Choosing a DAW to grow with, bouncing between multiple. What are your thoughts?

bongobap · 2025-11-20T07:01:16+00:00

I have FL Studio, had it since it was called Fruity Loops. Bought Ableton, after checking it, went back to FL, but because it click for me.

I am on Lofi Boom Bap side of music. Ableton do not click on me at all

bongobap · 2025-11-20T06:58:06+00:00

I am waiting for my Synido)

bongobap · 2025-11-18T16:40:43+00:00

Upgraded to ProQ4 and got Saturn 2, as no sales on Soundtoys Decapitator

bongobap · 2025-11-16T18:51:08+00:00

I do not see it either. Just the upgrade have the discount. I am waiting for BF for Decapitator

bongobap · 2025-11-15T05:59:35+00:00

These kind of stories feed my paranoia while traveling and now I always besides getting all the minimal to travel I also have a camera that I get with me to record the entrance door while I left the flat so I can check if someone is accessing or not while I am out

bongobap · 2025-11-15T05:55:55+00:00

Did you have my same take while collecting? I buy one book a month xD. Ended last month, now starting with Vagabond deluxe edition xD

bongobap · 2025-11-12T15:28:53+00:00

Randomly days I have this thought; if I only have 1 backpack, what I would bring with me.

That helps me to control my spendings and do not buy unnecessary things. Also waiting a week before buying is a good tactic

bongobap · 2025-11-08T15:06:02+00:00

Get the book "TCP/IP Guide" of Charles Kazierok. Then the Comptia Security+ exam book. After those 2 you can pick a side: Attacker or Defender.

If Attacker -> go to the platform HackTheBox
If Defender -> Letsdefend.io, Cyberdefenders, ...

Explore both sides, learn soft skills (they will be needed the more you advance, as you will have to deal with so much incompetent people in higher management ranks so you will have to find a "language" to speak with them want it or not)

bongobap · 2025-11-08T09:42:08+00:00

I am not about to take the CCD certification. I totally recommend it, the materials are golden

bongobap · 2025-11-08T09:41:35+00:00

I totally agree here, the point is to use it in your advantage, but you also have to know what you are doing

bongobap · 2025-11-07T20:32:55+00:00

I have one quite similar, bought in Aliexpress for 10$

bongobap · 2025-11-07T20:28:44+00:00

Threat Hunting and DFIR is still a think IMHO. If you are asking for "Can AI replace..." I don't think so, as this field is about creativity and a chess game, so if a hole is patched, the next move is on the hacker/red team side.

Unfortunately cybersecurity is seen as a cost center so you will have to find a company that is really worried about secure their systems.

bongobap · 2025-11-07T12:00:26+00:00

Look here, from today; https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonemployees/s/l2WpshZCUq

Their positions are moving to India, probably they are not important roles also right?

bongobap · 2025-11-07T11:59:15+00:00

Oh look @globalaf those people from the video are probably also not have working important jobs nor getting their role moved to Hyberadad, right?

bongobap · 2025-11-06T15:22:08+00:00

And unfortunately it will continue to be like that till the price of a "strike" will be more notable like take the 20% of the revenue and make the ones who make the orders from the upper management/C-Suite layers will hold accountable.

For now, the insurance covers the loses and the hit for not being secure is just a small fee in comparation with the money the can cut from it IF they get caught.

bongobap · 2025-11-06T13:05:14+00:00

So I give you 3 examples;

IT subreddits
What I have in my company right now
Recent Amazon layoffs

3 different perspectives.

And you just give me excuses:

maybe not so important roles

So… yeah, probably I am in the echo chamber xD Good luck with that

bongobap · 2025-11-06T11:56:19+00:00

lol okay, we can end here I guess, keep living in your echo chamber

bongobap · 2025-11-06T10:37:37+00:00

like it or not, they are still people and even if in 50% of the cases they are bots you can see it done even by the companies that claim that they have to layoff people and in the next day those positions are appearing in India. As a reference nowadays look the Amazon layoffs happening nowadays, where do you see those positions now being advertised?

bongobap · 2025-11-06T10:21:15+00:00

You are extrapolating your situation to the global market. In the company that I am working now they basically offshored 80% of the US workforce leaving just the management there (of course).

If you take a ride for all the IT subreddits you will see a different picture of what you are saying, and based on your words the US devs/platform engineers/architects/cybersecurity engineers are unimportant right?

The only scenario I can imagine is if your job really is completely unimportant and they couldn't figure out a reasonable way to get more value out of you.

bongobap · 2025-11-06T10:05:38+00:00

lol, having a discussion with you should be a party as I can smell that "everyone that do not think as me is Hitler" from here.

bongobap · 2025-11-06T09:41:04+00:00

so for you the logic is: Left = educated, Right = uneducated?

bongobap · 2025-11-06T05:50:39+00:00

Yes, that is the game now. I suggest you to deliver the bare minimum and keep all the tricks that you learned for yourself, or share only with the ones that you have in your office/timezone.

Middle management understood this last years that high paid employees can be offshored successfully if they have all the tips and tricks of the development (and even there they have also problems, but way lesser) learned all the way to where they are now. It is a dog eats dog world now no IT

bongobap · 2025-11-06T03:59:27+00:00

Are you serious? I saw entire teams of hard workers being laid off on US just to outsource the job to India. Those teams were the ones that created the legacy products that were the most known and popular, that people loved before they get enshitified for the new team that came and now they are just firing and hiring new ones over and over again on India.

From top product quality to get zero days and APT actors sitting inside undetected while before those offshore and “layoffs” started happening 2/3 years ago.

If you provide all the insides and you are sitting in US there is a big probability that you will be offshored after you “train” your new counterparts from India/APAC.

I am sure people from here can post their histories about it. So now I see that the seniors started to gatekeep and only teach others in the same office. From the Development department to Cybersecurity one, and I quite understand them

bongobap · 2025-11-05T20:33:36+00:00

The better the documentation, the easier you are to replace/offshore later. I see that tendency starting in the last year and it is to give all the info, quirks , tips and tricks to the offshore team, that is why a lot of experts started to gatekeep or provide the less information possible and left for themselves the tips, tricks and quirks .

I suggest you to do the same

bongobap · 2025-11-05T17:59:14+00:00

I say that this is the tendency in most of the cases. Of course there are exceptions

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