Good catch. I’m out of the job search market for going on five years and a lot has changed since then. It makes sense that the market is flooded and AI is probably being developed to “do it for us”.

I do still get feelers from recruiters though, and the jobs they share require a BS in CS or equivalent experience (usually 4+ yrs on the job). Would I get my CS degree again knowing what I know now? I think so. I learned a lot and met a lot of folks through internships. But none of my jobs have cared about my degree. They like my social skills, perfectionism and restlessness.

I’m just one person on an anonymous social platform. Take my opinions with a grain of salt. Developers definitely still have work, but you are right the the current outlook seems* bleak.

Coding for network security companies is a possibility.

*I haven’t asked anyone in the know.

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/71732414-its-always-dns

For the first time in over thirty years, the community college near me has had many members of the community advisory board (reps from various local businesses) that rep’d tech firms not even come to the advisory board meetings.

I take that to mean they’re riding the AI bubble, hoping to phase out much of their human workforce. That said, someone has to maintain the local infrastructure, and while data centers don’t employ many workers, they need some staff to watch over the systems. I also think networking still is a strong field, and obviously cyber security.

I have worked with several folks that were much better at their job because of self-hosting, so your experience there maybe isn’t as worthless as you think.

My advice would be to talk to recruiters and department heads and ask what they see themselves needing.

Its always DNS.

But seriously, I’m not familiar with qui, but there could be a whitelist approach to access by default. Maybe it’s blocking access until you whitelist or configure it to accept all.

Its not likely your local firewall is an issue since you can access other services, but the fact that you don’t know means you should find out. I think Debian uses ufw by default, but I think Debian ships with it disabled.