Jason2357
@Jason2357@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 5 days ago:
Are you familiar with a social media site where it’s common to post well-researched and cited position papers? A rant is about what I expect in a place like this. The goal, I think, is to start a discussion -which is where your commentors injecting nuance or level headed opinions comes in. I personally don’t know what the solution is, but students using AI is an incredible experiment being conducted on the next generation. No one has anything but an opinion, because there’s no outcome data yet. My opinion is that it is scary as hell.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 5 days ago:
Offloading onto technology always atrophies the skill it replaces. Calculators offloaded, very specifically, basic arithmetic. However, Math =/= arithmetic. I used calculators, and cannot do mental multiplication and division as fast or well as older generations, but I spent that time learning to apply math to problems, understand number theory, and gaining a mastery of more complex operations, including writing computer sourcecode to do math-related things. It was always a trade-off.
In Aristotle’s time, people spent their entire education memorizing literature, and the written world off-loaded that skill. This isn’t a new problem, but there needs to be something of value to be educated in that replaces what was off-loaded. I think scholars are much better trained today, now that they don’t have to spend years memorizing passages word for word.
AI replaces thinking. That’s a bomb between the ears for students.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 5 days ago:
Comparing with phones is odd, as we shouldn’t have allowed them in schools in the first place, and are starting to ban them in schools all over the world.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 5 days ago:
They are not actually encrypted (anything like that on the box is basically a lie). Just pre-arrange code words for emergencies and use a “handle” instead of a name. Old school works.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 6 days ago:
Aside from the snark, I hope you are right.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 6 days ago:
Not only that, imploding could further inflame the world. If a collapsing us goes into Greenland, and the EU splits in half over whether to side with Denmark or the US (remember, Poland is totally dependant on US nuclear deterrent, they are not likely to abandon that). That will empower Putin to move in. That China will be unrestrained is not even questionable. Things will get hotter everywhere.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 week ago:
Oh neat. I was scared off by OIC going to a data “blob” backend store. I want my files still accessible directly if the database blows up. Looks like opencloud gives you the choice: nexus.opencloud.community/…/storage-backends/
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 1 week ago:
replaceyourboss.ai Be the change!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The small kobo kinda fits in a jean pocket, easily in cargo shorts or inside jacket pocket. Only comfortable for reading novels though. I prefer a little bigger even if it isnt pocket size.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
EInk gets expensive fast as the size gets bigger. At 10” its hard not to just use an lcd and bigger battery.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Not sure I agree. Centralizing storage, and especially memory, creates incredible round trip costs.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
That would still pressure the browser teams to work on memory optimizations.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, this could spell the end for local installs of Microsoft office. Gdocs and o365 for everyone. Not sure if thats a win or loss.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Im really surprised Microsoft hasn’t already come out with a chrome-os like neutered version of windows specifically for this.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Most everything on the desktop is going to be light on ram except the web browser and electron apps (i.e. web browsers). Games use a lot too, but thats less of an issue because you don’t tend to multitask as much with games. Using onetab or some other way of limiting browser tabs severely helpa a lot.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Same here. Modern 32 gb machine from work is a slot. 2 minutes from wake to actually working, can be 10 seconds just to use the start menu sometimes. Older thinkpad with 16gb and linux/cosmic desktop - wakes almost instantly and perfectly snappy for most things.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 3 weeks ago:
The company was literally founded on the principal of “thanks for all the free software I learned on, from this point forward, everyone needs to pay (me) for everything and sharing is bad”. Sort of paraphrased from Bill Gates email to the hobbyists. Then it got big by selling vapourware based on nepotism and then nearly stealing a product to fill the order. Then they got their fingers into legislators and it got worse for everyone.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 3 weeks ago:
You literally wrote 2000 in the first line.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 3 weeks ago:
XP was the first consumer OS with the NT kernel which was far far more reliable than win32 in the previous ones. I remember people bragging that they could leave their computer running and it wouldn’t crash -and that seemed crazy. I used windows 2000 for many years as a stripped down XP, but not many people got it. I think the interface peaked around 95, but the kernel was terribly unreliable.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 3 weeks ago:
Having played around with it recently, I have to say the ui was pretty bad (try it: www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.11/ ) Go to Windows 95 and you get all the basic desktop ui principals that modern desktops use.
- Comment on Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. 3 weeks ago:
Corporate AI criticism always ends up being AI boosterism. This is just a way to laugh at “early” AI’s mistakes while implying that it will get good any day now.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like it NEEDS it for anything.
I see this take online a lot, but in person, everywhere I go people play netflix and whatever directly on their TV. I think there might just be a huge divide in perspective between those with and without game consoles of some sort always connected to their TV.
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 4 weeks ago:
Curious, they have been putting ads on the sticker on bananas like this since the 90s ish.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 5 weeks ago:
This absolutely. Anyone who actually wants open registration will be configuring their own SSO or whatever backend. The default should be safe for testing and/or hobbyists.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 5 weeks ago:
To anyone afraid of the above conclusion, a dedicated $5 VPS with automatic snapshots get you a long way.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 5 weeks ago:
Any time you have a server willing to process random data uploaded from randos, just expect it to be compromised eventually and prepare for the eventuality by isolating it, backing it up religiously, and setting up good monitoring of some sort. Doesnt matter if its a forge, a wiki, or like nextcloud or whatever. It will happen.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 5 weeks ago:
We also have COW filesystems now. If you need large datasets in different places, used by different projects, etc, just copy them and use BTRFS or ZFS or whatever. It wont take any space and be safer. Git also has multiple ways of connecting external data artifacts. Git should by default reject symlinks.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 5 weeks ago:
Theres a HUGE difference between hosting it essentially read-only to the world, vs allowing account creation, uploading, and processing unknown files by the server.
I have thought of blocking access to the commit history pages at the reverse proxy to cut off 99% of the traffic from bots. If anyone wants to look at the history, its just a git clone away.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 5 weeks ago:
You can git pull a repo to your machine, make your changes and then use git to submit a patch via email. Its not pretty, but it works. Hopefully federation is built soon and you will be able to submit a pull request from your own forge.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 5 weeks ago:
While good, network security isnt the issue. Its running a web service with open registration allowing randos to upload content that gets processed by the server.
Throw this up on a dedicated $5 VPS and you still have a problem. The default should be manual registration by admins.