Igee @hackerDev_

Our CFO noticed we spend $65K a month on a proprietary cybersecurity platform called Sentinel Protocol. She scheduled a meeting with me to discuss our enterprise software expenditures. She wanted to know why our licensing fees had increased by 15% year over year. I told her Sentinel Protocol is the only thing standing between our corporate data and a highly coordinated North Korean ransomware syndicate. I explained that it uses a polymorphic encryption manifold to dynamically scrub our inbound packets. She asked if she could get a Zoom meeting with their customer success team to discuss a volume discount. I told her I'd set it up immediately. The problem is that Sentinel Protocol doesn't exist. It's an LLC I registered in Delaware 4 years ago. I'm Sentinel Protocol. My entire cybersecurity platform is just a batch script I wrote in 2018 that restarts our routers every Sunday at 3 AM. The script took me 14 minutes to write. I realized very early in my career that executives will never question a line item if you use the word quantum or heuristic. But now the CFO wanted to speak to the vendor. I went on Fiverr and hired a struggling voice actor from Chicago for $45. I told him his character was a high-powered Silicon Valley tech bro who just drank 3 Celsius energy drinks. I wrote him a 4-page script composed entirely of weaponized IT buzzwords. He showed up to the Zoom call wearing a Patagonia fleece vest and introduced himself as the VP of Customer Success. He was absolutely phenomenal. When the CFO asked about lowering the cost, he scoffed. He told her that downgrading our service tier would expose our legacy endpoints to asynchronous tunneling attacks. He leaned into the webcam and asked if she was prepared to explain a catastrophic data breach to the shareholders. She apologized for questioning the infrastructure. Before the call ended, my Fiverr actor successfully up-sold her on a $12K biometric redundancy package. I don't even know what a biometric redundancy package is. I tipped the actor $100 and told him I'd need him again next quarter. The CFO sent me an email thanking me for managing such a crucial vendor relationship. I just used the new budget increase to buy a pontoon boat.

I would only tell a mans son one thing, that the weight you feel, the dull excruciating heft of being alive, thats it. that is the entire inheritance. i dont have land or money or wisdom worth a rotten penny but i know this, god gives weight to the men he has not forgotten. the light ones, the untouched ones, gliding through with their clean hands and empty smiles, they were never burdened because they were never chosen, and that is a sentence far worse than yours. so when it gets heavy, and it will, remember your father said that was the honor, the only one that mattered

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day. A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on. The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine. And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday. It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

Aporia @aporia9n

a week ago

We should all stop with this modern obsession of having a perfectly balanced, optimised life (8 hours sleep, daily cardio + gym, eat well, deep work, etc.) Most exceptional lives are heavily overallocated somewhere and any pursuit of greatness (in business, art, sport, research)

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Peller’s Wedding Guests: Foreign Espionage And African Entertainment When influencers and "foreign guests" collide, as is the case here, we are not watching a wedding but a social engineering operation It is very clear here that the rise of our internet sensations is often engineered. When foreign money starts flowing into our digital spaces, it is time to start asking who is really behind the screen and what they’re buying with those "gifts." It’s time for Africans to stop being spectators to our own subversion.

I haven't paid for a personal vacation in 8 years. Every summer, I review our annual software licensing contracts to see who is up for renewal soon. I look for the vendors who are most desperate to maintain our enterprise tier subscription. Yesterday, I had a Zoom call with our primary cloud security provider. They charge us $400K a year for a threat detection dashboard that literally no one in the company has ever logged into. I told their account executive that we were strongly considering migrating to a competitor due to strategic alignment issues. He immediately went pale and asked what he could do to retain our business. I told him I needed to conduct a rigorous, in-person audit of their latest technology. I casually mentioned that their upcoming developer conference in Honolulu seemed like the perfect venue for this deep dive. He caught the hint instantly. By the end of the day, he had expensed a first-class round-trip ticket and a 7-night stay at a luxury resort in Maui. He also included a $2K per diem for networking dinners. My wife thinks I'm an important executive who is constantly requested at high-level industry summits. She has no idea that I spend these trips drinking expensive cocktails by the pool while my automated scripts delete spam emails back in Chicago. The vendor knows I'm never going to actually audit their software platform. I know their software is completely useless. But we're both trapped in a beautiful corporate dance of mutual extortion. He gets to keep his massive commission check, and I get an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii. When I return, I'll send our CFO a 2-page PDF summary to justify the time away. The tech industry is just a massive luxury travel agency disguised as a meritocracy.

Last night Apple briefly removed Telegram from the AppStore because a user had planted illegal porn in a public chat. Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks. Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing/reporting it. The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them. From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this. ⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities: — Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be. — The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared. Stay vigilant! ☝️

I needed to move a sofa. I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?" I did not know anybody with a truck. He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name. "You gotta know somebody with a truck." I asked how one acquires such a person. He said, "You just do." This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having. He said, "Ask Kevin." I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle. I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius. Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES. Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man. I had not asked for a second man. The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves. They moved the sofa in eleven minutes. I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not. I asked what I owed them. Kevin said, "Buy the pizza." That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size. Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE. We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it. Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive." I still think about that. Three weeks later, Kevin texted me. "You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge." He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge. Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF. I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms. Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck. I said, "Yeah, I got a guy." I have a guy. I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me. He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size." I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

I just submitted an expense report for a $3K 49-inch curved ultra-wide monitor. The CFO asked why a single monitor costs more than a used Honda Civic. I told him I'm currently tracking global network topologies in real-time. I explained that on a standard 24-inch screen, I'm experiencing peripheral data truncation. I said that when you truncate network topologies, you leave the perimeter vulnerable to lateral data siphoning. He asked what lateral data siphoning is. I just sighed, rubbed my temples, and muttered something about DNS spoofing. He immediately approved the expense. The monitor arrived this morning. It's absolutely glorious. I can have 3 different YouTube tabs open at the same time while playing Old School RuneScape in the corner. My productivity has completely plummeted, but my situational awareness in-game is unparalleled. I told the rest of the executive team that the monitor allows me to see the code before it even compiles. They don't know what compiling means, but they feel very safe.

The people who are telling you that your poverty is caused by the fact that you are having sex and producing children are now openly wishing they had a higher birth rate than you, and are actively campaigning for it within their societies. This is to tell you that they understand the importance of numbers. So when you find yourself parroting empty talking points like, “we are just too many in this country,,” “how can you be having children when you don’t have money,” understand that you have been deceived into misdiagnosing your problems by Western propaganda. You are not too many, and your birth rate is not why you are poor. You are poor because the people lecturing you are stealing your resources.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

2 weeks ago

Nigeria alone had 4 million more births than the entire EU last year! grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

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Our data center costs have spiked by 400% in the last 6 months. The board hired an external auditor to figure out why we're consuming the energy equivalent of a small European nation. The auditor asked me what exactly is running on the isolated quantum mainframe. I looked at him with disdain and said it was our localized disaster recovery matrix. It isn't. I'm using our enterprise cloud infrastructure to simulate a 1:1 scale digital replica of the Roman Empire. I have 14 million AI citizens currently fighting a civil war inside our AWS architecture. When the marketing department tries to upload a video file, it takes 40 minutes because Emperor Tiberius is actively sieging Gaul on the same processor thread. The auditor pointed out that the data flow was completely unstructured and erratic. I told him he was looking at an asymmetrical neural mesh designed to confuse foreign ransomware protocols. I asked him if he wanted to be the guy who disabled our only defense against international cyber terrorism. He immediately closed his laptop and approved the budget increase. Tomorrow I'm diverting 50 terabytes of RAM to invent gunpowder early.

In Dante's Inferno, people who were neutral in life are treated just as harshly as those who sinned. These are the "uncommitted" who chose no side. They are rejected by both Heaven *and* Hell. Lukewarm souls are made to wait forever in the "Vestibule of Hell". They're stung by wasps while they run around in pursuit of a meaningless white banner (in punishment for standing beneath no banner in life). Even worse, their blood and tears flow from their faces onto the ground to be consumed by maggots. Why? In Christianity, Christ's blood is shed for man's salvation, and the blood of the martyrs is considered the seed of the Church. To bleed — whether literally or metaphorically — for a worthy cause is a great act of love. But in the case of the lukewarm, their blood merely feeds maggots. "You shall know them by their fruits," Christ says, but the only "fruit" the lukewarm produce is nourishment for worms. Dante himself was exiled from his hometown of Florence by a rival faction after years of civil conflict. His dislike of the lukewarm stemmed from those who sat on the sidelines and did nothing while his sentence was handed down — those who let injustice slide and were more concerned with protecting their own lot in life. Dante doesn't even give them the courtesy of mentioning them by name in his Inferno. The "uncommitted" are all nameless. His warning to the spineless is thus: Stand for nothing, and nothing is what you'll become.

