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 Distros Arch     Arch, one of the few distros also well-known to outsiders.  This is the only distro I myself have experience with as well, seeing as I decided to be real cocky and thought I was ready for the challenge. Honestly, what I did just reaffirms the main stereotype about Arch users. It is kind of notorious for being a 'hard' distro, but in reality it is a bragging distro. From my experience, and apparently that of many others, Arch users are obnoxiously loud about the fact that they use Arch - they shove it into every single conversation whenever it even lightly grazes on IT/distros/Linux etc. As such, they actually have a bit of a bad reputation. As for the distro itself, it's.. barely a distro, as far as comparing to others goes. It is barren, and that is its advantage - it is ready from the ground up to use  set up! Every Arch installation is pretty unique in that it is designed by the person who installed it. Sure, other distros can be customized ...

 Ideals Passion     Honestly, saying that "passion" should be an ideal to follow when choosing what you do is almost akin to saying that the sky is blue. It is utterly unnecessary as it applies to literally everything . No matter where you go, the phrase "you must be passionate about what you choose to follow" gets hammered into you, and it never really helps. If someone has the possibility and willpower to follow their passion, they will. If they don't, they will not. It just feels like bragging by people who have managed to land a good life with a profession that fits their passions.  Freedom     Definitely the most defining factor of the hacker culture, and one that is becoming more prevalent overall and is definitely a reason for more people getting into IT. Government censorship and regulations are becoming more and more restrictive, and even common people are getting hit by geographically locked content and starting to use VPNs to bypass that as well ...

 Censorship and Privacy Censorship - Hate Speech and the Western World     Usually, the West is viewed as a frontier for "democracy". A shining beacon for human rights and a general leader in how to treat one's citizens well. However, recently I feel like this is really going down the drain and the reason is one that I honestly did not expect when I was younger, but is painfully obviously used as a tool for censorship nowadays. Yes, I am talking about "hate speech". This wonderful, all-encompassing word is the main tool that is being used in order to drown out anything that the government or particular companies do not want to see. What exactly encompasses hate speech is immensely vague and that fact is becoming a larger and larger issue. With the UK making hate speech a criminally punishable offense and a lot of other countries following suit, it is difficult to see a light at the end of this tunnel, especially when companies are fast to follow.     My favourit...

 Mitnick Formula Technology     By a long shot probably the most advanced part of Estonia out of the three tenets. Estonia is rather widely known for having been 'ahead of the curve' due to taking a very IT-heavy focus after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and it is one of the only things making our country unique and stand out. However, even though Estonia has "internet as a human right" and WiFi all over the place, the security is often very subpar, especially in terms of training/policy. The ID card is the most important document for any Estonian, and the IT infrastructure surrounding it is rather immense. I do not have any secret insight to the inner workings of the card or the network, but I know that keeping it secure is a constant priority. [Even though, that being said, the software for it is god-awful and many people I know have suffered nonstop problems with it]. No matter what precautions are taken though, it is only a matter of time before another vulner...

 HCI The bad Ethiopian Airlines 302 Probably one of the most disastrous plane accidents in the recent years, the Ethiopian Airlines 302 flight was one with a very, very short life. The plane in question was a Boeing 737, which is a rather important detail to note. Most notably, it turns out that six months before the aforementioned accident, another Boeing 737 had crashed, the reason being a new MCAS automated flight system. Even though there was very heavy backlash to the plane being kept in service after that, it was neglected and thus, the second accident happened.  What happened was very simple - despite the plane managing to take off, one of its angle-of-attack sensors (A sensor that mostly measures the yaw of the plane) malfunctioned. Merely a minute after takeoff, after the additional takeoff flaps had been retracted - our lovely friend MCAS took over and apparently shot the plane straight into a diving position. The problem with the MCAS system was that it relied solel...

 Professionality     The topic of professionalism is one that is very vastly debated amongst people, especially when a generational difference comes into play. Far as my life has gone, that also holds true. This is perhaps one of the most prevalent things I have noticed in my interactions with my parents, with whom I actually share two generations of age difference.      I cannot say much about the past, other than what I have heard - and it certainly does seem to match a very 'traditional' view. According to most of the older generation, professionals were very strictly either one of two things, depending on who one talks to. Not to any major surprise, what people define as a professional depends largely on their own life experience and who they themselves are.     For example - my father, who is a rugged electrician and an engineer, sees a professional as largely practical. He expects them to be very hands-on in their field and does not care at ...

 Help keep flame wars under control     This commandment looks great. Six words, all short and tidy-I mean.. The moral looks great. 'Flaming' - the act of getting excessively upset about something and starting to insult other(s) around oneself in frustration is very, very common on the internet and its several forms, be it on forums or in games. On one hand, it helps to relieve the pressure and stress of the person who is flaming - somewhat like a type of venting for the socially inept. On the other, it impacts the moods of everyone around the person to a very negative degree. More often than not, the person flaming ruins the moods of everyone around him without even managing to vent off their own frustration - therefore it is universally seen as an immensely harmful act by everyone other than the flamers themselves. The good     Helping calm down the person who is most frustrated (Or, at least, most publicly frustrated) can be a really difficult task, but manag...