Cybersecurity practitioner, developer, researcher, presenter and writer... Views are my own and always with a #smile
“As they used to say on Stingray: 'Anything can happen in the next half-hour'. I've always tried to live with that thought in mind. JCC"
you can (and will) always get better with effort. put in the time and work and you will see results. maybe not exactly what your expectations where, but results none-the-less. don't bee too hard on yourself and keep pushing. you can (and will) get where you want to eventually.
and if this is a hobby, remember:
this is _supposed_ to just be for fun and your own catharsis! ;D
We homeschool our youngest, and I am the math teacher. He has natural mathematical insight that is off the charts—noticing patterns and algorithms that surprise and delight me (and which his older siblings, who I also tutored, didn’t get).
And yet due to his neurospiciness he has trouble with basic arithmetic and often has to be (quickly) re-taught concepts we covered previously. Teachers would say he is “bad at math” and put him in remedial classes.
He’s on track to finish calculus before he graduates high school. And this is one of countless reasons we are homeschooling him.
How many students like our kid are schools failing? Not because they’re not smart, but because they don’t fit in neat little boxes.
Scottish Government officials have decided to ignore the public and experts, and grant permission to Flamingo Land to build their mega-resort at Loch Lomond.
It will also transfer all of the ancient woodland to Flamingo Land, meaning there's no guarantee it will be safe in the long term.
That’s why we need as many people as possible to write to Planning Minister Ivan McKee, telling him he needs to act now: https://greens.scot/LochLomond
Yes, this is the danger. I experience it in my own courses. Many students no longer attend, they believe intelligent prompting and editing is the only skill they need.
But the battle hasn't yet been lost. Good students still want to learn. We keep looking for ways in which we can make our students experience the joys of open exploration, the pain and joy of writing in one's own voice, the importance of making one's owe mistakes. This is still possible. But yes, genAI has made this so much harder.
What a horrible, horrible waste it is.
Problem for UK teenagers, from their POV: work your ass off to get meaningless cyber qualifications and a dead end job on £30k in an MSSP SOC.. where one day the height of your career may be managing a DLP team triaging 2000 alerts a day of nonsense for £45k a year.
Or: ransom a UK retailer for £10m and then leave the country.
In the process of re-working and re-launching my beginner reverse engineering labs. You can test them out here: https://malwaretech.com/labs
More coming soon!
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