Making all the weapons overpowered to match ruins the intended difficulty.

This is bad but the Fediverse is going to be just as, or even more, vulnerable to this kind of thing.

Openstack is like self-hosting your own cloud provider. My 2 cents is that it's probably way overkill for personal use. You'd probably be interested in it if you had a lot of physical servers you wanted to present as a single pooled resource for utilization.

How does one install it?

From what I heard from a former coworker - with great difficulty.

What is the difference between a hypervisor/openstack/a container service (podman,docker)?

A hypervisor runs virtual machines. A container service runs containers which are like virtual machines that share the host's kernel (more to it than that but that's the simplest explanation). Openstack is a large ecosystem of pieces of software that runs the aforementioned components and coordinates it between a horizontally scaling number of physical servers. Here's a chart showing all the potential components: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Openstack-map-v20221001.jpg

If you're asking what the difference between a container service and a hypervisor are then I'd really recommend against pursuing this until you get more experience.

Typically there's a period of responsible disclosure to give the software maintainer an opportunity to fix it before it's widely announced. After that period is up or the fix has been released the vulnerability discoverer is able to announce it and take credit for finding it.

You're making it that much easier for someone to brute force logging in or to exploit a known vulnerability. If you have a separate root password (which you should) an attacker needs to get through two passwords to do anything privileged.

This has been considered an accepted best practice for 20+ years and there's little reason not to do it anyways. You shouldn't be running things as root directly regardless.

One. Use a switch for networking.

Yes you are making an unreasonable complaint. You're complaining that the story doesn't include one particular niche element of interest to you and comparing it to having shit thrown in your face.

10mb is pretty much nothing. May as well just use Fail2Ban.

You know you goofed when Truth Social turns you in to the feds

Software engineers have ethics classes

We do?

Fwiw VSCode is an IDE.

He had plenty of opportunities to give the documents back and either say "oops, how'd that get there" or even do something outrageous like return it and then try to blame it on Obama, but instead he chose to repeatedly double down on "the rules don't apply to me".