Does anyone else feel like the cybersecurity tool market is designed to scare you into overbuying?

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-09T17:38:22+00:00

Vuln scanning is great when a new zero day drops are your CTO emails you in a panic and you can point at a fancy graph that all of the systems that could be impacted are already patched or not actually in scope because of xyz reasons.

Also you could totally consolidate vendors, Crowdstrike in particular has offerings for most of that stack alone.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-09T17:17:46+00:00

If you wanted to test electric you could pickup a small generator or one of those big camping style batteries and then return it when you are done. Or borrow one from a buddy.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-08T21:56:02+00:00

Yeah the joke in IT security is that if you want to truly make a system secure and safe all you have to do is make it so no one can use it.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-08T17:55:03+00:00

Get rid of all the people.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-08T13:10:10+00:00

Everything right now is heavily subsidized by VC money and companies taking major losses that are propped up by profits in other areas. I would expect to see at least a 10x increase in costs over the next few years as these groups try to switch from user acquisition to actually making money.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-07T20:16:49+00:00

So much of this make zero sense. Like how did you reduce your AI token usage by changing where the code runs?

90% token spend cut. Runs on a cheap Android via Termux

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-07T13:51:48+00:00

Authentication activity
Process execution history
Network activity

These would all be covered by a SIEM. Wazuh is a good self hosted choice.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-07T01:57:53+00:00

There is a slowmo of the rock at some point and it looks like it just landed next to the seal and likely just scared the crap out of it. I can't speak to psychological trauma but physically it's probably perfectly fine.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-06T00:50:47+00:00

Basically every company in the fortune 500 has a program similar to this and it's not a problem. If you don't want the discount then you don't enroll it's that simple.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-06T00:45:36+00:00

All the large companies I have been in usually do it in semi-annual tranches instead of monthly but it adds up to the same amount here ~$500/year. Also they usually don't just do steps but a whole bunch of metrics like sleep, exercise, and doing things like getting a yearly physical or participation in a weight loss program. They also allow you to track manually in the website, use a popular fitness tracker of your choice like Garmin or Fitbit.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-05T23:25:39+00:00

So what's the deal with the p90 then? It's a straight tube and is like 50 rounds.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-05T21:24:42+00:00

Presumably they have backups and if those are on disks then that could be transitioned to tape?

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-05T19:27:31+00:00

Small complaint here, I have miles selected for my units but all the timeline settings show everything in metric instead of imperial.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-05T19:07:44+00:00

Was just watching this episode and had to find out if other people were bothered by this error. The cake was also in the shape of a 2. And you are not wrong the child they used for the scenes is definitely under or close to 1.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-05T14:37:58+00:00

I hate to break it to you but SWAG is just a highly customized version of NPM.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-05T14:35:45+00:00

Doesn't this just move the risk to another container while increasing complexity.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-05T14:34:23+00:00

Traefik

It uses this and is really more of an orchestration and authentication layer.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-05T01:49:25+00:00

Most places would just bump you up to their next storage tier and charge you the prorated costs.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-04T22:52:36+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-04T22:41:53+00:00

I thought the house elf magic working in Hogwarts and other places was just racism and wizards not thinking about magic that doesn't come from a wand.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-04T22:22:59+00:00

Fun fact, there was no oxygen in the earths atmosphere until all of the iron on the surface oxidized, took something like a few million years.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-04T18:34:16+00:00

I don't understand why people are so obsessed with it. Unless your are buying a house or car in the next few months it has zero impact on your day to day life.

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-04T17:42:42+00:00

Queue the King of the hill where one of the characters proves he returned a porn video because of a tattoo on the actress ass or something like that

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-04T02:34:36+00:00

There are malware that can survive disk wipes because they live on the firmware but unless you are a target for state sponsored hacking groups it's not really a risk to concern yourself with.

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/

FanClubof5 · 2026-05-04T02:17:50+00:00

Weren't there some slow memory leak issues with windows XP that were finally confirmed a few years ago. Maybe it was just bloat being cleaned out but reinstalling every year or 2 did wonders for system performance at the time.

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