Clydesdalecrusher

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What's something that's made you feel like a grown-up? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Being excited about buying a nice cooler to go camping with

Advice on whether to get a contracted job or not in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I had not thought of the w2 vs 1099 thing but I will bring that up to them.

Hands down the experience in that environment is what’s attracting me the most of everything other than the pay raise.

Advice on whether to get a contracted job or not in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the recruiter mis communicated it. But the company itself brought it up first thing in the interview before. I actually interviewed last month but was scared of the contract . Now they reached out to me again and I figured I’d at least take th interview as practice.

After thinking and looking at my finances I could prolly be safe if the contract ends quickly.

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Advice on whether to get a contracted job or not (programming.dev)
 

Basically, I currently work in a digital cinema company as a helpdesk for them and the job pays ok but is pretty stable as my colleagues have all been there for years. I have an interview soon for a FAANG company to be on their IT Helpdesk. It’s a job that will give me a lot of good experience, but it is a 6 month contract with potential to renew and continue. The recruiter basically snuck the contract portion in after scheduling my interview.

Both jobs include benefits thankfully the only thing that is stopping me from the FAANG job is just that it’s contracted but the experience would be great.

Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

TLDR: Would you leave your fully employed job for a contracting opportunity.

what would be a funny thing to teach my 5 y/o niece? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

She could configure linux from scratch

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (9 children)

It seems like they gave a bunch of people a notice to find new jobs as a form of promotion

Opinions on career transition from Digital Cinema to Cybersecurity? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I see, that honestly sounds like a pretty natural way get into IT. I have basically had a computer since I was in kindergarten and one parent had a MacBook while I had a windows computer. I am thankful for that because I’ve noticed that I’ve always been a bit more savvy than average people. Hearing stories like yours definitely makes me confident that I can still get really far without a CS degree.

Thankfully I’ve kept in good touch with all my past colleagues so hopefully it will work for me like it did with you.

Opinions on career transition from Digital Cinema to Cybersecurity? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I’ve been looking into forming a team with my friend who is also in IT. While they may not go on a resume, I was considering putting them on a personal portfolio website.

Opinions on career transition from Digital Cinema to Cybersecurity? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

How’d you get into IT? I feel like my path into computer work has been a bit unorthodox. I have a political science degree but no college experience with cs just otj experience. It feels like having my background definitely helps on the soft skills just may be a bit of hindrance compared to those with cs degrees.

Opinions on career transition from Digital Cinema to Cybersecurity? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That’s a bit of my thought maybe just get the big three and then practice more practical skills for a while. I’ll definitely have to convince my boys to pay for some of those certs the net+ does translate a ton into my current position.

The homelab will have to wait until I settle in to my new place with an office.

Opinions on career transition from Digital Cinema to Cybersecurity? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah that’s kind of what I have been doing, I have been trying to do things focused on networking and trying to understand cinema servers since many use a form of Linux. Though Microsoft skills always seem to be some of the most popular

Opinions on career transition from Digital Cinema to Cybersecurity? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Wanna help there’s always memes in numbers

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Opinions on career transition from Digital Cinema to Cybersecurity? (programming.dev)
 

I currently work as Helpdesk analyst for a company that produces projectors. I am on the NOC that field technicians call into for any assistance. I would describe my job as having some elements of network, software, and hardware troubleshooting. Ultimately with my end goal I want to get into cybersecurity and be on a SOC somewhere. To achieve that I am working on my Net+ and building a home lab with some hardware I have to practice building a virtual network. Eventually I want to develop my coding skill and get my Sec+ and other certs. What are the opinions of those who are in both industries and any advice?

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, which had the same ultimate root cause as recent XZUtils backdoor incident in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So am I understanding correctly that this code wasn’t exactly handled as a normal team? Like XZ had one person vetting the replacement?

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Is RAID still needed? (programming.dev)
 

Me and my friend were discussing this the other day about how he said RAID is no longer needed. He said it was due to how big SSDs have gotten and that apparently you can replace sectors within them if a problem occurs which is why having an array is not needed.

I replied with the fact that arrays allow for redundancy that create a faster uptime if there are issues and drive needs to be replaced. And depending on what you are doing, that is more valuable than just doing the new thing. Especially because RAID allows redundancy that can replicate lost data if needed depending on the configuration.

What do you all think?

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