only tangential, but I've wanted to carry my Yubikey on my keyring, but have always been nervous about making it unreadable by sullying the contacts. Should I be concerned about this? Where do you all carry them?
That's how I've been carrying mine for the last four years and it's fine. I think you're more likely to lose it than to damage it. I have a second one that's identical (registered to the same services) that I keep in a safe place.
I came across https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2588513 in some Reddit thread about this, got it printed on my public library's 3d printer, and it's been pretty nice. (Had to etch some grooves in the sides of the Yubikey so there's something to grab it to pull it out of the sheath, but that wasn't a big deal)
interesting. Sometimes I wish I was more like them, and things didn't bother me if they seemed boring or pointless. Seems like an innately selfish view, but one i'm having trouble rectifying.
After serving in the military (Air Force air traffic controller, so military lite) I align more with the 3rd country workers mentioned. Take the task, complete it to the best of my ability, move on to the next task. I don't care about the mission or domain. Im paid well, work from home and have relatively little stress compared to 11 years in the military. Searching for more meaning out of my work would create undue and unnecessary stress trying to find that unicorn role, which in reality doesn't exist.
I think the ‘find the unicorn role’ thing is a generational thing. So many of my peers (early 30s) are striving for the side hustle that will bring them millions while they chill on the beach. What happened to just going to a decent middle class job, doing your work, then going home and living your own life? It seems to me social media has created so much of this. It’s social media where people find the need for one-up-manship that leads them down these ridiculous paths.
Perhaps I’m delusional because I’ve been comfortable in my low stress, check out and go home, type of job for some period of time. I just don’t feel any desire to chase some kind of meaning in my work. Most of my coworkers seem to have the same outlook.
We are in the same peer group, of early 30s. Luckily, most of my peers don't have this line of thinking, although they do put great deal effort after hours into our line of work - data science / machine learning. They all want influence someone, somewhere - who are they attempting influence, I don't know.
I will admit I also an outlier for my age group. Have been married over a decade had kids in my early 20s without any debt (GI Bill helped here). Probably could have a bigger nest egg saved but traveled quite a bit before and after kids. This has resulted in different goals, and career trajectory than my peers. Both of our children will be out of the house when we are 46.
I 100% agree with you that social media has warped people's views of life. My social media presence is LinkedIn (and I guess here), just a page with one post. None of my hobbies I post about or share online, only through in-person interactions. Nor do I have smart phone, so I don't take pictures to share, thus we discuss what visiting a Nepalese village was like, instead of scanning a bunch of photos. In my opinion this creates a better relationship dynamic. I am sure there are things Im missing out on due to the extra step people need to take to invite me (a phone call) but I gladly trade it for the reduced information overload from a smart phone.
> What happened to just going to a decent middle class job, doing your work, then going home and living your own life?
I don't think that job exists any more. Or if it does, there are fewer and fewer of them out there.
I have a reasonably well-paid, low-stress developer job working on a product I believe adds value. But I don't get to go home and just switch off: I get emails at all hours of the day and night, and if the service goes down at 4 am (which has never happened yet) then I need to deal with it.
I'm not sure there are many jobs that pay middle class wages but only require 9-5/M-F levels of responsibility.
I function better when learning like this, but also feel that it's one of those 'easier said than done' ideas. Understanding can come with time, and doesn't always even then guarantee retention.
That being said, if anyone has study/memory tips, I'm all ears :)
same but with music here. Just starting to pick it up to 'keep the dream alive' but there's no way I see being a full time composer would make anywhere near my salary in the IT field. Truly a first world problem though, so a lot to be thankful for.
Fortunately for me there are plenty of other musicians around whe want to at least produce some music and publish it. Even if it is at advanced hobby level. Getting ready to release our first four song EP, 80s inspired metal.
I wonder if there is a word for this state of mind. Kind of a relaxed, unhurried creative state. I think John Cleese referred to this as the 'open state' but it almost seems more of a subset. Perhaps the buddhist texts have a word for this, although I'm thinking of a more general state of mind, not necessarily just after meditation.
Basically, we host a collection of honeypot websites, which resemble login pages for a normal website. Our users create 'bait credentials' (username/password) for these honeypot websites.
The users then hide these bait credentials in places that should be private (in this case, a letter or package to be mailed). If an eavesdropper intercepts the package, they'll also find the bait credentials (perhaps written on a post-it note). If they try to use the stolen bait credentials at the honeypot website, our users then get an alert, and the intrusion is logged.
The normal use case is to place bait credentials on your devices or servers, but in this case they would be used in a physical location (i.e. a letter in the mail).
Take a look at https://www.tamarin.us if you want - I'd appreciate any feedback, I'm still trying to validate the concept.
