It’s a complex and polarising issue. The main problem is that some, sometimes most, of immigrants don’t want to assimilate. They are creating ghettos, don’t respect local laws. Other issue is that governments prefer to spend tax payer money for accommodating immigrants instead of solving nation’s issues.

I wouldn’t limit immigration per se. I would limit unchecked illegal immigration and spend more money on assimilating immigrants that want to contribute to a country they moved into.

If it’s a motivation issue, you will need to figure it out on your own. I could give you some advice but motivation depends on a specific use case. If you want I can share what motivates me but there’s no guarantee it will work for you.

As for getting back on a tech horse, there’s a trick I’ve been using every time I was learning a new thing and it worked every single time. I start with a project idea. I write down the major goals I want to achieve and start working on it. At first I do the “quick start” adjusted to fit my project. It usually ends up with a working proof of concept and a list of things I don’t know/understand. Next, I learn about the those unknowns and update the project with what I have learned. This raises more unknowns which leads to more things to learn about. After few iterations, when I’m happy about the project, I start a new, more complex project. And so on.

I use SMS and good old phone calls. You would be surprised how much people freak up when you call them. For work I use Slack, sometimes Teams. And on rare occasions, Messenger to talk to some family members.

edit Forgot about emails. I use it for more planned communications.

I don’t have a response to share but I always lose my mind when I see AWS error messages, especially when using bazillion layers like CDK for Terraform, executed from the shell script that runs a python script in the CI/CD pipeline.

One of the issues I will never forget was the debugging of permission issue. Dev reported an issue, something like “cannot access the SQS queue from a recently deployed script”. The error message was like “cannot access the queue due to missing policy in assumed role” (or something similar). So, I have checked the python script and related policies - all good. Next I’ve moved to a shell script, still no luck. After that I went through the CDK files, no issues. I was about to involve the AWS support when it turned out that the queue name has been changed manually in the AWS console. AWS, instead of point out that the queue is missing, raised an error about missing access permissions…

Raspberry Pi + plasma big screen and you can make your own Linux TV box

Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.

And my favorite: If you’re good at something, never do it for free.

Please, explain like I’m 5 how do I lack empathy for the people.

Check my other comments in this post and call me a right-wing…

Is there is something that I miss here?

Lemmy is a left-wing echo chamber. I consider myself as a centrist. I’m pro same sex marriage, abortion and few other lefties things. But once I say that the unchecked illegal immigration is a problem I get called a fascist, racist and whatever it’s trendy on the left side.

Too soon?

This is the hill I’m going to die on. I will continue to ingest text or die trying.

VSCode is open source and yet Microsoft still pushes telemetry crap into it.

There’s nothing wrong with proprietary software as long as it’s respects user’s privacy and doesn’t do crazy licensing stuff.

And the solution for world hunger is to distribute food from rich countries into the poor countries. Here, I’ve fixed the famine issue. Do you get my point? It’s easy to say what to do but when it comes to the details, all those preachers fail short in giving the real solution to the real problem. As I said before, this is just a rant about how bad modern world is.

I think we have read a different blog post. There was something about Google’s antitrust thingy and that all big tech should be regulated but no straight solution were given.

Again, I agree withe the thesis but honestly, anyone who’s focused on privacy would tell you the same but in way fewer words.

BTW, similar issue was raised in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Pretty good read.

Let me save you the time and summarize the blog post - internet got worse, big tech is bad and the author is just ranting how bad it is nowadays. Nothing new, no idea how to fix it, just complaining about the modern world.

I’m not saying the author is wrong. It’s just I heard this many times before.

In other words, NSA looks for a new way of plating backdoors.

Start with learning about containers. Docker will be good to start with. Learn how to build images, how to run containers, how to connect multiple containers, etc. Next jump to Podman and learn how to run containers as systemd services. It will give you the idea how stuff works behind the scenes.

Next step would be learning about AWS. Since you prefer the hands on way of learning, create a simple project, e.g. a blog, put it in a container and move it to the cloud. ECS would be a good place for that. Once you have it up and running, add more things to the project - Cloudwatch logs, metrics and alerts, Cloudfront to serve static assets from S3 bucket and dynamic content from the ECS container. Next add more stuff like “background” container to handle asynchronous tasks like sending emails, processing image uploads, etc. You could also use Lambda for that. From there you might want to jump to VPC and learn how to hide your containers/Lambdas from public access.

Now, knowing how the basic things work in the cloud, it’s time for some devops learning. Learn how to deploy infrastructure using Terraform of Cloud Formation. You could also look at Ansible for configuring your servers. Good thing would be to learn about different tools for logging and monitoring like Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, etc.

Last but not least - CI/CD. Learn about different tools, learn how to automate various processes like deployments, tests, etc.

All those things are just a top level view on cloud. You will also need to learn about Route53, IAM, databases (RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache, etc.) and whatever you find useful in your project.

Keep in mind that using AWS is not free so always check the price and free tiers.

I know it sounds like a lot but you won’t have to learn all of it at once.

As for the certificates, I never was fan of those. I never took any exam as none of my employers required one. More important was hands on experience and projects I could show as a proof of knowledge.

I don’t know if I want to stay my whole life working on Cloud

I was lucky enough to start my career before cloud was a thing so I have experience with bare metal and virtual machines. Nowadays it’s little harder to learn this stuff but nothing stops you from setting up a virtual machine and learn how to configure various system services and 3rd party products like http servers, proxies, databases, etc.

ideally I’d like to work with actual computers rather than with cloud

For that I like to tinker with various Raspberry Pi based projects. It allows me to play with electronic circuits, Python, low level system setup and various hardware. I know it’s not directly related to managing servers but teaches me to look at a problem from a different perspective.

Winter is coming to an end. I’m going to start planning my garden and building raised beds.

Bitwarden or Proton Pass.