There was something special about col. Carter reverse engineering some alien tech using just an oscilloscope and pentium computer with a CRT monitor in a bunker that I think might not be possible to recreate in trek. I’d love to see them try.
You have the right attitude and I hope you are able to successfully shop around. Some institutions are paying below living wages to overworked and precariously employed instructors. Of course they phone it in. Those places are not worth your money and just trying to cash in on the “diploma” ==“job ticket” mentality.
Find a place that actually gives a shit about education and you should find professors interested in actual education that will see your attitude as refreshing.
40 years of telling kids a degree is a job ticket rather than explaining the value of a liberal arts education.
Every time I see k12 education discussion focused on “preparing kids for the job market” I cringe. Its the cart before the horse and just as agile.
Maybe we stop calling them “moderates”?
A paper notebook is basically the same fundamental as a password manager but with a different tradeoff. You trade cryptographic security for a reliance on physical security. Its probably a great option for a lot of older people who only log into things from home. But its just a password manager. An analogue one.
Flashcards are dumb for this. If you are going to write it down, just secure it. Don’t have them out all the time to try to memorise it. Jese. The worst of both.
I can’t tell if you are self deluded or really are an interesting case. I do question using a screensaver to help memorise a password rather than a password manager.
Plenty of research on the topic. Humans cannot remember a unique, high bit random password for each service. Using your brain means one of the following. Low bit passwords that can be cracked, memorable passwords that can be guessed via social engineering, and/or password reuse where one breached service breaches many accounts.
The only known solutions are all based on some sort of actually random generation of passwords, combined with storage of some sort for all but a very small number of extremely important examples (typically just your password manager vaults password). I actually think a paper notebook and dice or card system is an under appreciated option for a lot of people, which falls under the above.
There is one weird alternative, and that is deterministically generated high bit passwords (via a cryptographic hash function). Unfortunately it doesn’t work well with stupid snowflake sites that have their own “good password” rules, and falls completely flat when you have to change passwords for just a single or few sites for whatever reason.
Convenient app UX, password sharing between users and in groups, and the ability for passwords to be updated on multiple devices simultaneously or while offline without collisions. It has a few other features that are probably rarely used, like secure send, that some people may use.
Currently, there’s no entrenchment, as the apps are open source and there are self-hostable servers. You can easily get your data out and even continue using the apps indefinitely (the whole database stays locally in the app, offline; you just loose sync unless you self host a server).
I say that because that is the minimum bar for any alternative. I use them and am not panicking yet, but if I was starting from scratch, I would be cautious about choosing them.
VC funding is the enemy. I’m beginning to think it matters as much as the libre/proprietary software distinction.
God I love nerds. Have all my upvotes.
Precisely. I started running into this recently, and while I know I could work around it, I choose the lazy option and just load Lemmy instead.
A lot of technical answers, but consider a social driver: Linux users and developers are a lot more likely to prefer to do their computing on a “real” computer with a keyboard and large screen. Therefore, Linux as a desktop/laptop OS will always be significantly ahead of mobile offerings.
That’s why this is so terrifying. Twitter at least had a politically engaged userbase, so people noticed the changes. Tiktok users get political content only incidentally, and has far fewer actual journalists. They are going to get manipulated beyond reason.
Since wireguard only awks connections with matching keys, on a private lan, I bet you could just scan the network for all hosts and try the wireguard connection. A hack, but might work.
Cloudflare is a protection racket. They cover so many websites because it’s easier to pay the mafia.
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Lots of interesting discussion, but I’ll add I’ve been plying with https://www.music-assistant.io/
Integrates all sorts of backends, including everything mentioned here, with streaming to just about any device. Reminds me of MPD back in the day, or at least the promise of it.
Seconded. Used their service for many years.
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