#GetFediHired update: it's been suggested that I should look at security engineer positions. I'm interested, especially at the right pay. Coming from the web world, I think I'm best suited more to application security, blue team stuff than red team stuff. I'm more code review than Cisco configuration, find flaws and communicate with devs and managers than hacker voice "I'm in" (pen testing).
Toss openings at me please (I have been searching on my own too). Remote (pref) or remote-first hybrid (no relo no relo no relo).
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One key, gives you user
And, one key, gives you root
And the one the, server issued
Doesn't do, anything, at all
Go ask Alice
When she's pwned like Bob
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After the feedback I got on the piece I posted here and sent to a few people on Telegram, I took the plunge and ordered an Audio-Technica AT2005USB for recording. I have a long way to go and much to learn, and I don't expect to be the next @Jyoti, but it's an I Spent Money commitment.
@Jyoti Thank you! I'm not shooting for making any money, I just want to be a better singer. Maybe it's in there somewhere. Getting exactly the same comments, word for word, from two people, said something...
Plus, the AT was $27.20 from Amazon Warehouse, and some going-nowhere wanker Republican's $19 paid for it. Easy!
LRToot context: my power was out for 5h20m today. I am the only customer on the far side of my street with Shitbag Publicly Traded Power instead of Local Municipal Electric. The outage affected 63 customers - other than me, effectively all of them are working class, and majority people of color.
It took Shitbag Power almost two hours to roll a truck to even start to figure out what happened. Two hours. Shitbag Power's parent company's 2022 net income was $3.5bil - they are not hurting for cash to pay for staffing.
Bet your bottom dollar that if the rest of the neighborhood were white people with houses more like mine (no McMansion, but recently built and a little bigger on slightly bigger lots), they would not have badly slow-rolled the response. But they did.
Feelers out again because it might be getting toward time to #GetFediHired. I'm interested in a remote US (🚫mandatory hybrid or in-office🚫), IC position in systems integration, solutions engineering (post-sales), or similar technical consulting/PS type roles. Open to more.
I have 10+ years of experience as a web dev (full stack, primarily JS, PHP, MariaDB + Postgres + MSSQL; written + owned + extensively consumed REST APIs; written custom apps and deep WordPress), sysadmin (cloud, Linux, Windows, VoIP, security and network design), IT consultant and all-around technical problem solver. Systems integration is effectively what I've done for my entire career. I have a wide breadth of touch in platforms and products, but can quickly zero in and make myself an SME on a specific set.
The customers I've served are largely SMB, but do include enterprise (esp. higher ed) and gov.
Boosting this because it's actively time to #GetFediHired. I can put my web development, consulting, and analyst skills to work toward your organization's success.
I am looking for 100% remote, US-based W2 (sorry no 1099) FTE (consultancies are fine!). Message me here or DM me for professional email address. Note I am still employed and thus can be flexible on start date.
It was quite a lot of #MastoAdmin today with @KayOhtie to figure out that the Vultr node his don't-call-it-a-droplet was provisioned on seems to be failing (probably storage, maybe RAM?). But in the process, it got updated nginx configs, a clean slate for the database (dump and restore), cleaned-out redis, and more. Plus, a fancy #Prometheus + #Grafana stats dashboard (thanks @IPngNetworks!) that I'm currently #selfhosting to keep an eye on perf. The new "droplet" is literally 10x faster in Postgres and Redis ops.
It also got a simple "failover" media proxy:
#Cloudflare to mediacdn.blimps.xyz (Nginx on the droplet) => Cloudflare-fronted B2; if B2 is 404, serve Cloudflare-fronted DO Spaces instead.
Should keep egress costs down from DO and zero from B2 via caching and B2+CF Bandwidth Alliance.
The incredibly boomer-minded Gen Xer who wrote "Generation Me" about millennials (sorry bitch, that's the boomers, look around you) is back with Opinions® about gen Z and how to fix them. Her new book title is:
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood
Okay. So.
"More tolerant" is a problem, huh? I see where you stand, Karen.
"Less happy" - it's almost like multiple "once in a lifetime" --
-- crises, not least of which being the pandemic, massive almost-entirely-margin "inflation", constant school and other mass shootings, the resurgence of the violent right in the US seeking to eradicate queer (especially trans) people, and the increasing effects of climate change that no government is seriously doing anything about will, like, get you down, maaaaan.
"Completely unprepared for adulthood" - I'll give Ms. Boomer In A Gen X Body this one. But, it's not "ermahgerd smertferns" --