Jean Snyman

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Things that make me happy: #infosec, chocolate. Things that make me sad: crypto paranoia, misplaced apostrophes. He/him

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Just spent like half an hour hunting down an alternate source for something from 2008 all so that I wouldn’t have to cite Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast
Pretty stoked about end-to-end encrypted iCloud Backups

This week has been a roller coaster. Received an award​ from the UK's professional body for the infosec industry. Then got the good news that the people I've been interviewing with are going to make me an offer!

🎢​ But what comes up must come down and it did when I actually received the joke of an offer

Been a couple days now and I still feel horrible about that last job
interview. I don't know how to shake this feeling. I know I shouldn't
feel this way, but I still do.

I'm the kind of person to be open about both my strengths and my
weaknesses. I knew going into it that I'm not that proficient in
Python. I can deal with structured data any day with it, but working
with unstructured data is a different story.

I feel like the interview ended on a sour note... that they might
think that I may have communicated in prior interviews that I knew
more Python than I did. Their expectations of me didn't match up with
reality.

And I think that's what I feel: I feel like I, as a person, failed. By
attempting to utilize my strengths, and still not completing the
challenge in the very short amount of time allotted to me, I feel like
I am a failure as a person. I failed both the challenge and I am a
failure.

I know that's not true, but I still feel that way. And I can't seem to
shake the feeling.

What's true: I didn't have much time. The challenge (and the
interviewing team) was geared towards expecting a certain language. My
strengths didn't align with either the challenge or the team.

@jayschwitz Thanks for the kind words. I’m actually not upset about the job at all. Like you said, it is not a good sign as to the culture (and there were some other lesser things that were off too). But in these situations I always feel like I am being a PITA by complaining. I need to get over that. I felt like this even when I reported a hate speech incident to my uni a few years back which directly affected me (luckily, the staff who dealt with the problem were very lovely and took it seriously; I know that’s not everyone’s experience)
Just declined a job offer because of an inappropriate joke made by someone at the company to a room full of guys at the interview. Even though I know I did the right thing, I can't help but feel icky and like I've made too big a deal of it. Can't believe women in tech have to deal with this shit
@zmre @ChristinaStokes Ah, yes, I’ve come across that site before. Definitely useful. But I wish it showed a bit more info. Like when an instance was first created (or at least when it was first added to the database). And how uptime has changed over time (instances which have been around for a long while but have faced a lot of trouble recently could still have a higher uptime than ones which are less old but have been resilient through the great twitter migration). Also: I have looked at the source but I can’t seen to figure out how instances are discovered. Maybe they are just added to the database manually?
Anyone know if there’s a way to judge an instance’s reliability without creating an account? It’s hard to know what #Mastodon servers are safe to recommend to people. Would be great if there was some tool that let you see performance metrics for servers. Is it possible to build something like that? #fediverse #instances #twittermigration
@WPalant That's less than ideal

@WPalant So, I think bold, italics, inline code and code blocks are probably fine in most cases because not rendering them does not typically result in significant loss of meaning. However, I would avoid headers, strikethrough, blockquotes (unless also surrounded by quotation marks), subscripts and superscripts.

What has the potential to be particularly problematic are lists. I assume that if I write a numbered list, it will get displayed as an HTML list on clients/servers that support that (which is nice bc of the alignment/spacing) but where it isn't supported, the list numbers totally dropped. Which is obviously bad. But maybe it doesn't behave like that?

Until I know how that works, I may just turn off markdown on posts when I want to number some items (see https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/features/rich-text/#authoring-formatted-toots)