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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-May-2021 22:58:57 EDT lnxw48a1
   I suppose it is time to re-start on some courses. #Coursera, #Udemy, #Udacity, #LinkedIn / #LockedOut Learning ... here I come.
   1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 08:58:30 EDT GeniusMusing

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      @lnxw48a1
      What are you looking at?
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 12:10:29 EDT lnxw48a1

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         @geniusmusing Mostly the same stuff:
         * LAMP / LEMP / similar — Linux, Apache webserver (though I would also look at Nginx, Lighttpd, H20, Comanche, Cheyenne web servers), MySQL (though I’d also look at PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird), PHP (though I’d also look at Perl, Raku, Python, !TclTk, Ruby [and Ruby on Rails], JVM langs [Java, Scala, Groovy + Grails], JavaScript [and Node.js, Deno, Jsish])
         * Cloud stuff (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, IBM Cloud, CenturyLink Cloud)
         * C, C++, !DLang, Nim
         * Some of the NoSQL database technologies, such as Cassandra, Riak, MongoDB
         * MapReduce technologies, such as Hadoop
         
         Note that a mention on the list above does not mean I will actively focus on learning that particular technology, just that it is one that has a potential of being a focal point.
         
         One good thing about starting out so broad and zooming in a bit is that I have a few courses I’ve already paid for that are already in the zone. I can utilize some of them to steer me into the direction that works best for me.
         1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 12:32:02 EDT GeniusMusing

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            @lnxw48a1
            And I thought I was all over the place! :P
            
            About the only thing I would add is maybe Rust to the C, C++, !DLang, Nim list for consideration. Kind of reading the tea leaves it seems to be the way things are leaning towards in the future ATM.
            1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 13:13:48 EDT lnxw48a1

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               @geniusmusing Years ago, I was working on some #Java stuff. Seemed to be more complicated than necessary, but many of the things I was using at the time (XMPP server, various client / desktop software, Tomcat) were Java based.
               
               Then three things happened:
               1. $EMPLOYER made a strong turn into the Microsoft ecosystem, displacing most of the Java apps we used
               2. ${NYSE[ORCL]} bought Sun … and got Java, MySQL, and Solaris, along with a few other things. As expected, Oracle’s changes were overwhelmingly negative … but then, Sun was having trouble making money, while Oracle probably owns the US Mint.
               3. Soon after Oracle’s takeover, some really severe security holes started appearing in Java, eventually resulting in Java’s removal from browsers far earlier than notoriously insecure Flash’s removal
               
               I don’t trust Microsoft much more than I trust Oracle, so Microsoft’s Java replacement ( C# ) is mostly out of bounds for me, though I like much of what I see in #PowerShell.
               1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 13:30:42 EDT GeniusMusing

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                  @lnxw48a1
                  I thought that Microsoft’s Java replacement was TypeScript?
                  
                  PowerShell is one of those "Spider-man" tools.. "With great power there must also come great responsibility".
                  
                  I have made scripts (not available anywhere) that with a single command (two script downloads and execution of the scripts) I can disable the M$AV and get remote root access on a (at the time, it has been a while) fully patched 2019 hypervisor or server. The only thing I have yet to do is get it to run from the outside.
                  1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 13:34:59 EDT lnxw48a1

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                     @geniusmusing Typescript replaces JavaScript, which is a different language than Java.
            2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 13:38:26 EDT lnxw48a1

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               @geniusmusing I do have #Rust, #Cargo, and #Pijol installed on the main laptop and on the Win10 laptop, so learning to use Rust is something on my mind.
               
               Also #Go.
               1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 17-May-2021 19:09:10 EDT lnxw48a1

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                  Correction: #Pijul ... it is a #dvcs / #scm system written in #Rust, and an evolution of some of the ideas behind #Haskell's #Darcs, including fleshing out the theoretical basis and solving a couple of major bugs.