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You did not say where your bachelors is from. There is a lot of gatekeeping around degrees -- having Cambridge on your CV will open doors you didn't even know existed.

Also, how much is the degree, and how are you financially? I would not advise going into debt for a MS.

Someone should establish the Interplanetary Sun Orbiting Service.

I hope they have one of those logos with a bunch of weird freemason symbols that freak people out.

Cool, for these things it's better to not have the only option be a PR. Good luck with your project!

Verify you have a well established way to contact you about security vulnerabilities. (There will be vulnerabilities. Things like "anonymous mode" are harder than you'd think to make... trust me.)

old reddit is useful for osint :-(

(tor friendly)

Ok, I don't know their emotional state. Fair point.

Maybe I'm projecting my own biases ;-)

The bigger takeaway is someone that smart is pissed off and dropping their shit with zero warning... but hey, that's just like, my opinion man.

never thought being a script kiddie would make me smart, but here we are in 2026.

i had one place, they were using all these shady pay with a credit card for "points" to do these web gui things that were... basically nmap, dig, etc?

so i wrote up a small shell script that took in the servers our (often nonprofit) clients wanted scanned...

and so we could lower our costs and free up analyst time -- but sadly they often found out they had out of date windows boxen they couldn't afford to fix, and we'd have to settle for getting them onto MFA, using password managers and basics like that.

people overvalue AI imho. people are getting weak, they don't teach themselves the concepts that would allow them to make best use of AI.

anyways, i think the type of person freaking out is the same who's been cutting and pasting from stack overflow rather than learning enough to grab a book or read up on a library to get the needful done.

but hey, what do i know? i'm just some freak on hacker news

(proudly writing w/o AI :-))

I see a lot of essays on noncommercial self hosted blogs on HN.

Meant to title it "99 Problems...". Apologies for the error!

schadenfreude

They recently raised the enlistment age, so there's always the comedy option I could be the oldest man in officer's boot apparently.

But to be coerced into servitude after "doing things right" sits unwell with me.

I was more lamenting that I thought I was trading my time for income, and ended up with neither income nor free time.

I'm involuntarily destitute, not involuntarily celibate :-)

Vienna waits for you

I've been there before, but its my understanding I'd have visa issues doing anything beyond tourism.

Stop living for your idea of others and start living for yourself.

Unfortunately, I exhausted my emergency fund trying for certs and attempting to escape a domestic violence situation, so I do not have that option. I'm trapped.

He got all of the "Free Kevin" attention because of how long he was left in jail before trial and then being stuck in solitary confinement after sentencing for months.

That was uncalled for on the part of DOJ.

He was also autistic, a lot of the behavior can be explained through that lens.

I'm autistic. Maybe I should go commit a bunch of felonies to increase my chances of a good job and stature in the hacker community, since things like publishing code, publishing peer reviewed papers, and mentoring newbies have not been productive ways of finding gainful employment nor respect of my peers.

I have friends who did things like take a gap year to travel the world or met their spouses on nights I stayed in to study, and some evenings when browsing HN I feel very sad that I wasted my 20s on a society that does not care about me.

Anyways, sorry to wall of text, but what you said really struck a nerve with me -- there are hierarchies in any community, and one thing I've noticed with the hacker scene is one group of people can mess up over and over using the same sets of facts or diagnoses, but others can expect to have worse outcomes with better behavior for reasons that elude me to this day.

grep

I'm old enough to remember all the "Free Kevin" gifs scattered around the internet.

A generation of hackers (specifically, the vBulletin generation) stayed as far away from the CFAA as possible after that fiasco, which I suspect is exactly the chilling effect that the DOJ intended.

I have so many stories about his absolutely terrible behavior at conferences. He once refused to pay the entry fee to a charity event and had to be physically ejectedy.

Absolutely better at PR than any actual work, pay careful attention and none of his early stuff was particularly novel, from a technical perspective.

But for whatever reason, we venerate him just because he was victimized by the state. The world is not a dichotomy -- sometimes bad things happen to bad people.

Sadly the ones conservative on AI tend to also be conservative on things like WFH or honoring the hacker manifesto. (Judging based on religion, national origin etc)

And where do we go from here? Law? Medicine? The trades?! Every path seems longer and/or more precarious, but I feel like I've had the same uncertainty as my friends who were writers and artists despite losing many a night (and many a partner) because I worked longer hours but ended up in the same precarious place as my peers.

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I haven't been this confused by a headline since Keir Starmer declared himself a "gooner".

I think a big issue with a lot of AI enabled coding is that tokens are currently heavily subsidized, and that refusing to learn how to write psudocode and pound out bugs in shell scripts is a fundamental step a lot of programmers are skipping... a stance that I find ironic considering that when I was being told as a preteen to "read the fucking manual" by the 90s internet, I was led to believe if I'm not churning out zero days in C by senior year of high school I might as well abandon all hope of ever understanding anything about computers.

(Flash forward, and the immortal words of the rapper Jay-Z: "I ain't passed the bar, but know a little bit... enough you won't be illegally searching my shit.")

So... they fired him for doing a 20% time project? I'm glad I don't have any of their stock to sell, what terrible management.

Both, for different reasons.

I don't have a source yet for the second, but fingerprinting is powerful, and if you look like a cop criminals do all sorts of things...

What is your threat model exactly? The sites that will serve you up exotic malware are usually CSAM sites overtaken by feds.

You can browse without imagages, and no one has ever, once, in the history of the United States been prosecuted merely for an image in their cache, and there's plenty of sites that don't have that material to begin with.

Stop asking for permission, and challenge them to come find you if they have a problem.

(That's the problem they won't admit though: they can't.)

Non paywalled obituary: https://apnews.com/article/greenspan-federal-reserve-death-2...

japan actually seems averse to any kind of change in a way they aren't. do swiss atms close at a certain time of day? do many takeout places want you to fax orders? there's a lot of things that go beyond "conservative" in japan in the risk averse sense into just being stuck in the 80s.

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If you're in a flow state, why not just... write the code?

You keep using this word... I do not think it means what you think it means.

One of the little gems the Russians pulled off in the twenty aughts when they were flooding nonprofits in the USA with dirty money was hijacking the green movement to promote fracking. (Because surely ANYTHING is better than those dastardly electrons or whatever the fuck radiation is made of)

Switzerland, unlike the USA, seems capable of safely operating these plants, and with advances in breeder technology new plants doesn't nessecarily mean new mining operations, which often are quite harsh on the surrounding area.