• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    ve been to some, never spoken though… also, not DEFCON though.

    Yeah, I’ve spoken at local JS and Go confs with several hundred to a couple thousand attendees (my sessions were small, like 30 people), and attended a couple others.

    DEFCON is much larger, but looking at the schedule, it seems pretty similar, a mix of relatively entry level stuff and more advanced topics. So someone attending doesn’t say much other than that they’re interested in cyber security.

    Its like getting a 2 year nursing assistant degrer and then acting as if you can safely perform a brain surgery.

    Interesting. I haven’t watched enough of his stuff to know what claims he’s made.

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      1 day ago

      Interesting. I haven’t watched enough of his stuff to know what claims he’s made.

      As you seem to be an actual serious person who generally values their time:

      Probably don’t bother lol, unless you want to just watch multiple hours of youtubers going through his … literal decades long history of hyping himself up, lying or manipulating the context of what he says and does.

      I can best summarize it all as: He is a malignant narcissist sociopath, akin to a cult leader in terms of how charismatically skilled he is and how intricate his fabrications are.

      Specifically as it refers to his coding abilities, now, a number of other coders on youtube have done exhaustive breakdowns of his sloppy code, and also shown that he often acts like a seasoned expert in specific technical concepts that he is at best only vaguely familiar with at the level of a sky high overview.