LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 2 days ago:
Am I stupid and missed the joke, or do you mean to imply that “most skilled blackhats” communicate over Microsoft Teams?
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 2 days ago:
Colour me jelly. Old school Unix guys are the kind of boomers I’d probably enjoy being around and ask stuff from.
Imo Automation is good when done well, but if anything I’d say half the problems at companies I’ve seen - including my own workplace - come from automating things that shouldn’t be in some ugly way that inevitably breaks at the slightest change and that would work much better if there was just a person doing it manually instead.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 3 days ago:
Yeah they don’t mean it in the way engineers do, they mean it literally :(
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 3 days ago:
The only reason I stay is because I’m fairly free to fuck around while I WFH and I always WFH, I’m assuming that’s what he means.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 3 days ago:
Go tell her to work for a team with more women in it. A balance generally helps imo.
- Comment on Would a quarter of workers really be better off on benefits? 4 days ago:
It’s funny how this is meant to be right-wing slop to get me outraged about le benefits, but even if this was true (and I believed it was till I read the comments below), I always just took it as a condemnation of awful economy and wages.
Immigration outrage comes from the powers that be via the internet, but our free falling standard of living is immediately obvious and easily observed to anyone under the age of 50.
The awful shape of our streets and our people is a stark reminder of the fact that only half the population is in full time employment according to ONS, combined with non-existant growth since 2008, even when measured in GDP per capita.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 4 days ago:
start cyber security job am 27, BSc, MSc, 4 years of xp entire team is over 50 with one youngling at 45 none of them have any formal IT qualifications whatsoever boss does not know how to read clearly just reads the first few words of a sentence and guesses the rest only writes in 3-4 word sentences without punctuation and capitalization only time anyone writes any detailed amount of text is obviously with copilot they refuse to use Jira because it’s “too complicated” even though we all have licenses to it and there’s a security project already set up have me log ticket statuses in a spreadsheet instead but only for 2 weeks, after no one checks it all communication is 3-4 sentence emails in threads with 20+ people 100+ emails each going back years boss proceeds to talk about how he feels for the fact women don’t get to speak while not letting me speak a single word almost every time I try to add to a conversation in a group meeting it’s taken as an attack team’s main project is to put the password manager behind the same password manager half of them are constantly having very basic computer problems boss opens group convo on teams only to complain there’s “too many messages” and that he can’t keep up I provide summaries in a few short paragraphs but he doesn’t read them Boss says he doesn’t have access to a system but he’s really just unable or unwilling to locate the sign in button I complete tasks, but they’re never checked on by anyone or followed up by anyone at annual review receive complaints that I’m not doing enough but no specifics how positively I’m perceived on a given day seems to not correlate with any work done seems to mostly depend on how I look in meetings try to make small talk most don’t seem to understand the concept one proceeds to show me his entire house, room by room it’s completely empty and unfurnished wut.jpg ask them if they like to do self-hosting or play ctfs or hackthebox no one has any idea what any of what I said is ask one if he’s seen movie_name Very awkward pause barks: “No” Drops off meeting because he had a windows update He uses a Mac One talks about crypto Huge crypto guy I somewhat jokingly ask him if he’s got XMR he doesn’t know what that is
Honestly bros I don’t wanna be fired because job searching is hell but there’s a part of me that will breathe a sigh of relief when I eventually am. Quirky star wars shit here I come.
- Comment on Britain’s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery 5 days ago:
And it’s not just newbuild housing, the rest are Victorian era crumbling shit holes filled with mold and damp up to your ears. I’ve rented “”“flats”“”" that clearly used to be someone’s attic or someone’s basement and it was the most awful place one could imagine. The flat I’m in right now had water pouring out the lights in the ceiling and it’s still the best place I’ve lived in this country by a mile.
- Comment on 58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition 5 days ago:
Their goal has always been the total non-existence of trans people. They don’t actually care about whether it’s the right choice for someone or not, they simply do not want it to happen at all.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 5 days ago:
You advocated for banning ready meals because you are crazy, I had to elaborate on it to hopefully get across that your viewpoint is insane and you should not hold it, nor should any sane person hold it.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says he is ‘not prepared to walk away’ after call for resignation 6 days ago:
Isn’t it just gonna be Wes in power after him? The whole party is rotten. Greens are our only hope
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 1 week ago:
I hate cooking, and especially batch cooking so I can eat cold soulless slop chicken later to keep myself alive for 0.83 years longer and I hate meal planning and how much time and mental energy it takes, absolutely none is acceptable to me.
It kills my soul little by little and honestly I’m sure it’s fine for some people, but I’m not doing that, the money saved is minimal because food costs next to nothing compared to housing etc. I could order takeaway everyday and it wouldn’t substantially put me further away from house ownership than I am now.
I WFH and I love the fact I can toss the little fuckers into the microwave and not worry about it and consume ze slop and get back to what I was doing quickly without much disruption.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 1 week ago:
Yes. You know what they are though? Fast. That’s kinda the point. I can throw one of these in during a meeting and just leave it in the microwave, then consume the slop, the whole thing taking maybe 15 mins at most, with the vast majority of that time me still being free to do something else while it’s cooking.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds 1 week ago:
Yeah. I remember the last time they tried to ban ready meals. We are a nation of nothing. No housing, no food, no nothing - the ultimate austerity.
