There's some evidence she's a cult member, and was posturing as some kind of Manchurian candidate.
No, really.
Mike Prysner has made a few decent podcasts (QAA, eyes left) following her political career and service. I don't think you can definitionally tie her to membership, but she's got some questionable associations.
Cisco has been clueless for awhile. The people who want speed don't trust them to do basic network stacks, they want to do something more complicated?
The HFT industry noticed Cisco was messing with routing stacks, and you can essentially look to the entire market cap of Arista as a direct result. Specifically people wanting to avoid the headaches of the nexus line (EOS is nice!).
They are the victims of their own success to the point they long ago cannibalized actual product innovation. A lot of the industry still wants their certs, but nobody I know who values speed (local stripped back switches) or stability/availability (AWS and minimal office equipment) would chose them for much. A lot of the purchases are from big players with long contracts, the "Nobody got fired for IBM" of network equipment.
This just screams moving deck chairs on the Titanic.
For the most part what kind of company you are is what kind of product you're selling or making money off of.
So you could contend that Tesla is a battery company or a car company feasibly. Nobody ahead of the AI bubble would have mentioned Tesla and artificial intelligence in the same category.
Besides, if it's what he makes money selling Tesla is a tax credit company.
I think it's grossly undersold personally. What valve has managed is getting the single target platform open source could never agree on.
It's a small miracle, and it bleeds over into stuff like device driver support in a way I don't think most people who didn't deal with Linux in the 2.x era immediately appreciate.
If Linux on the desktop has a surge, they did a lot of the legwork.
From a macro economic perspective, (and im not advocating for a conspiracy, just aggregate business interest) they're dropping energy usage so they can pay less on their electricity bills.
So actually a double fu. get less so they can pay less rent, to provide lesser service.
Because rent seeking is the only tech bubble left.
I didn't mean to imply they'd roll in buggy packages, by virtue of release; just that Fedora's function is typically regression testing for the money making product.
The testing is for the much more marketable enterprise window.
Generally Fedora's purpose is to make sure nothing gets into redhat (RHEL) Linux. So if there are breaking changes to things, you'll be getting them.
Historically if people had wanted to learn I'd push them towards Ubuntu because its Debian based, meaning familiar enough to most of what runs the modern internet that I could eventually (I'm not a Linux admin) fix.
These days if you just want to use it I'd pick Linux mint, just since they seem to be orienting towards that way. Arch or SUSE based something if you want to learn more about how the packages you install work together. But the choice in distro honestly feels more like an installer and package manager choice than anything. a distro is just a choice of which thousand things to hide in a trenchcoat.
I just ideologically don't like IBM and would rather hand in my bug reports to the volunteer ecosystem.
This is my one of my favorites for exactly this reason. Agreed, other than the triumph of what little humanity Ted has at the end there's not much in the story.
But despite being a famous asshole it always seemed Ellison loved this story, right down to actually re writing a happy end to the "I have no mouth..." adventure game in the early 90s.
Speculation on my part, but I always thought for a famous pessimist he thought his warning might make a difference, which is its own kind of hopeful.
Even if you're right, those organizations still have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing.
It's not a quick solution, but the answer is more education about the space, so that there are more voices.
Hey I'm you at almost 40! I was always dev adjacent, but never learned to do much more than basic scripting for work.
I started with a couple books: Chassels intro to emacs lisp and Python the hard way.
Python was helpful for a couple things, but the ecosystem is kind of a disaster. I found just the general emacs config helps quite a bit get your feet wet with lisp likes.
Other people have mentioned Go is a great start point because its simplified, and I've definitely found it a lot more helpful than the java and C compliers I tried to learn on in my teens.
The only other thing I'd throw out is Lua, it's super verbose in a way thats pretty easy to understand. it's also relatively easy to find programs like wezterm that are configured through lua and offer instant reaponses when you change something and see changes.
Just like any new language it takes time, and some hard work to internalize what youre learning, but I don't think there's a too old.
You don't have to be the best programmer ever to do useful things.
The adage if youre looking to split hairs and divide your Methodists is the united Methodists were always more free and the free Methodists more united.
Its a broad tent, most of which didn't directly mean evangelical when I grew up, but there's still free Methodists that don't believe in dancing.
Openly serving gay and lesbian clergy was the hot gossip 20 years ago, it's been a slow move but they got there.
Science of identity?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ashCzbsVdFI8ves0cF4HW
I hadn't heard of it til the odd confluence of seeing Prysner's name on QAA. His own podcast eyes left covers her recent bio.