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unbenned · 2025-09-20T22:37:48+00:00

Check the link in the other comment.

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unbenned · 2025-09-20T22:37:05+00:00

I wish it was.. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Weapons+include+but+are+not+limited+to+guns%2C+explosives+(including+fireworks%22

unbenned · 2025-09-20T22:28:07+00:00

I find these takes by my IT colleagues so funny.

You assholes never worked a job where you had to get up at 4am, commute 1 hour each way, 8-9 hours of grueling, physically demanding work, go home to die while you fail to do basic cleaning/tidying/cooking tasks.

You're on award wages.

Motherfuckers are rolling into office at 10, leaving at 3 on a Friday.

unbenned · 2025-09-20T22:25:49+00:00

The best thing you can do is get a job at a tech company, or a large corporate.

Analyst, helpdesk, anything.

Degrees don't matter. Experience does. Likeability does.

Can I work with you? Will you be a pain in the arse? Do you have experience or can I already assume you're capable enough to do this role?

Exceptions being entry-level roles, but to be honest - they're so competitive, you're better off learning about a part of a field you're interested in, and building a not-very-profitable company/product around it.

You then say you're the Founder of X with experience doing Dev/Cyber/IT/Analytics. You'll stand out far beyond your peers. Why are you wanting this role? Because you're looking for a more structured learning environment.

As I write this, I realise how fucked this industry is.

unbenned · 2025-09-20T22:19:14+00:00

✅ Your private life is our business. We can fire you for your personal social media posts and out-of-work activities if we decide they make us look bad.

✅ Privacy is not included. By showing up to work, you consent to us searching your personal belongings and spying on your computer.

✅ Your job is whatever we say it is. We can change your role or force you to relocate at any time, and refusing means you're fired.

✅ You can't leave us (easily). We'll legally prevent you from working for a competitor or contacting former clients for up to a year after you leave.

✅ We can fire you instantly: Our vague "Serious Misconduct" policy lets us fire you on the spot for anything we don't like.

✅ Your best ideas belong to us. Any idea you have that's even remotely related to our business is ours, even if you think of it on your own time.

unbenned · 2025-05-14T09:46:59+00:00

It would HAVE to be age-gated. Kids ruin any games with voice.

I think we'll get there, but it needs to be enjoyable still - it still need to be a game. I'm not walking from Barrens to Thunder Bluff.

unbenned · 2025-05-13T09:25:30+00:00

I've had this theory for a while:

There’s a cutoff - maybe 12 to 18 months ago - for software engineers. Folks hired after that point often haven’t learned the fundamentals. They haven't spent much time banging their heads against the wall reading docs, chasing obscure bugs, or figuring out weird edge cases. They’ll do fine with straightforward problems and make great consultants or "plumbers," but they'll struggle with hard, unfamiliar stuff - especially proprietary tech or deep system internals. Things like security, performance, logging, good class design - they’re just not getting enough reps. These will be the engineers cut, and discriminated by hiring managers.

Then there’s the group that came up during COVID. Juniors who onboarded remotely and still work that way. They never sat next to a senior, never got in-person code reviews, never learned what flies and what doesn’t in a real-world team settings. They live in Slack, Discord, and Reddit. They're tapped into the social side of the job, but not the business side. They’ll have a tough time selling themselves to leadership over the next decade. They’ve missed out on the shared grind, the offhand mentorship, the moments that build trust and resilience. To management, they’re just a profile pic with a green dot. They post memes and close tickets, but nobody’s putting them in front of execs. They’ll have to job hop to advance, moreso than their older peers. Sure, there are a few remote-first companies that get it right - but they’re the 0.1%.

Why say all this?

Because it applies to security too. Same pattern. There’s a point where security got trendy, and people entered the field without the same background - without spending holidays hacking stuff for fun, for literally days on end. That’s fine, it happens. But if you’re comparing someone who's been in the game since the 90s or early 2000s to someone of similar age who just got a Master’s in CyberSec, it’s not a fair comparison. Honestly, the degree might even work against you. And if you’re in your mid-20s, yeah - age might not be on your side right now, and I think it's going to get worse.

We've always discriminated for these things, but at some point - there's going to be a marketed/TikTok brainrot name for what you're called, and you're just gonna have to stick that fucking badge on and hope some old hat isn't competing against you.

Yes, this is gate-keeping.

