CISSP exam in two weeks, and I've no iudea how the exam compares to the practices
I feel like I know all the stuff, but feel like a 4 hour multiple choice exam I have to wake up at 6:30 am for is the least ideal way to test that
Any advice/assurances for someone who really just needs letters that tell well-meaning HR people that I am hirable?
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The Writer Will Do Something by Matthew S Burns
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.itch.io
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yeah i like Dune 2
Dune 2 others as i would have them dune 2 me !!!
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I'm uncomfortable using Bluesky for a very important reason: I don't know how they pay their bills, and despite this, they've taken VC funding. They have no option but to fuck us over at some point.
I'm exhausted by the enshitification cycle. I miss all the friends I've lost from Twitter and I don't want to go through all of this again.
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Bluesky pays it bills with VC money, which of course is not and is not intended to be a long term solution.
Mastodon and the Fediverse pay their bills with volunteer labor and donations. I'm a bit suspicious that is a viable long term solution.
In either case, I thinks it's reasonable to speculate that eventually things will have to change and either performance/quality will degrade or a new source of income will need to be found.
@stpaultim I should have been clearer and said "I don't understand how Bluesky WILL pay its bills". Because as far as I know, they haven't really said. And ultimately their bills are going to be quite high because they need to pay their VC investments back.
Donations and volunteer labor might not seem sustainable but at least it's out in the open.
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Just quickly - anyone here works for the #CDC or has "well respected buddies" there?
Fuck you. You and your buddies are Social Murderers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
Be a real ally & resign.
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Engels in his 1845 work The Condition of the Working-Class in England whereby "the class which at present holds social and political control" (i.e. the bourgeoisie) "places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death". This was in a different category to murder and manslaughter committed by individuals against one another, as social murder explicitly was committed by the political and social elite against the poor.
Engels:
"But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence –
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... knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission.
But murder it remains."
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It is a dry run for #ClimateChange policy
Author and journalist Chris Hedges writes that the global ruling classes are the "architects of social murder" by accelerating ecological collapse and climate change:
"What is taking place is not neglect. It is not ineptitude. It is not policy failure. It is murder. It is murder because it is premeditated. It is murder because a conscious choice was made by the global ruling classes to extinguish life rather than protect it."
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@bobjonkman Someone needs to start a site that keeps track of every single politician's score in terms of "answering the question" and the number of times they have dodged an answer by saying shit like "yes, I agree with you, we need to do something".
Even if a conservative asks you a pointless and disingenuous question, you can address it as such. Instead of "No, that is a false equivalency and an overreaction" the liberals say shit like "we are good, we have done this and that"
Fuck
I just realized why I'm always confused why my coworkers want an update in slack for PR changes rather than just using the automated emails.
It's because I've levelled to the point of being Email Driven
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@Hypolite Petovan Just shark your wires! It'll be fine!
Or use some screen scraping! We're too afraid of writing software that lies to other software! Mouse clicks are just programs!
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please boost!
i need help finding a job that doesn't suck, online or in seattle
i'm vanta -- longtime writer, seasoned video editor, skilled audio/image editor, designer of websites, and all-around creative person
i'm looking for something that isn't as super demanding, or public-facing, or low-paying as fast food. that is literally my only criteria lol
part-time probably, but i wouldn't say no to full if the situation was right
here's a link to my work portfolio https://vanta.work
resume available upon request
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#GetFediHired #FediHired #job #jobs
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I'm back in the job-hunting pack.
Me:
- high level site reliability engineer
- lots of small/medium startup experience
- loads of cloud infrastructure building on AWS/GCP using terraform
- experience as the jill-of-all-trades as first company SRE
- lots of kubernetes
US, prefer remote first
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Doing a vulnerability hunt at work. Finding everything that's low priority and triaging it.
Everyone is learning why they don't want to do my job!
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https://www.obscuritus.ca/RPGs/5_Minute_Workday.html
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my dad was a designer of naval nuclear reactor shielding (& later manager of a shielding group). Recruited a lot of people, mostly mathematicians, over the years. & he came to believe the best candidates were from small 4 yr schools with strong distribution requirements. Engineering school ("schools with letters for names - MIT, RPI, etc) grads 'don't think as well' as kids from, say, Sienna College.
