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   gadgetoid (gadgetoid@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 00:43:11 JST gadgetoid

   • Matthew Lyon

   @mattly ah the life experience of having been a web developer and being 40-something. I pivoted to embedded electronics before web went to hell, and I don’t regret it 😬

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     draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 01:18:15 JST draNgNon

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly

     > Often this is conflated with the concept of SRE from Google, which I will argue until I die is a giant mistake. SRE is in the same genre but a very different tune, with a much more disciplined and structured approach to this problem.

     having worked at Google lo these many years, I can tell you *Google* never conflated this concept, not even a little bit.

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 01:33:37 JST Jenniferplusplus

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly oh, God. I shudder to think what society looks like in the end if this is only the beginning of reshaping it around computing.

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     blake (blake@akkomane.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 04:10:42 JST blake

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly where do you live that society isn’t centered around cars?! what do you mean we haven’t quite yet felt the consequences?!

     We’re definitely feeling the consequences, and we’re being told it’s just the “price of doing business,” so to speak. A car crash is just Something That Happens, all the time, and nobody thinks that hmm maybe we should not be in a position that that should be able to happen. And then there’s the climate-related problems caused in part by cars – gas-guzzlers and electric alike.

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     Joe 'Oz' Fredette (jfredett@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 05:12:46 JST Joe 'Oz' Fredette

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly I bought this book in the early 00's (I suppose after 2004, but probably not much after that)

     https://www.amazon.com/Malicious-Cryptography-Cryptovirology-Adam-Young/dp/0764549758

     In which the author pretty accurately predicts the "Encrypt your shit and make you pay for it" approach.

     I don't know that I really grokked it all at the time (I was 17), but I suppose at least you could say someone was thinking about ransomware back 20 years ago at least.

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     Peter Krupa (peter@thepit.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 06:41:26 JST Peter Krupa

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly I don’t recall this being a big problem until the attackers could reliably and anonymously collect the ransom, so maybe the real problem is cryptocurrency.

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     Benedict Cohen (benedictc@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 00:56:56 JST Benedict Cohen

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly thanks for writing that and congratulations! I’ve been facing similar struggles as an iOS dev. The industry has shifted focus and roles that take a holistic approach to making things are rare and it makes me feel out of place. Maybe there’s still a space for me in tech if I look further afield.

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     Configures (configures@penguicon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 02:06:16 JST Configures

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly "Before you needed a DBA, a sysadmin, a network engineer and some general Operations folks. Now you needed someone who not only understood databases but understood your specific cloud providers version of that database. ... Networking was still critical but now it all existed at a level outside of your control, meaning weird issues would sometimes have to get explained as "well that sometimes happens". "
     ... Bang on!

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     indrora, hacker at small (indrora@furry.engineer)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 01:36:52 JST indrora, hacker at small

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly I read a short story about a criminal holding a computers files hostage in the 00s… it wasn’t encryption but instead much more… social?

     I remember thinking it was a bit absurd: why not fool the computer into holding itself hostage? I was… 12…13 at the time.

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     Amber (puppygirlhornypost@transfem.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 01:40:32 JST Amber

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly@hachyderm.io Ah, so you're a Jack of all trades, master of none.I fucking hate this expression so god damn much. It refers to a specific type of person that has surface level understanding of a variety of topics. It is stupid to relay that sentiment to people who have multiple disciplines with extended understanding and comprehension. It irks me greatly because I used to be told the same exact fucking thing despite the fact I have deeper understanding of multiple disciplines (namely software engineering & system administration). I know it’s way beyond surface level because when I talk programming to my sysadmin friends they get soooo confused and I have to explain a lot of prerequisite, vice versa for my programming friends.