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Riskable

@ riskable @programming.dev

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3 yr. ago

Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

  • CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem

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  • At my company I use a virtual desktop and it was restored from a nightly snapshot a few hours before I logged in that day (and presumably, they also applied a post-restore temp fix). This action was performed on all the virtual desktops at the entire company and took approximately 30 minutes (though, probably like 4 hours to get the approval to run that command, LOL).

    It all took place before I even logged in that day. I was actually kind of impressed... We don't usually act that fast.

  • CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem

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  • everyone's real time, budget, energy, and attention is almost always focused on the next big release, or bug fixes in app code, and/or routine desktop support issues pointless meetings, unnecessary approval steps that could've been automated, and bureaucratic tasks that have nothing to do with your actual job.

    FTFY.

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  • You either get a tasty treat bland, mild dirt flavor or incurable certain death.

    FTFY

  • What technology will date us in the future?

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  • Yeah: It'll be your brain in a jar (or just stored digitally) and you'll just get a new body 3D printed when you arrive at your destination... After landing.

  • AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans

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  • Whoah there: Who says AI influencers aren't the result of individual's honest work? You don't need an entire data center of computers to make your own AI influencer!

    Don't assume there's a corporation behind every AI persona. It could just be one guy with a lot of VRAM getting creative with prompts in his parent's basement.

  • My Journey

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  • Yeah, that'll get me the job but it'll still have the same problem: Only getting paid to have knowledge of just one thing.

    Companies don't hire generalists that can get a lot of different work done. They hire specialists that are like cogs in a machine. That way they're much easier to replace and a lot cheaper too.

  • My Journey

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  • You're expected to know how to program microcontrollers to mainframes to fucking VCRs and knowing every programming language ever created since electronic computers exist as well as networking and cloud technology and databases, etc. AND you have to be certified in all these things to prove you know them on top of your degree.

    So there's a problem even worse than this: When you have all those skills and more (I do 👍) employers expect to pay you the salary of someone who knows just one of those things.

    Like, I was a professional hacker, a systems administrator (both Unix/Linux and Windows), I know networking, have administered/maintained databases, I'm also an award-winning web developer (I know the usual web stuff plus Python, Rust, and a few other things), an embedded developer (C, C++, and Rust), and I can even engineer, design, and program an entire product from scratch that didn't exist before (see: https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=dG15yQlQpfNGCDal ). That includes designing/engineering the circuit board.

    Do I get paid for knowing all these things? No. If I apply for any job you know what employers say when they reject me?

    Overqualified

    You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't!

  • NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

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  • C:\Users\axexandriaanastasiachristianson\Downloads\some_git_repo\src\...

    You run into the file parth limit all the fucking time if you're a developer at an organization that enforces fullname usernames.