University assumes every student has mobile phone svc & the will to share their number, so the rest are excluded from school resources that require 2FA by SMS

When my university went 2FA, I told IT I didn’t want to use a phone, and they gave me a Yubikey. OTP-only, I can’t do any management, including to use it for other sites, and I couldn’t bring my own passkey/dongle/etc, but I was happy they had at least made a (zero out-of-pocket) allowance for people who didn’t want to give up their phone.

But I think some of this loss of autonomy reflects maturing technology. I was in school just as the internet became mainstream. Email, usenet, definitely web, were cutting edge technologies that university geeks were basically making up as they went along. By the 2000s, they were everywhere. Mundane, even at scale. An email address was no longer a badge of geekdom, but just a thing that everyone had to have and a burden for the university to provide. It’s the IT equivalent of landscaping.

The places where universities are still leaders are hard to see, because they haven’t been commoditized for sale on Amazon or as ad-bait on Google. 3D printing came out of universities. Stabilized and semi-autonomous drones. I don’t know what the new hotness is that will be everywhere in 5-10 years, but I’m pretty sure it’s some grad student just dicking around with a cool thing today.

If you’ve ever read Sinclair Lewis’s It can’t happen here, the parallel between his “marching clubs” and our Proud Boys/ICE are hard to miss.

ICE recruits people the police rejected. It’s what happens when your political ideology is more important than any morality. IOW: when the ends justify the means.

To me, the nonstandard port is mostly nice for reducing log spam from scripts. The risk is that using a nonstandard port lulls one into a false sense of security and overlook good sshd practices. Good sshd practices will prevent the script-kiddies just as well as the non-standard port, while a non-standard port will not challenge a targeted attack. And, if you interact with multiple servers, it can be inconvenient to remember a different port for each one.

A handful of people use Roblox to make milllions - if they pay out $1.5B total, and the biggest 1000 developers average $1.3M, then the entire rest of their 3.5 million developers average $60.

They claim 150M daily users.

On the one hand, that reads like a lot of messages written by abusive parents to (mostly) blameless children. On the other, this one is directed at Pete Hegseth.

I’ve come to love building workbenches from 2x4’s. They’re (reasonably) cheap, soft enough to work easily, and you can essentially use mass to compensate for intrinsic rigidity. Maybe add plywood shear panels in strategic places. Even 1/4" plywood shear panel will beat most brace structures.

2x4s are cheap enough to try a design for a while & throw it out (or downgrade it to patio furniture) if it doesn’t work. Soft enough to just plane a millimeter off the top when it gets beat up. If you invest in expensive hardware, move it to the new iteration. I’ve got like three of them now.

And here’s me, reading that tech companies are feeding their employees tabasco and wondering just what that’s supposed to do.

I definitely feel like GWB changed the narrative, but Clinton and GHWB both bombed Iraq, Clinton did attacks in Afghanistan & Sudan, plus the whole Bosnia and Yugoslavia things.

MFW when GWB has the smallest country count.

Venezuela wasn’t big enough to drown out the Epstein files, gotta go bigger.

They haven’t chosen the next democrat yet. Now is the time to be screaming that no one wants another corporate democrat, but we sure would love someone to come in and clean house and support working people.

In the game, you have to improve your properties to charge more rent. In reality, the monopoly can reduce quality and raise price at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murc’s_law

Lemmy is social media, too.

The problem isn’t social media. The problem is profit-driven monopolies incentivized to promote high-emotion content. The problem, more generally, is monopolies that no one has hindered since 1974.

Pretty sure he just thinks he, personally, gets all the tariff money, because he’s incapable of distinguishing between himself and the organizations he runs.

You can start by experimenting on your current computer. Install docker, get some service that sounds interesting, and just access it on localhost. You’ll miss out on anything the service does overnight or downtime, and you won’t be able to access it from off-site, but it’s a fine way to wet your toes and see how it goes.

Docker: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/setup/install/windows-install/

Photo library: https://docs.immich.app/install/docker-compose/

Some maintainers even provide handy windows installers

Media library: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/windows

They can still reject the application. This just means they will go through the motions of looking at it first.

My nephew has a new baby. Her parents are constantly waving their phones in her face; sending pics back and forth; generally doing ‘millenial things’ with their phones when not actively attending the baby. Then proceed to get all freaked out when the baby expresses interest or curiosity in the phone.

Kids mimic their parents behavior and interests. If you want kids with healthy internet use, you have to have parents model healthy internet use.

I guess you have to make a mastodon post of your thought, then screenshot it to /c/political_memes