need, I think that is the most effective way to use ChatGPT right now.