cmg

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[–] cmg@infosec.pub 69 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The closest I ever got to this story was working help desk in 1996. A user called up saying they had deleted the Internet.

Took me a while to understand he dragged “the Internet” to the recycle bin on the desktop.

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 17 points 1 year ago

Bring that to your department chair and ask if they can help sponsor the trip. It’s a big deal and something the department would be proud of.

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago
[–] cmg@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was one of my favorite… cassette tapes. The entire album is great.

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago

Getting the right keyboard height was almost impossible. That keyboard tray was about 6 months of knee bumps away from death!

Motorized desks really improved things for me.

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago

IReal pro for chord charts and backing practice.

Chord AI is good for “what’s the chords in this YouTube video”

https://www.sheetmusicscanner.com is useful for I have sheet music I want to put into guitar pro on the desktop.

Scan; export as musicml; import on desktop. Cleanup.

8Strummer - getting new strum pattens down can be a challenge and this gives a useful visual

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1100064032/deliberate-indifference

If really interested, the local NPR station did a long origin story of the Alabama Prison System.

There was one prison until slavery ended.

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Glad you got diagnosed. There’s a ton of bad management in startups. Especially stay away from managers that grew up in toxic shops.

I’ve always been a strong employee. People get good at pushing buttons. Spent more time in a divorce therapy talking about a manager than the personal issues.

Realized for every boundary problem I had, there were n alienated people on my team that really got hurt hard. Sr. Management fixed the issue

Be good at taking breaks. Be good at looking for new roles before you need them.

Often; the money side that seems big to employees is new house rich. If you aren’t happy, it’s not worth it.

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

You mentioned 6-7h of sleep. I suspect you aren’t getting enough sleep and not stretching enough.

You said you went from sedentary to active. Do you have off peak weeks? Did you just start leg days? Is it muscle pain or joint pain? Do you stretch?

Your tendons and joints need time to build up. I suspect you did wide ranges, you’ve not been stretching, and you’ve really put a strain on the muscle ends. Stretch daily and move throw your motions.

I went through a similar relearning curve going from cycling -> cycling / yoga -> adding weights

If the stretching activity isn’t there, man the recovery sucks.

Good for you for doing it! You’ll figure it out!

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

Read, reproduce, understand. Think of how the programmer was solving a problem and left a problem. Did they probably didn’t understand the problems. The synthetic challenges are often a skill to themselves.

Re attention span, consider different expectations. Professional product engagements are often 2 ftes/2 weeks. Getting a few good findings out in that time is the goal.

Sometimes they run out of time on a thread they are looking at. Sometimes they pull on a thread only to find out there’s no way from here. Sometimes years later there’s an insight that x could work.

Building up that last skill is what makes you more effective. Find someone to bounce ideas off of that’s in the learning curve with you.

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 13 points 2 years ago

Even more so, he left the organization he evangelized with on a principled equality basis.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95311&page=1

This is against a backdrop of church splits on other equality issues https://theweek.com/religion/1019544/the-widening-schism-in-the-united-methodist-church

[–] cmg@infosec.pub 2 points 2 years ago

Agree here.

Spend your time making sure you are protected against ransomware with good offline backups and able to recover your practice. Keep your payments separate from your comms machine.

Your job is going to have lots of shady things to click on/invoice/etc

Plan for it so a malicious client/infected evidence/mistaken click doesn’t take down your practice.

I’m 25y into this as a technologist and still make mistakes on “oh this will be quick”. Make sure your time sinks are 100% aligned with your business. Think of automation / value and you’ll have the right mindset.

If you find the tech side fascinating, there’s always demand for good tech lawyers and lawyer comms are entryways into technology management.

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