hacker | human | dad | fighting stage 4 lung cancer | Cancer advice and evangelism not welcome here
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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)
gofundme.com/f/support-brens…
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.
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
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.
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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.
The entire disclosure seems to have been leaked online
gist.github.com/stong/c8847e…
Here is the report and POC
Unexpected benefit of cancer treatment: when I find a hair in something, I can be absolutely assured it’s not mine
Marino is every bit the wholesome, awesome, brilliant guy I expected him to be. One selfie down, dozens to go. Who’s next?!
Had a great time learning a bit about your career, life, and just how cool of a dude you are, @0xfraq 😎
Can’t wait to hang out again…up in Canada right? 😊❤️
ALT Bren and Marino selfie
One surprising new skill I’ve gained since my diagnosis is that I’ve become an absolute expert at waiting. “Oh you want me to sit here in this exam room for 4 hours? No problem boss. I’ll come get you if you aren’t back by tomorrow.”
Got a wheelchair today for my visits and while it takes just as much gas to move
Myself around, at least I can just stop and rest whenever I need to. Plus I can look pitiful and say “please push?” And it works 100% of the time lol
What happened to “not interested in this post”? Getting some weird red-pill and porn gradually creeping into my feed again and I lost my main tool for clearing it out via algorithmic means.
Just found out all my appointments for today got canceled due to inter-hospital miscommunication. I can’t catch a break.
Unlike @PiedmontHealth, @cityofhope actually cares about patients and IMMEDIATELY moved to fix the problem the other hospital caused. Moral of the story: coordinating between hospitals is terrible and the patient WILL be harmed in the process.