• alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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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        6 hours ago

        i’m autistic and schizophrenic

        people seriously have compared me to the guy who made it (why tf can’t i remember his name)

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            5 hours ago

            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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              5 hours ago

              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

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                i hope i do too! i wasn’t even into programming until 2017 when i had a manic episode and realized the simulation we’re in is coded in ruby

                well it’s not… i mean i don’t know what it’s coded in, could be a language that only exists in base reality

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      6 hours ago

      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.

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        6 hours 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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          4 hours ago

          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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            4 hours ago

            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?