“No code, serverless”

So, nothing, hosted on nothing?

At this point I trust “criminals” more than I trust giant media cartels. Copyright mafia can fuck right off.

Opens dirty trenchcoat

“Hey kid, wanna try some Flatpaks?”

Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our devices and set meaningful policy on them, to examine and terminate the processes that run on them, to maintain them as honest servants to our will, and not as traitors and spies working for criminals, thugs, and control freaks.

This is the crux of the entire article and the entire debate. If we don’t control our devices, then the devices will be used to control us.

You know nothing about the OP, besides the fact that he posts on Bash. IRC is very familiar to an older generation of users, and people join technical communities to learn new things. How is asking for help making people’s lives worse? RTFM is a common response, but first you need to know which M to FR in the first place, and a helpful nudge from someone in the know helps a lot.

God forbid a person doesn’t know something in a highly technical field. Not everyone is a CISCO certified network engineer, some people build home LAN networks for fun or self-host in order to learn new things. I highly doubt you never were stumped by a network behaving strangely, or had a brain fart moment and misconfigured something. Learn some humility.