Tech Iliteracy

>Working in computer repair shop
>Customer comes in
>"user my little brother was on our computer and now all our pictures are gone ;_;" (Literally in tears)
>I'll see what I can do
>Tell her to call back later
>Go into back room and boot desktop
>Check recycling bin
>18k images
>Right-click
>Restore
>Go back to watching anime

//4 hours later//

>"Wow user! You are a life saver!"
>Charged €50

How do we increase the populations tech literacy?
This is abysmal, and it is getting worse. These people are making my job boring with this mundane crap. Most interesting part of my day was setting up a golf buddy...

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>be in my room
>using vim to write some code to automate some shit
>dad comes in
>user stop hacking its not good
>mfw if i do anything in my terminal im a fucking hacker
>fucking hacker its not even the right word

>mfw if I do anything in my terminal I'm a fucking hacker
>fucking hacker its not even the right word

Yes and it is.

>>using vim
>>user stop it's not good

Your dad is wise beyond his years.

>How do we increase the populations tech literacy?
We don't, dumbass. Or do you want to actually work for a living?

>Write program to automatically download, install and run utilities programs
>Charge €50 euro a pop for a double mouse click
Sometimes I clean the inside of dust.

Is this okay?

Not that user, but post more lain.

no a hacker is someone breaking shit for fun and cracker is someone doing something malicious

>go to chinese restauraunt.
>hold 6 chopsticks in 1 hand
>get told to stop hacking

>cracker is someone doing something malicious

Das racis

Cancer

It was Korean. But I wonder what was the staff thinking about it

I kek'd

I got called a hacker in grade 4 because I knew how to change the wallpaper. This was Windows 95 days.

Stupid weaboo

I got called a hacker because a teacher left their school password taped under their desk, which from there allowed access through various password resets and verification steps to gain access to other accounts.

Oh, another shitty story. In grade 8, I got suspended for hacking because I convinced a kid to give me his hotmail password, which I then changed. My punishment was to uninstall MSN messenger on all the computers in the lab.

That's literally what hacking is.

lol

>grade 7
>make a batch script that stated you had a "virus"
>asked you if you wanted to wipe your hard drive
>would still do it even if you said no
>literally just listed every file on your computer then said your hard drive was deleted, nothing else
>tech guy comes across it in the filter since making scripts isn't allowed
>normally would just get a detention but he runs it and thinks I almost deleted his hard drive
>tells principal I've created a powerful tool that could damage the computers and that I intended to do so
>explain that it was just a joke and it did nothing
>"I don't trust hackers"
>get suspended for 3 days and lose access to school computers for the rest of the year
Sometimes system administrators have no idea what they're talking about

One time I accidentally didn't write a commit message and it opened vim for me to write one. Had to close the terminal cause I couldn't fucking navigate or exit

Everyone who isn't into tech just uses iDevices and the Cloud, so it really doesn't matter anymore. The days of people being lost in Windows are over because nobody uses desktop PCs anymore unless you're an enthusiast or you need to use one at work.

>hear that Best Buy may have 480s physically at their stores but unlisted on the website
>walk into store
>ask clerk where to find the video cards
>"video....cards? hmm...."
>"yeah for PCs"
>he takes me to the laptop area
>no video cards anywhere
>"no I mean graphics cards that you plug into the inside of a PC"
>"I don't think we have anything like that sir. We have our laptops here"
>he asks another clerk who happens to be a black gentleman, just to humor me
>They both stand there and give each other a look
>"Video....cards.....video cards.....hmmmmmm"
>"Yeah, I ain't ever heard of nuthin like that"
>"Alright, thanks anyways guys"
>wander around a bit
>walk past the Xbox and PS4 stuff
>they have an entire aisle of PC parts
>GTX 960 for $220, GTX 970 for $330, no RX 480
>leave store

I know a guy with this same story.

We went to a private religious school together.

Perhaps he's you.

