If you have more than one VPS to manage or multiple people that need access via SSH, you may want to look into using SSH certificates instead of keys. Keys get messy when you have to wrangle a lot of them and it's a real pain in the but if you need to revoke multiple. It does require more than just generating a key pair and giving it to the server to trust though.
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Same here. Professor was an absolute clown too, his example HTML boilerplate for some project we had to do had © 1996 professor dipshit This was early 2010s. He also took points off my midterm one semester for not surrounding my JS with comment tags since, otherwise it wouldn't run on Netscape"
China is about as communist as the DPRK is democratic.
There's one township that has full service attendants but nobody is going to get mad if you pump your own
Those servers have teams of trained individuals whose job is to secure them and keep them bulletproof. It's a bit different from grandma downloading random crap on her Linux mint desktop to be fair.
GPS gets down to 1cm or finer precision with an additional, stationary receiver, and time corrections. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-to-build-a-diy-gnss-reference-station
People have built DIY mowers utilizing tech like this. Problem is, the RTK receivers are far too expensive for all but the higher end mowers.
You can't inspect encrypted packets, what China does is network traffic analysis - examining headers and figuring out patterns based on metadata. They don't care much about what's being transmitted if using a VPN alone is enough to land you in trouble.
YouTube series by BurningIceTech, and either spin up VMs yourself to familiarize with group policy, management console, services, event viewer, and basic CLI in Linux, or buy the labs from comptia. 1101 and 1102 are heavily focused on ports and protocol overviews, raid, windows settings, and basic troubleshooting. Take good notes since you'll build on the A+ stuff in Net+ and Sec+ if you take those too.
If we approach it from a game theory perspective we all lose. Third party ftw
I'll do you one better, shoot a BFG to kill a docker container. https://github.com/gideonred/dockerdoomd