abhiminator

>We're paid to find risk and reduce risk.

There's a dedicated department that already does that in most organizations -- risk management.

One could argue that 'cybersecurity' ought to be a component of 'risk management' versus being on its own which only adds to bloated organization structure and increases bureaucratic complexity.

Seems like a rage-bait title, but I kind of agree with the general premise that cybersecurity teams shouldn't treat themselves as solving unique problems that other auxiliary teams (like SRE/platform engineering) haven't already come across and/or already solved.

I am of the opinion that this massive push by big organizations (coupled with mandates for C-suite roles like CISO) into building a dedicated army of staffers for "cybersecurity" feels like just another attempt to bloat up the size of an organization and create more 'bullshit' jobs, as David Graeber put it over half a decade ago.

It's almost like you're teleported into browsing a different, parallel (and a way worse) web with a shitty UX when you turn off your ad-blocker.

ZDNet published an article just yesterday that looked into Twitter's engagement data and it looks like Twitter is bleeding users like never before. [0]

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-seeing-record-user-eng...

Unabomber manifesto reads more like an unhinged rant written by some resentful, middle-aged Anon on 4chan than a piece of academic literature -- Ted Kaczynski somehow managed to fill 32 pages of it with racist, misogynistic and incomprehensible rambling with zero citations.

Also, the fact that he literally had to threaten people to force the publication of his "manifesto" says it all to me. [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/11/ted-kaczyn...

Reminds me of Russ Hanneman's obsession with the three commas and the 'Tres Comas' tequila from HBO'S Silicon Valley.

I'm hindsight, it's crazy how accurate that show was in portraying a lot of the VC and Silicon Valley folks in general.

These are all symptoms of the end of 'cheap' money essentially. World's been running on QE for a long time now, and most millennials and Gen Z folks (myself included) haven't seen/lived in a world without QE.

This is all regression toward the mean. The next couple years should be interesting.

Bailout? Sounds like an '08 déjà vu again.

It's crazy to realize how brazen Wall Street bankers and Hedge Fund managers are when it comes to asking for taxpayer dollars during distress, while decrying any attempt to add to that taxpayer dollar pool from their billions in earnings when the times are good.

I'm curious as to how many people will actually end up sending crypto to that modified address.

I think that's a problem that can easily be solved by training the models on 'trusted links' mode.

Can't wait for the trial now.

This has to be the most 'Irish' mishap in history ever, perhaps.

>People drank from the 6 inches (150 mm) deep river of whiskey that is said to have flowed as far as the Coombe.

Can't help but laugh hysterically whilst imagining this scene. Guess I found a brand new piece of trivia to share with my Irish friends and co-workers.

The Irish have been amongst the nicest and the most 'jolly' group of people I've known/worked with. Look very forward to visiting the island someday.

I was a lot more vulnerable to manipulation via propaganda and good PR back when I was a college student, I suppose. Aside from the naïvety of late teens/early 20s.

It's sad really. I used to idolize him so much. I read through all of WaitButWhy's [0] blog post series on Musk back in '15/'16 and loved every bit of it. He literally became my demigod during my undergrad days.

And from all that... to this?

From a much admired and respected 'inventor' to a cringeworthy Twitter 'edgelord.' Just been a crazy ride.

[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/03/elon-musk-post-series.html

Not to mention the resource utilization. I feel the code could be more optimized for a WebGL-based project.