Daniel Albu📅 Happy 31st anniversary to Descent!
💾 Descent was released on March 17th, 1995!
Insanitree
- 14 Followers
- 53 Following
- 188 Posts
Former #ICS expert, current #cybersecurity novice involved in research. Hiker, Naturalist, Book reader. Really, I'm a hack, trying to add the er.
It feels like a terrible time to be getting a Computer Science degree. I expect to graduate in early 2028, and I don't think the AI world or the software engineering market is going to be much improved by then.
On the other hand, what other science or engineering bachelors could I get, fully remote, nights and weekends only, while raising kids?
I guess I'll get that easy piece of paper for now, and worry about learning something with 'value' later.
Secure ICS OT 
If you are an ICS/OT controls professional I highly recommend taking ICS/OT cybersecurity training.
Be it SANS, ISA, or whatever.
We need more ICS/OT folks picking up the cybersecurity skills so that people with ICS/OT experience are at the table guiding decisions.
My California Fuschia free seeding failed. Not sure if I did a poor job of germination or I had bad seeds though.
In better news, today I harvested around 30-50 California Hummingbird Sage (Pink flowers). These are much larger seeds, so it's a lot easier to identify ones that seem healthy. I"ll be planting them by hand.
Got some free wireless routers for my home network buildout.
Router 1: Won't support modern browsers because it uses some stupid javascript and I can't fix it.
Router 2: Doesn't support AP mode, doesn't have OpenWRT or DDWRT support because drivers were not released. Requires you to install a fucking app and have a Linksys account?
Both of these products infuriate me. Two perfectly good pieces of hardware ruined by greedy and shortsighted software.
Supposed to do homework tonight. Did none. Supposed to do regular work today. Did none. Supposed to do housework yesterday. Did none.
What did I do? Fucked around on the internet.
This was a good use of my time.
I've waxed poetic about my first netbook and my journey with it into Linux. Last week I decided to make MXLinux my daily driver, and gambled an entire 75$ on a used X270 Thinkpad as an upgrade.
I want to say I'm shocked that Linux is this fast and smooth on such 'old' hardware, but I'm not. Instead I just wonder: How is windows so bad?
I'm officially a convert. I've moved my mother to Linux Mint, and my father better watch out: He's next.
SwiftOnSecurityComputers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
This could be said of technologies before. Doesn't make it wrong.
My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have condescending mollycoddled shit.
Ran into some gardeners at work today, cleaning up a mess of Bradford Pear branches being dropped and watersprouts growing all over. Finally got to have a nice conversation with the people actually working on all the potentially beautiful spaces, and they welcomed any work I have to put in to them.
What timing. I have Palo Verde, California Fuchsia, and Western Redbud seeds all germinating right now... #nativeplants