IT at my kids school is aiming for six sevens of reliability.

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When the faculty of arts and social sciences at Sydney University conducted an internal survey, zero percent of staff – yes, zero – in one school agreed with the statement: “I trust the University of Sydney to act in the best interests of staff, students and the broader community.”
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https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-ai-is-devastating-higher-education-but-the-system-was-already-broken-292988

I don't think I've seen a more scathing review of the situation in higher education than this. Makes me cringe and say "surely it can't be that bad" even though I consider myself a horrible curmudgeon who sees universities as deeply flawed institutions equivalent to basically a hedge fund that teaches classes for tax reasons. Yet this is someone deep inside current universities, so they'd know more than I would I guess. Yikes!

OpenWrt does not use PHP, but it needs updates regularly as any connected device does. Fortunately their owut tool can do live upgrades for you. guix router can push latest stuff using guix deploy, but guixrouter is definitely for experts only.

This week has shown us that we are in a state of constant infowars online. If you're a techie, help your friends control their own network!

I always say "friends dont let friends run ISP provided routers". Look, its your network, and if the ISP controls the router then they can let anyone connect to your network. You think they can't respond to a FISA court order by allowing the NSA to have unlimited access to your LAN? get real. Anyway, my suggested plan of attack is OpenWrt on your consumer router, if it is supported... and if you need more than that, OpenWrt, or my #guixrouter on a VM on a mini PC.

shut down apache on my home Nextcloud until PHP can be updated. yuck.

The internet is just warfare now.

It's time for Earth Wind and Fire...

Dear mastodon leftists. Do you know of a one or two book recommendation which my kid could read to provide an overview of american government and its discontents which might conceivably qualify as an american government class for high school?

in other words he has to learn the usual govt class contents... how the branches work, what the process is to make a law, what the govt Depts are etc... while maybe not accepting the high school propaganda version of the story? and not a masters thesis

So, #grapheneOS updated this afternoon and now the home screen is a 4x6 grid of icons and before it was not so crowded... 4x5 I guess? is there a way to adjust this?

I'm still looking for a way to have my #guix server host Yunohost without spending a half year debugging and enabling this.

virsh and virt-install are looking to be a plausible mechanism that could work now to get things off the ground. anyone used virsh and virt-manager successfully on #Guix ? how do you get the virtual machine to run by default at boot?

Elon Musk can "own" some gigafactory in Arizona or a launch pad in SoCal *only* because a state exists to enforce his title on his behalf. That is, because the violence of the state is *a service provided to him* as an owner of a title to land and machines. The state's purpose is to provide violence to rich people to maintain their control. That's what it does.

We can SEE the real losses now in real time. The financial losses come when the game finally acknowledges that we've been fucking up. There can be YEARS between these two events. Also, the people who suffer the real losses are *us* the general people who pay more for food and electricity and personal computing equipment and such. Financial losses of the scale of what's coming will *always* be bailed out by transferring losses to the people, because *that's what states are for* they protect rich

It's important to keep very clear in your mind the difference between financial losses, and real losses.

Real losses occur when for example you run an AI datacenter and burn fuel and evaporate precious water and dedicate scarce chips and things to generating wrong answers to important questions and unmaintainable code.

Financial losses occur when at some point some third party holding a bond has the bond price drop to the floor when everyone acknowledges it's never getting paid off.

Which feels right to you?

To be honest ive never understood why theyre called LA Dodgers, I mean its a team full of men, shouldn't it be Le Dodgers?

Given the option to stay in high school or switch to independent study and take PCC classes and graduate next summer the answer was 100% clear to him... switch. So I will contact the CIS people and get him switched next semester. He uploaded the paperwork yo register for Winter session classes (English and world history). His big issue will be getting registered in the classes he wants. His reg date will be mid Nov.

Kid gave a report on his day auditing courses at PCC. Philosophy class really sparked his interest and he apparently even participated in class, got up and drew a diagram on the board... etc. Teacher was enjoying having him...

Psych class must have been moved to a different classroom because noone showed up at all... Microecon was kinda a bust for him... English class seemed good maybe not his favorite topic in this section but the format was good

None of this is wrong, but we still need to move forward in life and seek out beauty, knowledge, autonomy, truth, joy, music, cooperation... And I just dont know how to explain all of that to a 15 year old. most people really never even understand what hes already figured out. i literally said this about school in the parent group chat and one of the parents said something like "wow, I had never thought of that"

My younger kid has realized that school is at least in part, a prison where kids are kept so parents can be farmed by capitalists, and that the grading, testing, major, and degree system serves to normalize and perpetuate hierarchies of importance among people. Also that many people have no interest in the knowledge and only care about the signifiers of status.

Send help.