Instead of starting from the code, start from the problem you’re trying to solve. You want a program that guesses numbers randomly in a loop? you need a way to make a random numbers and a way to make loops, which are units small enough to maybe remember whenever you need them with a little practice

The cloud is kind of an odd one out here, cloud providers are bringing in like half a trillion dollars a year from willing customers

Debian is perfect in particular for work. Stable, free, capable. Hardly more to want. And it’s been almost the only stable bedrock in my tech career of over two decades. I’ve probably made over a million USD with it, while everything else eventually gets taken by a corporation and becomes folly to build on. Free software forever

if you’re so generous Google why have you moved to stand between me and my hardware?

We as a society should be rethinking the term “security”, if it’s come to mean submitting to being jerked around however best suits some private company’s interests instead of our own. If there’s a central platform for its security benefit it should be democratically controlled instead of controlled by what are effectively feudal lords, or perhaps even an occupying force

I’ve noticed nary a thing except vapid media and social buzz. I’ve tried the tools themselves and they seem to waste time too often to be worthwhile