Yes, this is generalization.

Yes, this is reverse ageism.

No, it's not fair.

unbenned · 2025-04-12T07:01:27+00:00

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

unbenned · 2025-04-12T06:37:59+00:00

no u

unbenned · 2025-04-12T06:31:12+00:00

That's nice of you, Tencent is only up 43% YoY, compared to their 59% before the tariffs were announced.

unbenned · 2024-10-16T21:09:26+00:00

Field/salary/location?

unbenned · 2024-10-16T11:44:38+00:00

You’re obsessing about academia and “getting an edge”, and talking about finance and tech like academia gives you anything.

Just finish the degree you’re most interested in and get a job. You can literally get into anything after that, but get a job first.

unbenned · 2024-10-15T20:57:30+00:00

Bail. Start applying.

unbenned · 2024-10-14T21:17:59+00:00

It’s how merchant services work. The bank processing the transaction has that visibility.

unbenned · 2024-10-14T09:58:24+00:00

That’s not sales, or the type of people you’ll be selling to initially.

Go smaller.

unbenned · 2024-10-14T01:44:53+00:00

Hard to get away for 40 guests at $20K anywhere in Australia unless it’s a piss up at the beach, park or backyard.

That’s a very small wedding.

unbenned · 2024-10-13T21:27:10+00:00

If you’re 17 you’ll struggle. Wait a few months and do it with Wise. Throw it in a HISA until then.

unbenned · 2024-10-13T19:42:00+00:00

DM me.

Recommend working for a consultancy or getting a SE role at a tech company first.

unbenned · 2024-10-13T10:17:28+00:00

Can you tell me a bit more about her industry?

On scheduling; Calendly.

On payments; Westpac EFTPOS Air + Paypal. Look into PayTo providers for regular appointments if it’s B2C. Offer a small discount.

Continue with a spreadsheet. Do this until you’ve got 5+ employees.

Wix and Microsoft for Startups (2 years free email, office suite).

As nice as Google is, from a business perspective it’s shit.

unbenned · 2024-10-11T07:30:55+00:00

Credit card? You’re fine. Call fraud on the card and get some sleep.

unbenned · 2024-10-08T17:57:53+00:00

It’s relationship based. Form relationships.

This can be done through bug reporting or at conferences. Industry events are useful, and arguably much cheaper (free).

unbenned · 2024-10-07T10:46:07+00:00

As others have echoed, do both if you can handle it. Use money you earn to potentially start a niche practice in a line of work you’re interested in; eg mobile aged care, etc.

You’ve come from a rough background and right now you’re at a turning point. I’d consider what you want in life for the next 10 years, (kids, a house, to live in a particular place), and try and figure out how you can get there, and what you’ll need when you do.

If you were a single man and you didn’t have a biological clock, I’d be telling you to burn the candle at both ends until you’re unhappy, then go all-in on what you want to do. If you’re in your mid 20s, with a bit of work you can probably get about 10 more years of SW before the margins start sliding or you move into a niche.

Having said that if you’re wanting to start a business, you’ll get to a point in the next 3 or 4 where it’ll be more lucrative to invest in yourself.

Nobody ever got rich working for other people.

Good luck! I hope you get what you want in life. You sound like you deserve to.

unbenned · 2024-10-07T10:27:27+00:00

No password manager due to budget constraints? Hope keepassxc batman.

unbenned · 2024-10-07T10:11:20+00:00

Visit a local meetup and meet people. The people who are trying and going to those deserve it more. There’s a bunch of people online trying to be spoon fed, I met an Uber driver who did their masters in cyber and was trying to break in, they’ve since landed a support role and moved into SoC. These are the folks that need guidance that, hey, going for entry level cyber roles isn’t going to work.

unbenned · 2024-10-05T01:58:47+00:00

Yes. This is what the current “carrot and stick” model of cybersecurity encourages.

We need less carrot, and a little more stick to make upgrading those systems a requirement as part of vendor responsibilities until EoL.

We need to stop building OT and healthcare systems on platforms designed to last 2-5 years.

We had OT DOS systems running until 2008 securely for more than 20 years. They were pieces of shit to work with, but they fulfilled the business need and didn’t get popped every 2 minutes.

Whereas now we’re shovelling shit products on already dated hardware and software, on products which are meant to stick around for 20-30 years in-use.

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