The challenges Hoe the season to be jolly! Been giving a few CTFs lately. It started with the disobey 2020 puzzle to get the hacker ticket. Then there was the OverTheWire's 2019 advent CTF. And finally this one, the SANS holiday hackmechallenge - KringleCon 2019. As of writing I got …

Lately I've been using ankidroid to study Finnish - or at least to expand my vocabulary a bit. I think it's great but it won't work by itself and requires quite a bit of tenacity. The good Finnish deck:https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1918695216 it's called "Finnish järjestyksessä". It's made …

Disclaimer: I am still studying Finnish and not so good :) The posts that I'm trying to write here are just a way for me to practice writing Finnish. -- Kaivopuisto on iso, vihreä ja meri vieressä. Sisällä ovat puut ja kukat. Kaivopuisto is big, green and next to the sea. Inside …

What I found/find really hard was separate kahdeksan and yhdeksän, because cmon, they are pretty similar! English - basic - genitivi One - yksi - yhden Two - kaksi - kahden Three - kolme - kolmen Four - neljä - neljän Five - viisi - viiden Six - kuusi - kuuden Seven - seitsemän - seitsemän Eight - kahdeksan - kahdeksan Nine - yhdeksän - yhdeksän Ten - Kymmenen - kymmenän …

Very interesting and for some maybe expressing the frustration with studying a language - a website about Finnish idioms. Check it out :) One of my favorites: "viskata kirves kaivoon" - translates to *throw axe into well* - means *to give up* http://saaressa.blogspot.com/2011/01/finnsh-idioms.html

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2322/ brought Onomatopoeia to my attention. Pretty awesome word :)

Part one of this article - describing the Cases expressing Grammatical Functions. Part two: Locative Cases Part three: Others Non-productive Cases Abessive Meaning/function: without Ending: -tta; ttä Example: syyttä Examples: S/he got angry without reason. - Hän suuttui syyttä. Prolative Meaning/function: channel , by Ending: -tse Example: postitse, maitse Examples …

Part one of this article - describing the Cases expressing Grammatical Functions. Part two: Locative Cases Part four: Non-productive Others Translative Meaning/function: change into for (future time (DYN)) Ending: -ksi Example: johtajaksi, jouluksi Examples: S/he became the manager last year. - Hän tuli viime vuonna johtajaksi. I'm going to Finland …

Part one of this article - describing the Cases expressing Grammatical Functions. Part three: Others Part four: Non-productive Locative cases (expressing place) - internal locations (in) Inessive Meaning/function: in, inside, etc (STA) Ending: -ssa/ -ssä Example: hotelissa, puolessa, tunnissa Examples: I am in the/a hotel now. - Olen nyt hotellisa. I …

Finnish works the way that it adds something at the end of the word (and maybe change the middle of the word) to make it mean things like: location, possession, from, receipient, future, channel, how, ..., there is 16 of them - obviously I find this a little difficult! I will try …