If you even slightly entertain the thought of failure, you give your mind a chance to start noticing reasons to fail. But if the only option on your mind is to win, then the world seems to conspire in your favor, because your mind will notice opportunities it wouldn't have before. Become delusionally optimistic, not because it's realistic, but because it's effective. It drastically increases your chances of success.

Cooking for yourself is where you find out if you actually give a shit about your own life. because nobody is watching, nobody will know, nobody will thank you, and it still takes time and attention. and if you cannot do this one small thing for yourself, then everything else you claim is probably a lie

The most intelligent being God ever made is currently in hell and he's going nowhere. he was the sharpest mind in the court and it made him unbearable. every other angel sat in presence and was content. he sat in presence and dissected it, picked apart the mechanics of divine light like some wretched little academic pulling wings off his own nature, trying to figure out why it flies. God said stop and he couldn't. not wouldn't, couldn't. the thinking had become him. there was no seventh day. just one permanent grinding four in the morning dissertation on why God does what God does, until the question ate through his floor and he fell through it. and he's still falling still thinking. and the worst part, is he finally got the answer. he understood everything perfectly and it still changed nothing. because understanding God and loving God are not the same thing. one of them will save you and the other will eat you alive

Our corporate policy dictates that we replace executive mobile devices every 24 months. This means I have a closet containing 400 perfectly functional older generation smartphones. HR asked me when I was going to contact an e-waste recycling vendor to dispose of them. I told them we can't recycle these devices yet. I explained that the lithium-ion matrices need to undergo a prolonged biometric quarantine. I said we have proprietary company data baked into the deep silicon cache that takes years to evaporate. None of that means anything. Data doesn't evaporate. But HR stopped asking questions immediately. Instead of recycling them, I mounted all 400 phones to a massive piece of plywood in the basement. I connected them to a dedicated power supply and wired them into a segregated VLAN. I wrote a script that forces every single phone to continuously stream a YouTube channel. The YouTube channel just plays 10-hour loops of rain sounds. I own the YouTube channel. I'm generating ad revenue from 400 concurrent U.S.-based viewers. The phones run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. My localized click-farm is currently netting me about $3K a month in passive income. Last week, the VP of Ops wandered into the basement and saw the glowing wall of screens. He asked me what on earth he was looking at. I didn't even blink. I told him it was a distributed mobile redundancy matrix. I explained that we were stress-testing our cloud infrastructure by simulating high-density mobile traffic. He called it an absolute masterclass in proactive load balancing. He actually took a picture of my click-farm to show the board how innovative we are. The company is paying the electricity bill to power my personal monetization engine. I'm going to use this month's ad revenue to buy a new Herman Miller Aeron chair. I deserve it.

If you follow your intuition you'll be misunderstood, made fun of and feel like you're grinding your teeth on the concrete (everything in your life falls apart). You won't be able to logically explain why you're doing what you're doing but you KNOW it is what you need to do. Intuition clearly shows you the next step you need to take and anything beyond that is an fog of infinite potential paths that may or may not happen. If you can be confident in the face of all these challenges (you need unshakable faith [meaning that all is happening for a reason greater than you can comprehend at this point in time] AND a complete carefree acceptance of what has, is and may happen). You'll realise that these challenges are life forging you in the fire of life, helping you develop conviction in the face of complete chaos and uncertainty. Being able to have unwavering conviction is the PINNACLE of confidence. You will begin to live a life that exists beyond the boundary of your imagination. Even the ACT of imagining becomes boring because it will never exceed the spontaneity of LIFE and it's synchronous events. Uncertainty + confidence adds the most exciting flavour of surprise, that you get to directly experience. Play the game of life. Your Intuition is where the main storyline begins. Remember if the dev didn't want you to play, you'd be banned but you're here in the game right now, aren't you?

