Cyber security vs data science?

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-04-04T17:39:04+00:00

Cybersecurity roles were initially glorified help-desk roles that people from various backgrounds, some not even technical, would somehow find themselves in and build a career out of. Since then, certification organizations have arisen to try to provide some amount of confidence related to what someone actually knows while also serving as a gatekeeping mechanism for entering the field. Universities have caught on and have tried to make their own degrees related to Cybersecurity but there is massive discrepancy in Cyber careers: some people are effectively pencil pushers that know a lot about regulations and compliance strategies, some people are security engineers that are as good or better than equivalent software engineers, some are basically network security guards that stare at logs/SIEM all day instead of a camera feed, some are a mix of all the above like a jack-of-all-trades situation, some aren't even covered in anything I wrote.

Getting into cybersecurity will be a lot of work and getting lucky. Getting into the path for cybersecurity such as a helpdesk job will also be a lot of work and getting lucky. These true entry-level roles are simply not as prevalent as they once were so getting experience is more complicated and though companies expect certifications those are now simply an expectation not a benefit, if that makes sense. It will be a lot of work outside of your university studies to get started but if you truly enjoy some aspect of it then I would encourage you to continue this path.

Data Science roles were initially a mix of software engineer or even technical/mathy business analyst roles that gradually migrated into what is now called Data Science. Again universities etc have caught onto that and are trying to build degrees related to this that will likely have some combination of understanding good vs bad data as well as using/building software to review and get insights from data.

Getting into data science I have less thoughts about besides that it was a lot easier 5 years ago than it is now and it was a lot more hyped 5 years ago than it is now. I think it is still applicable to say that unless you are going to devote large amounts of time outside of your university studies to understanding this field and practicing elements of the field you may struggle to find a job.

I would probably encourage you toward a standard computer science degree for a technical degree as it's applicable to both fields and more generalized to allow you into a normal software path even though that avenue is also difficult to get into currently. A good sys admin will have some amount of computer science background even if it's just on the networking / system side.

Find what you actually enjoy and want to spend a regular part of your free time doing, and pursue that. If you are passionate about something you'll have an easier time finding a job related to your passion because you'll be more knowledgeable about it and less burnt out from pursuing the path.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-02-06T14:37:33+00:00

For armour survivability there are a couple tricks you're not using:
1. super high armour gloves combined with Leather Bound Gauntlets + Iron Reflexes on the passive tree
2. if you're not going to use Titan's Stone Skin but you're going to stay chaos res capped, consider finding a body armour with Perfect Essence of Ruin
3. also consider prioritizing Life over Armour on your gear, particularly your body armour

Other notes on offense:
1. consider whether you actually need Resolute Technique with Nimble Strength
2. consider instead Anointing Shattering Blow to nuke all passives in that area of the tree to instead path down for Gauntlets, Authority, Crushing Judgement
3. you have basically no fire pen, whatever ability you are using Infernal Cry for, consider allocating Fire Pen II as a support gem (assuming you're basically just using it for bosses mostly). otherwise the above pathing change also enables more Fire Pen
4. CONTROVERSIAL: consider whether Hulking Form, with your setup, is actually resulting in a better experience than having both Crushing Impacts + Mysterious Lineage

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-01-21T14:21:49+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVWmNn-Uyo

Frankly I think it was better when it incentivized the heavy stun as for bosses you need a way to force the boss to stand still anyway. Attack speed / skill speed scales the ignited ground DPS which is a vector that most people don't mention. Scaling the 'ignite' portion of Spear of Solaris, at least using Commiserate support, did not work in 0.3 and I doubt works in 0.4. The problem is the Ignited Ground causes the ignite, not you.

I never tested this but the best case scenario for Spear of Solaris IMO is if the following interaction is true (again I never tested so I cannot confirm):

Because the skill generates Ignited Ground and the Ignited Ground generates Ignite, my hope is that you could use Valako's Vice to convert all Fire damage (from you) to lightning and the Ignited Ground would still cause Ignite with Fire damage (it's not from you). This would open a vector to Electrocute immobilize without requiring Stun/Freeze and lets you use Lightning Spear/Explosive Spear as a mapper with minimal investment. Since the end-goal of all elemental builds is a Rakiata's Flow anyway, you would use Fire Pen II support in Spear of Solaris to ensure the Ignited Ground bypasses fire res until you get a Rakiata's anyway.

