fraq

hacker | human | dad | fighting stage 4 lung cancer | Cancer advice and evangelism not welcome here

[fraq @0xfraq]

My wonderful friends at @hypergiant have started a GFM to help in addition to all the ways they’ve been supporting me. As it turns out, cancer is expensive :(

Thank you all for your love and support and I love you all (even the wackos)

https://t.co/CF2Pczp7cm

[fraq @0xfraq]

So I guess there’s no easy way to say this but… I have been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. It’s very advanced, inoperable, and we can’t do radiation.

I really don’t know what else to say other than I love you all and I’m gonna fight like hell.

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@Rainmaker1973 Another one for the collection @Evil_Mog

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Will resume my regularly scheduled shit posting when I’m a little stronger and more recovered. Day by day I’m doing better.

[fraq @0xfraq]

I’ve been in and out of the hospital so much lately that I’ve stopped updating. At one point I even lost the energy to open twitter. At any rate, I’m home, alive, and recovering. I’ve been beat up by several procedures and the side effects of lying in a hospital bed.

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@0xShazzberry That makes you a JoJo

[Dale wheeler @Dale_whlr]

For all my bluey lovers!!

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@IanColdwater That was actually my first thought too. “Isn’t it built on the side of a literal mountain? Where is the water going to sit?” It’s blowing my mind and breaking my heart.

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@comfysarah @OldHollowTree If Catholicism had their own version of Portlandia, this would be the cold open to the pilot

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@tim_machine A million times better. I can breathe and after getting blood I have some energy. HR went from 150 to 118

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I walked around like this for about 3 days. Right lung collapsed for 3 days and I’m like “ehhh… I’m just short of breath.” I’m an idiot

[fraq @0xfraq]

Right lung was fully collapsed. Left still has a big blockage from Larry AND is infected. Might even be pneumonia. I have no idea how I was even breathing. HR was 150 and I was just surviving breath to breath for 3 days.

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@life0fStacy13 Yeah it turns out I can take a lot of abuse before I decide to go to the hospital. Foolish of me.

[fraq @0xfraq]

Got 2 more units of blood (thank you to all the blood donors out there. You’ve saved my life several times lately!) and some other stuff. Starting to stabilize. Will likely be in the hospital over the weekend again

[fraq @0xfraq]

So I had another incident today. Went to urgent care because short of breath. Had collapsed lung. Props to the hospital for having a tube in my chest within 45 minutes of me showing up.

[fraq @0xfraq]

Right lung was fully collapsed. Left still has a big blockage from Larry AND is infected. Might even be pneumonia. I have no idea how I was even breathing. HR was 150 and I was just surviving breath to breath for 3 days.

[Craig Rowland - Agentless Linux Security @CraigHRowland]

The bad news is there is a vulnerability in the CUPS printer system on Linux. The good news is nobody has ever gotten their printer working on Linux so they are safe.

[fraq @0xfraq]

@dis0wn_ After the MRI activates them I assume. We all get to find out what they are some time in December

[fraq @0xfraq]

Done with radiation! All three spots on my brain have been zapped!

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@Evil_Mog @QuinnyPig Except it was all one string, no hyphens. Visual hell for trying to parse.

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@Evil_Mog @QuinnyPig We managed to stuff a few more attributes in there like enclave/DMZ and such but it was something like that yeah.

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@QuinnyPig My shop at IBM used the most ridiculously informationally dense scheme that took an entire day of study to figure out. At least it was deterministic.

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@QuinnyPig Worked at a place where servers were all named after Old Testament characters. Obscure names were reserved for minor services, major ones for major services.

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@endingwithali Worked with a few gov shops that blocked SSH to their GitLab and required HTTPS auth over VPN to push/pull. It was INFURIATING.