You think that’s air your breathing?

t makes me sound old but, kids these days have no idea the kind of hell we went through

I mean, whose motherboard still needs a sound card in this day and age? But then I could tell you about fiddling with the settings of an old dot matrix printer. I don’t think that qualifies me to set up a Kubernetes cluster or administer a data lake.

The “you kids today” rants seen to miss how hyper specialized computer hardware and software has become. No, Gen A is going to magically intuit an Azure DevOps Pipeline from first principles. Setting that up feels like I’m working through a Master’s Thesis on arcane file types. People need to stop pretending that knowing a bit of Regex from middle school entitled them to talk shit to a guy ten years their junior struggling with a customized .yaml file.

Can’t go too deep or you fall out of the underside.

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Gen Z/A are good at using tech, but they don’t really know anything about how it works.

Millennials don’t, either. A tiny fraction of a fraction had technical literacy 20 years ago and now they think they’re top shit because they can write simple CMD commands.

All this jerking one another off is crazy. I work in the industry and I’m surrounded by people my own age who don’t know what Active Directory is much less Linux.

Imagine a raspberry pi hooked to a cheap LCD for a 100x mark up

Filling out the ADHD form proves you must not have ADHD. Also, not filling out the form proves you don’t have it.

My man is going to get a permanent desk at TrashFuture if this keeps up.

He was hotter as a furry.

• Bible

• Protocols of the Elders of Zion

• The latest Jordan B Peterson brainfart

• Anything tagged “Longtermist”

Big Image + Short Blurb is great for getting a quick rise out of people. But if you want to properly pill someone, you need to hit them with the firehose of content. The YouTube rabbit hole rots your brain not with a single six second short but with a thousand five hour reactionary rants.

Me: “Haha. Fash on Fash violence! I love it.”

Also me: “Fuuuuuuck, why does every political fight have to be a Who Can Be The Biggest Racist contest?”

Everyone thinks their lunkhead is the Worst Lunkhead in History.

But I watched my parents’ generation proudly proclaim themselves to be “Rush Babies / Ditto-Heads” (terms the host eagerly appended to his annoying fan base) and paid out the nose to listen to Howard Stern on Satellite Radio. Before that, we had coast to coast shameless shill Wolfman Jack and the perennially getting-fired Don Imus.

They all had the same schtick. They all mainlined fad diets and new age spirituality and quasi-legal drug abuse. They desperately wanted to be sports broadcasters, but failed to fully break in because of their inevitable fit of racism or sexism. Its the same bullshit decade after decade, complete with faux-libertarian toxic masculinity and hawking magic beans in a six hour long sales pitch.

Before radio we had thousands of independent Carnies. After radio we’ve consolidated and monopolized the job of Carny under the job title of DJ or Talk Radio Host or Podcaster, take your pick. But they grow these assholes in a vat under the Pentagon. They aren’t unique.

Everything was somewhere in between https://slashdot.org/, https://ytmnd.com/, and 4chan.

The nostalgia is entirely wasted on anyone who lived through 90s internet. It was cool because I was 12 and getting to drink from the information fire hose was a daily adventure. But it had all the same garbage politics, slop content, and horndog users of the modern internet.

The biggest difference between then and now is that Then Internet was considered a kind of counterculture (which meant 90s Reichwing Radio DJ Rush Limbaugh screeching like a stuck pig every time he heard about a new fad or meme he didn’t like) while Now Internet has your Rush Limbaugh tier content and your Chinese Rednote apps bumping into one another in the same oversized wave pool.

It would be worse. The site got bought out by News Corp (FOX’s parent company) in 2005.

The site would be some kind of TurningPointUSA / DailyWire right-wing trash factory. Every song on there would be Ben Shapiro rapping or Oliver Anthony releasing the “Rich Men North of Richmond” techno remix.

NPR News Hour used to be my morning listen. Now it’s so stacked with native ads and AEI talking heads that it’s unlistenable.

Nevermind how cybersecurity is a niche field that can vary by use case and environment.

At some level, you’ll need to learn the security system of your company (or the lack there of) and the tools used by your department.

There is no class you can take that’s going to give you more than broad theory.

Extra exhausting when you hear some chest beating 2A loving conservative insist that Vietnam/Afghanistan proves police states can’t ever work in America.

There’s simply no conceptualization of what domestic resistance takes or who you need to win in a protracted insurgency.

We’ve just got a bunch of keyboard commanders who think your League of Legends rank would make you a modern day Rambo.

Was RFK Jr not one of the good guys at one point?

No.

Plenty of people don’t live to retirement