Yes, I have been eyeing a soft switch into cybersecurity. Maybe not head-over-heels and maybe not entirely, but I do plan to have a significant part of my work to be in infosec.

For context, I am currently working as Tech Lead/Software Architect for a company that has a security-focused product (with an, as of today, 0 incident track record), but I work on design and scalability most days. When involved in security-related tasks, I mostly coordinate and sometimes implement security critical code under the guidance of our (small) security team.

I do have enough insight to have a positive impact on security related discussions on higher levels (think “lol, this proposed change opens up the endpoint to being exploited by x or y”) but not enough to discuss our cryptographic primitives.

In order to get my feet wet, I started doing THM (quite actively, yet I’ve hit a rut with the Windows-focused buffer overflow rooms), and I can say I enjoy it more than I expected.

However, I am unsure what concrete steps I should take after THM.

I’ve been thinking of working towards the OSCP exam, but honestly the certification landscape is quite confusing.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

Oh no, prices fell from 600k to 588k, disaster is looming.

People currently can’t afford food, bro.

Or how to fix your printer.

I am a happy backblaze user and generally I’ve only heard good things about them.

They do have multiple data centers and they are operating B2B products too.

Is there anything in particular that would make you think they could be unreliable?

Lieber Verfassungsschutz: die AfD arbeitet mit einem Regime zusammen welches es sich als explizites geopolitisches Ziel gesetzt hat, Europa zu destabilisieren.

Wann wird die AfD endlich verboten und wann werden die Kollaborateure verhaftet?

I just started baking bread, with the goal of making healthy sourdough bread, pizza, and other baked goods.

Epstein didn’t kill himself

Just in case nobody noticed: Epstein didn’t kill himself.

Sorry, but wtf was as innovative as to warrant a GOTY in Starfield?

EDIT: no a hater, 90hrs played, overall would not recommend and genuinely don’t see what was innovative.

Seems like Putin will get all 132% of the votes this time, since he will be the only one on the ballots.

I have lived in Germany for 7 years. I hold a STEM master‘s degree and was working an industry job that paid market rate salaries. With 50k€ in savings I was still denied mortgages because 50k was just barely covering the additional purchase costs (such as realtor and notary fees).

For a modest condo with a small garden in a small-ish city in central Germany I would’ve had to work and pay the mortgage until I retired, because the average house was 600k EUR. And most of the properties sold at that price still needed significant renovations.

If that is not f^cking crazy, then I don’t know what is.