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Former child. Current goblin.

I've done everything from building drag cars to engineered soils testing.

Last decade has been in network and infrastructure administration, and I must've walked through the wrong door or something because now I do Cybersecurity. Privacy advocate, love finding loopholes and making systems do things they weren't designed for. Never felt more "these are my people" than I have in infosec. Extremely lucky to be here.

Probably the only person here with justified imposter syndrome and am hoping I can learn enough through osmosis by shitposting here that I'm capable of contributing something.

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A shocking number of people I went to school with (and used to bully me for being a computer nerd) are now appearing on my LinkedIn as β€œcybersecurity experts”

β€œI reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy.” 🀘🏼

Wab Kinew
Premier of Manitoba, Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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@gayint Hey I think your main site is down. I was trying to pull down the ASN list and got a 502. blog.gayint.org still works though.

Was in a sales pitch meeting today where I questioned the vendor on one of their points and they said "Yeah, but it depends on the vendors your trust"

My response of "I don't trust any of them" got me a slight scowl but the schadenfreude was delicious.

Got a Lenovo Legion Go for super cheap and went to install Bazzite on it. Only problem is this thing only has USB-C ports and I don’t have a USB-C thumb drive. Then I remembered the expansion cards for my Framework laptop are all USB-C and wondered if they were just pass through devices. Turns out that yes. Yes they are.
Either I'm using it wrong, or Mimecast sucks. I'm not sure yet.

Today is a great day to learn about Debian.

It's far from perfect, but by golly once you learn it it's pretty sweet. Highlights:

  • Everything is transparent, sometimes painfully so
  • Debian isn't a company
  • You still have apt, so deb packages still probably work
  • Flatpak makes desktop use easy
  • Hate updates? Debian only releases a major new version every two years.
  • Nobody is ever, ever, ever going to sell you "Debian Pro"

If Ubuntu's got you down today, I dare you: give Debian a try.

Man, the market for decent firewall vendors that don't have:

  • shady practices
  • a list of recent 0-days longer than my arm
  • Have a pretty GUI (not my requirement)
  • Not put "AI" into it

Is fucking dire.

Vibe check:
How long should one wait after starting at a new company before starting a "memes and shitposting" group chat?