What did you do today?

[Soul_Est]

Congrats @Aichon !

Edit: I'll add today's events later.

Edit 2: Events!

• Went to IT job, had a headache, stayed productive (almost done a protoype of the site!), and left slightly nauseated.
• Went to call centre job, had a full blown headache and very nauseous, threw up in the bathroom and then went back to work feeling better.
• Having a cup of tea and then I'll eat, relax, and head to bed.

 

[IntoxicatedPuma]

I went back to Taipei and finally got to see it on a sunny day. I also went to Chenghua electronic market/mall and it is doing way better than it was at Computex, maybe we just went at a bad time before...

 

[confusis]

Guess we'll just have to go again... and film

 

[ChainedHope]

Finished my prototype car logging and hacking device.
Beaglebone Black, a CAN transiever, and a tiny breadboard (4x20+P/G) all wrapped up in an Altoids Tin. Supports CAN, ISO-TP, UDS, and OBD-II (mode 1 and 9).
Allows me to get data dumps, send off messages, test how destroying the bus affects a vehicle, test DoS attacks, etc... A really cool little item and it only cost me ~$45USD to put together and around 30 hours in python to get everything working how I wanted it to.

 

[Soul_Est]

@IntoxicatedPuma
Looks like a nice place to go for a stroll.

@ChainedHope
Going to post it to Hackaday.io?

Yesterday, I declined an offer for a contract position as a cellphone repair technician. After the last contract job I worked at, I swore off contract work unless, I could continuously find work every 3-months (lol). Yesterday also saw the launch of the new messaging system in our call centre for inquiring on pickup calls, deliveries, holds, etc. I quickly realized that despite being able to see the messages for certain events as well as whether they were answered by the depot, this was yet another tool. I'm also pretty sure that I forgot to call one person back with all the calls that came in. Ah well. Today is another day.

Time to be better than I was yesterday.

 

[Kmpkt]

Found out that I forgot to put a stop-loss on a significant investment and lost twice as much as I should have on the trade : (

 

[AleksandarK]

Damn @Kmpkt thats bad.

Today i started on reading a very interesting book. It is full of great ilustrations and in depth explonations.

 

[ChainedHope]

[USER=481]@ChainedHope
Going to post it to Hackaday.io?
[/USER]

Maybe after I finish the documentation on it. Im going to eventually upload everything to github, including the source for running the attacks and the grapher I wrote to take in the log/dump files and convert them into some human-readable graphs that breaks down the raw messages into bytes and plots them over time. Surprisingly no one makes an open-source candump grapher even with the logs being in a pretty standard format.

 

[Soul_Est]

Found out that I forgot to put a stop-loss on a significant investment and lost twice as much as I should have on the trade : (

Ouchies. I hope that this does not eat into your overall revenue too much.

Today i started on reading a very interesting book. It is full of great ilustrations and in depth explonations.

Which overpriced textbooks did you trade in for it? /jk

That is quite the book I imagine. I'm guessing worth the price given the recency and relevancy of the data contained within.

Maybe after I finish the documentation on it. Im going to eventually upload everything to github, including the source for running the attacks and the grapher I wrote to take in the log/dump files and convert them into some human-readable graphs that breaks down the raw messages into bytes and plots them over time. Surprisingly no one makes an open-source candump grapher even with the logs being in a pretty standard format.

Looking forward to it!


Today was alright. I loaded drawing references on my phone before going to work but did not draw. At my call centre job, I earned an excellent for call quality for the month of January. Still trying to come to grips with current and legacy systems all going at once. Cohesiveness is not the company's strong suit. Took nearly an extra hour to get home tonight due to the massive snowfall last night which is still affecting the buses (last bus was on detour).

I have also concluded that finances won't allow for a car without another income stream. Getting a Nintendo Switch does not even seem viable given the little time that there is throughout the day. I figure that there are two ~20-minute long bus trips on the ~50-minute long, three bus trip commute for the call centre job and one ~30-minute long bus trip to the IT job. Time at home is better spent learning (3D modelling, drawing, etc.) and creating (building, coding, etc.) since that cannot be done on the go.

