What are some technical things that a normie can learn about

Impress your Norrie friends with
netstat -a

>>58559411
Better yet: tree. Simple and you can also make it recursive with goto so that it runs indefinitely.

>what most people don't know
Anything that isn't facebook.

>>58557572
>I can use the CLI reasonably well
That's more than enough.

If you want to learn more, then you need to know how to program, which will unlock an infinite gate of opportunity.

simple coding stuff

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>>58557572
Effective use of tmux
Scripting(current)
Overclocking
>Social Eng.
Cable Wizardry

>>58559430
Explain a bit?

>>58559468
I'm staying on the hardware/research side of CS. Reading code is fairly easy. Working with a team, do able.

Scripting (python for the normales)
Basic networking (TCP/IP, Layer 2, and (some) Application protocols)
Basic computer architecture
Basic OS theory/architecture

Just knowing the basics, if only from a theoretical standpoint (ie, not writing related code) can lead you to a better understanding of what is going on, lending you more information at the moment of solving problems.

>>58562140
Also DNS, ICMP (networking) and WEP, WPA* (wireless encryption/security).
Oh! And regular expressions.
Actually, start with regular expressions. They are easy (though they look daunting at first). Once you have down the basics look at grep, sed, and awk.