The hacker / infosec Mastodon servers have really reached critical mass to contain useful community and information. If you haven't tried it out yet, I really recommend it. There's enough intel and news to be viable at this point.
I’m just the ornery retired military person who swaps stories with you, the military member who is drunk and I have never met, at the bar now. We have a great time.
Temporary friends are cool.
I’m dangerous, because I can talk about anything. Techno. Hunting. Archaeology.
There's these threads from people laid off at Twitter and the *comments*.... trolls think they're witty, but they just look incredibly jealous of people who make good money in tech and are employable. They come off as devoid of tech knowledge and miserable with their lot in life.
Any of these engineers are just going to get immediately rehired for a deep six-figure salary, and the trolls with the incredibad takes about code reviews won't make that money no matter how much they take out their insecurities about their own shortcomings.
And then there's the "well, I'll take their job" clowns, from the people demonstrating hobbyist computer knowledge circa 2006, who have clearly never done a Silicon Valley whiteboard interview.
Yeah, it’s super bad that click-driven social media is a primary source of information and news for large numbers of Americans, but also incredibly depressing it took China being involved in it (naturally) for anyone to care, way too late.
“We can control the relatively unknown monster which driven by ultra wealthy corporations because it’s draped in an American flag” is a weird take.
Of course China would want a piece of that massively lucrative and influential pie. Of course it wouldn’t be American networks at the top of innovation forever. What hubris.
I have always had wild dreams. However, 14-year-old me would be extremely confused at me fighting creeping fascism daily on the computer alongside Godwin, a bunch of annoyed military veterans, Michael Okuda, a few cDc folks, and somehow also George Takei.
“Sometimes you will even talk to these luminaries on the internet. Mostly about nazis, and breakfast foods. That’s what we do on the internet in the future”.
“Also you’ll never actually have a cool hacker handle. You will be forever known as Pancakes”.