That’s the spirit

Feeling concern for the welfare of a corporation is a lot like caring for a lion or some other large predator. You don’t want to see it suffer but you know that it could turn on you at any moment, when it’s convenient for them.

Who gives a fuck about the travails of corporations on the internet?

Jokes on you, I already watch them at 0.5x speed

You horny bastards

You hate to see it, whomp whomp

The successful candidate

I’m probably in the same boat as you, I have zero formal CS education. The way I originally learned was various: by embarking on small projects, fixing broken computers so I could play games, reading books, watching videos. The key thing in learning any subject is to recognise that when you don’t understand something it’s usually because some foundational knowledge is missing. You cannot properly understand a computer file system before you grasp the concept of binary numbers, bits and bytes, for instance.

Lately I’ve been using Chatgpt. You can ask it to write code in any language. Ask it to solve a particular problem and then start dismantling the answer, step by step. When you don’t understand the answer, ask it to elaborate. For your purposes, you could ask it to script a port scanner on your home network. This is key skill for any aspiring hacker and if you can get that working on your LAN, those principles can be adapted to WAN. Get a copy of the CIA vault 7 library, ask chatgpt to explain snippets of the code. I would imagine you have to preface your questions as coming from a ‘white hat’ perspective or it may balk.

A basic grounding in computer science would be a good starting place.

Do you know the difference between the various processor architectures and operating systems? Do you know the difference between real time computers and interrupt based systems? Are you familiar with the seven layer network model and which layers the different services interact with the hardware and application software? Are you grounded in cryptography and the system of public and private keys, modulo operations, prime number factorisation?

This is assuming that you already understand coding and are proficient in at least one language. None of these skills and knowledge on their own are indispensable or completely necessary but these things are what computers are made of, how they communicate and how they are secured.

I would try the middle rock

It’s a little unfair to blame the EU for the credit crunch. Most of that was due to the Americans. Likewise, Brexit was a democratic action. The British wanted Brexit at the time.

The UK under the conservatives was the member state that applied the strongest austerity measures and it has been subsequently shown to be a mistake economically but it was a great excuse to advance their agenda.

Old and ignorant people voting against their own interests, populists and first past the post are the current villains. The British ruling class are all educated in the same few schools on the same topics, e.g. the classics and liberal arts. They have created a fetish out of business, home ownership and cars. The rational humanist does not have a place in this society. At least the EU is defending human rights and basing it’s decisions more firmly on enlightenment values.

What about raspberry pi? Instructions in their documentation

Why is my dog going nuts? Another victim of AI slop.

There are some examples of buyers exploiting the returns policy for expensive items. The buyer initiates a return of item but never sends it, gets item and refund.

Dude

You need to find someone you trust. There’s no technology that can prevent someone disclosing data if it’s their job to work with that data.

If you treat people with respect and pay them well, you will be amazed at what they give back. Especially autistic people, they tend to have high personal integrity.

We have to be the thing we want to see out in the world. If we want open source communities and an internet free of corporate influence then we have to do the work required to build them. It’s not going to happen by magic.

Something we can thank the Russians for and hackers everywhere.

The struggle is real.

Poweramp still going strong ten years later.