Personally, I compute in 3 ways:
1. Professionally
2. Recreationally
3. Personally
Personally as in, I need to accomplish a task in my normal life, and I use my computer skills to solve it in a way a non-techie wouldn't be able to.
For example, today on Reddit someone asked: "Is there a word, in english, that has the letter ‘V’ and is not followed by a vowel?"
So I ran this on my mac:
egrep '^[a-z].*v[^eaiouy]' /usr/share/dict/words
The part at the beginning means that the first letter should be lowercase (imo proper nouns don't really count)
And voila, a buttload of them showed up!
I've also used my cybersecurity knowledge to gain access to devices who's security was protecting me from myself, and done the same for many friends.
I enjoy things like that. What about you? Any such small personal tales?
1. Professionally 2. Recreationally 3. Personally
Personally as in, I need to accomplish a task in my normal life, and I use my computer skills to solve it in a way a non-techie wouldn't be able to.
For example, today on Reddit someone asked: "Is there a word, in english, that has the letter ‘V’ and is not followed by a vowel?"
So I ran this on my mac:
The part at the beginning means that the first letter should be lowercase (imo proper nouns don't really count)And voila, a buttload of them showed up!
I've also used my cybersecurity knowledge to gain access to devices who's security was protecting me from myself, and done the same for many friends.
I enjoy things like that. What about you? Any such small personal tales?