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Agency is your ability to shape circumstances instead of being shaped by them.

Most people live their entire lives as spectators. They watch others build companies, create movements, and change history. They attribute success to luck, timing, or privilege. This is a comforting illusion that protects their ego.

The truth is simpler and harder to accept: agency is a choice.

Every billionaire, world-changer, and history-maker made this choice. They decided they wouldn't accept the world as given. They would bend reality instead. This isn't mystical — it's mechanical. You either believe your actions matter or you don't.

The education system trains this out of us deliberately. It rewards compliance and punishes initiative. School teaches you to ask for permission. Life rewards those who act without it.

A detection engineering security model differs from a traditional Security Operations Center (SOC) approach in several key ways:

Proactive vs. Reactive:

Detection Engineering: More proactive, focusing on developing and refining detection capabilities before incidents occur.
Traditional SOC: Often more reactive, responding to alerts and incidents as they happen.

Focus on Engineering:

Detection Engineering: Emphasizes creating custom detection rules, algorithms, and data analysis techniques.
Traditional SOC: Typically relies more on out-of-the-box solutions and predefined alert rules.

Why I Stopped Being A Leftist

Or any-ist for that matter

Author: Gurwinder Bhogal

Date: June 10, 2022

In the summer of 2013 I’m in the town of Luton, England, researching the terrorist network, al-Muhajiroun. While scouting the area, I see a stall at which known al-Muhajiroun members are handing out leaflets. Seeing an opportunity to gain valuable information on the group, I approach them.

One of the jihadists introduces himself, and hands me a leaflet detailing Assad’s war crimes against Sunni Muslims in Syria. He asks if I’m Muslim and, in order to not be dismissed by him, I claim I am. We get talking about Syria, and I nod in feigned agreement. But the more he talks, the more he gets the facts wrong, and I begin to develop an uncontrollable urge to correct him. When he says “The West has never helped our brothers and sisters when we needed it,” the urge within me becomes overwhelming, and I blurt out, “What about Kosovo? NATO saved many Muslims there.” The jihadist glares at me. Then his ey

Using pipx

pipx is a tool for installing and running Python applications in isolated environments. It's especially useful for Python-based tools and scripts that are intended to be run from the command line, rather than imported into other Python code. By using pipx, you can install applications and their dependencies in isolated environments, avoiding conflicts between packages and ensuring that each application has the specific versions of libraries it requires.

Installation

macOS

Install using brew install pipx or manually, using: python -m pip install --user pipx.

Afterwards, run pipx ensurepath to ensure that pipx in is your PATH.

	// This sucks. I'm probably doing it wrong. Please flame me.

	import Foundation

	enum FileSearchError: Error {
	case fileNotFound
	case readError(String)
	}

	/// Searches a file for lines containing a specific string and prints matching lines

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	# Sample Python script for noobs. This script will run on just about any
	# Python 3 install without additional software installation required.

	import csv

	# Specify the path to your CSV file
	file_path = 'data.csv'

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	# A simple script that checks the current directory for a github remote
	# and if found, opens the remote repo in a browser window.
	# Works on macOS, at least. Can be adapted for Windows & Linux.

	import subprocess
	import sys

	try:

	// Terrible Swift code generated by the llama LLM model.

	import Foundation
	let osVersion = ProcessInfo.processInfo().operatingSystemVersion as String
	print("Your operating system is (osVersion)n")
	let deviceSerialNumber = ProcessInfo.processInfo().deviceId as String
	print("Your device identifier is (deviceSerialNumber)n")
	let urlString = "https://foo.org/submit"
	guard let url = URL(string: urlString), !url.isFileURL else { return }
	let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: url, cachePolicy: .reloadIgnoringCacheData)

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	# my.conf:
	# [DEFAULT]
	# my_user = [email protected]
	# my_pass = s3cr3t

	import configparser
	config = configparser.ConfigParser()

	from queue import Queue
	from threading import Thread
	from time import sleep
	from rich.live import Live
	from rich.panel import Panel
	from rich.progress import Progress, SpinnerColumn, BarColumn, TextColumn
	from rich.table import Table as rcTable
	from rich.console import Console
	from rich.spinner import Spinner, SPINNERS
	from rich.status import Status