Sounds like a great opportunity to promote the Linux community and let the different OS shine.

I don’t use any meta software and I haven’t heard anything about this. So clearly something is working. I will read this. Thanks for sharing!

Totally agree with wanting more beauty spaces.

My nails are taking a break from polish 🫣, so nothing worth showing for now.

I’ve been sick since mid January. I really, really miss the gym. Lifting heavy shit or going for a run is so important for my mental health. And without it, I feel like I’m losing my grip on reality.

I went to school with many SFS students. While the people I know are no longer probationary, any new SFS hires are. These people are some of the brightest people I’ve met. And including other new hires, yes this is devastating.

You could get the malware vaccine. Just make sure to ask your doctor if it’s right for you.

Beautiful photography!!

How do you like PixelFed?

I’m in the process of establishing a nonprofit. I know I’ll have to manage the usual social media sites, but I’m looking at starting accounts on alternatives too.

Have you had success with other certs in the past?

I know some people have poor test taking skills, which can make these tests harder. A old friend of mine took 3 tries to get CISSP.

If you’ve had success in the past, then maybe these exams are just giving you issues. But you mentioned attention/focus issues.

If your ADHD isn’t treated, first step is to go see a dr. Then you should be able to attend all the classes without skipping.

You could just not be a great test taker because of . Getting your mental health treated and being stable will help you with keeping focus during the test too.

You also need to understand that many of these cert exams ask questions and expect specific answers solely based on the materials taught. This means you must forget any of your other experiences and knowledge when takes these tests.

Certifications are like gate keeping. Some are more difficult so they keep “prestige” because the less people that can earn it means it carries more weight. Usually the marketing is something like “get this cert so you can prove x amount of knowledge”. And that’s not really the mindset you need going into the test - that’s just marketing.

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It is very difficult to motivate people to move to a different platform.

Meta continues to do shitty things. I deleted all my accounts 10 years ago because of said shitty things. The list of shitty things keeps growing.

I can try to be optimistic about the Streisand effect. But it would have to be towards positive experience with pixelfed. Enough people would need to move for it to not feel empty. Sort of like BlueSky during the election. Enough people frustrated with twitter, and (most importantly) see enough people, including celebrities, politicians and other influencers migrate to make it worth checking out.

Edit to add: I very much would love to witness the downfall of meta and twitter. We need these alternatives. And as much as people hate commercialization, all of these alternative spaces need some marketing to make them viable.

I’d really like if this line of work wasn’t completely doom and gloom all the time. I’m burnt out of telling people what seems like extremely dramatic, doomed scenarios of the “state of security” all the time. I feel like I’m always the asshole in the room all the time.

I’m assuming any risk management or actuary job is similar. It can be soul crushing sometimes.

Some of that, yes. I work for a university that’s government adjacent, so we have to get audited pretty often. Part of that is proving that we STIG and conform to other frameworks. But within certain labs, access is remote only, so I’m not sure how they would handle having a PAW, when there’s probably just a few admin accounts that have strict rules and limits applied.

That’s neat. I’m curious about this now. With “normal” search engines that have generally gone to shit, AI chat bots are on trend to give better results. If the robots.txt file is blocked from OpenAI, can I assume it hits other chatbots? And would that extend to Google/bing?

That’s a neat project. Are you looking for trends, or something specific?

Project Management crap. It’s the money season in the government, so I get to ask for lots of money to try to do cool things.

Sounds like a fun assignment! Glad you got some interesting results!

Sounds thrilling!!

I’ll be on vacation for our audit next week. I’m thrilled to miss it.

I work at a place that brags on %30 of applicants are hired, and it’s associated with a higher education system whose ego is larger than it should be for a non-ivy. And of course this trickles down to the people who work there. Lucky for me, non of my coworkers or bosses are like this.

Whoever fucked up, must have really fallen hard. The managers made a spreadsheet to track these items now. We are generally give copious amounts of leeway. Seniors on the team are expected to be thought leaders who work autonomously from leadership.

I will continue to maliciously comply. And track every piece of email on this excel spreadsheet, even if it’s a “understood” or “have a great weekend”.

I laughed when my coworker said it’s demotivating. I said wow, if anything, this will motivate me to produce worthless information to break the system. I get paid regardless of my actual productivity.

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Preparing for multiple mid year reviews to justify my existence on research projects. Academia is pretty exhausting.

I don’t even have meaningful results yet because I’m so busy giving PowerPoint’s to people explaining my research.

Here’s to hoping they like me enough to give me more money next year.