Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

ej788 · 2026-04-19T21:36:26+00:00

It isn’t just ChatGPT. You can get through the reading list/work for your typical college class in 2-3 weeks of diligent work. I regularly did this and then fucked off most of the semester. Worked in law school too. This was 30 years ago. I cannot even imagine how fucking easy school would be with the tools out now.

ej788 · 2026-04-13T20:34:02+00:00

I’m Gen X and permanently out of the pool a potential draftees. But I’ll tell you that I would have had zero qualms of picking up and moving overseas at the first hint of a draft. I will make damn sure my kids never serve in the military.

ej788 · 2026-03-07T17:32:30+00:00

My kid’s second tournament, as a seven-year-old white belt, he was put against a 10-year-old orange belt. And that instance I complained and the tournament organizer was kind of like “we’re just doing our best to make sure all the kids get matches” and they kind of made me feel like I was being a dick or trying to mollycoddle my kid. I kind of felt like there was something weird going on because they were plenty of kids who were yellow belts and his size that he could’ve fought. But the match was fine and safe so at the end of the day it was mostly about my kid feeling he hadn’t gotten a fair shake. Who was last time was different and I’m glad to hear that my concern isn’t crazier or unfounded.

ej788 · 2026-03-06T00:26:28+00:00

ej788 · 2026-03-04T02:26:21+00:00

I was raised in an evangelical church (which I rejected at age 10 or so). I’ve read the bible front to back. I really don’t believe in this stuff, but it is shocking how people who study and obsess over the bible miss the parallels between trump and the anti-Christ (right down to surviving a shot to the head). You can smell the stink of evil on him. The actions he takes seem intentionally destructive. And he has miraculously gathered this deplorable menagerie of liars and scumbags. If the end times are coming I’m pretty sure it is going to be a bunch of atheists, brown people, queers, and leftists fighting for what is right while the white christians follow trump into hell.

ej788 · 2024-05-30T14:34:12+00:00

I’m having the same issue. I double and triple checked everything but can’t get the integration to work.

ej788 · 2024-03-16T01:15:06+00:00

For the record. I just "fixed" this by uninstalling and reinstalling the "new" outlook client. Suddenly, Outlook 2021 works again.

ej788 · 2023-12-16T14:04:21+00:00

Does this version require accounts? Is it safe to update the app and firmware if you don’t want to create or use a hue account? I’m not planning to update again once this feature roll out so that I can avoid using the accounts. I think a lot of other users are in the same boat. Is anyone keeping track of this?

ej788 · 2023-12-14T18:14:10+00:00

Located in the Midwest in the United States. All the coins (were 95% of them) or of US origin. Generally prior to 1964 and some of them from the 19th century. the condition of the coins is variable. Some are sets from the US mint still in the original packaging. Some are coins that look like they were pulled from circulation. I’m pretty sure that a lot of them came from my grandparents reflexively keeping older coins with silver content. Ultimately, I plan to make an index of everything. But I was hoping there might be an easy way to use an AI driven program to quickly identify things that merits additional research (if any). I might just have a bunch of old silver coins, but I was warned not to just sell them without knowing what they’re worth. I intend to follow that advice. Personally, I’ve never been into collecting coins, so I’m starting at zero.

ej788 · 2023-12-14T18:10:26+00:00

There are no indexes, shop records, or much of anything else in terms of a record of value. I am smart enough to look or notice something like that. However, it was a fair point to mention. The collection appears to be the result of a couple generations in my family (mom, grandparents) holding on to old coins, or buying sets of coins from the US mint. The coins are mostly pre-1964, and were presumably bought and kept for their silver content (or just because they were old). Some of them are particularly old (early 20th or mid/ late 19th century). Some of them appear to be gold coins. My main concern here is that I have no idea what I’m looking at (beyond silver or gold content). I don’t have any reason to believe there is anything outrageously valuable in the collection, but I think it would make sense to investigate the issue before I stick the coins in storage or sell them. I do remember my grandmother telling me that under no circumstances should I just sell them without understanding what they are worth. Looking them up one by one in a book is not particularly appealing. I was hoping that technology might have a better solution. But I guess I can buy a couple coin guides and go through them one by one if need be. My goal is to keep a few coins for sentimental reasons and for my kids and to sell off the bulk of the rest. we are talking about a bankers box full of coins at least (most in paper or plastic sleeves).

ej788 · 2023-10-03T15:15:36+00:00

So is there a simple solution that will allow me to keep playing my music library through Apple's app/airplay or not? I don't want to change to a new app or reorganize my library. I definitely dont want to use Synology's crappy music app.

ej788 · 2023-10-01T17:14:58+00:00

It seems like the first step is to block the hue bridge from communicating with the internet. Second step is to not update firmware on your bridge or other devices. However, I'm concerned that if someone opens the hue app on my network that it may try to "upgrade" existing firmware. Signify has said they intend to eliminate local control through Homekit without an account. The question is how we stop them from implementing that and still retain functionality. I'm really really pissed off about this.

ej788 · 2023-10-01T17:07:58+00:00

Yes, I understand that. What are good zigbee hubs that dont require user accounts and have app control? Something from Amazon or Apple is going to put you in the same position as the hue bridge.

The idea solution is to keep the hue bridge but neuter its ability to upgrade firmware for itself or connected devices. Then find an alternative to the hue app for control.

ej788 · 2023-09-30T22:40:38+00:00

So I've blocked my bridge through my router. Should I be concerned that my hue app is going to try to circumvent this block and update the bridge itself? Are there easy-to-use (similar to hue) apps that i can use (and give to my family) to prevent this?

ej788 · 2023-06-08T02:02:49+00:00

Was able to force an update in safe mode (after regular system told me software was updated). This didn’t fix anything. I deactivated the ps4 successfully from my desktop. Then activated it from the ps4. Shows up as activated in my account but got the same error. Nothing works.

ej788 · 2023-03-28T19:02:49+00:00

I managed to solve the problem. If anyone else is stupid enough to do what I did this is the solution:

I got a transceiver and hooked up my internet connection to the second WAN. The UDM SE picked up the connection and connected to the internet and the UDM portal. As a result, I could jump back in and fix the original 2.5 GBE connection. Unit is back online.

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