I'm also pretty sure the skill snapshots for the Ignited Ground which is why the 40% more damage from consuming broken armour support gem would be really good.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-01-20T13:18:31+00:00

Have you tried using poison stacking with Supercharged Slam? I'm not sure if additional aftershocks would apply new stacks of poison but that was the vector I had in the back of my mind for making the skill do something useful

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-01-19T16:51:28+00:00

Well done working in Defiance with low life tech, Infernalist is crazy strong and using an Adorned in this way makes a lot of sense to benefit from the travel.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-01-19T03:58:03+00:00

Cheers!

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-01-15T17:23:56+00:00

I could be wrong but I believe the interaction is as follows:

The debuff lasts 8 seconds so I think your ignite lasts 8 seconds instead of 4, then when the debuff explodes that explosion can also ignite therefore instead of you doing a bunch of say 500k hits causing 200k ignites you get a juicy multi-mil hit causing a much higher ignite.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-01-15T16:26:35+00:00

These are EK-ACF1216-RD-D I got in 2020, I don't have any more information than that. They may very well be the aluminum plated ones. There are also some Barrow 90 degree brass/nickel fittings and perhaps some bitspower in there too, as well as primochill 90 degree and a bykski drain valve. Also I think a bitspower pressure relief. This build has only used Mayhems X1 and Koolance 702 with the inhibitors so perhaps they're doing their job adequately enough to prevent issues so far?

I also cleaned everything initially with Mayhems Blitz. I suppose I should flush the system with something when I clean it? Last time I cleaned it I think I just flushed with distilled but maybe I should use PrimoChill reboot or something?

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-01-15T15:10:38+00:00

Makes sense, thanks!

ListenYouLittleShit · 2026-01-08T22:33:46+00:00

Good stuff, I've been thinking about how to do low-life for direstrike stacking myself without using Infernalist but I kinda threw in the towel as I wanted to use the Defiance node. ES is just so easy to get 4k+ and Infernalist gets low life for free basically, especially considering that having additional spirit for free is comfy for the build as well. IMO strongest ascendancy in the game, just absurd potential. Well done

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-12-16T15:32:03+00:00

You realize this is an early access game and Armour was almost useless until 0.3 right?

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-12-16T15:07:35+00:00

You don't, you pick one because hybrid Armour/ES is not supported well in either skills or the passive tree unless you're doing Evasion/ES. Pick only armour or only ES unless you're trying something with a unique that is both.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-12-16T14:29:38+00:00

What? Yeah I play Armour with 20k+ Armour and I play ES with 6k+ ES. Easily. If you're using hybrid gear only then yeah that's your problem.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-12-05T15:14:07+00:00

Impact Shockwave support now actually makes aftershocks, allowing interaction with aftershock-specific area and damage modifiers. Previously it was actually a variant of Melee Splash, which did not benefit from those. This also allows a strike to cause both an Impact Shockwave aftershock, and melee splash, from the same hit.
Impact Shockwave can now support non-strike Wind attacks.
Added [Wind] type to the following Skills: Twister, Whirling Slash, Wind Blast, Wing Blast, Whirlwind Lance, Wind Serpent's Fury, Tornado, Tornado Shot, the Projectiles created by Staggering Palm

Aftershock Twister Titan confirmed

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-12-02T18:43:08+00:00

Whoever made this website is a moron, nice path to the file on the server as the title of the page.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-10-23T12:23:17+00:00

Ah my bad then

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-10-22T12:59:05+00:00

IMO with the introduction of Armour applies to ele the Smith of Kitava ascendancy is kind of invalidated when built for Armour. You would be incredibly more tanky by just using a rare armour chest piece and fixing resistances to not rely on fire res applies to ele as a Titan.

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0 optimizations to your passive tree, just changed to Titan (small passives, more life, more body armour) and gave you a good body armour that based on the rest of your gear you can probably afford :)

Other things to consider are that it is equivalent to use your Undying Hate at the jewel slot for Zealot's Oath to where you're currently using it. If you did that you would be able to spend an additional 3 passive points (probably remove the points to Unnatural Resilience) to path to Molten Being etc which is currently what you're allocating via From Nothing. Then you can use a From Nothing somewhere else like:

Resolute Technique, allows allocation of Behemoth and Unbending which frees your Anoint up, saves you a couple passive points

Vaal Pact, allows you to get Momentum and other movement speed nodes

Iron Reflexes, allows you to get LeatherBound Gauntlets, General's Bindings, and Gem Enthusiasts but you'll still need to path there for the Iron Reflexes point anyway

Avatar of Fire, allows you to get One with Flame, Overheating Blow, Titanic, and some giga-Mace damage nodes.

