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Wonder if "barriers to entry" are knowledge contexts, multiple Chesterton's fences¹ for learning, that convenience would only serve to endanger: * Hardware:
by turtleyacht 3y ago
Wonder if "barriers to entry" are knowledge contexts, multiple Chesterton's fences¹ for learning, that convenience would only serve to endanger:
* Hardware: how things fit together
* OS: partition, install, user accounts
* Static route: personal address to world
* Firewall: importance of default deny
* Domain Name: registrar, recurring cost
* DNS: finding other sites
* SSH: using keys, externalizing the self
* Software packages: dependencies
* Security patching: or else
* Backup discipline: also or else
The latter two surface themselves almost last in the list but could be the most critical and ought to be considered up-front.
What was previously thought as "haughty knowledge gatekeeping" turns out to be "a real concern" that smoothening out these friction points could lead to oblivious compromise.
¹ https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence