I'm also really afraid of snakes, but spiders are okay.
Movies with snakes are quite painful to watch too, and I'm very uncomfortable with snakes in video games, but at least I have some control (compared to TV) so it's a significantly better experience
Or maybe the author just wanted to share a nice drawing he did, without trying to start an intellectual debate on wether AI doing art is equivalent to AI doing code or whatever
I don't know why submitting a vulnerability on those platforms is still free. If reporters had to pay a little amount of money (let's say, 20-50$, or indexed to the maximum gain of a vulnerability in a given category) when submitting their report, maybe those would be of better quality.
I know that this poses new problems (some people can't afford to spend this money), but it would be better than just wasting people's time.
Unfortunately, the current way of how things work is, like you said, "deeply flawed". You will not change it in a few months, not even in a few years too.
What you can do, however, is to adapt to current threats, the same way adversaries adapt to countermeasures. Fully secure setups do not exist, and even if one existed, it would probably become obsolete very quickly. Like James Mickens said, whatever you do, you still can be "Mossad'ed upon". Should we give up implementing security measures then?
Thinking about security in a binary fashion and gatekeeping it ("this is not enough, this is will not protect you against X and Y") is, _in my opinion_, very detrimental.
Done is better than perfect, and a 100% secure system doesn't exist. Given how prolific those supply-chain attacks are, any mitigation (even if imperfect) seems to be good step toward protecting yourself and your assets
This is why I like the Try Hack Me platform so much. You have a lot of walkthroughs and guided challenges to get started and learn the basics; challenges get harder and harder with less and less help. You also have access to challenge write-ups even if you did not complete them, meaning that if you're stuck, instead of losing motivation, you can make progress.
They embrace learning for all levels and helped me so much getting into infosec professionally.
I've been building https://carryless.org, a pack manager for people liking outdoor activities (and ultralight weight wheenies). It is focused on user experience, clean and simple UI. Open-source[1], free forever. Here's an example of one of my packs: https://carryless.org/p/Q22oPD3V
It's basically inspired by LighterPack[2], but LP is left abandoned and the UI is quite hard to work with, unfortunately.
I'm teaching compsci at university, and since a few years I create all the material I use (slides, exams, sometimes booklets) in Typst. It does perfectly the job, and it's fast.
I'm 100% convinced, even tho I was not a big LaTeX user before, so can't compare the two.