In my 20’s, a girl in bar queue told me that she knows how to compile kernel from the source. I asked her to marry me instantly, but unfortunately she was not available.
Single software engineer can nowadays do more harm than most of other engineers. Just one SQL injection and all the people’s personal data have been leaked. Single bug in car self driving software and the car drives in to school bus.
I would suggest more learn by doing approach. Learning OSI model etc is nice, but it is quite jargon :)
Use some old PC as a server, and get some network cards into it, and use it as firewall/router. Route your home network/NAT/DNS/DCHP through it. Raspberry Pi’s are nice, but their hw is still bit limited.
OPNSense is quite nice and easy free and open source firewall/router solution.
If you want to add bit of flexibility, you can use some virtualization platform like VMware in to the machine, so that you can run OPNSense in it, with some other virtual servers.
Then when you get things working, you can start looking in to VLAN’s, because they are quite important part of enterprise networking. Most cheap switches nowadays support VLAN’s out of the box.
Could be easily made 50% space saving by only iffin all odds and return even on else. Maybe one if before to handle overflow to avoid wrong even if over the last if.
Filesystem itself is fully ok with it, space is just a character as any. Problem comes with console.
e.g. you want to delete file called “not important.pdf”.
You type in: rm not important.pdf, and hit enter. Didn’t hit tab because you knew the filename and didn’t arse with it.
Outcome is that you just deleted important.pdf which contained your crypto wallet address which you were suppose to tattoo on your left arm.
“spaces are explicitly disallowed in current standards and are substituted with underscores or full stops.” This is from warez scene naming convention. In general I think people used dots, but both are ok.
Space is still bad in filenames, really annoying to use in console
I use rasp as Bluetooth receiver for my home assistant sensors (Ruuvi tags mainly)
Yes, just flip binary directly to the cpu