2018-01-31 is Bell's Let's Talk day here in Canada. It is meant to highlight mental health issues and stigma, and encourages talking and sharing about it. If there is one thing I implore for all of you, do not suffer in silence.

 

[AleksandarK]

@Soul_Est
Lol, actually none. I got it as a gift.

It is actually "worth it", as it keeps me very intertained during the reading.

 

[zovc]

Not actually "today," but rather over this past weekend:

I negotiated leaving my current work after having a pretty long chat with my dad, who is also my employer. It was pretty heavy and emotional, but we finally were able to relate on where I am rather than where he wants me to be. I've been struggling with that a lot, because even though I slack off a lot, I'm a really big asset to the company with a unique skill set. (Among my coworkers, and the general population where we're based out of.) So, it never made sense for him to let me leave like I wanted and having such a secure and comfortable full-time job made it hard for me to seriously pursue any other opportunities. (And I live in the middle of nowhere, where there aren't many opportunities.)

Which, I've got a high school diploma, some IT certs, and have dropped out of college and trade school a few times, so It's hard to groom that resume.

But, dad finally accepted that being "stuck" where I am isn't working for me and my mental health has been declining over the past few years. He put a lot into the company, so he always hoped I would grow into it and take over, but it's just not happening and we're both unhappy about that. But it is what it is. I'm finishing up with obligations I've made to our customers and trying to ease the transition, but in the near future I'll be unemployed. It's scary, because I've been in a 'guaranteed' routine and ever since I reigned in my spending, I've been on a pretty good course towards getting a house and doing all that grown-up stuff.

That's not really for me, either, though, I don't think. So, my current plan is to relax and try to figure out if I've got some kind of calling. I'm thinking about trying to make some SFF-related and other nerdy content. I'm also looking a lot into either moving into some sort of camper or camper conversion (I've been interested in that for a while), but it's also apparently really easy to travel the world for pretty cheap if you plan things out carefully and reach out to the right folks. Both of those which could inspire their own SFF-related (/minimalism and efficiency-oriented) content. Every day, I'm going to contact at least one person on HelpX about opportunities on there, where accommodations like a place to sleep and food are provided for ~2-5 hours of work five days a week. If it looks like that sort of thing will pan out, I might just invest most my money and travel on a shoestring budget for a year or so!

Sorry for the long, personal dump. Not a whole lot of people around for me to share that with! Haha

 

[confusis]

Sometimes we need to stand up and voice our emotions and thoughts to take that next step. Good on you zovc, it's only upwards from here

My day: Accidentally dragged a wooden pallet up my big toe (through my shoe.. really should get the company to buy me protective footwear!) and snapped my toenail in half (cringe >.<), cue swearing and blood. Then proceeded to sweat all day at my day job - our facility is basically a giant industrial shed converted to retail/ distribution with no aircon or insulation, and I work a very physical job in distribution in the warehouse. Think 30 Celsius, humidity in the 90% range and very little breeze until later in the day. Ugh!

 

[zovc]

Thanks! I think you're right, we'll see.

Man, that sounds rough on your toe. The worst I had doesn't compare--I was throwing one of those long, narrow pallets. (2, 70" touchscreen boards per pallet) I was just tossing it to get it out of the way and it BOUNCED BACK and landed on my foot. Unlucky, pallets around the world are rallying against us. We deal with that kind of weather a lot here, it's miserable to be lifting and moving and sweating in it. How do you manage with no AC?!

Drink a lot of water.

 

[confusis]

Water, and standing in one of the refrigeration units for a few minutes to bring body temps down once every hour or so.

Re: Pallets - I have scrapes and marks up my legs at very exacting heights - the heights of 1,2,3,4 etc pallets or crates - I'm very good at scraping my legs on them! The worst pallet related injury I've had was actually a pallet topper - those sheets of 3mm thick manufactured wood ("hardboard") that are used to cover stock on pallets. A wind storm picked one up and drove the corner of it into the back of my head as i was walking to get the forklift. split my ear, my scalp and left me woozy for a few minutes :/

 

[EdZ]

Jeez, that workplace sounds like it needs a visit from OSHA.

