spent much of the day working on my #CyberSecurity presentation about #CopyFail #Linux #kernel vulnerability. About 20 slides; I have 7 minutes. No problem.
Tomorrow, I need to finish the other homework for the class.
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mastodon 4.7.3ESOL Coordinator in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
L1: English, L2: Japanese
#Linux user since 1998. #Emacs and #TexLatex user since 1999. #Gentoo is my Linux distro of choice.
Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages: #TESOL, #ESOL, #ESL, #EFL. Advocate for #EnglishLearners (aka #EMEB, #MLL, #ELL)
Advocate for, and creator of, #OpenContent, #OpenEducation, #CreativeCommons, #OER, etc.
Lover of #history, especially #JapaneseHistory. I studied #TaishoDemocracy and #OsugiSakae in grad school.
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Got #debian installed on my wife's computer. Been running #Xubuntu for years, but / ran out of space and I couldn't upgrade; could barely update. And, I am not a fan of snaps at all.
Anyhow, back with Debian after about 20 years or so --- after #Gentoo and #MandrakeLinux (yeah, it was a while ago), Debian was one of my go-tos. Often one of the first I would recommend.
Problem now is: I set up #Japanese input for my wife years ago. No idea what I did. Need to figure out again.
Replying to
Funny how the ppl who thought #Obama was literally destroying the #USA are totally cool with:
1) attacks on many of the amendments and all of their god's commandments
2) destruction of #science and scientists rerouting to other countries
3) exploding the debt
4) destruction of green technologies despite them being both the future AND better business
5) making it easier for #China for the next century
(I think they are actually okay with the destruction of the USA government. No idea why.)
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@mlanger@mastodon.world @markmetz@sfba.social @clew@ecoevo.social
In k-12, chromebooks and Google Docs are common. Docs has version tracking, and teachers use it to check if students are pasting in large chunks of text.
Some better-informed students are already adapting by typing in the text that the AI gives them, instead of pasting.
Other students refuse to use any AI at all. AI doesn't have a good reputation with many students.
AI detectors are too inaccurate. Teachers should work with students and have an idea of their voice.
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@Biggi91@kanoa.de @brianbilston@mastodon.online
the "me" part? I've heard "commons" in the sense of a shared field or other grassy area (like between buildings at a uni, or of course "the tragedy of the commons").
Working on Week 11 lab write up. Need to add all the citations and references to my #CopyFail presentation slides (when did bibtex become biber???? God, I'm old.)
Also finishing up the course reflection for this, my final #CyberSecurity course. Five courses, 20 credit hours of master's level graduate courses over about 15 months.
So, ofc, I'm going to start a practicum for Orten Gillingham #reading instruction from next week. OG+#EnglishLearners = great?
I think I'm done with #Ubuntu. I need to build a new computer for my wife this summer (if I can afford it!) and will probably put #Debian on it. Language support (for Japanese) has been there since forever (literally!), and I am totally done with the snap BS on Ubuntu.
Why don't they automagically remove old versions? Is there some variable or setting to auto-keep x versions? I have to go in by hand and remove huge, obsolete snaps from months ago just to be able to update the system.
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@LeslieBurns @gabriel @amydiehl
Let me emphasize the "may not have signed up". We don't know. (So, more research.)
BUT, the number of men who do these things should be as close to zero as nature / nurture allows. There will always be some who are willing to hurt others for their own selfish reasons. However, there is no ethically acceptable reason for the # in any given society to be in double digits, much less 60, 80, or 95%.
We can do better. Seems like we could barely do worse.
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@LeslieBurns @gabriel @amydiehl
Certainly, the wording of the original request for participants may have turned off many men who would never use the strategies --- the wording was basically "let's hear the men's side of the story". If you have never been in a he-said / she-said situation, you may not have signed up for the research.
My feeling is that this is important research, and further research is needed.
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@epixoip@infosec.exchange @joe@appdot.net
I'd add that in-browser password management (such as #BitWarden or similar) can help regular users avoid phishing via look-alike sites because the manager will not fill in fields or even show any results for the fake site.
At least, that's my theory.
I know when I use #KeepassXC, I always double check the site URL myself, just to be sure.
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@reichenstein @benhamill
GDocs is used in a lot of k-12 schools for reasons other than format or collaboration. There is some student collaboration (Slides projects, for example), but more common it is just the teacher being able to see and add comments in real time. Maybe some peer review also.
Cloud was the killer feature. Students don't save the file to the wrong place (like C:) on shared computers. We could waste 1/2 the class trying to find Ss docs from the day before. Dark times.
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@sunderlassie
I like it. How is it pronounced? Like "sinos" or "kinos"?
#EnglishSpellingSucks
Just realized that PAM was allowing #SSH to fall back to #passwords even though I thought I had password #authentication turned off in the config. Fixed, but annoying. Makes me wonder what other issues might be lurking in my other /etc configs.
I want to see a show that is a mash up of Continuum's "corporations are the problem" and Person of Interest's "AI + surveillance" dystopia.
Oh, wait, I seem to be living it. Never mind.
Yes, I'm working on my "2nd American Civil War" game. (Second civil war, not my second civil war game, to be clear.) Why do you ask?
#SengokuAmerica (the game) is in progress. I'll probably finish #SolarExpats first, though. That one is less depressing.
#games #USAPolitics #AI #dystopia #VibeCoding
submitted final assignment for my final #CyberSecurity course. Decided not to continue to finish the MS because the 5 courses I did are enough for me to teach for #Ohio #CollegeCreditPlus program. Not planning to leave #education anytime soon.
I suspect that cybersec training could use a dose of #k12 real-world pedagogy, though, and I will be doing some projects to help with that. Hope to start with school staff.
Final week of summer break for me. Finishing up my final #CyberSecurity course also. And, need to prep for next #AdultESOL term --- need to redo some stuff and update the workbook (again).
Lots of other things still to do: want to get #SolarExpats beta published; need to update #2076SengokuAmerica to beta 2; and have a bunch of other smaller apps and whatnot to publish before school starts.
It is going to be a busy and very fun week.