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How would you teach digital literacy to 13-18 year old students?
  • Follow-up: teach them to learn to troubleshoot and search. Take the fear of breaking something from them by providing them with a VM with windows where they need to fix something or install a driver. Provide them with a Linux VM just for them to try too.

    Teach them mistrust. Make them upload things to a copy of Google docs or something, and then show how you have access to everything.

    Teach them about open source as a precondition for being able to trust software.

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    How would you teach digital literacy to 13-18 year old students?
  • I would go with tasks where they get to "hack" or learn about each other. Give them usb sticks, make them put a silly trivia on an encrypted 7z with passwords that are somewhat crackable. Then, take their usbs from them, and distribute them randomly, and let them use jack the ripper or so. Twist, you would have added a virus or something into the USB stick, so they get infected with a "silly pop up" once they start jack the ripper. They get to play, and the exercise will stick with them.

    Teach them about 10 minute mails pages, to open a silly account t somewhere.

    Make them use a VPN like mullvad or some that you have set up to access a specific page or make web searches. They can notice the difference in content depending on the country they are exiting with. Twist: you control the VPN, provide them at the end with a list of accessed pages so they understand how the vpns do not ensure privacy. Explain simply what a VPN is (tunnel,etc).

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    Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”
  • Not even, it will suffocate on its own by having the capitalists keeping their changes from each other. Like a bucket of crabs; where if one crab is about to get free the others grab onto it and pull it down.

    Kernels really benefit from being "forced" to share the code changes as the GPL license, they are too tied to HW, and HW needs a lot of capital when iterating.

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    Failing Manufacturers Are Pushing the Narrative That Consoles Are Dying, Says Ex-Xbox Exec
  • I upgraded my Steamdeck joysticks to a 3rd party with hall effect sensors, the ssd to one with double the capacity, and the fan to one that is silent. There's people that have upgraded even more things, to the point of using a pcie flat cable to connect a full pcie GPU card.

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    Why are so many leaders in tech evil?
  • He is now slowly trying to buy what rich people normally can't buy; acceptance and recognition. Don't fall for it. He keeps doing the same criminal things in parallel. The world would be better without him and people like him.

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    BMW Adaptive Suspension Can Be Added via Subscription. Suspension As A Service (SAAS)
  • I wrote it as a tongue in cheek against the OP that said "..I really hope the tech crowd is working on jailbreaking this garbage".

    Surprise surprise, that comment is sitting with 49 upvotes 1 downvote, mine that you admonish is on 27 upvotes 13 downvotes.

    This kind of proves the point. The "tech crowd" doesn't owe you anything. Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world, you don't know how much of my personal and professional life I have spent fully on open source.

    Get up your feet and talk with your family, representatitives. Legislate this shit away. Nobody accepts food products that dont have a recipe or with unknown ingredients. Nobody accepts engineering projects without plans. Demand open source and interoperability.

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    BMW Adaptive Suspension Can Be Added via Subscription. Suspension As A Service (SAAS)
  • We try. We also pivot to open source to try and regain control because it's the only way. We even share our passions with those who ask.

    You folks just roll your eyes and put more money on their hands.

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    Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements
  • I just setup an old friend couple new computer with Windows. We lost a full day as the HP printer didn't work (yet worked via Android and my linux laptop without installing absolutely anything), Outlook doesn't save passwords (so we moved to Thunderbird), chrome is a mess (so we moved to Firefox + unlock origin), Microsoft excel is incredibly expensive and refused to open the only spreadsheet they needed (so me moved to libreoffice)...

    A fucking nightmare. And everything worked fine with FOSS or on my laptop.

    Just stay away from nvidia on Linux and you are golden.

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    Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia
  • https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signal-isnt-as-open-source-as-you-thought-it-was-anymore/

    https://www.xda-developers.com/signal-updates-public-server-code/

    https://tech.hindustantimes.com/mobile/news/signal-updates-its-open-source-server-code-after-nearly-a-year-71617778373810.html

    Look into their MobileCoin and how they implemented it. They are just banking on people forgetting about it.

    Anybody pulling these antics with a cryptography product loses my (and others) trust immediately. I'm a security soft dev, and my colleagues and I migrated to Element and Matrix network when it happened. I remember the disgust vividly.

    Of course all of this is not going to be the Signal wikipedia page.. It's amazing how their fanbois work.

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    Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia
  • That argument makes absolutely no sense. These server-side code does almost nothing. The only task it really has is passing around encrypted packets between clients.

    So it knows about all metadata, plus registration with phone number, etc. got it.

    The Signal protocol, which is used for client-side, local, on-device end-to-end encryption has always been fully open, and it can be used by any app/platform.

    you conveniently leave out how you need to use the client built by Signal, with dependencies from Google Services and the like, and you can't use one built from the source they provide. Which at that point means they can introduce whatever they want in whichever version.

    Decentralisation is the only safe way.

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    Signal has been blocked by Venezuela and Russia
  • And before lacked this and that. It keeps improving, contrast to Signal having the server code closed source for more than a year so the Signal devs could get a headstart and insider knowledge in their Signal-included crytpo coin grief.

    How one can trust Signal after them showcasing what they truly stand for is mind blowing.

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    India in despair as Olympic wrestler disqualified from final despite cutting hair off
  • She weighted 2 kilos more than allowed the day before, putting her over 50, even almost making it to 53 which would be 2 weight classes over.

    They put her in dehydration, diet, "trash bag" running to get all sweat out, a Sauna in the morning of the weight-in (but she wasn't sweating anymore), they removed blood from her, and as a last measure, cut her hair.

    She failed.

    She needed IV injections right after the moment of the weight-in by the committee. She then was hospitalized and remains hospitalized. It seems that luckily she is fine.

    Disqualification is there to prevent countries pushing their athletes through these ordeals, which have long-term consequences on their health.

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    India in despair as Olympic wrestler disqualified from final despite cutting hair off
  • ???

    She weighted 2 kilos more than allowed the day before, putting her over 50, even almost making it to 53 which would be 2 weight classes over.

    They put her in dehydration, diet, "trash bag" running to get all sweat out, a Sauna in the morning of the weight-in (but she wasn't sweating anymore), they removed blood from her, and as a last measure, cut her hair.

    She failed.

    She needed IV injections right after the moment of the weight-in by the committee. She then was hospitalized and remains hospitalized. It seems that luckily she is fine.

    Disqualification is there to prevent countries pushing their athletes through these ordeals, which have long-term consequences on their health.

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    Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users
  • Conservatism is dead. Climate change is scientifically proven to be catastrophic.

    If we do nothing, change will come to us, and fuck up everything. If we elect to change our society and systems, we save ourselves but our way of living changes.

    One way or another there's change. There's nothing to conserve. Stop yelling and kicking like an irrational kid trying to save conservatism and crony capitalism.

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    Mozilla rolls out first AI features in Firefox Nightly, and theyre actually useful.
  • If it was truly opt-in, it could be an extension. They should not be bundling this with the browser, bloating it more in the process.

    The extension API doesn't have enough access for this.

    You technically can run your own local AI, but they hook up to the big data-hungry ones out of the box.

    While it is opt-in and disabled by default, this is the real problem.

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