Anyway

>Lazy fuck Senior year
>Teacher has us all submit assignments through a shared network drive
>Literally anyone could access it and download from it
>All of our assignments were literally just typing class bullshit and multiple choice bullshit, no real thought
>ctrl-f, changed my name on the person's assignment I used
>Only caught once when some dumbass kid misspelled his own name

Tech literate people don't get jobs in stores. No one goes to college just to work for a store.

Kek my schools computers all had an unprotected admin account

Wrong. A hack is just doing something clever. A hacker is someone who does clever things. People who think otherwise have spent too much time watching television or attending community college computer science courses.

Not op but okay

You've got to go to college to become 'tech literate'? Right... okay.

...

kek

>accidentally
sysadmin/junior dev at Uni. Hipsters in techstores outearn me. Fuck you EU.

>using my mac
>some kid walks up
>"macs are fucking locked down its not even a real computer fag"
>"enjoy doing things APPLES way fucking sheep"
>give him two shillings and a bowl of oatmeal
>he thanks me and calls me gay again
>remember i need to call my bf and remind him to bring the dog this time

>How do we increase the populations tech literacy?

Now that's just plain wrong familia sempai, you shouldn't max that and in turn minimize your revenue tbhq

>look at hand
>hand white
>be cracker
>try steal 1m from bank cause I cracker now
>be jail
Mfw

Holy kek

I tried using vim once with the fucking guide on my phone and nothing worked so I just went back my IDE and I have never looked back

dude he fucking knew it, he just wanted to get you in trouble for being a dick.

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Have two long lists at work that need to be cross checked to insure the company is not losing a lot of money. Get printouts every morning at 6 in nice clean text tables.

Ask if I can have the digital copies instead. Am told there are no digital copy, print out is clearly not hand written. Keep asking around, eventually find out there are in fact digital copies, but those are restricted to much higher level employees as the data is considered very sensitive, as is everything here.

Eventually security comes and asks me why I am asking so many questions. I explain I want to setup the computer to compare the two lists for me rather then me doing it for hours everyday when I have no time to do it. They tell me we don't have the technology to do such a thing and to stop day dreaming and get back to work. Also learn it is only printed in hard copies it makes it harder to steal. Alright so I can't just import a softcopy into Excel.

Buy cheap second hand scanner, old Raspberry Pi and a few other things for about ~$300 and setup a machine that scans the papers then digitizes them, then compares the list and emails me any discrepancies all thought the companies internal network.

Big boss comes by to investigate my sudden productivity boom, suspects I cheating or something. Tell him I setup a system to get the computer to compare the lists. He laughs and tells me the tech team is already working on that problem, but it is years from implementation. I show him the unit and note that I am working on a nicer case to house it. He calls security and has them wipe all the data and return the parts to me. Says it was a huge security risk, like I didn't build it to auto wipe and disconnected from the network when not in use. And I was to be disciplined for such a beach of contract.

Turns out HR screwed up and never got me to sign that contact, so I was not disciplined, but had to go back to the old painful way of cross checking the lists.

This is at Fortune 500

Uh, just remake it but only have it work at the speed you're supposed to

If they ever found out I would lose my job, so I don't plan to rebuild it. Also it is kind of bulky and hard to hid in the building, I could maybe hid it if I really tried, but I don't plan to.

Granted the growing list of reprimands for not completing everything on time is also threatening my job.

Which is why I am looking for another job.

Have you considered talking with someone above those fucktards?

The higher the boss, the more they care about shit working properly and the less they care about the people under them. If you can prove to a higher boss that you could boost productivity like that, you might get a new seat.

Worth trying anyways if you´re going to leave

The person who panicked the most was a regional director who answers only to the CEO. He personally drove out to lecture me on how my recklessness could have cost the company everything.

But I did take very strict security measures and the data at my location is so low level that even if it was published it would be hard to use. You would need that data from lots of locations for several weeks before you could build any type of functional competitive model, which is partly why nobody ever knows what is going on here.

So basically the only person I could appeal to is the CEO who works on the opposite side of the country. I not getting that invested given how backwards it is here. Still better then not having a job, man that no income really sucked.

Wrong as well, a hack is making something do something that it wasn't intended to do, it doesn't have to be clever at all.

