Many years ago, it was discovered that Wine could run Windows viruses/worms/malware just fine, thank you very much…

“Sandboxing”, it isn’t.

It runs with all the privileges of the user running the app, iirc.

The single most-important thing you CAN do, is understand yourself as profoundly as you can.

Read John Truby’s book “The Anatomy of Genres”, which is on the 14 story-genres that we form our own meanings of.

He’s got a few details wrong

( like mistaking the Wild West village for what Village-archetype is, when real Village-archetype is the Tribal Mother Village,

and he misunderstands humor, as well, believing that the US-culture “drop” ( related to put-down ) is the core of humor, but the entire category of creative-misinterpretation is humor that isn’t dependent on “the drop”.

Hofstadter, in his “Godel Escher Bach” book, identified that the real shape of humor is the moebius strip: a strange loop.

You walk around in a “circle”, and … discover you’re now somehow upside-down??

Surprised-by-improbability, would be near-the-heart of it.

Anyways )

Truby’s book is CRAMMED with psychology insights into our forming, our growing-up, etc.

I’d require it of all high-schoolers, planetwide, for their HS diploma:

simply by making people encounter considering how they’re forming the meaning that they, themselves, are, would lever humanity up into much greater global understanding/competence, though it’d take a generation or 2 for the effects to become visible…

Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar” & Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture” are both important, too, because if you know that some of the dimensions of culture they identify work a particular way for you ( ie doesn’t-work or you-need-this ), then suddenly, that spotlights something in your nature that has harmony in a specific subset of cultures, and shows you why that is doing this, in you…

( libraries exist: you don’t need to buy those, but the Truby books, you’ll probably fill with notes… )

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Please read John Truby’s book “The Anatomy of Genres”, and have your mind BLOWN by all the psychology in the different 14 Genres of story, dominating our cultures throughout the world, now…

It will make fiction in book AND movie form sooo much richer for you, and it will make other-people much-more-understandable, as well…

I’m autistic, am NOT likely to ever watch another movie in my life ( waaay too overwhelming ), but now I understand story so much better…

Truby’s got a special place in his heart for both Godfather I & II.

With reason, his explanations show.

There are an amazing number of awesome stories identified in that book, as examples demonstrating this, or that, aspect of story…

Please read it from beginning to end, so the explanations ( which build on each-other ) weave into the whole, properly ( instead of just hitting 2 chapters & not getting why it doesn’t make as much sense as I’m suggesting it does ).

The only significant error in the book worth noting, is the misunderstanding of Comedy:

Improbably-violated-expectations is the PROPER definition of it, and there is no requirement for any “drop”, which seems an American subset of humour.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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If you have the ability to take a look at either SANS website, and see their articles, or have your system show you all the automatic attacks hitting your machine, then maybe you will understand…

Botnets are coded to hammer-away at all possible internet-addresses, trying to break-in & highjack more machines, to include in the established criminal-machine that the botnet is…

SANS said, a decade or 2 ago, that it took, on average, something like 6 or 4 minutes for a new MS-Windows machine to be owned by some attack from the internet.

I’ve had linux machines cracked/owned, and wiped 'em to get 'em clean.

Having no immune-system is BAD.

Linux botnets, apple operating-system botnets, they exist.

I don’t think there is any operating-system that is connected to the internet that doesn’t have attacks coded to crack it.

I just looked at SANS.org, and they have totally changed, so they are now … more a moneymaking-machine wanting B2B biz?

Here, though, are some cheat-sheets they made:

https://www.sans.org/posters/?msc=main-nav

They used to tell us the top-20 most effective protections for particular threats, identifying how prevalent the threats were, etc…

No idea who does that nowadays…

Please consider using John Truby’s book ( or even the cover of it ) “The Anatomy of Genres” for identifying the 14 Genres of story.

Myth, Epic, Western, etc…

“adventure” isn’t a genre: it occurs in multiple genres, serving as the canvas on-which the genre’s points are written…

That book, btw, is an awesome bunch of psychology.

Some minor errors, like mis-defining comedy…

( proper definition of humour: “improbable violation of expectation”, or a strange-loop form )

…to be made of a “drop”, a debasing, or put-down, or reduction of somebody…? Maybe in the US, but it isn’t the true fundamental root of humour.

sooo much gold in that book, though: definitely worth investing in.

( for anybody wanting the core competencies in writing, I’d say that both John Truby’s books, and Shaun Coyne’s “The Story Grid” are books that are required, and they are the top/core competencies. Coyne recommends McKee, as well. )