12:30am Monday and wide awake with jet lag. Definitely not looking forward to what awaits me in about 8 hours :/

… And this is how you land in IT work

Douche canoe or ass hat are my top choices. Especially when talking about politics.

Shhh! Don’t give away all the trade secrets!

Back in my day we had to get our Internet at the village Internet well. I remember the dialup modem noises it made as you pulled the bucket up.

This. I just recently hung a ceiling fan with the help of YouTube and it’s still on the ceiling.

I remember my first Slackware installation from a pile of floppy disks!

I also remember that nothing worked after the installation, I had to figure out how to roll my own kernel and compile all the drivers. Kids today have it too easy.

shakes fist Now get offa ma lawn!

Dispensing elderly wisdom

I’m glad it’s working for you, but you might want to look into deepseek a little more. It has some serious issues.

This is a good place to start. Obvs you could also just Google for more info about it.

Sounds like you’re asking for Lemmy.

There was no “after”. He got trolled the entire time.

And yeah, he’s always weird.

Full video on YouTube

Sorry, that feature is only available in the iWar+ subscription, which is $9.99/mo

I’m a fan of Voyager.

Can we send another copy to New Zealand?

Just in case?

You think it’s rough now? Give it about 15 minutes, he’s about to address congress…

Yes! I’ve been to THE mall there. I had a layover in Minneapolis one time, so we stashed our bags and took the train. It was pretty amazing.

Luckily I live in a an area where there are a few decent malls still for me to get my fix.

I completely relate. Grew up in the mall, and worked there in my teens. Was just visiting home and it’s completely dead. There were literally 4 stores open.

Mad me sad.

Learn everything you can, about everything you can,
and check out places you can practice your learning like Hack the Box or one of the other platforms.

And go from there!

It is now. When I got into it, I was doing communications, mainly radio and satellite. I had no idea what I was going to do, and as it turned out, computers and learning really struck a chord with me.

I used military grade cryptography in the Navy, but I learned a lot about cybersecurity on my own. All the “puzzles”, and learning new things everyday like new technology, new vulnerabilities, etc.

Now they have specialists in the military and other government agencies that teach it. Although, given the current political climate, I wouldn’t want to be part of that with that.

As much as people learn it in school and the military now, I feel to be really good at it, you have to know at least a little of everything. I like to look at it like a technical jack of all trades.

You’d be surprised how many people there are from all sorts of backgrounds and interests, that had no idea they would be making a living out of hacking.