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Content warning: The cloud is legalised ransomware
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I need to figure out what happened and then file a bug report for blueman >.<
Anyone have an issue where the default bluetooth controller is powered off, but there's a secondary controller, and so when the open blueman-manager the window closes immediately because the controller is disabled?
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Make no mistake, the massive layoffs are intentional SHORT TERM sabotage by business decision makers with the goal of LONG TERM benefits for them.
They're trying to drive down the costs of labor. Specifically, they're firing everyone so that we'll accept lower wages upon rehire.
In #infosec, this will backfire on them.
By firing everyone, the level of security technical debt will increase that they'll have to hire everyone AND THEN SOME back at even higher rates.
So. Neat. Fucking great.
In the mean time, research how to create unions. Start doing so. Tech folks and infosec are not used to needing collective bargaining. You need it now.
Learn about the concepts of Economic Leverage and how it works as an individual contributor and when that fails how Collective Leverage works. The whole "if you fire that one person, we all quit" sort of thing works.
You all hack systems every day. You all study Social Engineering and combat it every day.
Hack the labor market. Socially engineer our mutual protection.
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In the mean time, lean on each other. Use your current support networks and build those networks up.
Mutual Aid means you give AND you take. It isn't charity. It's support structures that don't rely on those that would exploit you.
Plant food. Share food. Learn about your local food banks. Contribute now if you can. TAKE NOW IF YOU NEED! That means your money for rent can go a long way.
Those with means and equity can look into buying multi-family buildings (think apartment buildings and condos... yes those are for sale). And setting up tenant co-ops.
Others can form renters unions. Think of it as a reverse HOA where you organize to protect against landlord exploitation.
Use your libraries and boost them. They have free internet and free hotspots. Free streaming. Free education. On top of free books. They are third spaces with free meeting rooms. - Use the library to organize your local unions.
Those that are out of work need to hold weekly meetings with each other. Compare notes. Share leads. One person gets in and can help hire the others up. Form unions when you get hired.
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every new user being shocked that DMs aren’t actually private is kinda scary because it means that everybody just assumes DMs on other platforms are private
because they aren’t. the only difference between fedi and other social media is that fedi admins don’t have a vested interest in making you think DMs are private
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Aw fucking shit!
@Titan Up the Defense posted a fucking episode! I know it's a different show now but it doesn't matter! Fuck yeah!
I should make a neocities for this as well! To rival the amazing titanupthedefense.neocities.org
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Generative AI today is where self driving cars was in 2015. Lots of impressive announcements by big tech and startups with the idea that machines replacing humans was a few years away.
In reality, instead of being close to done, a decade later we realize now we’d barely started.
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You know how young children will see some toy or shiny object on a store shelf, and somehow — by design! Marketers know what they’re doing! — they instantly •have• to have it, and are obsessed, and all sense and proportion go out they window and they need it now now NOW, but if they get it they soon abandon it because it’s junk that only looked good on the shelf?
It’s like that with CEOs and AI right now.
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My mother-in-law still wont look at me, talk to me, or be in the same room as me, its been almost 6 months since I told her she couldn't blame my son for being bullied (and explicitly she couldn't tell him it's his fault). Apparently she just wants an apology.
Parenting sucks,
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@Erin the hard part is that it's his cousin bullying him and my wife and sister in law are super close, making it very hard to avoid.
I'm just mostly so upset how much non-parents think they are entitled to parent kids. And I know my mom is super bad about it to, we just have way more experience fighting with each other.
And yeah, trying to be better parents than your parents is the eternal struggle ain't it.
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Which is better way to find the area of a circle?
1. pi X radius squared, written with soot on some pressed reeds
2. Take all the known areas of all known circles that have ever been, stuff them into a tokenized data base, power up a nuclear reactor to crunch the numbers, then give an approximate answer that's judged to be right 81% of the time by slaves employed in a sweatshop in Ghana, then present the results at a board meeting while the ice caps melt?
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if I fail I basically have to spend another 1k and take it again in a week
and then I have an eclipse chasing vacation and my brother's wedding, which I hope will make me less stressed
bah - 2024's first half is intense
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BB :verified_cool:
•@silverwizard: if I can pass it, just about anybody can. There is certainly a lot of stuff to take in, but it is learnable.
I should admit that it took me two tries, but i got there 🙃
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@BB :verified_cool: I really hope I don't have to find another fee, that's my main fear!
but thanks!