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Just curious as to what other pirates do for a living or for income, as in like a job, or is piracy your job in some form? i know its a weird question but for some reason i want to know?

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[-] Uri@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago

Exist somehow

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 week ago
[-] klu9@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago

But... you wouldn't!!

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

Seriously though, you should be very sparce in handing out such private info online.

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 44 points 1 week ago
[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Chief engineer?

[-] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Miles is that you?

[-] DinoSchneider@midwest.social 28 points 1 week ago

Mind my own business.

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago

Unix system administrator at a small datacenter

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 week ago

that's just what I tell myself when I look at the 45ru rack in the garage

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago
[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago

Antarctica's number one lumberjack

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

You cleared the whole continent! I'm in awe!

[-] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago
[-] diocesegoldmine@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

real footage of me struggling to make my jellyfin server public through reverse proxy....

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Ooh, ooh, I just went through this. You have to make sure to include the webhook in Nginx.

[-] Mordikan@kbin.earth 17 points 1 week ago

My background is in networking and infosec, but my current work is in data engineering and automation.

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What the fuck did you just fucking ask about me, you little script kiddie? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in my community college helpdesk program, and I've been involved in numerous Vim vs Emacs debates on Reddit, and I have over 300 active torrents. I am trained in gorilla pentesting and I'm the top hacker in my entire IT department. You are nothing to me but just another end user. I will wipe your NAS device the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with asking that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of system admins across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your file system. You're fucking pwned, kid. I can RDP anywhere, anytime, and I can hack you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my Nintendo Power Glove. Not only am I extensively trained in naked Dance Dance Revolution, but I have access to the entire arsenal of my IT department's T430 Thinkpads and I will use them to their full extent to wipe your miserable computer off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" question was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn normie. I will DDOS all over your network card and you will drown in packets. You're fucking pwned, kiddo.

[-] slothrop@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

Retired.
I've had at least 23 jobs where I was on a payroll and paid taxes, and perhaps 5 or 6 cash jobs (longer than a month kinda thing).
I'm done, but always open to suggestion!

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

23 jobs? The fuck? I'd be so done too lol

[-] buttmasterflex@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago
[-] buttmasterflex@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I guess it's pretty gneiss.

[-] shartgargle@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

I work a protection racket for nerds getting bullied.

[-] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Production worker, for an industrial manufacturer

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Weld inspection and quality engineering.

[-] ashenone@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Kennel tech (read poop scooper and dog walker) at the local animal shelter

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 week ago

Network Engineering

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago

I'm on the supply side of the pro AV industry.. I supply a lot of film and TV productions...

[-] DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

I fight other bums for nickels.

[-] terrific@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Tech consultant / data scientist

[-] esc@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

Formerly Ops engineer in telecom.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Core network tech for a largely US-based but still global fiber backbone provider.

[-] Joejoe582@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago
[-] Steve@communick.news 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Xray Tech
Or if you want to be all offical: Radiographic Technologist

[-] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 1 week ago

Dog walker mostly And also a dog feeder.

[-] DollyDuller@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

My field is related to the maritime industry. So, ahoy!

[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

I greet customers at Walmart

[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Administration assistant, I mostly work calendars and excel reporting

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Business Analyst

[-] Kobii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Funny enough I package software for installation on an enterprise network.

So I just do it legally now.

[-] airgapped@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

DevOps engineer for a SaaS company.

There are far more non-nerds in comments than I would have expected.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

When automated manufacturing systems break, I'm the guy they call to fix it..

[-] idriss@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Switched from telecommunications to being a code monkey 10 years ago

[-] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I make sure amazon workers don't go on pee breaks and I make sure to shut down any requests for company providing them with piss jugs.

Its hard work but I sleep well at night knowing I'm doing good in this world

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