In my experience (Germany, during the naughties) it was almost the opposite… All these folk that had been told “Go into CS, they make loads of money!”, while having near zero actual inclination for tech, were quite happy to let others write the code and then contribute mostly fluff (it’s not like they were enthusiastic about the reports either) otherwise… I’ve been filtering them out during interviews all the time and I guess they must be the enthusiastic users of LLMs for coding nowadays :-P

Mastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it “its own thing”. But I’ll stop arguing as it’s clearly pointless.

Mastodon didn’t invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth…

“Its social network”? Ewwww…

SSH certs signed by your own central CA (Most people aren’t aware of it, but OpenSSH can use CA certs), I usually set things up for ansible that way, but, of course, it works just fine for actual users, too (Why no ansible, though? It’s an extremely lightweight option that simply reduces common mistakes).