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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 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.