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@SwiftOnSecurity
Oct 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
When you make a lot of money you quickly learn how easy it is to waste that kind of money and realize these people are just fucking morons
Lifestyle inflation isn't even the only problem it's cumulative "not needing to find out why the water bill is so high every month" except for everything
Now add "I can't make phone calls" anxiety and tada now you're poor and it's not your fault
This reminds me actually I need to go install a kilowatt monitor behind my refrigerator because I'm pretty sure it's running 24/7 and I just haven't had to deal with because I can afford it brb
Don't @ me I have "can't make phone calls" anxiety a lot but that's my fucking problem god sent me here to deal with. I've got a company double-billing me too I need to handle. See? It just eats at you and now you lack the urgency impetus to override your anxiety. Skill issue.
Glad we had this talk-therapy chat. See, I'm saving money on a therapist too.

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Oct 2
Unfortunately the way the average citizen models the government as essentially a dictatorship where a singular figure controls everything. Has some point in executive staffing and judicial, but even then they're blamed for the legislature's dysfunction, state and federal.
It kind of speaks to the difficulty of our Democratic system that people don't actually seem to want it. Hell the Supreme Court has been picking up the pieces of cultural pressure relief for decades now, that's why I understood why conservatives wanted it. They're right about it.
If you want decrees you want dictatorship. Why would the president be able to magically make your debt on something go away. That's all wished into existence, regardless of if it should happen. We all want the result and nobody wants how it gets there.
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Sep 27
I spent a lot of my early years making objective arguments. I argued about AD schema and naming conventions for shared folders and their corresponding access rights. And the most important thing I gained was understanding that assent was the only metric. Adoption. Not technicals.
In my early years in my career, I tried making pronouncements as if law. As if you can speak into the world and make fact. Yes the fact that law is fake, is technically true. But it's the bodies and guns that make that argument irrelevant. All you have in compliance, is assent.
You so badly wish this world was run on your judgment of truth and righteousness. But it's not, even if you're right. Which of course you are – otherwise you wouldn't believe it. That would be sadistic, like a cartoon villain. But villains are not cartoons. They believe it too.
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Aug 15
I was among the first in world to have a laptop/tablet at school, due to an accommodation IEP... and living in Silicon Valley. It was a Toshiba Portege 3500 I got ~2005. I was the literal first wave of the populace to do this. These are my thoughts on its impacts, looking back.🧵

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Giving students electronics is generally not a good idea. It is not a replacement for books. I've looked in despair as this has happened. I loved my machine, it helped. But I had my Windows XP Tablet before schools had WiFi. Before there were online apps. I used OneNote offline.
I also had a Sony Clie ~NX70. Truly one of the most beautiful devices I've ever touched. Magical stuff. It similarly had no WiFi. So every morning I synced ComputerWorld RSS(?) to the device to read when I was bored in math class due to a disruptive student. I still suck at math.

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Aug 13
There is just a level of destiny, of purpose, seemingly not appreciated at-large. The US and its allies built weapons of war for a single purpose. An opponent of doom, under auspices of preventing the greatest calamity in the history of Man.
And now its void-fillers are target.
Generations of technology earnestly endeavored under cause of never succumbing to invasion – and thus preventing it. All that purpose, imbued into stored product. Mislaid but appreciated by soldiers of another worldly action. Now, returned to the chance of original fulfillment.
The today rulers of Russia – inheritors of an arsenal they insist still potent – are not in any way a lineage of it. They do not deserve these things pilloried and assigned in upheaval. They are the stolen dreams of better future funneled to graft. We needn't pretend legitimacy.
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Aug 12
I imagine it can be hard to start with nothing to do, but learning to endlessly optimize and improve in small ways showed me how much time I could free up. Went from 14 Helpdesk ppl 10 years later to ~5. And so I had free time to run this account too. That work made me who I am.
Note the downsizings were not my idea and would have mostly happened regardless, the point is I increased free time as resources shrank. That's the dumb business assumption of how it's supposed to work but rarely actually does. But you can do it for yourself. For your career.
It really crushes me to see junior employees without drive intrinsic or inspired. I don't blame them I'm not living their lives and incentives and calcified structures. But the resignation to this state is always disappointing, even if doing more won't pay off literally today.
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Jul 30
Free advice, worth what you paid, for reasons I won't convey: Confident incorrectness is very dangerous in high-level work. It's been made clear to me if I don't know something for a fact as of today and the CISO asks, you go check first. You are not here to bullshit visibility.
Something time in IT and Cyber teaches you is the sheer monumental weight that "incorrect assumptions" and "configuration drift" cause. It's basically everything. You're getting paid to find out how your system is configured RIGHT NOW, not HOW YOU CONFIGURED IT YESTERDAY.
The model of how your IT systems work is different between operations staff, engineering staff, management, senior management, and the computers' actually loaded configuration in memory. This is a massive forever-task to congeal. This is where gaps become chasms.
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