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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • Can someone explain what’s the point?

    There’s some exam, online, runs in a browser. Ok.

    Now we require a special browsers. Why?

    Which only runs on Windows, but not in a VM, unless you make a small change. Why?

    To stop cheating, I assume, but what kind of cheating needs a VM? Maybe I’m old, but we had handwritten cheat sheets on paper.

    Are students using cheat software now that solves math problems for an online exam? And if they do, shouldn’t this score bonus points? Sounds like challenging problem to code an AI that she’s your exam.






  • Just a showerthought:

    Maybe that’s part of a much bigger generational divide. Maybe Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of the old pre-commercialization internet. “From the people for the people”, but actually from people whose hobby it is to spend time in front of a computer screen.

    BBS systems, usenet, forums, early websites, slashdot, open source, Wikipedia, early reddit, …

    in contrast to: ConpuServe, AOL, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, Tiktok

    Editing early Wikipedia waa easy, fun, and meant something. You freed information from behind a paywall. Free as in speech.

    Now, everything is free as in beer (“some restrictions apply”) and editing a wiki is no longer easy when you grew up swiping an iphone, not hacking a unix terminal. This, plus admin culture.









  • I have bought 2 tuxedos and they were okay.

    One time they shipped a device where the trackpad did not work. Well, not on Linux at least. Their excuse: The hardware manufacturer chose a newer model not yet supported.

    They were helpful and provided a new firmware a few days later, which did solve the issue, but out-of-the-box experience was not exciting.

    I’m still using this machine, however.

    Both this and a model I bought earlier felt cheaper than the price point. Maybe it is not fair; maybe it’s not that important, but at 1000€+ I have some expection on build quantity and loooks.

    Those are small things, sure, but they are not perfect, yet.