My only wish is that the VPN I have to use to even browse steam workshop also physically transported me to Germany or France or something.
- Comment on One way to guarantee your paper blows people away 1 week ago:
No he really wasn’t
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Lol if anything if you wanna go there just doing your biological job sounds extremely uncreative, it’s something I’d expect an animal to do, not a person. We are blessed by god or otherwise with the gift of reason, why must we not use it?
You should have kids if you want them and think you can provide a decent upbringing to them.
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 2 weeks ago:
That’s completely fair honestly
- Comment on Anon likes pizza 2 weeks ago:
It takes a pretty long time though. I eat pizza first and foremost because it’s fast
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 2 weeks ago:
If you’re not gonna get drunk, what’s the point of imitating alcoholic drinks? Just drink a soda at that point, it’s tastier.
- Comment on Real and True 3 weeks ago:
10 seems kinda rad ngl
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 3 weeks ago:
I’m curious if anyone ever made a “Super Mercator” projection, something where “ze west” is even more exaggerated and some continents even more disproportionately reduced missing/removed to own the libs. It kinda sounds like something governments would do/people would like nowadays.
- Comment on UK grassroots music venues show lowest decline since 2018 as sector stabilises post-pandemic 3 weeks ago:
That must be a mere fraction compared to just the sheer rent increases though
- Comment on UK grassroots music venues show lowest decline since 2018 as sector stabilises post-pandemic 3 weeks ago:
Regulatory and taxation pressures? Wouldn’t it be mostly due to rising rent prices?
- Comment on A new public footpath is planned for one of the UK’s most famous ancient sites 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised we haven’t sold it off for raw materials to the Chinese yet
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 4 weeks ago:
By that definition sure they are, but that’s a really odd definition which would include basically all internet websites with some forum-esque component and images, including Lemmy and Reddit and twitter.
I would use the “List of imageboard” from this article instead: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 4 weeks ago:
Hah I meant Instagram and Pinterest, obviously 4chan is an imageboard
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 4 weeks ago:
None of those are imageboards
- Comment on London coroner calls for circumcision safeguards after baby death 1 month ago:
This country only gives a shit about genitals when it’s trans people receiving treatment for their disorders.
When it’s actual children being mutilated against their will because their parents are so deeply schizophrenic they believe it is the will of people that don’t exist that they mutilate children, it’s all muh “community leaders” this and “concerns” that.
- Comment on Anon questions some decisions 1 month ago:
Yeah, you’re right, but also, the commenter above isn’t just being mean for the sake of it, there is a real issue at the heart of it.
The issue is that having 1 person come around to your side implies the millions that don’t and won’t.
Some of those people simply don’t share any underlying morals in common so that’s fine, you’ll never see eye to eye in ideas because your goals are ultimately different.
Some of those people also just don’t care and/or don’t know.
Some people will never care, and that’s fine too, but some of those people will care if they do know.
Spreading information to those people is tough when you don’t have backing of the govcorp media ecosystem and it doesn’t help when the ideas you want to get across are sophisticated, boring and fairly nuanced and require lots of context.
It also doesn’t help that this would-be progressive in their ignorance could be damaging to the cause when misinformed, which means that sometimes you have to argue against this person and potentially turn them off the movement forever, because you never really know whether it’s possible to sway someone until you do.
That’s what makes ignorance trolling or JAQing so effective because progressives will either have to waste time explaining openly to someone who will never agree and only feigns ignorance, or risk being potentially a confrontational asshole with a genuinely ignorant person.
It also doesn’t help morale of said progressive when confronted with all that, that many of us simply learned about this information on our own, we never asked anybody of anything, we just explored enough perspectives on issues we cared about until our bullshit-o-meters were finely tuned enough to find truth and construct a path from reality now to future we’d like.
On the other hand, convincing some people who are actually sway-able to not want the world to function like a war crime can be like pulling teeth, people are zealous defenders of their opinions because it reflects badly on their self-esteem if they are misinformed and someone else isn’t, especially in the Information Age.
I speak from a progressive viewpoint but it’s just as true for any real ideological position, information is the fuel that turns simple moral beliefs into functional ideology.
For as long as we live in a democracy, we need to somehow solve the systemic issue of ignorance at scale without inventing a ministry of truth type situation and being able to effectively counter trolling and JAQing/sealioning while also treating those asking questions with the utmost care and having the emotional stamina to do that when many of us had nothing of the sort.
It’s a tough position, even describing it or explaining it is tough enough already when fewer and fewer people even seem to even just read at all.
Then there is often just confusion over what someone open to information actually wants, e.g. the Adam Something guide to dating video he made where he said that teenage and adolescent men want instructions and not philosophical musings on the concept of dating and purpose and approach came as a genuine shock to me, because from my, non-male perspective I can’t imagine anyone needing instructions or explanations of that sort of thing.
- Comment on 2025 likely to be UK's hottest year on record, says Met Office 1 month ago:
Barely felt like it at all. Whole summer without a decently consistent nice warm spell, just middlingly warm. Winter weather came very early too in August and hasn’t left at all.
