> goes into field filled with nerds
> shocked that field filled with nerds is filled with nerds
> shockedpikachu.jpeg
I think the point of this post is how they are all doing stereotypically nerdy things, and then they are into Twitter
>field stereotypically composed of argumentative assholes
>members congregate amongst argumentative assholes
This is as surprising as finding my old human sexuality professor on tumblr. I mean, I haven’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Another unfortunate fact is that there are a lot of right wing people in IT. That's something I've learned in national conferences. I always hang out in places like this so I had no idea how bad it was, but at least 50% of the people I've met at IT conferences were right leaning. There's only 1 on my team. 2 if you count the libertarian.
As is the rest of society. There's nothing about IT that would make it more likely to attract left wing folks. There is that for FOSS specifically, but a huge part of the IT sector only consumes FOSS products without ever giving back.
When I first started I used to work at an absolute dumpster fire of a place, and even that only had one right wing guy and he was a conspiracy theorist who thought that the COVID vaccine contained nanobots. The guy who is supposedly an IT professional thinks we have nanobots.
He didn't last very long. Not because he was a conspiracy theorist, although for my part I would have been perfectly fine if that had been the reason, but because he was actually kind of useless at his job. It turns out that if you think we have a microscopic robotic technology then you're probably not as well versed in the industry as you are pretending to be.
That's one of the things I enjoy about working in the video games industry instead of a normal software place, everybody seems much more progressive than the average for my country. Maybe it just comes with being underpaid and working on creative stuff.
In my experience, the security folks tend to argue less than the other IT fields I've worked in.
Yes we are nerds but we must have decorum.
Plus if you’re managing any real infra at all you’ll run out of names if you’re using Star Wars, even the extended canon.
Really: They’re cute until you’re on a screenshare with an angry customer and you’re trying to restore the wookie database to the ewok database. Then it’s way less cute.
Every character on screen has a name in Star Wars. For example: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Davin_Felth
God I love that fandom. Or, used to anyways.
oh my god glub shitto is so sexy
excuse me but that is their sexy twin clone glup shitto
I always confuse the two, sorry.
I wouldn't use cute names anyway because I'd forget what they actually were. It's way better to use descriptive names so that you actually look like you know what you're talking about. Generally speaking you don't see cute names as much as you just see bad names.
In the past I've read code that says things like prefDoUserAccountProccessing_b(e) only to find out that it's some old bit of code that isn't used anymore because it's for an old legacy SAP system. That's apparently what the _b indicated, because obviously.
Well now we know how Palpatine came back.
This is why I used to use Pokemon, with departments grouped by type.
Names are arbitrary anyway.
I see the point of something like euw-69-r47s11-vm420, but a memorisable name is more useful if you are small/specialised enough that you need to remember which box does what.
Also, let people have some fun, the world is bleak enough.
nerds dont use twitter
nerds use your mother
quietly disconnects from fileshare named Deathstar
😐
connects to death star 2
leaves a backdoor open
Remember Hitachi Deskstars?
Bit before my time in computer-work, sadly. Might've seen one or two floating around an IT department junk pile? An old department head had a bit of a hoarding problem
I know this story is fake because it shows someone actually getting a job in cybersecurity these days
Is that not a thing anymore?
Jobs? Nope we don’t do this anymore
or cybersecurity
In tech? Nope. My girlfriend went into cybersec as a major and spent a year working helpdesk with zero callbacks from any tech company whatsoever. So have almost all of her classmates across comp sci.
She bailed and went to manufacturing in a city 3 hours away, as that's the only job available that paid more than 16/hr.
Concerning
I'm on Twitter because a long time ago it was a good place to get contacts and industry updates. The only reason I'm still on Twitter is because I haven't used it in about 6 years have forgotten the password and can't log in to delete the account.
But anyway being in cybersecurity isn't about being invisible, if you were invisible you wouldn't be in the industry, you'd just be a hermit living in the woods. It's about being aware of security threats and taking precautive action for yourself and your employer. Me posting videos of my rat completing puzzles, doesn't compromise either of these requirements.
Meh, I like cute names like the next nerd, but I've never seen any in practice. It's all TV model number like codes.
I’ve seen cute names at a couple of smaller companies
Yeah, if we had a small start-up sized network, for sure. But as soon as you go into dozens of servers it becomes unmanageable :/ I need to know at a glance what the function of a given server is, my colleagues in sysadmin need to know what rack, what layer in our archi, what os, is it prod, etc. Hence TV model style names. Don't roll off the back of the tongue, but at least we all know what we're dealing with without knowing an encyclopedia knowledge of anime / star wars / etc trivia.
I compensate by making fun (for me) jpeg to ASCII welcome messages when I connect to remote servers :P
The most annoying usage I've seen was a smaller company that used stars wars names for email distribution lists.
"Why did you forward this networking ticket to Chewbacca group? It's supposed to go to BobaFett."
Gee, I dunno, maybe because you use cutesy, non-descriptive names for email groups instead of just networkingsupport@company.com.
I just want a nice, useful address book I can actually search. But those morons don't even have that, so instead we have abominable emails like did.ssi-sii and such. Sure it all means something, if you can just remember what fucking letter soup the department you're looking for is. You want the service desk? did.dsi-sdk Rolls off the fucking tongue, doesn't it.
What's the point of this piece of shit Outlook if we can't even search for team addresses?
Our servers are named after comic book/cartoon villains, and it's really fucking stupid. I have no idea what any of them are because systems doesn't keep a list that's accessible to other departments.
Makes it real hard to make SSPs without having to drag info out of the sysadmins. And we're an enterprise environment.
cybersecurity people are bootlickers
That is the exact opposite of my experience. Of all the coworkers and friends I’ve ever had who worked in cybersecurity, one was a bootlicker, while all of the rest were at least three of transfem, furry, weeb, and anarchist.
Edit: Ok, one of the transfem furry anarchists was a bootlicker, but only in the kink scene, not her politics.
People who work in cybersecurity, irrespective of their overt freakery, are overwhelmingly wannabe cops.
Lmao, let the hate flow through you. Did you get reprimanded for executing ransomware after downloading porn?
Nah, it's usually some wild eyed wacko high on their own bloated sense of self importance, demanding all ICMP be blocked network wide; that does get the hate flowing.
Can't argue with that, though that sounds more like a corporate zombie 🥲
Sometimes I'm glad I was a failure. I will never be subjected to this type of success.
See it actually goes like this:
The cybersecurity field sees the CS and software field as a bunch of posers.
The red team (field) sees the blue team as a bunch of posers.
The actual redteam (opsec white hat) sees pentesters as a bunch of posers.
The blackhat hackers sees white hat hackers as a bunch of posers.
Most (skilled) blackhats work for an APT or Nation State, so we almost never get to see a post compromise attack that actually does anything other than crypto ransom or targeted hardware destruction.
But seriously, this post really depends on what type of cybersecurity work.
Our DC
I would expect to see this from a bunch of internal company blueteam "hackers" ;)
Also, all of the most skilled blackhats have Lain as their icon on Teams/Twitter.
I put fun little Easter eggs like that in my logging and some debugging but I can admit it's cringe. If I had someone speak to me like that I wouldn't hate it but I'd question their earnestness.
oh, I won't offend them never (let my sexy gf photos private and secure)
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