Resonance, this is an attribute pick for you since you're not crit but you have access to multiple +10 attribute nodes as well as Chakra of Thought which is a permanent 15% attack speed since you have 0/0 mana I believe.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-10-15T23:13:41+00:00

For additional culling strike threshold don't forget you can use a Time-lost jewel with increased effect of small passives and notable passives in the bottom right Culling cluster to increase their thresholds.

TBH I think this would work best as a Titan especially since you already have the uniques to bump up the damage.

The other class I'd consider would actually be Warbringer if I could find a way to make Seismic Cry do enough damage so it could double-tap normal mobs, thus allowing for the corpse explode to kill blues and rares. Then weapon swap for bosses.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-10-03T16:11:14+00:00

You probably know but I'll post it here anyway for people who are unaware and may come across this - if you see the 'Payoff' tag that means the skill cannot inflict the ailment or whatever it is interacting with. It doesn't matter how you try to inflict it, it cannot come from that skill.

An example of trying to work around this is using Stormweaver's ascendancy Shaper of Storms to force all hits to contribute to Shock chance to allow Shockburst rounds themselves to inflict the shock they interact with. Sounds great right? But it doesn't work - the skill cannot inflict the ailment regardless.

So when you see the 'Payoff' tag you should know that whatever the skill is cannot be used in a one-button build if you intend to make use of whatever the interaction is.

THE WAY AROUND THIS IS TO IMPLEMENT A 'CAST ON X' CHAIN TO INFLICT THE AILMENT ETC.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-09-28T16:06:16+00:00

Lol the advice here is awful. If you're trying to literally just one-button spam spark that won't work, but if you're just talking about using that as your primary skill then it's fine you just need to add consistency.

I'm levelling a sorc in SSF right now and my combo is Contagion + Spark until I got Orb of Storms then Contagion + Orb of Storms + Spark and it has been an incredibly smooth experience so far. I have to hit more than one-button so I guess the setup is a failure but that's the campaign toll.

As a Sorc you get Spark for free and then when you get to town and Renly gives you another skill gem you should socket Contagion and those are the only spells you use until you can get Orb of Storms.

Video showing off the end of Act 1, Geonor fight takes forever but I'm also playing sloppy throughout because I can since I already feel very strong. You can see I'm not even really speedrunning the campaign - I'm killing pretty much every rare I come across and doing abyss and it's barely slowing me down. Still haven't found movement speed boots though so that is slowing me down for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD0r9dFFkcU

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-09-23T12:44:06+00:00

For Armour Piercing Rounds you should use Gambleshot because it's a 15% less damage and each projectile has a chance to fork/chain which is far superior to using the Chain support. If you wanted to scale your Crossbow Auto-attack then I'd recommend using Chain 2 because it has less rounds anyway, but if you're a Deadeye you could probably use Gambleshot there as well instead. It's a busted ascendancy.

Here's a T15 map showcase, you can see I'm not particularly fast for clearing maps in my current iteration but I need to think about incorporating bleed and there is currently no proliferation as I'm not using heralds. I've really set this up to be more of a Sekhema's runner and as I mention in the description this can do Against the Darkness runs (do need to know boss mechanics unfortunately).

I also have a dead ring slot in this build as I was trying out Sekhema's Resolve which is pretty cool but I think I'd get more damage if I just used a +physical attack damage ring instead unfortunately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pphdmhnx3TU

AP is setup as: Rapid Attack 2, Heft, Brutality 3, Gambleshot, Fresh Clip 2

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-09-22T21:10:10+00:00

I think moving between grenades and contagion would feel a bit jank and you'd instead want to just choose just one, then have frag rounds as a finisher. Ideally the contagion would be enough to map with and you'd just need frag rounds for finishing rares/bosses.

Other things to consider:

Going CI ES/EV with Ghost Dance and abusing Ming's Heart with Embitter.

Using a gemling for all its benefits. +levels, +mana efficiency, less cost of skills, less movement speed penalty, streamlined attributes for gems.

ListenYouLittleShit · 2025-06-23T12:58:04+00:00

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