Though my Erlang skills have long atrophied, this book was my intro to functional programming and helped me understand recursion. It’s been a while since I’ve read it but I remember it being kind of funny as well as informative.
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I recently took a Waymo back to my hotel in Phoenix after a few drinks and it was a really pleasant experience. It didn’t take the freeways but it navigated the surface streets pretty much perfectly. It helped that it was about 25% the cost of an Uber at that time.
bikingbismuth commented on Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016) simplyfabulicious.wordpre... · Posted by u/herecomethefuzz
Are North and South Korea ethnically distinct?
Probably not in any meaningful way, but I would agree the above comment they are ethically distinct.
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I know this video is humorous, but it’s also kind of touching. After watching, I started taking random measurements in my field notes book and had a really nice time.
I feel as though buying a book like this is admission that you don't have what it takes to do black hat work. Good if it's just out of curiosity though.
I will eventually read through this because I have a reasonably good handle on Python/Go, but don’t have any experience with Rust. This book will help me focus on the parts of Rust that I am most interested in given my current InfoSec work.
bikingbismuth commented on Let's Encrypt was unable to validate domain names letsencrypt.status.io/pag... · Posted by u/veggieWHITES
Before clicking the link or seeing the domain, I was expecting either a rehashed (or if I was optimistic: a novel) argument for why what LE does isn’t actually validating domains. Philosophically or technically. For example: they don’t validate you’re going to the domain you intend on visiting. And 500 words on why that makes them useless. (I don’t agree, but that’s what I was expecting)
I worked for a brand that was heavily impacted by phishing sites that used LE certs. It was annoying, but honestly I wasn’t sure what LE couple do about it. If you deny creating a cert with Gmail in the domain, people will just use something like gmall instead.
bikingbismuth commented on Wazuh – Open-source security platform wazuh.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
Seriously, this is getting out of hand in the cybersecurity space. SAST, DAST, SBOM, WAF, SOAR, TPRM, NGFW, MSSP...
Don’t forget CAASM!
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Would you tell us what is that important difference? Just for those of us who can't read your thoughts yet.
I think the implication is that if a kid buys a toy they will have something tangible that they can play and interact with, but tipping/donating to a streamer doesn't provide that.
bikingbismuth commented on US Gov Removing Four-Year-Degree Requirements for Cyber Jobs securityweek.com/us-gov-r... · Posted by u/alephnerd
I always thought the big elephant in the room for public vs private sector, especially the case for IT sector was the compensation leading to not being able to attract the best talent.
That is - regardless of people who already have 4 year degrees or not, in the private sector both categories of people who are already established and accomplished would have much more earning power.
Has this changed recently? If not I still think most of the best talent would be going to private sector. Sure with the recent amount of layoffs and what I've heard people saying is a general reduction in earnings for software devs and IT positions some people are looking for basically anything. While those are great people, the people doing the most impactful work likely weren't laid off in the first place in the majority of companies.
The skilled people I know who work for the US government usually are very mission driven and/or working towards a pension. For foreign governments, people tell me they like the stability.
bikingbismuth commented on Google's shortened links will stop working next year theverge.com/2024/7/19/24... · Posted by u/uladzislau
It will easily take 1-2 engineers to maintain it in Google.
Why 1-2 engineers? Security patches / Internal service deprecation / Migration / Use of deprecated dependency / etc
The sad truth is that no one is getting a promotion to staff for just maintaining a service.
I wish this wasn’t so. At a previous job I had a VP tell me that my team was like a public utility and I took that as a compliment. Later my boss explained they were saying that they only noticed my team when something was broken. Sort of explained my lack of career progression in retrospect.