• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don’t feel any real competitive pressure.

    AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don’t need to worry about competition.

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      Maybe they didn’t need to worry about competition because they tested so vigorously. 🤷‍♂️

  • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world
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    i used to be a windows guy. discovered arch linux and it’s not enough. i wanna do hardcore shit so i’m going kali

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      Kali is not for actual every day use.

      You can install all of its included tools on whatever distro you want.

      • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world
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        i’m new to this shit (started arch yesterday) so i dunno

        i use my macOS terminal all fucking day so i know my way around a linux interface, it’s more or less the same shit (macOS uses zsh and linux uses bash…the syntaxes are almost identical, if you know one, you know the other)

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          Nice to know you’re enjoying Linux :P

          I think that later on in your adventure, you’ll notice that you don’t actually need a distro that’s hard to maintain in order to do the hardcore stuff.

          Going back to more tame distros (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Solus) may actually suit you better, even for said tasks.

          • alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            what would you recommend for cybersecurity? i’m interested in a few things (shell scripting, web dev, nlp), but i’d also really liek to know how to stop hackers

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              Cybersecurity and “stopping hackers” are very extensive and complex topics. It’s kinda like a mix of many areas of knowledge (software, hardware, coding, internet of things, etc…)

              So one advice I think I can give you is that there is a “tool” of hacking that is often overlooked: Social Engineering.

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                i know a little bit about that, haven’t done it much tbh. do you do any social engineering? is that like how you network with people at meetups and shit?

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                terry davis! i had it right on the tip of my tongue. they only thing i know about terry is that he’s schizophrenic and he made templeos. i have the paranoid variety…well, not quite, i was diagnosed schizoaffective in 2019, in other words roughly half schizophrenic and half bipolar

                i don’t know how people feel about the use of the word “schizo” around here…trust me, it’s totally fine, we call ourselves schizos all the fucking time, lmao

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                  And he’s also the best fucking programmer of all time.

                  That sounds like quite the combo, hope you’re doing alright. I’ll probably pass on calling you schizo though if that’s ok. I had just assumed you were shitposting tbh, but whatever floats your boat. Hope you enjoy the community and the Linux experience

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      What kind of “hardcore shit” are you planning to do with your computer? 😅

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    I’d love to recommend the file pilot the file explorer. It isn’t the most feature complete (it’s still on beta) but just the sheer amount of time you gain by it’s search tooling is just astonishing.