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AI aside, I think the biggest thing we could do is stop thinking about education as a profit centre. We’re not multiplying humanity if we’re only doing it for the fraction that can…

I bought one of these and I quite like it. Form factor is nice, transfer is a bit rough around the edges but serviceable. Pretty sure my credit card got harvested from either them …

I think there’s a lot of value in some of this (and as the owner of a somewhat spicy brain I relate to the desire for processes that help), but it feels like at least some of this …

Funny, I had the opposite experience with MiniMax and Mimo when using OpenCode. MiniMax got stuck with looping through broken tool calls all the time and MiMo just powered through …

Sounds like yet another thing that makes life harder for the unbanked, the homeless etc.

This is the sort of thing that makes me worry about my solar inverter, battery etc. so much remote management stuffed into these things.

I recently installed Ubuntu on a little Geekom mini PC for my 6 and 8 year olds to share. So far my 6 yo isn’t too into it, but her older sister mostly uses it for the games I’ve p…

> - the fact that in another role they would have to work 25% more (50 weeks per year instead of 40 weeks per year) Heh. I left teaching for three years to work in the private sect…

Ah, it was probably me hearing about Texas and then extrapolating that to the rest of the US. Probably not a great idea on my part. Thanks for setting me straight :)

Ultimately how useful is the high uptake in individual states? My understanding was that the US had a lot of weirdness going on about provision of utilities over state lines. (Mind…

Gemini refused to provide any suggestions about implementing a serial connection in a non-standard way for some hardware I own because I ran the risk of “damaging my hardware” or p…

There have been a number of instances here in .au where centralised location/health/etc data has been misused (stalking, checking out potential dates, domestic abuse or aiding dome…

I teach kids to code (plus other techy stuff) for a living. Some kids love my robotics classes using MakeCode or MicroPython. Some kids love my data science classes with Python and…

Some of my students tell me I talk too fast, so it can be helpful for them to review content, and I've had quite a few students with varying degrees of hearing impairment. Pretty u…

The screen sharing one has bitten me a couple of times. I record live classes for students, and we've had occasions when someone who was away goes back to the video and it's a blac…

I've use Teams every day in education for a couple of years now. My favourite file access "feature" of Teams (I verified it was in fact working as intended, at least until the pand…

Alternatively it could be objection to numerous examples of somewhat arbitrary standardised testing which takes over student education to the exclusion of pretty much anything else…

I quite like Publii. It’s more of a CMS that builds a static site, and is nice from a “don’t want to fiddle with template languages” perspective. Will push to different services (I…

I’ve been using Thonny with my students which has some basic feedback about errors and possible solutions, which isn’t bad (as well as variable inspection, although that gets a bit…

Authentication != authorisation. The bank manager is still authentically the bank manager, gun or not.

There was this example from 2017. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-u... I seem to remember reading about similar stuff done elsewhere, but don't remember …

Pretty sure the abuse is what happens to the victims, not the perpetrators. (Not any sort of implication about whoever Mr Rogers is [I'm not an American], but man the phrasing of t…

I can believe someone taking 10 sick days off a year and no more. You take the paid time off if you're sick without much hesitation, and after that you weigh up whether you're sick…

The new folios work really well on your lap (and are quite pleasant to type on as well, once you get over the emoji key and lack of escape key). I paired a bluetooth mouse to mine …