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Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by chasd00 »

hilariously wrote: post #284
mort96 wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend almost failed an IT class because his website didn't render at all in IE6. This was during the time of IE9. The teacher just hadn't updated their browser in a long time. I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.

I left community college after a week because my "computer" teacher required us to change our monitors to 640x480 and print out ever step that we completed in things like Notepad or Configuring the Desktop and then every day we'd punch it out and would add it to a three ring binder of all the things we've done. Full Color.

if i may rant, my middle school and high school aged kids have to literally take pictures of their homework assignments with their chromebook camera then put it the pictures in a google slides deck then submit the deck through a form all to just turn in their paper HW assignment! ridiculous.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by Bjartr »

bandrami wrote: post #332
mfru wrote: post #307

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i don't like normalizing people hoarding things they don't need in order to sell them for way higher prices to other people that do, do you?

What if it's a domain I just don't want anybody to use?

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Post by necovek »

mort96 wrote: post #280
picofarad wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn't say that.

They did seem to think that it's a problem for schools to fail students.

They didn't say that either.

What they did say is that the school sometimes fails students to get more money — supposedly implying that this was not because they did not meet the passing criteria.

This does not preclude failing students when they deserve it.

It is ok to question of what makes them believe they would have passed the exams without this financial motivation for the school, but they were pretty clear IMO.

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Post by lgcmo »

petee wrote: post #314
mDyJzDPmBdG wrote: post #299

It redirected me to: https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?embedded=true&url=h... Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

On mobile this surfaced as trying to download a file called "viewer", couldn't see the url. Def weird

I opened in work desktop. I'm waiting the IT call now

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Post by necovek »

preisschild wrote: post #323
hahahaa wrote: post #208

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In my case, ignorance unlocked. I never heard of tk and I remember 36k modems so old enough. I think reason is I went to work, slung .NET and didn't think much about computers otherwise except occasional reading some C++ books for "fun".

> In my case, ignorance unlocked. I never heard of tk and I remember 36k modems so old enough. Might be too old then. I used my parents speedy ADSL modem (4mbit/s down, 1mbit/s up) :D

Probably: I similarly go back to 2400bps modems (9600 and 14400 when dial-up internet showed up here — 33.6k was the time of soft/winmodems other than the ultra expensive US Robotics ;)), and I skipped the .tk domains too — probably already employed and in possession of 10 .org/.net domains by then.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by [deleted] »

anilgulecha wrote: post #179

The "one free domain per person" isn't the interesting part really - that will be hard to police unless domain name is a function of ID proof (avoids squatting). 0) The actual intersting part of a new TLD can be growing reputation by post-facto taking away a domain without recourse in case of squatting. Instead of adversarial takedowns (which produce false positives as noted), let anyone challenge an inactive domain…

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Post by misnome »

rogerrogerr wrote: post #237
mathstuf wrote: post #231

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Heh…I once was in a state-level coding event (it was a small portion of a larger competition) where half of the test was turning in code on a CD during the competition, with the written half during the event. My CD was deemed unusable for whatever reason (it had worked on XP and Fedora 6 or 7 at home) and didn't count towards my score. I still got second in the event. I declined to continue because I couldn't trust t…

Does high school attendance matter for anything? Genuine question. Always seemed like pre-college schooling always wanted you to think everything was more important long-term than it really was.

It goes in your permanent Record Of Achievement! I was always told that this would be very a very important set of documents once I left school, and I am sure that I have no reason to doubt their statements!

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by dosman33 »

mort96 wrote: post #169
goldenarm wrote: post #35

Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it. I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't open it and I almost got a failing grade because of it.

A friend almost failed an IT class because his website didn't render at all in IE6. This was during the time of IE9. The teacher just hadn't updated their browser in a long time. I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.

Those that can, do - and those that can't, teach.

Teaching is rewarding which is why people do it, but you're asking them to take less pay for what is often a harder job - convincing kids to learn something when they have dozens of other things competing for their interest. The math aligns on the side with the teacher having the knowledge you would expect in this scenario - with a fair number of teachers not as much knowledge as one would hope they would have. On the students side, if they are bright then this is a soft-skill learning opportunity - how to navigate knowing more than your superior to the benefit of you both.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by mghackerlady »

well that sucks, I just bought a domain for this purpose. Granted, I was under extremely heavy budget constraints so perhaps I wouldn't have been able to afford one. There was a sale on .club domains, so I picked that with a funny name (beatsyouwith.club (no, nothing is hosted on it publicly yet I'm lazy))

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Post by mghackerlady »

mort96 wrote: post #169
goldenarm wrote: post #35

Remember when the .tk TLD became free 20 years ago ? Every hobbyist took one, then scammers followed, then Facebook and antiviruses started blocking it. I remember publishing a website for a class on my .tk domain, the teacher couldn't open it and I almost got a failing grade because of it.

A friend almost failed an IT class because his website didn't render at all in IE6. This was during the time of IE9. The teacher just hadn't updated their browser in a long time. I don't get how you get to be an IT teacher without knowing the most basic troubleshooting steps to get assignments to run.

I'm lucky both of my schools IT teachers were actually competent, they were both technically business teachers but were good with code.

That first teacher died shortly after, she had terminal breast cancer. I miss her a lot

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