So I need a tiny bit of traffic analysis on my Ghost website, but like…tiny.
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@kissane
When I started in security, my boss pointed me at a couple of books to read in the month or so between getting hired and starting work, and then I was on-site at Microsoft doing code audits. And like, sure, I had part of a CS degree at that point, but for real it was just like, fuck around and learn it from first principles on the job. -
@dymaxion Yep! Everyone I knew with any CS classwork at all got snapped up into higher-paying work they were totally unready for and then they had to hire all the liberal arts majors for everything else.
I got a referral bonus when my employer hired my partner and we took all our also-baby friends out for dinner about once a week. A year or so later, the layoffs hit. And this is how I can spot a gold rush a mile away!
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@kissane My very first gig out of school involved getting handed admin rights to the server that ran the company’s nascent “web store”, and informed I would be learning “coldfusion” and something called “sql”
my honors thesis was, and i cannot stress this enough, a study of three works by milton
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@beep COLDFUSION
(my thesis was a science fiction novella/cutup based on a foundational Korean folktale with diagrams of eyeballs in it so uh, cheers to us)
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@kissane I get a lot of mileage by running grep and awk and so on over my log files.
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@kissane I miss HomeSite and a physical disc to install Photoshop, I do
(also your thesis could kick my thesis’s ass, hot damn)
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@timbray Someday when my life resimplifies I'm going back to self-hosting, just to keep from having a relaxing life. (I do miss having logs.)
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@beep HomeSite, bless. Nothing but good sides.
(The thesis was unspeakably bad, I will stop speaking of it.)
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@kissane
It's always so weird when folks ask me how to get into security now. Like, I do my best to answer, of course, but it's almost an alien world. -
@dymaxion Security seems like the thing that maybe changed the most while somehow still remaining the weirdest subfield.
I do wonder what's going to happen to all the ML kids.