>2001
>Install The Sims 1 on dads PC because my shitty desktop couldn't boot it up
>Play it when he's not using it
>"user YOUR COMPUTER GAMES ARE MAKING MY COMPUTER SLOW!"
>Deletes the shortcut from the desktop
>"There much better now"
>Find out a few months later that dad didn't want me to use computer because he had porn on it he downloaded with kazaa

> Be me 12 years old
> Windows XP
> Go to cmd
> Type in ipconfig
> Decide to login in their default gateway
> Some retard ass girl tells the teacher that im hacking the school
> Get caught by teacher
> Tells me to go to the principal
> Principal gets mad at me and bans me from using computers for 1 year

> use netsend in highschool
> get suspended for a week

cunts.

>write shitty batch script
>would flood the school server with a big file
>big IT nigger comes to talk to me
>nigger is like 2m, and I was like 14 so pretty spooky
>they printed my batch script and talked over it
>the script would write 1024 characters to a script per second
>servers super shitty configured, script killed the server
>get invited to do an internship at my school

>making something do something that it wasn't intended to do
Isn't that being clever?

Or stupid depending on where you sit.

>last year of primary schooling
>In some new laptop program
>because new network was pretty shit
>a friend and I end up creating a shared folder on the network
>share games, shitty batch files, etc
>start talking to each other through notepad files in the folder
>some stupid dumb bitch sees us talking in notepad
>someone reports us, (presumably the dumb bitch)
>Get in trouble, get asked to show the teacher everything
>IT guy comes in, tells the teacher it's doing no harm
>Teacher says it's ok to keep it as long as we don't put games, or chat
>Literally all we use it for
>Remove it

Happy ending I guess

>make a tool that's probably a legit security breach
>tech team shake their heads and disassemble it

>muh superior mind
>muh hack skillz

>junior high
>shitty mac lab
>sit down at computer
>it's frozen
>raise hand
>computer """"""teacher"""""" comes over
>asks me what's wrong
>tell her the computer's frozen
>accuses me of breaking it
>get sent to the principle's office
>get detention
>literally have no idea what they're talking about, didn't even touch the computer

Shit traumatized me against computers until college.

>i do anything in my terminal im a fucking hacker
You'll like this then
>be me
>go to near by cafe
>open terminal to rip youtube playlist and save it as mp3
>manger comes and tells me to stop what I'm doing right now and leave or he will call the police

>rip youtube playlist
I would call the police too. Or, at least, kick you out.

Why? There's literally no reason to be an ass to poor user

That was before downloading from youtube became forbidden.

>downloading from youtube
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>be my 13 year old me
>8th grade computer science class
>inspect element on my grades
>change them all to 100's
>teacher think im acctually hacking even after i refresh the page
>goes to the principal and can never touch a computer at the school again

>shared drive
those were great
reading the taiwan foreign exchange students' english papers was always a real treat

not stupid, clever. can be bad or good, but clever. stupid people cant do that.

i have lots of those
>12 years old loves the library
>they have a multimedia pc with microsoft encarta, use it a lot
>start reading pc magazines, change wallpaper, change settings
> pc locked down
> be creative, file search still possible
> open search, look for dontremember.exe - right click - open
> pc is taken away because hackers
> keep reading stuff in library

holy fuck that sounds amazing

The security in my setup is decent

1. Plug unit in
2. System starts from physically locked read only SD card which also encrypted without password so even I can't make changes at work
3. Bare minimum OS and programs lunch automatically, also set to ignore all unlisted inputs
4. Papers are scanned and encrypted with a randomly generated method and stored only in RAM in hidden directory under a randomly generated maze of dead end file trees, some of which contain hidden action files to wipe and shutdown if opened
5. The unit then cross checks the data and sends a newly generated encrypted cross check list to a buffer zone specifically designated in RAM which only with listed programs can read OR write to
6. A randomly generated key to decrypted the new cross check list is temporally displayed on the units tiny display for 10 seconds only once and the last 5 static character are omitted, as they are always the same but not listed anywhere in the system
7. The unit is then physically connected to the internal company network by Ethernet cable
8. Encrypted cross check list is sent sent directly to my work email, the path skips the main company sever to speed things up and insure the data never leaves the building by way of the local company sever
9. The unit then is physically disconnected from the network, at which point it automatically does a secure data wipe of the RAM and non-white listed hard drive space. And then shuts down
10. The unit is unplugged
11. I open the email, then use the company provided decryption software to open the cross check list using the key the unit displayed plus the 5 static characters which only I know of as the computer never has that last bit of data in a usable format. I never loaded any other data to the company computer or network.
12. Read and print file, never saved
13. lock and shut down company computer

