Tim Dierks
@tdierks
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Software Haruspex 🤖🧙 Google Cloud ☁️ Principal Engineer for keys, admin access, compliance & sovereignty. 🍻 by InterboroNYC. Speaking for no one. he/him
@neurovagrant @sophieschmieg I already have enough trouble with my cracktorio addiction, tyvm
Matt Linton 
Just remembered that time in my Google job interview when they asked me what my favorite forensics tool is and I said it was grep.
Protip: You don't have to leetcode or invent a new kind of physics to land a senior engineer job, just knowing how stuff really works is great.
Advanced password security tip: write it on the BACK of the Post-It
Sigh, what's the best set of resources for "I have a family member who got entangled in a "tech support"/screensharing/malware scam, but escaped in the middle, and whose windows machine now has uncertain pwnedness? They have already changed passwords on financial accounts.
@jimluther @enhancedscurry improved diagnostics would be helpful here: what is causing "accept terms" to be disabled? No way to know.
On one hand, Apple offers high-touch support; on the other hand, this just wastes 3.5 hours of your time before they figure out that they have no useful advice and you should just erase the Mac and start over. We would have been better off without it.
@lauren it's like a 0-rotor Enigma