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  • This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN.

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  • People became oversaturated with alien stuff. It became unfashionable to believe in aliens and the millionth "aliens invade" movie isn't interesting.

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    Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem"

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  • I joined to talk about math and programming. It's a letdown that this Podunk platform seems to consist mostly of the weirdest, loudest people who saw the political compass meme and took it way too seriously.

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • I think the trouble young people have with using desktop computers is overstated. It's a bit of a satanic panic situation. You can learn it pretty quickly. A common complaint is that "they don't know hierarchical file systems" because the mobile devices have only flat file systems presented to the user or something. A tree structure is not a challenging concept and the basic things you can do in a file system you can count on 2 hands. Open a file, save a file, rename a file, delete a file, move a file, copy a file, create a directory, enter a directory, move up a directory. The physical interface is the mouse with 2 buttons, a primary and a secondary for opening context menus; and the keyboard which has the characters printed on them. There's a bit more to it, but it can be explained in, like, a page of text. And the rest you can learn through experimentation. Touch typing is another thing entirely, though. That takes dedicated time to learn.

    I wonder if ineptitude with tech shared between the young and old are different kinds. Maybe the old are just completely inept, but, for the young, it's just temporary. It's a shock when we find out they don't know something, but, after explaining it, they're productive within minutes. A 20-year-old still has plenty of mental plasticity. Having to teach somebody the desktop metaphors isn't a huge bottleneck.

    I'll end by contending that I don't think schools should not be teaching computers. Rather, they should be teaching computers in more depth. Teach students basic programming and they will have to learn the desktop metaphors along that journey anyway. Computers are way too important to leave the future stewards of the Earth in the dark about how they work. I had to learn how the energy of a photon relates to its wavelength and I had to read and analyze the Canterbury Tales. Not entirely useful. But it's at least a little interesting. Kids are very capable. They won't all be programmers. They should learn it all anyway. Don't let Silicon Valley have it all to themselves.

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • Something like an introduction to unix and programming should be mandatory. They seem to think that kids need to "learn to use a computer and the internet." It's a fucking point-and-click interface. What is there to learn? The software industry is very skilled at making it all so easy that a chimpanzee can use it. You don't even need to read a manual. I wonder if this is all a holdover from the 70s when the computer interface was likely to be a paper teletype which is naturally difficult to use without instruction. We're living in the future. Teach the difficult stuff. The teachers need a wetware update.

  • math @lemmy.world
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    The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

    archive.nytimes.com /www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.html

  • ESL homework

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  • I reject your reality and substitute my own!

  • There are unknown unknowns

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  • You might say it was a... misunderstood understanding.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Grub Street

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grub_Street

  • Cantor's Dilemma

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  • How would you write it? My goal was to write it in a way that would be most understandable to the most people (so, avoid using symbols like ℵ) while still being concise.

  • Cantor's Dilemma

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  • Cantor's Die Lemma

  • Math Memes @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Cantor's Dilemma

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Louis Rossmann spent the week using AI to get his repair business #1 on google - The Modern Internet Is a Joke

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Music That Entered the Public Domain in the USA in 2026

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    burn book - Wiktionary

    en.wiktionary.org /wiki/burn_book

  • Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

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  • Also, other sites on the Net can collate links posted to reddit and the users and times that they were posted with users accessing pages on their own site. For example, if you've posted a sufficient number of youtube links, youtube can possibly link your reddit account and youtube account, say, as belonging to the same person. Just about any popular site can link your reddit account with your IP address. And your facebook account with your IP address. Etc. And thereby link reddit accounts with facebook accounts in cases with long-lived IP addresses. If X is a scrapable site on which users with fixed pseudonyms can submit links and Y is a site popular enough and has enough content, then Y can collate user accounts on X with IP addresses. This is not to say anyone is doing this. There are not many sites that meet the criteria to be a Y. I would say it includes mainstream news sites. The authorities could compromise some of the Ys or create their own through astroturf and thereby link users on the Xs with IP addresses and then with location.

    These days, this might be a bit harder because reddit closed up when the AI companies started scraping. I don't know the situation with Facebook with regard to scraping. If it's scrapable, they've got your name linked to your reddit account.

    What I've said about reddit equally applies to lemmy, even more so because lemmy is open by principle.

  • An oopsie occured

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  • Oopsie woopsie. It wooks wike your uwu dwiwu was in a wiwwy bad caw cwash. Would you wike to caw an ambuwance?

  • 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X

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  • You can't find anything on youtube these days. Uploads from ordinary people don't appear in search results. They're crowded out by the mainstream. It was called youtube for a reason. It isn't that anymore.

  • Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart

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  • NIHS

  • The World Factbook (surprisingly useful reference provided by CIA, just suddenly closed without notice)

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  • They're probably "on it", as the expression goes.

  • Turntable!

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  • This whole comment section sounds like a game of Monopoly and it's hilarious. "I'll trade you Boardwalk for States Avenue."

  • unpacking.

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  • The Stranger Things universe has time travel confirmed.

  • It's probably too late to change, lol

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  • lawl

  • Windows 7

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  • The VPN software he had to use to talk to Mossad was only available for Windows.

  • ICE Agents Surge Into Minneapolis, Immediately Thwarted by Actual Ice

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  • I'll have an answer for you just after I finish re-watching Home Alone.

  • The Most Popular Wikipedia Articles in 2025

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