Honor your father and your mother, keep your mouth shut when anger tries to speak first, do not envy the wicked, do not even think about it, feed somebody who can't feed you back, stay away from the man who always has a plan for other people's time, if you make a promise keep it even when it costs you, especially when it costs you, discipline your children early or you will visit them in places you don't want to see, do not talk about the good you do, never tell your left hand what your right is up to and it's over, be faithful with small amounts before you ask for large ones, don't lie down with bitterness, it grows roots overnight, love your wife the way you love your own body, you don't neglect your own body do you, forgive quickly, not for the other person, for you, because rage is acid in your own jar, teach your children while they're walking with you, while they're sitting with you, when they lie down and when they rise up, and then hope

The entire spiritual industry is a coward's invention, designed to package the most violent undertaking a human being can choose into something palatable for soft hands and weekend schedules. the actual practice, the original practice, before it was gutted and resold as self care, involves deliberately breaking your body down as an offering to something that will never confirm it's received the gift. fasting isn't intermittent caloric optimization, it's starving until something inside you cracks open that eating kept shut. prayer isn't meditation apps with bells, it's grinding the same fucking words into your teeth until they bypass your intellect entirely and enter the bloodstream. the desert fathers lived in holes in the ground eating insects, not because they were performing piety, but because they discovered that comfort is the single most efficient mechanism for keeping a man from encountering anything real about himself, or god, or both. every generation produces fewer thousands willing to pay the actual price, and more millions willing to purchase the aesthetic of having paid it

Once you learn how to shop directly from China, E.g Temù or shien your wardrobe changes completely. Call me cheap I don't care I ain't rich, I don't do fraud.😭 It's knowing what to search for. Here's my style after making plenty of mistakes. 1. T-shirts: Skip 100% polyester unless you're buying gym wear. Instead, search: • 100% Cotton • Combed Cotton • Heavyweight Cotton • 240-300 GSM Cotton • Premium Cotton • Mercerized Cotton The heavier the GSM, the thicker and more premium the shirt usually feels. 2. Jeans: Denim Jeans Temu is surprisingly good for denim if you know what to search. Search: • Denim Jeans • Cotton Denim • Raw Denim • Selvedge Denim (if available) • 98% Cotton + 2% Elastane • 99% Cotton Avoid jeans with high polyester content. The more cotton, the better they'll age and feel. 3. Body-hug clothing: Search: • Ribbed Knit • Modal • Viscose Blend • Cotton-Spandex Blend They hold their shape much better than cheap polyester. 4. Hoodies Search: • 400 GSM • French Terry • Cotton Fleece • Heavyweight Hoodie 5. Chains Search: • 316L Stainless Steel • Titanium Steel • PVD Gold Plated • Vacuum Plated These are far more resistant to fading than ordinary fashion jewelry. 6. Earrings Search: • 925 Sterling Silver • 316L Stainless Steel • Hypoallergenic • Moissanite (if you're buying stones) 7. Scarves Search: • Mulberry Silk • Silk Blend • Cashmere Blend • Wool Blend • Viscose Avoid the shiny, thin polyester scarves if you're after a premium look. 8. Loafers Search: • Genuine Leather • Cow Leather • Full Grain Leather (rare but worth looking for) • Rubber Outsole 9. Sneakers Search: • Rubber Outsole • EVA Midsole • Breathable Mesh • Leather Upper • Stitched Sole Pictures lie a lot The description usually tells the truth. Here's how I shop: 1. Read the material composition before anything else. 2. Sort by Most Orders or Best Selling, not cheapest. 3. Only buy products with lots of reviews or pictures or even better when a Nigerian has purchased it before they always tell the truth. 4. Read the 1-star reviews first. They'll tell you what the seller won't. 5. Look at customer photos, not the product photos. 6. Check the weight of the product. Better quality clothing is often heavier. 7. Read the size chart. Don't assume your Nigerian size matches. 8. If the title has words like "luxury," "premium," or "designer" but the material is 100% polyester, not everything but still move on. Your best friend isn't the product picture. It's the material, the reviews, and the customer photos. That's how you separate the gems from the junk. I hope this help. Things are to expensive for a country this poor.

Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_

a month ago

I think its Yahoo boys that's making some of you clowns You are a security man You see me 10 times, you beg and hail me 10 times You sell shoes 85k I can get on Temu for 50k with free delivery You open a restaurant and use plastic takeaway to sell one plate of Egusi soup for

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