Daniel Thiele IT - daniel@dproject.de

The certificates I get are actually very theoretical. They are just to put them in a pdf and send that out along with my other references from school, uni and work. You can — and I did — install VMs and simulate stuff in Packet Tracer and the like for learning and practice, but a lot of it is just memorization of commands, terminology, and workflow steps on top of everything else. However, in order to memorize, learn, and demonstrate things better, I do have my homelab, documentation, Anki cards (flashcards), and whiteboards filled with notes and graphic-facilitation-style images. These are basically visual anchors and memory palaces that use the Loci and Major methods in ways I haven’t seen before. I record audio, do practice tests, use ChatGPT and NotebookLM, bought online programs — and if I were to show all of that, I would probably just confuse you, or it would take a lot of time to structure it and turn it into something you can read up on or watch as a YouTube video. I also pr...

 The German tax government seems to be advancing in ways that are quite alright IMHO. I think that ELSTER-Online and the use of AI and algorithms in processing the data is just fine and shows how the government can do things right and make progress in their "digitization" endeavors. Bielefeld is facilitating new AI enhanced workflows: https://www.radioguetersloh.de/nachrichten/kreis-guetersloh/finanzamt-bielefeld-testet-ki-einsatz.html I live in Gütersloh though, so I might not be processed by their AI, but I contacted the tax office in Bielefeld for an internship and maybe I will get some more info about the matter.

It was a lot tougher than what I expected. A lot tougher than my programming classes at the university even... A lot tougher than actual programming with assembler. Not because of math or logic stuff. Simply because of so many tools and options and paths to memorize. I guess if you have work experience in Linux for a couple of years it's a lot easier though.  Anyways I got some great "learnings" and learning techniques implemented which should help me now with the second part.

 A gas and energy provider close to where I live got attacked recently. Just because they unknowingly shared stuff publicly they were not supposed to. Using Censys Internet Map, Heise shows in their article that it was easy to access files via HTTP and network share.   https://www.heise.de/news/Stadtwerke-Detmold-nach-IT-Vorfall-offline-11082906.html As a "junior IT guy" who is just following the news about cybersecurity a bit, I am happy there is a need for professional help, obviously, but at the same time, when I read the comments from more advanced members of the community, I am getting afraid about how deeply rooted the problem is, including a false sense of security by government and community. https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/Kommentare/IT-Vorfall-Stadtwerke-Detmold-nicht-mehr-erreichbar/Was-will-man-auch-erwarten/posting-45741595/show/ The commenter here says that critical infrastructure is not "critical" enough to be secured properly. The standards a...

Here’s a cleaned, tighter version that keeps your voice—direct, first-person, no fluff. As I mentioned, I’m currently involved with a company called Helferline and I was also in contact with the Red Cross. Both asked me for a Führungszeugnis —so I got one. Given the current state of society and my experience with different companies in various ways, I’ve been thinking about implementing a kind of Zero Trust mindset in life.  Zero trust means "never trust (nobody, even myself), always verify". That means I want some verification that I can be trusted...as a person.  With that certificate, I’m adding a new “security layer.” In networking/security terms, you’d call this: Certificate-based authentication (and authorization) , built on a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) . If both sides verify each other with certificates (client and server), that’s mutual TLS (mTLS) . This is my way to show you that I can be trusted and my record is clean. Now—do you have something simi...

The truth is: it depends on who is asking. What do you need? What are you looking for in an administrator? Interface skills I studied Media Systems, which sits between media technology and IT. That gave me a broad foundation across fields and terminology. Even though I worked in graphics and management in the entertainment industry, I always had the IT basics with me. That helps me see both sides, communicate both, and do both. IaC (Infrastructure as Code) I have professional experience with Git, markup languages, scripting, and versioning. Even when I sat inside Art and Design departments, the work was usually part of software development for real products used by customers—and sometimes even architecture. Documentation Floor plans and graphics work (e.g., logical diagrams in draw.io) are part of my toolkit. I’ve done documentation and asset management. In games, “assets” are different from physical hardware, but the discipline is similar: we organized and managed thou...

You’ve seen AI image generators. You’ve seen AI videos with sound. You’ve heard that AI can even create games. The moment old clients and long-time friends started saying they don't need a concept artist anymore, I knew it was over. Not just slow—over.  The only reason why you did not hear about it is because while in the automotive industry they loose 50k jobs, there are not even 50k jobs in the entire German games industry to begin with. Last time I checked the games industry in Germany consists of about 11k jobs. That's also why I worked most of my life for companies outside of Germany. However in the games job market it feels like there are maybe five open roles worldwide. In Germany: basically none. The market was always tough. “Starving artist” isn’t a joke; it’s a business model. I still made it work for a long time and achieved some good things, that are now helping me to readjust. I got into it because colleagues and teachers pushed me, and I saw that it was possible...