No, that's a bad idea. A menu bar at the top of the screen is a much bigger target to hit, and easy to find by muscle memory. The file menu is always in the same place, regardless of what app you're using, and the buttons extend infinitely up above the screen. By contrast, a menu bar tied to the window moves around whenever the window moves, so you always have to visually find it again, and target size is just the size of the button and ends at the top of the window.

Your argument is completely disingenuous. It actually weakens your argument, because if you had a good reason, you wouldn't be speaking obvious bullshit.

Every single person here knows that a car is generally used for normal, everyday stuff. Going to groceries, etc. If you see a car on a road, the chances are one in a million it's being currently used to commit a crime.

Likewise, every single person tech-literate enough to be on Slashdot knows this is used to store pirated media files, not your collections of homemade EDM or circa 1922 field recording.

Why BS? Why rely on an argument that everybody here knows isn't really true? Why not just call a spade a spade?

It wasn't lawfare against Trump. The man is guilty of multiple felonies that would have landed anyone else in prison for decades.

Trump, on the other hand, has engaged in lawfare, going after people purely because they didn't like him or because they did something that annoyed him, like providing legal counsel to someone he doesn't like. So far, he is mostly losing. How long that matters is still up in the air.

Monica Cellio was reportedly fired when she asked if it was OK if she used gender-neutral language that does not use pronouns at all, since that can help avoid misgendering situations. She also said that use of preferred pronouns was the right thing to do, and that knowingly misgendering someone is wrong. She said that she was told by other moderators that avoiding third-person singular pronouns was itself misgendering. It's not clear from what she wrote if she was fired for asking the question, or fired preemptively for potentially not following in the future a policy that was still under development, and she may not have known at the time. From what I've read, I'm not sure if that was ever entirely established.

Stack Overflow later posted a very legalese response "regretting" how it all turned out and any damage to Monica's reputation, while also offering to allow her to apply for reinstatement. Monica stated in the same thread that she could not say anything for legal reasons, suggesting that there was a settlement. She did not attempt to get reinstated, and left SO entirely a few months later.

Yeah, but Chromebooks are always 1:1 so students can do computers at home if they're sick/have homework/etc. Can't lock the network.

But then everything becomes test based. What about writing a long essay for english? A research paper for history class? A project for science class? A program for Computer Science?

Lockdown had negative effects on learning, but red states did not pull ahead of blue states (primarily because red states are poor and being rich matters more than schooling).

And it wasn't a two year blue state school lockdown. Schools closed in March 2020. Red States generally re-opened in September 2020 (next school year). Blue states re-opened in maybe March 2021 - second half of the next school year. I can't believe there was a single school district that didn't re-open until March 2022.

It's also difficult to say if it was specifically the school closures that hurt kids. Democrat kids are much more likely to live in cities or high-population suburbs, amongst a million other differences between red and blue states. Maybe the pandemic hits harder when you have to stay in your apartment complex vs. when you live outdoors more anyway.

The way teachers are dealing with this is by going entirely to in-class assignments done on paper and pencil. I'm Gen X and I didn't even turn in pen/paper big assignments, totally ridiculous. Nothing done at home or around a computer is to be trusted. And there is NOTHING to learn from teaching 3rd graders to be effective at using ChatGPT to do answers for them.

Giving the students the ability to cheat on their school computers seems backwards to me, but I guess when you can't trust anything that was possibly completed within range of a cell phone or computer, it doesn't really make any difference.

I'm also a big nerd. I believe in ChatGPT for certain uses. I've even tried to motivate my students to use it as a personal tutor. There is ZERO interest from students in doing this. Like, I specifically taught this in my class, and I believe 0 of my 150 students have gone on to use this on their own. I dunnow, maybe in the future it will change. B

Oculus sold 20 million Quest 2s. Obviously a lot are gathering dust, but the interest is there.

The technology is so fucking amazing. If you've used an Oculus, yes, you want one. You just want a better one. The technology just isn't there yet (for most people). Too heavy, graphics too primitive.

This product was marketed as a developer-only sort of deal, and the people buying it should have taken that marketing seriously.

I mean, you could very inexpensively integrate a GPS chip on there. You could put it into the firmware that the signal has a private key that encrypts said signal. It would likely get hacked eventually but by then probably not be export limited. So from a hardware perspective this isn't impossible.

So it's not impossible. But it wouldn't work because a Server GPU, inside of a rack at the bottom wouldn't get signal. You could maybe... maybe... build a big enough antenna into every GPU that it would at least pickup what continent it's on within a margin of error. So mayyyyybeeee it's possible it would still work. But probably not.

This technology was pretty fucking impressive in 2002. I feel like in some alternate reality, people stop giving phone numbers and give each other skype addresses and that's what we 'd still all be doing. Way back in the day when I traveled a lot internationally for business, I had a phone line that forwarded to my skype account, and then I'd have my skype forward to my international phone # for like 2 cents a minute. Cool stuff.

Now that students are just giving AI generated answers, we might as well just give them ai generated lessons.

Deepseek still hasn't learned to keep it to ASCII.

And everyone is using a VPN these days, often from another country with favorable peering for their activities. On the internet, no one knows I'm a dog posting from an IP address on Mars.