u/-hacks4pancakes-

I have 80 hours of work flights in ✨economy✨ before the end of August. Thank you to anyone who can.

I have been working in cybersecurity for nigh 20 years now so I try my best to pay it back by helping young people (especially under-represented) in free 1:1 mentorship and at career fairs and clinics. Over the past decade I thought I had seen just about everything - from the great to the horrific. But I got thrown for a loop last week and I don't know what I could have done better.

I was at a mock interview / resume clinic for graduates getting ready to apply for jobs in the workforce, mostly immigrants, so facing an uphill battle already. I was paired randomly with a young woman who worked in retail and had finished her cyber degree a couple years ago with no luck finding anything. She was totally polite, well-spoken, and sweet.

It wasn't supposed to be a super technical deep dive, but she talked about a few projects she had done in school. So, just to see how she phrased things and approached problems, I asked her really gentle, soft ball questions like what http is and what a packet is.

She couldn't answer any of them. Whatever bachelors program she was at at uni had utterly failed her, plus the intervening years of no more study or work in tech.

I was torn. I didn't want to crush her, but nobody had caught this. The entire women in tech program she was in had only focused on "soft skills" and nobody had noticed she was missing the most foundational skills for an IT job. So in the 30 minutes I had, I had to make a hard choice.

I tried to tell her very diplomatically that those were pretty standard interview questions, and I was happy to spend time with her and help her review them. But I felt like I had to emphasise on paper and in the meeting that this was a challenge she definitely needed to address through mentoring and additional study.

Friends, she burst into tears and left the clinic. I feel horrible. Was I wrong to say anything to her? I know even a mock interview is super stressful, but I wasn't going to be able to connect with her in the future. What would you have done? I really hope she's okay, but now I'm worried I'll be in that situation again because of the poor quality of a lot of cybersecurity degrees and bootcamps.

Wow, guys. So I've used mods for a while - for visual improvements, the Bethesda developed stuff, bug fixes. But while fixing a bug I decided to install "Gang's All Here", that lets you play with the whole Constellation crew as your followers at once. It felt kinda too OP so I never used it before.

But dang, guys, once you hit the mod option to turn on dialogue between the followers, you start hearing a bunch of new voice lines. They chatter away. Andreja offers Sam to train Cora in combat. This must have been a Bethesda intention at one point? Am I reading this right? It feels natural to not leave everybody in your ship all the time.

Just wanted to say that this mod definitely adds a lot of colour to the characters and it integrates seamlessly with the game. You might just need to up the difficulty otherwise.

Hooboy. I won a R36S at a hacker conference a few days ago. I love classic games and was eyeing it for a while, but hadn't invested in one because I have emulators all over. In the intervening week, obviously I've bought a case, a wifi dongle for it, the adapter for the wifi dongle, a SD card, a couple shareware utilities to configure it and troubleshoot it, and spent about 8 hours fighting with identifying the screen to install dArkOS and get the wifi dongle working, reconfiguring fstab to get it to see my second micro SD properly, and reloading games.

Well, I now have it working, minus sound (I think that I have a newer and yet unsupported model). But who needs sound when you have Contra? I actually haven't really played any games. I just keep adding stuff to it.

This little guy is going to be a lot of fun, but I think more of a fun hacking and troubleshooting it perhaps, than actually playing the games.

And I've definitely spent more than it cost the prize-givers. XD

Would recommend to train any young gamer-prospective hackers to use linux and fight with hardware! A+++++