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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • you would benefit from training.

    The trainings are so dumb and condescending. They treat you like you would routinely click obvious scam links. They are a total waste of time. I knew far more than the trainings 10 years before I ever heard the word phishing. And this is not a flex, anyone using the internet will learn. They are just useless in my experience.

    Why be so defensive about it?

    Well because anyone can make a mistake occasionally. No need to waste time I could be doing something useful with instead watching useless trash videos. I resent that my company tricked me artificially into making a mistake.

    If you’re trying to act like you’ve never done anything you shouldn’t have, we’ve got nothing else to talk about. See my response to the other Mr. Perfect.


  • Nope. The people that are tricked by obvious ones, yes perhaps. It’s still underhanded but maybe you can argue for it. This was over a span of more than 5 years and the first one was the first time I’d seen anything like it and was convincing af. They mentioned an internal event going on and used a domain name very similar to the one for the event…

    I knew some smartass would come along and be like this about it though.


  • I don’t consider those valid and I started refusing to complete their trainings. It’s underhanded but more importantly I don’t think it teaches anyone anything. I knew well not to trust emails like that, but my employer duped me with a somewhat convincing one a couple times. Fuck them. They eventually stopped emailing me about the last training.


  • Thanks! Yeah, for me it’s that I have a bad memory so memorizing argument orders and things like that felt painful. Scripting is the solution! And you learn while you do it. It’s actually kind of fun to make a solid script that works between various OSes as nerdy as that is. I’ve taken a lot of typing and memorization and turned it into writing (ideally solid) software that allows me to type 1-3 words instead of 20 words. It’s satisfying. And you’re right, it’s something people won’t get until they come to it on their own terms.

    At work I routinely do laborious tasks the rest of my team procrastinates due to how repetitive and annoying it is. And often it’s with a command or two. It feels quite powerful. And it’s so flexible how you can combine languages and tools! It’s also just interesting to be reminded how all the basic problems were solved by the 1970s when a lot of these tools were created.