hpc morgan brought the bacon!

I promise next time I will boost! Just want to say, I actually originally was going to the college I graduated from for Automotive repair as I had had internships in local shops and a fair amount of experience. I found out my college had an InfoSec degree and changed my degree that day I want to pass along something I heard from various mechanics, shop owners and even the head of that automotive dept at my college: "Your back will be shot by 40 so by that point you should be working towards owning a shop or specializing in more static experienced work like engine rebuilds so after removing the component from the vehicle you can sit in a normal chair and work on the component like you were at a desk." Anyone who has had to work under a dashboard will understand this.

I also want to fry a little bacon aimed towards certain webapp devs from the point of view of a sys admin... PLEASE do not assume your app will always be served at the root of the domain. Your webapp may be put behind a proxy where the URI changes. I.e. There are a ton of cases where I need to proxy https://example.com/index.html to something like https://example.com/my/custom/ui/index.com. The app would be running at internalhost:8080/index.html but I am serving to the end user via https://example.com/internalhost/8080/index.html. 

Admittedly this bacon is aimed at academic webapps that likely start out as a thesis project and then get adopted (og dev is a researcher first and not a CS major) but its a real pita when I run into it. It makes us admins then need to leverage all sorts of on the fly rewriting like via apache's mod_substitute to rewrite the contents of the html, css etc. just so your webapp can handle the proxy.

Final bacon is to remind new Linux users not to rely on ChatGPT. I am constantly catching my interns saying "just ask Chat" when it comes to dealing with Linux issues. I have found it often leads them well astray as its just learning via stack overflow and based on my logs (in a RHEL environment) from users trying to use sudo, there is far too much `sudo apt-get X`.