14. Take all papers and put in binder in unlocked filing cabinet in unlocked room as per company security guidelines

>15yo first job in call center, cold calling for insurance
>phones have many buttons, find out what is which
>find locked menu says something about server
>try a few numbers, it's 1590 (motoric hint)
>look through everything, try not to get caught
>phones start misbehaving randomly
>2 weeks later boss calls me into office
>how well do you know phones? show me
>know i'm fucked, be cooperative
i think i crashed the asterisk/x? server with too many requests(~2001), they had to get a technician onsite. boss offered to pay half of bill and not fire me because kinda impressed
they checked the logs and i always sat at the phone where the login happened (stupid)

>end of highschool
>discovered you could login to the teachers area of the intranet
>by using your own login credentials (used some other kids username and pwd)
>could see the grades of everyone and their reports and change what the displays in the schools showed (didnt do that do)
>year later they fixed it, never heard anything about it
>admin most likely embaressed by this and didnt say anthing to the direction

Nothing really interesting but it was nice to see my grades ahead of time

>at library with sis because young
>have no library card, empty computer off to the side
>requires login, shut down and boot up linux
>some idiot comes by and gets on the computer next to me while it's booting up
>librarian comes over "did the computer boot up like that?"
>about to say it's a web page
>autist: "oh no! Hes a hacker! LOL he hacked it and got around the mainframe"
>BIOS password next time I have to go to the library
rip
also
>at community center
>computer with internet, almost same library computers
>don't login, use trick to bring windows in front of shitty login screen
>register fake google account, yes sync passwords
>stay at home collecting passwords that idiots save
I don't know, does this even qualify to be posted in this thread?

The problem with aspies like you is you can't see the bigger picture because you're hyperfocused on lackeys work. It's likely they keep it the way they do so they can make strategic adjustments and forgeries for financial advantages/mobility within the companies politics.

Be careful what you fuck with. A lot of things in companies like that are broken on purpose and the 'fix' will always be forever pending or 'on the way' with the money being siphoned off elsewhere.

>be apple genius, get called to fix a messy situation
>youngish customer ~28 is teacher, comes for training (1to1)
>tells trainer she has no more space on her laptop
>he says sure, we'll make space, deletes trash with lots and lots of stuff as first step
>she freaks out

what really happened: she couldn't grasp directorys, everything on desktop. when the desktop has no more space :^) she put the stuff in the bin

once in a lifetime opportunity to sell a display as storage unit missed

>How do we increase the populations tech literacy?

Why the hell would you want to increse peoples tech literacy.
The majority of people here, including yourself OP, live off of tech illiteracy.
Hell if that greentext story is true, you have it better then most of the other people here.

and another one
>be apple genius
>notice security cams in store
>IS&T team, more knowledge then the rest of store, notice ip on surveillance screen
>scan subnet, all the cameras
>connect to ip, it's web based
>google model, get defaults, they work
>tell boss because mah security
almost got me fired for messing with stuff i'm not supposed to, see

>using the smiley with a carat nose

Actually when is started with the company I was originally hired under an assistant regional position because of my training in management and solid mix of big picture and detail skills. But at the last moment they said the person who was going to step down decided to stay and I was offered a secondary position as an assistant facility manager for less pay. Given I had been unemployed for nearly two years since graduation I gladly took it.

As for the idea of maintaining a poor system it does makes sense given your dark outlook, which I had failed to think about given my natural naiveté to most political matters.

Since I have been checking these things I have found the Logistic/Warehouse part of the company has been doing very well as the Storefront/Local been hurting badly. Many cases of incomplete asset transfers add up to a significant amount of this as one part seems to be off loading their problems onto the other. But right now the company is bragging its improvement and overhauling of the Logistic/Warehouse side to increase shareholder profits, these cross check lists show errors on the Logistic/Warehouse side that cost the Storefront/Local a great deal of money. Oddly enough a few years ago it was better Storefront/Local units that was to increase shareholder profits. But overall the whole company has been slowly but surely losing ground which anyone doing a complete picture study would have to notice.

Since I have started hunting for these errors, which everyone it told to look for but never given anytime to actually look for, I have found lots of lots of them. My reviews have dropped sharply since I found a very massive one a few weeks ago. This has improved my facility budget and hurt the warehouse that supplies my location. But that is purely circumstantially at this point, as that is a crazy claim to make. It is ludicrous, like something out of a bad spy novel.

>As for the idea of maintaining a poor system it does makes sense given your dark outlook, which I had failed to think about given my natural naiveté to most political matters.
You'll get in a lot of trouble if you're not careful.

Not only that, but if a modern megacompany boasts it has uncrackable security and the utmost efficiency, it means if anything goes wrong then organizations involved in prosecution can blame them directly as you indirectly take responsibility for any failure by admitting to the quality of your security and processing.

This is why the biggest companies always seem so incompetent - it's an incredibly powerful position to have in court.

Bad spy novels are based on real practices. Don't fuck with anything beyond your strict job description and practice your hobbies at home or with your own small company. There's a reason people are taught in school to read off material instead of experiment.

Incompentence or average performance also provides service jobs for the people who come and provide temporary patches to the leaks of only average effectiveness. One day people like you will work yourself out of your own job. My old man did the same thing with safety work on a nuclear plant - he came up with measures and designs, team structures, service links and even actual construction work that was so effective that they didn't half his staff anymore and eventually not even him.

Keep this in mind, talented people.

Maybe your dad should've patented the measures and procedures or at least become a manager before implementing them

I don't think you saw my other post
I am certainly not the weakest link in the company and I document all my actions in detail.

As for the very real issue of technology replacing workers, I do think about it.
But I am not as personally concerned as the work load they give is unrealistic and I am striving to meet it, not blow it away. I have been a victim of my success far too many times to do that again, partly why getting a job was so hard as everyone thought I was too overqualified or stupid given I have lots of trouble writing stuff so the placement exams make me look nothing like my past exploits.
Also they have such a bad under staffing and turnover rate they would be suicidal to fire me at this time as I am covering for 3 other people who walled off in the last month. Also most of the companies work is the low wage stuff which is complicated to replace, so I have a number of demotion positions I can take to hold me over if required.

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I always hear that IT is a high paying job, but all the stuff i hear IT fixing is just simple ass shit. Why do I need to waste money on a degree when I know more than half the cucks that even work in IT and have a degree.

Guess this is a story of both my own illiteracy and that of the staff at my used-to-be school.
>Sixth grade
>It's cool to have a lot (200+) of logins at school website, even tho u only can see schedule and grades
>Be not cool kid, only 120 logins.
>Write shitty script to log me in a couple of thousand times
>Instant cool kid, life's good
>Months later, called to principal
>Comp staff guy goes on a rant about sabotage, sees me as evil hacker kid, overloading school server comps.
>Barely get off the hook, I guess they understood after a while that I genuinely had no intention of doing anything harmful.
I had no idea that I had DDOSED the school's servers, but I don't think it can have been as sever as they put it. I blame the school though, handing out laptops to students and expecting them to know shit, we had no classes in CS or anything.

Keep in mind, these are the same people who insist that you should buy a more expensive HDMI cable for better signal quality.

I avoid best buy as it is never the best buy, expect in rare cases.
Also always get threatened by manager for starting trouble.

The dude was trying to sell some old lady an SD card that was much more expensive then what she needed as her camera as it could not support the new speeds.

