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- Comment on Hackers use DNS poisoning on hotel Wi‑Fi to steal Microsoft 365 accounts 1 day ago:
DNS poisoning can steal credentials all bets are off as multiple security mechanisms have failed.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 1 week ago:
I take issue with the idea that a test can somehow measure intelligence. Standardized tests measure information and skills learned in class. When scores are lower is doesn’t mean the students are dumber. It means the school system is failing to teach.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 1 week ago:
Averages don’t take into account differences in income
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 1 week ago:
“Would someone think of the children” gets used way to much to defend policies that harm children
Surveillance and control around tech has become highly advanced which means that it isn’t trivial to bypass like to was before. Chromebooks get locked down heavily and everything students do is carefully watched and controlled. What’s worse is that kids who can afford a laptop will have a major advantage which will further increase inequality.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 1 week ago:
The public school system makes reading such a unpleasant experience that kids avoid touching where ever possible.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 1 week ago:
This is incredibly misleading in so many ways.
First off, having lower scores on standardized tests does not somehow mean that there is cognitive decline. You can not measure intelligence as it is an abstract concept that doesn’t have a clear definition to begin with. Even if you could, there is zero possibility of it changing in a meaningful way as humans are still humans. Technology is being scape coated here as it is a much easier answer than addressing the systemic issues with the education system. The average age of a person in the US is almost 40 which means on average a person hasn’t been in high school in 20 years. Public school systems have gone down hill significantly as the government is run by a voter base that cares way more about retirement and loweing taxes than it does on securing the future for young Americans. The “technology” problem is really just private equity and other large companies preying on the school system to sell destructive digital products to schools that can’t afford to hire more staff. Teachers don’t get paid much to begin with but it is way cheaper to pay a few thousand to a large company for a education platform than it is to hire a few extra people. Furthermore, students are now being subject to massive draconian style surveillance and other phycologically damaging techniques which lead to the destruction of identity and the death of creativity. No long are students allowed to explore the world as that would be far to dangerous. We put students in a phycological prison and then wonder why they aren’t doing well on tests.
- Comment on Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself 2 weeks ago:
The supreme court only really decides matters if constitutional law. Furthermore, for a case to get to the supreme court you need a bunch of the lower courts to have conflicting rulings. The supreme court only hears a tiny amount of cases per year so I don’t see why this would reach the top.
This would almost certainly be decided by a lower court. A ruling then could be appealed but unless there is something major (unlikely) chances are a decision by the court would stand.
- Comment on Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself 2 weeks ago:
This has nothing to do with Trump
X can be held liable regardless of what Trump may or may not be guilty of
- Comment on Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself 2 weeks ago:
How has X not been sued into the ground?
I’m not a big fan of CSAM laws but this sseems pretty horrific
- Comment on US | Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data 1 month ago:
The fine just as to be more than they make per violation
Location data is valuable but not that valuable.
- Comment on US | Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data 1 month ago:
The law lists up to a $5000 fine per violation
- Comment on Edge may reportedly leak all your passwords easily and Microsoft says it's "by design" 2 months ago:
At some point they will need to be decrypted anyway
I think this was done for performance and simplicity
- Comment on Edge may reportedly leak all your passwords easily and Microsoft says it's "by design" 2 months ago:
This requires reading application memory
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 2 months ago:
In your kids defense, Minecraft is amazing
Microsoft has just enshitified it
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 2 months ago:
You should see what they are doing to Minecraft
- Comment on GitHub Outages Since Microslop Acquisition 2 months ago:
It is impressive how bad Microsoft is fumbling the bag
- Comment on A college student is suing a dating app that allegedly used her TikTok videos to target men in her dormitory 2 months ago:
My bad…
- Comment on A college student is suing a dating app that allegedly used her TikTok videos to target men in her dormitory 2 months ago:
This is actually fucked up
She should end up being a victim of harassment or even rape due to this
- Comment on OnlyOffice invokes AGPLv3, says Nextcloud must restore removed logos in Euro-Office fork 2 months ago:
That’s not what this is at all.
Onlyoffice is Russian
- Comment on US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties 2 months ago:
Honesty I wouldn’t be surprised if they wrote the legislation
- Comment on Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore 3 months ago:
That’s never going to happen
- Comment on To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain 3 months ago:
Translation: we are screwed
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 3 months ago:
Why am I suddenly seeing hexbear here
- Comment on The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril 3 months ago:
I2p has some serious issues
- Comment on Microsoft admits its recent server-side "update" broke vital Windows 11 Start menu function 3 months ago:
Everyone has a test environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a separate production environment
- Comment on Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance 3 months ago:
You could also use i2p with encrypted lease sets if you want to hide your home IP address when remoting in.
Just keep in mind it will be very obvious you are using i2p
- Comment on Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance 3 months ago:
Snowflakes are different than bridges
Similar concept but Snowflakes are harder to block
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 3 months ago:
On a media server encoding is typically done in real time
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 3 months ago:
AV1 is getting note and more common
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 3 months ago:
What are the alternatives