#shortsighted — Public Fediverse posts

I often hear people in tech complaining that the industry is oversaturated and they can't find a job but let's be real about this:

The entry-level resume pile is oversaturated with people who have a theoretical degree or a paper cert but have never actually touched a terminal, built a home lab, or popped a box. HR departments are flooded with thousands of identical, low-effort applications.

There is a catastrophic shortage of people who have a deeply ingrained offensive mindset, who understand networking down to the packet level, and who can look at a custom enterprise system and figure out how it fails.

Regardless of whether you love or hate AI, we are in a high-stakes tech race where our adversaries are operating with zero ethical speed brakes, and Silicon Valley’s response is to gatekeep the very tools that could turn raw tech savvy students into elite defenders at scale.

You can't even ask AI how to tweak a simple reverse shell without it panicking and saying "I can't help you hack the mAiNfRaMe and destroy the entire grid." As if the feds wouldn't be at some script kiddies door within minutes if they dared touch critical infrastructure or as if enterprise environments don't have robust EDR and network segmentation in place. They really act like APTs are asking AI how to learn ethical hacking, treating a simple Python script that is less than 10 lines of code like a piece of precision-engineered, state-sponsored cyber-weaponry designed to spin centrifuges out of control (Stuxnet 2.0).

We're really shooting ourselves in the foot. Our adversaries aren't using Anthropic, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. to learn how to make reverse shells or priv esc exploits for sandboxed CTFs to prepare for the field. They have AI pipelines that don't have guardrails and APTs that are already hacking into our telecom companies, healthcare networks, etc. Who is big tech really helping here? Certainly not us.

Look, I am not really even the biggest fan of AI (and obviously not a fan of big tech) but if I can crunch 8 hours of learning down into 1 hour, why wouldn't I? I'll still spend the 8 hours learning some new concept without the force multiplier because this is what I am passionate about and what I am studying for but the amount of security theater I see from big tech absolutely gets on my nerves. In fact, I think because I have learned so much about cybersecurity is exactly why it annoys me that much more. Watching a multi-billion dollar AI panic over a 10-line Python socket connection feels like being treated like a child by someone who doesn't even understand basic syntax.

#givemeabreak

#securitytheater

#CorporatePR

#CorporateNannyFilters

#bigtech is #shortsighted

I guess I'll have to just #RTFM so some skript kiddie doesn't cause a catastrophic blackout ... #sarcasm 🙄

Sunday, December 14, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/sunday-december-14-2025/

I'm #curious about something...
I've been getting a fair amount of #connection #requests here on #Mastodon from people on the far far far left, and almost none from the right, or the far right, or even the far far right.
Now, I'm pretty clear (or so I think, anyway) that I do not care to associate with extremists from either side.
#Fiscally, I'm #conservative - in the sense that I don't believe we should spend money we don't have.
#Regarding #people, I'm pretty #center-of-the-road, maybe #leaning a bit #left. I believe that everyone, regardless of their choices (or not-choices), should have the same rights as everyone else, and be able to live in peace, as long as they're not causing direct harm to anyone else.
I am, therefore, confused as to why people whose default mode of #communication involves #NameCalling, #VirtueSignaling, #condmenation of #otherism, and #looking for #fights would want to connect with me. I do not wish to associate with people who only wish to further divide this country with their #shortsighted #selfimportant #diatribe and #hatemongering .
If I have ideas that are different from theirs, or try to ask questions about their stance and point of view, all that will happen is they will turn around and block me, then report me for doing <InsertEvilThingHere> when all I was doing was clarifying their position so I know how to continue consideration of their position.
It's happened far too many times in the past.
Fist off, #Folks, #Mastodon isn't #Birdsite or #Twitter. Your hate-filled rants really don't belong here, in my opinion. That's what #Twitter and #FaceBook and #Instagram are for.
This is supposed to be a place where ideas can be exchanged, discussed, and mulled without fear of condemnation - where someone isn't attacked for their thoughts, or for asking questions.
There's a Mister Badger (with a number after it) who is an example of this. This person's obvious hatred of anyone who isn't as far Left (I believe they call it "progressive", but that's for another post and another time) as they are is palpably obvious based on their posts. I'm NOT that far left, (not even close) and would almost certainly be grouped in with Nazis and Klansjerks by this person.
So why did they reach out with a connection request? I don't know. Maybe they're looking for a new victim to browbeat so they can feel morally superior? Maybe they think that if I see enough hatred of <insert any group here> I'll start to feel the same? (That's the same tactic used by WS groups, Nazis, and the Klan, by the way...)
I'm just unsure of the motives, there, and that's why I rejected that connection. I've rejected others for similar reasons.
Perhaps I need to re-visit my profile and make it clear that I don't support hate, no matter which side of which aisle it comes from.