It's like selling a USB 3.0 drive to a person who has only USB 2.0 and doesn't plan to upgrade in the next several years. Not only does that do a disservice to that customer, but it means when I want to buy the new stuff they have sold out to other people who can't even use the tech.

>young as fuck, dont remember age
>out with mother at the bank, running a few errands on the way
>come home to find dad playing zoo tycoon on the coffee table
>200% baffled
>"holy cow you can run a personal computer without a desk?"
>to this day im still laughed at for not knowing better
im still fucking retarded because i havent charged these fucks for being their tech support. thanks for appreciating me grandma

ayyyy whats gud /lgbt/ senpai if you aint trollin u wanna post gay shit

Why blame the EU?

It has always been the case that if you care about earning money you move to the US

IT is usually 90% simple shit that anyone with any computer skills whatsoever could fix and 10% complicated shit that you need extensive domain knowledge for and if you fuck it up the entire company could be ruined.

High paying is debatable, depending on where you live.

>paranoid aunt asks me if I am a hacker
>"Do you even know what hacker means?"
>"Of course!"
>"Define it."
>she looks frustrated and walks away

You should go to college and take a class in logic.

She was frustrated that you wanted to argue semantics rather than answer her straight

wrong hacking describes a trial and error process i.e. you are inputting random wrong shit until something unintentional occurs

Sup Forums is all script kiddies, not hackers, because they copy the hackers'efforts.

No, she couldn't define it. Semantics has nothing to do with it since someone is objectively not a hacker just for using a terminal.

its called compliance dumb fuck

literally kill yourself.

>Be me
>Be 12 or 13 y/o
>Facebook was blocked in the highschool network
>Do a phishing Facebook page than sends me username and password of someone who try to login
>Told about it to a random guy
>He logged in
>Got his account info
>Post shit
>Get banned for 7 days from highschool

unlucky

Why would you want to

pretty sure its their job at best buy to disservice customers like that
i always avoid best buy too because i know they wanna fucking scam people

>once in a lifetime opportunity to sell a display as storage unit missed
We'll see about that. ;^)
>teacher comes back complaining
>didn't increase her storage one bit
>pissed off
>wat do

Fucking kill me. Or them.

Here's what happened when I did this:

>Have long list of shit that needs to be input into a spreadsheet a certain way
>Get 20 meter dot-matrix printout
>Ask if they have it in digital form
>They do
>they just printed it out "to make it easier" for me
>Gives me a file instead
>Script excel macro to do two weeks of work in an hour
>Boss is amused
>Work there every summer for the next three years automating their shitty manual reports

>dot matrix is not digital

>18k images
>Charged €50
You either fuck him straight in the ass or you don't charge people at all for shit like that. 50 yuro for 18k photos? Fucking seriously?

I check both company policy and state and federal rules, there was no compliance failure. The information never left company property, was never unsecured, not used for ill gains, or jeopardized the companies image or interest.

My security measures exceeded that of all current company requirements. So one would have very hard time claiming security issues, as the rule is "meets or exceeds" not "strictly follows" as I think many of them never bother to actually read the wording. They asked for 128 bit protection I used 256 bit protection, is anyone going to build a case that 128 is more secure then 256?

My minor was in business law, the guidelines were very interesting reading. They was some ambiguity of making copies, which is the only area one could make a decent argument, but it was done in the interest of the company and was not in direct violation with any other rules so it could not be conclusively shown that I violated it as the wording is ambiguous.

That was the original plan.

Just import the data, covert, drop in excel, execute macro, done. Cost $0 + ~3 hours, given that I spend 2 or 3 hours a day doing this every day it really adds up to automate it.

Setting up the image recognition system was a big extra step, thankfully the from layout was constant so I could manually per-set fields, else I doubt I could have figured it out without making it a full scale job.

>your job depends on the ignorance of others

This is why we're so fucked up. A smart population cant survive in a world where everyone depends on their salaries to survive.

And some self entitled faggots still think theyre doing society a favor when they have a certain overspecialized job

come on man the people at our best buy at least know what a fucking video card is.

Why is that? It doesn't make sense