Currently watching: All South Park episodes in order (now at season 13)
Currently reading: Vivek H. Murthy – Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Currently playing: South Park: The Stick of Truth and Stardew Valley co-op
Tomorrow, I'm going to take an exam on the programming language C++ (template programming, STL containers etc.), I'm practicing for that, I hope it goes well.
Passed my Databases II. exam with a grade of 5 (best grade for students here), only two exams left before my well-deserved summer holiday.
I have a subject for my bachelor's thesis and I've already begun working on it. Its' title (not final) is going to be: Python Wrapper for Validating Cryptographic Keys and/or Solutions. Basically, I have to read into some mathematic attacks against cryptographic solutions such as RSA or elliptic-curve cryptography. One such method is using fermat's factorization to break badly generated RSA keys for example.
This weekend, I will be counting votes in my country's elections. It will mean a full day's work until late at night, but I'm looking forward to it. I did a great job on the one two years ago and I loved every second of it. I feel it's the least I can do to protect democracy here.
I am looking for opportunities to volunteer this summer. It bothers me that I rarely do good deeds explicitly. I'll try to convince some friends to join me.
I am currently doing my internship in cybersecurity. Penetration testing, cryptography basics, Python scripting etc. It's incredibly exciting and I'm really glad I chose this field as my internship subject; I definitely wouldn't have enjoyed web or software development.
Learned a bunch about attacks like Bleichenbacher's one, buffer overflows and the like. Can't wait to immerse myself in this subject more.
I'm going to get a topic for my bachelor's thesis from my current company. I'd love to do some applied cryptography or anything that needs some esoteric modular math know-how. We'll see.
Sometimes I miss my Erasmus semester in Tampere, Finland. It was nice to live there for months. My courses were easier than here and the weekdays were more colourful, although I don't miss the snow and the minus temperatures anymore.
Biking to campus is nice and gives a boost to my mood every day I need to get there. I probably ride a bike around 4-5 hours every week, getting my stamina back slowly but surely.
I'm going to pass the penultimate exam season of my bachelor's degree in a couple of weeks, and then I'm going to dive head first into the first festival of my life at the end of June, where I managed to get a cabin ticket with my girlfriend. We got lucky we don't need to sleep in a tent for days, and are stoked.
Great to see that my latest blog post on the Pinephone Pro received some nice comments. It was a good idea to submit my personal site to SearchMySite.