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I went to a small private Christian school back in the late 200X's, and not the type of private school that had gobs of money. For two years, our desktop computers in the computer lab and the English classroom ran Ubuntu Linux (presumably because Windows licenses were >$0). The only students with Linux experience were myself and a friend that I introduced to Linux (who is also now an IT professional).
For a month or two we systematically changed the remote desktop preferences to automatically accept new connections and not to display any messages saying that there is a connection. We tried to never sit at the same computer twice so that we could "adjust" as many computers as possible and to make a secret map of where each computer was by hostname.
If we were in the computer lab and feeling mischievous (always), we'd poll around English classroom hostnames to see if any were in use, or vice versa. We'd "help" people write their papers (very creatively, I might add), speedrun through other students' typing lessons, open a terminal and run "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl", or whatever else we could come up with.
Well, wouldn't you know it, word gets around this is happening and we naturally get called in to the principal's office (because who else?). While expecting the worst, we were told "we know what you're doing, we don't know how to stop you, but we encourage you to stop and use your technical abilities productively instead" and were let off without punishment. We both came out of it with great respect for the administration because they showed us respect we didn't deserve, and we stopped.
I like the way C. S. Lewis wrote it:
> The real test is this. Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, "Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that," or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black.
So the owner of the account just baited people to report posts. I don't see anything newsworthy here.
Right now it feels like I have to choose:
- Use my PiHole to block all sorts of content on filtering lists that are useful in cases like blocking unwanted tracking in mobile apps, but my ISP knows everything I access
- Use a VPN, where my ISP doesn't know what I'm doing, but every web service I use can use whatever tracking it wants (except where uBlock is used and such, but you don't get that luxury with, say, Samsung Smart TVs which are notorious for phoning home)
I used Pushbullet's recipe for "Google acquisitions" up until the night I got the notification "Google acquires 4chan". After being perplexed for a bit and a few more "acquisitions" were made, I discovered the recipe just used Wikipedia's List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet[1] page as a source.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Not every network has to be a bastion of free speech, but being closed minded and erasing entire discussions that they don't like is a great way to build an echo chamber.
I wish a remember more of the context, but I had bookmarked this page[0] because it was an interesting discussion on this matter. As you can see, it's been nuked.
0: https://tildes.net/~tildes/ct2/no_invite_links_available_hav...
If you answer "None" to everything, your burnout risk is low (0/6).
Answering a single question with 1 (A few times a year or less) puts you at .1/6 (Mid), which goes up to .5/6.
I find the results reporting of this to be rather sensationalist and the whole thing pretty useless. If you're burnt out, you probably don't need an online quiz to tell you.
ABAP will always hold a special, quirky little place in my heart. It's very powerful, but also totally frustrating. The language is a COBOL-like language made by Germans with a keyword graveyard as big as Berlin. The ABAP community (in my experience, online and offline) is totally unacademic: algorithmic complexity is a foreign concept, "code clarity" meant "hitting the Pretty Printer button every few years" (which was a nice feature), and there's no remote concept of best practices.
On the bright side, it makes for a good income, and the debugger is a gem.
Additionally, an adless "pro" feature could be purchased for some small fee that would be comparable to what ads rake in for the average user.
This is something I've thought about for a while but I've never had the resources to throw it together. I wish you the best of luck!
It's been a long time since I've seen a page like this: http://blank.org/memory/oldweb/home.html
It's amazing what you can do with simple text, especially with a Markdown-supporting editor.
I've been using it since it came out a week ago or so and am rather pleased.