well so much for updating sooner... i've been incredibly lazy tbh, but also i've been tired from work as well (hopefully this week is my last week!). a lot has happened since the last update and i have no clue where to start but i'll try my best to recall everything...

first thing that i'll mention is that i've updated the layout of the website! while i did like the purple, i think this layout is more suitable for halloween (even though i made it last month...). next month i might have an improved layout, but i'm happy with how this came out, and you should definitely check out the link in the footer that inspired it :D

one major thing that happened was that i graduated uni!!! i'm now officially a computer scientist B), which is still hard to believe because i'm still working as a waitress but i'm hoping to get a job in the next couple of months. it's been really weird seeing my friends going back to uni though, i do miss hanging out with everyone but i'm trying my best to set up game nights even if my internet doesn't cooperate. hopefully now that i have some free time i'll be able to focus on learning some tools, i want to learn how godot works because that's been a goal of mine for ages, and i want to try and improve my python skills because i'm terrible at functional languages (technically python isn't a functional language but it's definitely a lot closer than the java and c# i'm used to...).

another major thing that happened is that i got hacked??? my microsoft account has been getting people trying to log into it for months now, and about a month ago they were actually able to crack the password... it's mostly my fault for having such an insecure password that i've used for multiple accounts since i was 13... but thankfully i got a notification when they were successful and i now have a password that even i forget so there's no way they're getting in again (hopefully). at first i thought that they were targeting me because i had put my email on this website for people to contact me, but the login attempts were going on far longer than that (the earliest one i could see was in the middle of august but most likely they were going on for longer). i then got my less tech-savvy mother to check her account, and she had the same thing happening to her account! my guess is that it was our printer that hacked us, because a few months ago we got a fancy new hp printer with wifi-printing so of course we both tried it out... from now on that printer is only allowed to be wired because i am NOT going through and changing all my passwords again (they also managed to log into my spotify which i haven't used in years so that was fun). a few interesting things i noticed about the logins are that most of the logins were from ipv4 addresses in random locations but in the earlier logins there was an ipv6 address from Germany that tried multiple times (my mother had a similar thing but the German ipv6 address was different for her), those have just completely stopped showing up so i guess they learnt how to ip spoof properly. there was also a few times they tried to sync my emails, which is hilarious to me because i use a separate account for my personal stuff so all they would've gotten was spam newsletters (thankfully the sync was unsuccessful)

so anyways i know i said this before but now i actually should have a lot more free time so updates should get a bit more regular, but if they don't then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. this has gotten WAYYYY too long so i'll leave this blog post, see you next time!!!