 

[confusis]

It's all within the rules except my footwear

 

[AleksandarK]

Not actually "today," but rather over this past weekend:

I negotiated leaving my current work after having a pretty long chat with my dad, who is also my employer. It was pretty heavy and emotional, but we finally were able to relate on where I am rather than where he wants me to be. I've been struggling with that a lot, because even though I slack off a lot, I'm a really big asset to the company with a unique skill set. (Among my coworkers, and the general population where we're based out of.) So, it never made sense for him to let me leave like I wanted and having such a secure and comfortable full-time job made it hard for me to seriously pursue any other opportunities. (And I live in the middle of nowhere, where there aren't many opportunities.)

Which, I've got a high school diploma, some IT certs, and have dropped out of college and trade school a few times, so It's hard to groom that resume.

But, dad finally accepted that being "stuck" where I am isn't working for me and my mental health has been declining over the past few years. He put a lot into the company, so he always hoped I would grow into it and take over, but it's just not happening and we're both unhappy about that. But it is what it is. I'm finishing up with obligations I've made to our customers and trying to ease the transition, but in the near future I'll be unemployed. It's scary, because I've been in a 'guaranteed' routine and ever since I reigned in my spending, I've been on a pretty good course towards getting a house and doing all that grown-up stuff.

That's not really for me, either, though, I don't think. So, my current plan is to relax and try to figure out if I've got some kind of calling. I'm thinking about trying to make some SFF-related and other nerdy content. I'm also looking a lot into either moving into some sort of camper or camper conversion (I've been interested in that for a while), but it's also apparently really easy to travel the world for pretty cheap if you plan things out carefully and reach out to the right folks. Both of those which could inspire their own SFF-related (/minimalism and efficiency-oriented) content. Every day, I'm going to contact at least one person on HelpX about opportunities on there, where accommodations like a place to sleep and food are provided for ~2-5 hours of work five days a week. If it looks like that sort of thing will pan out, I might just invest most my money and travel on a shoestring budget for a year or so!

Sorry for the long, personal dump. Not a whole lot of people around for me to share that with! Haha

Good luck with your future plans. Always remember that when you are down, your next step is going up. So just be happy and follow your dreams!

My day: Accidentally dragged a wooden pallet up my big toe (through my shoe.. really should get the company to buy me protective footwear!) and snapped my toenail in half (cringe >.<), cue swearing and blood. Then proceeded to sweat all day at my day job - our facility is basically a giant industrial shed converted to retail/ distribution with no aircon or insulation, and I work a very physical job in distribution in the warehouse. Think 30 Celsius, humidity in the 90% range and very little breeze until later in the day. Ugh!

I have stabbed my foot with nail, by stepping on it. I would never like to go tru the pain again. I imagine that toe hurts much much more, so good luck with recovery!

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

I have stabbed my foot with nail

For a few seconds, I thought "how can you stab your foot with a (finger) nail ?". The joy of not being a native english speaker

 

[zovc]

Thanks @AleksandarK .

I actually remember stepping on a carpeting nail as a kid. (More of a tack, I guess?) In the house we were living in, there was a set of carpeted stairs and for some reason we were re-doing the carpet. To this day, I'm kind of confused as to why the tacks would be facing up rather than down, but I stepped on one of the exposed ones while running upstairs...

I don't remember the sensation at all--maybe it was too long ago or maybe I blocked it out--but I definitely remember it happening. Haha

 

[Aichon]

Carpet tack strips are designed to pull the carpet down by tacking into it from the bottom, so those tacks face up by design (unless you ran the carpet under the base boards and used the base boards to conceal inverted tack strips within the wall, I’m not sure how you could do it otherwise, and I’ve never heard of anyone doing what I just suggested, probably because there are reasons I’m unaware of). Usually they aren’t a problem, but occasionally one will sit too high or won’t be tacked down properly. There’s a spot in my hallway that gets me on rare occasion, but every time I try to find it to deal with it, I’m unable to locate it.