The people that care left months or years ago. I'm one of them. It was really easy, Github doesn't offer anything special.

Try and run a Pagerduty with the same level of attention to detail as Github. Far fewer people use Pagerduty casually. That Github has casual users and lazy users does not mean fault tolerance and high availability are 'completely irrelevant'.

At first it's a trial, experimental. Then it's standard, but optional and with incentives to do it. Then it's standard but you can opt out and there's lots of signs to tell you how. Slowly they make it more uncomfortable to opt out, and the signs disappear, and they berate you for trying it. Eventually it is no longer legal to opt out.

Any one step is hard to fight back against without looking like a loon to people who don't care about this kind of thing, and over the course of a few years you can take people gently through a process that, had it happened suddenly, would never have succeeded due to pushback.

It's not "no matter what they do" it's really that everything they do is wrong and there really are much better alternatives than the choices they continue to make.

No deliverability problems. The issues with self-hosting email are drastically overblown.

https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

The new addition: Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS critical components produced in a foreign country†† and all communications and video surveillance equipment and services listed in Section 1709(a)(1) of the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (Pub. L. 118-159)

††: For purposes of inclusion of UAS and UAS critical components, we incorporate the definitions included in the associated National Security Determination

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Worth a try.

This is, I think, because it's easier to learn than ever, ham radio equipment is more capable for a cheaper (adjusted) price, and ham radio has grown tremendously worldwide due to all barriers being lowered a bit.

CW is very popular, especially given all the other options that are easier.

That it's a smaller percentage of hams that know CW than before is another way of saying ham radio has expanded well beyond CW and the population has grown. But if you have a finite resource (bandwidth) and it's in significantly more demand than ever before, it's a hard argument to suggest that it's not 'very' active.

I started with software and have been expanding down the stack more and more, spinning some of my own (very basic) PCBs recently, and it's been a lot of fun. I think the other direction would have been harder, because the ~~core game loop~~ development cycle takes so much longer, and that would have made it hard for me personally to maintain motivation at the beginning.

Software by comparison has almost no barrier to entry and much faster iteration. It's also a lot harder to explain to my mom what I do.

I do think C was a great place to start. Going up and down from there is much easier than trying to go downstack from, e.g. javascript.

In Bash I believe instead of `ls` you can `\ls` to get the unaliased version.