qxp @chican3ry@social.coop

Maybe jet lag catching up or something but I'm feeling super emo and listening to sad indie boy bullshit.

Send halp.

https://social.coop/media/UhiTEMUeiUonojmLqHs

So that was a pretty wild weekend

Feeling really pleased with the rate my current job involves a cycle of:
1) I go learn a thing off coursera (or whatever)
2) Some related thing comes up
3) I'm doing the thing.

Amount of diversity of work available in information security is pretty amazing.

#IllHackAnythingthatMoves.

(other obvious thing that shouldn't have to be said but does is being cognisant of shortcomings of knowing a little about a lot of different things and being realistic about how fast that can be stretched into real solutions, but you pick that up pretty quickly tbh)

Pretty much the coolest part of this job is opportunities to learn new skills pretty much every day.

Side effect is the importance of encouraging others they also know shit and don't need to imposter syndrome out of stuff. Being confident a problem is soluble isn't knowing the answer, the interesting bit of work is getting there.

I think it's particularly like this because my skills are super broad (from experience as a front end web dev through conventional pen testing, code review, crypto, reverse engineering, exploit development, to radio, hardware/EEng, automotive hacking and rtos Dev). I'm not fully expert (they're each huge fields, it's not possible to cover them all deeply) but have put time into basic competence on them which from a security pov enables sidestepping things a lot going outside dev expectations.

Noticing the more time I spend in Infosec, the more confident I am any technical problem is only a limited amount of effort away from solution (or a clear idea why a solution is unlikely), but at the same time, how this belief seems to translate to looking like I know what I'm doing to other folks perhaps more than is entirely accurate, just having faith that as someone with some engineering skills and a lot of colleagues with profound engineering skills we'll be able to work it out.

He was literally outside a court, claiming to be against child predators, doing something which posed a really good chance for giving any sexual predators who may have been on trial grounds for claiming a mistrial by creating a scene and intimidating environment, and his supporters are up in arms because the left think it's funny he couldn't keep taking the piss any longer.
😂

Tommy Robinson got nicked and sent to prison yesterday and there's a huge amount of whataboutery going on about people celebrating, re carceral politics etc, ignoring that part of what's so funny about it is just that he's (apparently) been convicted on suspended sentence of the same bullshit before, and chose to breach his license conditions right outside a court, and yet his supporters see this as a threat to "journalism".

Interesting thing to note on Mastodon is that for anything other than public/fed timeline toots (i.e. even for public but unlisted toots), hashtags are completely irrelevant.

Northern England is not one of the parts of the world where people do much/any outdoor skating. I'm in one of the UK's major cities and there is not a single shop for adult skaters that I'm aware of here. There is a tiny aggressive skate scene, and the RCRG Derby team.

Not to mention rush hour pedestrians are too busy to notice you and will step in your way happily, and cyclists hate you using the bike lane and generally it's pretty challenging doing The Right Thing and keeping folks happy. It'd be cool to find other skaters to skate with and learn from some time but I feel embarrassed enough of myself having taken it back up again to replace cycling (which I loved but, getting hit by cars finally got to my nerves on the road after 20 years of road #cycling)

This past year I've moved from relearning to commuting to not always needing pads just to get out (which is good because skate pads really reek and sweat up your clothes). Skating to work with a rucksack is also very very different than skating in general, all the practice/calculations about where to throw your body weight are off with an extra 7kg of laptop, change of clothes etc high on your back.

Can't sleep probably because my muscles are humming from having #rollerblade'd a round trip commute to work of 10 miles the second time this week. Feeling really good but also physical buzz of pushing harder is hard to wind down from. Keep getting tempted to get a selfie stick just to record short snippets of skating as I gradually suck less.