Spud ➡️ Homecon 2025.
@SpudSecurity
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Leftist who likes to annoy fascists | He/them | Looking for a muscle mommy or daddy for uppies | Queer | Will break embedded systems for Red Bull | car guy
Stuck on the beltway, VA
Joined January 2016
Hello to all the new people following me! My name is spud. I stop hackers and hack embedded systems. Can’t talk about my job so I spend my days occasionally talking about infosec but mostly annoy fascists/TERFs and post cat and train pics. Welcome!
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Hot take: being misogynistic and downright hateful to people in your industry is unacceptable and shouldn’t be welcomed. Also piss baby deleted all his comments but is calling everyone crybabies lol.
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Only thing I disagree with is the light rail. Every man woman and child in this country should have their own light rail line. I want S-Bahns in every metro statistical area with a population >100,000
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The guy making sure you’re not poisoned or that your job isn’t stealing money from you is clearly not doing anything important.
@AlecStapp They all get great reviews for two reasons. First is they are doing easy unimportant and mostly unnecessary work and second, their evaluators know it and know that the reviews are useless make work that will change nothing.
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Is there bloat? Yes Are there bad actors? Absolutely Is it perfect? No.
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Interviewing a trump political appointee when his whole administration has been focused on vilifying workers is the true insane thing. A broken system is that government employees get paid significantly less than their private sector counterparts but still work incredibly hard.
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I’m still getting the hang of this and man I look like shit.
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Made a second ever TikTok video. This time on mental health in the tech industry. Imposter syndrome is real and I wanna make it clear it’s okay to say you’re not okay. Don’t be afraid to talk to someone. https://t.co/jpQBjz2d4e
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Check out SpudSecurity’s video.
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Are there good Trump supporters? Sure, in the same way there are 'good' child abusers.
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I had a mentor like this, they got fired because they wouldn't stop being a racist misogynistic POS at work despite multiple warnings.
@TracketPacer I wonder what you would do if your mentee was a "Trump-voting sloblord". You are very lucky to have great mentors. Share those great experiences with your future mentee and keep the political BS out of the work convos...your stress level will be much lower.
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There’s enough insane things that happen in IT that you don’t need to make up a story for. This is such a fake story it’s hilarious anyone believes it.
Our CFO asked me to "audit" our software subscriptions last week. He sent me a spreadsheet with 200 rows. Slack, Zoom, Jira, Notion, Trello, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. He wanted me to survey the team to see which tools were essential. I told him: "Surveys are for people who
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https://t.co/9SFVEnv6YD Exhibit B:
Any cheaper alternative to Cursor?? $1400 in a month is absolute madness, no matter the amount of code 💀
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AI tech bros basically admitting, in a roundabout way, that they’re fucking stupid and it’s hilarious if it weren’t for the fact that these dipshits are the reason tech is so insanely expensive.
@r_marked It's definitely more expensive in term of opportunity cost. Let's say you value your time at 10k$/month If by using your brain you spend one year to develop something that you develop in one month using your brain + AI . You've just lost 90k$ and this is just considering the
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Alternatively, and this is just as legitimate of a reason as anything else: You aren’t actually that good and your skill set does not justify what you’re looking for. The thing about fascists and supremacy is that they have enough awareness that their mediocrity will not get
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Taking this off my friends post to make a point. Does the job market suck? Yes Do companies exploit visa programs? Yes Is H1B abused by companies? Yes, sometimes. Is it became of immigrants? No H1B abuse is real and does exist but those in the program are not salivating to
@SpudSecurity @gorillaz4Sale @matthewscaped @d0rkph0enix Labor competition is real. The oversupply of labor is one tool the billionaires use to control wages and benefits.
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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B. Johnson
@SpudSecurity @d0rkph0enix I am happy for you. But not to loss sight of the lager issue we need to prioritize opportunities for American citizens.
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Suburban math: If the official county bus app says your bus is running 4 minutes late, how many minutes ahead of schedule will it actually arrive because the trackers aren’t reliable? This is what happens when they get rid of common core
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Me and the boys just being dudes
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We’re making it extra feminine for dorks with "Jesus is lord" in their profiles like it’s their first day at Sunday school.
@sfdxpro Why is everything becoming so feminine in gaming
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Just saying, I think if more people kissed the same gender/sec whatever we wouldn’t have wars. Kissing boys is great.
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I need a man who will rearrange my insides the same way Microsoft does with text when you move a photo around in word.
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