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Anon works in cybersecurity (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 hour ago

I’ve seen cute names at a couple of smaller companies

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

> goes into field filled with nerds

> shocked that field filled with nerds is filled with nerds

> shockedpikachu.jpeg

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Every character on screen has a name in Star Wars. For example: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Davin_Felth

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 6 points 2 hours ago

God I love that fandom. Or, used to anyways.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Well now we know how Palpatine came back.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 24 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think the point of this post is how they are all doing stereotypically nerdy things, and then they are into Twitter

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

>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.

[–] Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I know this story is fake because it shows someone actually getting a job in cybersecurity these days

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

quietly disconnects from fileshare named Deathstar

😐

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

connects to death star 2

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 1 hour ago

leaves a backdoor open

[–] sundaymidnight@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

oh, I won't offend them never (let my sexy gf photos private and secure)