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Those are very good questions! Your interest is admirable and can pay off in a lot of cool ways if you keep working at it.

Keep in mind that self-hosting (Systems Administration, among other kinds of specialties) is quite a bit different than programming but there will be some overlap.

Self hosting:

I think the youtube channel, NetworkChuck, is a great place to start. His videos are structured well and provide practical explanation to the tasks being taught

Take some time to learn networking - You may not want to get a technical certification but searching for CompTIA Network+ training can teach you what you need to understand how you can build out more complicated infrastructure

Docker is great, at the very least study containerization and virtual machines

Invest in hardware - consider a low end PC or raspberry pi (or other single board computer) that you can practice installing software or otherwise make mistakes without taking down your main machine

Think about what sorts of software you'd want to host yourself - there's loads of "Awesome-Style" lists to get some ideas of what you can run

It's a journey - You can learn a lot in a week, but don't expect to have everything flawless immediately. It takes time and regular practice.

Programming:

This is much more difficult to answer because you'll probably learn lots of languages. It's maybe more about what you want to program, as in "what kinds of things do i want to make".

YouTube, or if you have access, LinkedIn Learning, have loads of learning material. Search for terms like "android application hello world" or "first android app". Tutorials are plenty.

Invest in a book or review things like MIT's open courseware for computer science information. It will help with programming even if you're not learning a programming language specifically.

I use python a lot because it looks pretty and works - i can use CircuitPython to program microcontrollers (Adafruit products, for example) pretty easily.

Shell/Powerscript - these languages are about automating computer tasks. It can be very helpful in the realm of self hosting and worth exploring.

I haven't tried to do anything with android since java was the sort of default, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to start learning with android development - learning new programming languages can be easier when you already know how to program. Install Android Studio, go through some app development tutorials, and then experiment.

It's hard work to learn, but you'll be amazed with what you can do after regular practice!

That could be a fun kind of ddos attack for a botnet - compromise your competitors' machines and download collective TBs of infringing material, then report it as an anonymous whistleblower!

Tbh it's just hard to see the value proposition in the age of cloud computing. I think aspects of the underlying technology are cool but basically every crypto project that comes to mind has been an actual scam. Sure there's eth and RDNR that was built on top of it but why should i spend what will ultimately be more money in periods of high demand (gas goes up when more people use the network) when i can just plug my credit card into amazon or microsoft AND get the benefit of infosec regulation like PCI-DSS. Crypto just doesn't ever inspire confidence because bad actors consistently shit in the punch bowl while providing no extra utility over existing cloud providers.

When distilled down crypto-compute just seems like cloud compute with extra steps, which is already just using a computer with extra steps.

We already can rent GPUs to run AIs with tokens - those tokens are just managed by govt instead of some random.

I'm still in that "just build almost everything in grassy fields" phase but i chose train anarchy instead.

Terminal escape

Privilege escalation

Command injection

I was just gonna say. So many good memories with my dad going to Fry's. The sole reason i went HARD into techie stuff

Oh hey, it's that one dude who was paid by Russian state owned media :D

It's doubly messed up when considering the dealership [Rohrman] paid a bunch of money to the recent stadium renovation so they could have their name on the field [Rohrman]

I have 3 siblings, for a grand total of 6 in my family. Only my mom and I have passports. At present, despite all of us being born in the states and naturalized, only two of us have passports. So only two of us have standardized federal IDs that prove our citizenship. RealIDs are becoming more common, but nowhere near as common as a standard state driving license which does not prove citizenship.

So the requirement is going to require people to grab their birth certificates and social security cards which are not always available to every family member.

For example, my parents live out of state and have all the important family documents so 2 of siblings are screwed unless they make sure to grab those relatively sensitive documents and be prepared to carry them out and about then hang on to them for several hours.

It's impractical, and it wasn't a problem for the years leading up to my birth (96), wasn't a problem in '00 for bush, or '04 for bush, or '08 and '12 for Obama. It's suddenly become a problem because the GOP is getting called out for election shenanigans and they generally know unless they can make voting more difficult or less representative (through gerrymandering and goofy election maps) they will lose.

It does sound reasonable, but the existing mechanisms of enforcement and fraud detection have been, and continue to be, robust enough to keep voter fraud from having any meaningful statistically significant impact.

It only stands to make voting more difficult for most people.

Thank you! I think I got quite lucky with a near overhead pass in a more rural area.

I didn't know what WEFAX was, but I learned something so thanks!

It looks amazing! Way to go with the dipole. I've been trying to get a meteor pass with my dipole set up but it's tricky!

You probably wouldn't make a great candidate in a security focused knowledge domain. It's pretty evident you don't understand risk.