4 ms·

What was wrong with paper?

iNate2000 6y ago
I hate the way it gets fuzzy when I erase and rewrite the same sentence over and over. And don’t get me started on marker ink bleeding!
nsxwolf 6y ago
Literally just now I realized my daughter was finishing an e-learning assignment where she was recording her own voice on this web app on her school provided Chromebook. She caught me discussing a private matter in the background and it is now uploaded and can’t be deleted. Yes, the Zoom calls have the same potential but those are scheduled so we at least know when we are being listened to. What am I to take away from this? That you should just assume you’re always being recorded in your own home and act accordingly? All because paper isn’t cool anymore. I suppose I’m expected to audit every feature of every piece of ephemeral e-learning software that blows like a whirlwind through my home. But 10 years ago, I didn’t have to ask if an assignment had a listening device in it. If I had, people in white coats would have come to take me away.
- indymike 6y ago
  Right now, the schools are treating the kids as they have not rights. For example, no right to delete the video with the private conversation. I had to lawyer up to deal with my kids school pushing "safety" software on the computers my kids use (that I own, that connect in my home network) that was leaking data to Chinese and Indian servers (there was some kind of affiliate background ad clicker that was bundled with the software or something). This will have to change.
  - Nkuna 6y ago
    > Chinese and Indian servers Was this distinction necessary to make your point? Last I checked, the Chinese and Indian population do not have a duopoly on ad fraud/malware. Your racist projections conveniently sidestep the elephant in the room. Said monopolists: 1) are aware of ad fraud on their platforms, 2) enable this fraud, 3) have been caught in their own lies about ad metrics, and 4) are wilfully ignorant of said fraud because $$$. Specifically calling them out for something everyone does is irresponsible and backward. This will have to change.
- throwaway201103 6y ago
  Be glad there weren't any guns visible in the background!

iNate2000 6y ago

I hate the way it gets fuzzy when I erase and rewrite the same sentence over and over. And don’t get me started on marker ink bleeding!

nsxwolf 6y ago

Literally just now I realized my daughter was finishing an e-learning assignment where she was recording her own voice on this web app on her school provided Chromebook. She caught me discussing a private matter in the background and it is now uploaded and can’t be deleted. Yes, the Zoom calls have the same potential but those are scheduled so we at least know when we are being listened to. What am I to take away from this? That you should just assume you’re always being recorded in your own home and act accordingly? All because paper isn’t cool anymore. I suppose I’m expected to audit every feature of every piece of ephemeral e-learning software that blows like a whirlwind through my home. But 10 years ago, I didn’t have to ask if an assignment had a listening device in it. If I had, people in white coats would have come to take me away.

indymike 6y ago
Right now, the schools are treating the kids as they have not rights. For example, no right to delete the video with the private conversation. I had to lawyer up to deal with my kids school pushing "safety" software on the computers my kids use (that I own, that connect in my home network) that was leaking data to Chinese and Indian servers (there was some kind of affiliate background ad clicker that was bundled with the software or something). This will have to change.
- Nkuna 6y ago
  > Chinese and Indian servers Was this distinction necessary to make your point? Last I checked, the Chinese and Indian population do not have a duopoly on ad fraud/malware. Your racist projections conveniently sidestep the elephant in the room. Said monopolists: 1) are aware of ad fraud on their platforms, 2) enable this fraud, 3) have been caught in their own lies about ad metrics, and 4) are wilfully ignorant of said fraud because $$$. Specifically calling them out for something everyone does is irresponsible and backward. This will have to change.
throwaway201103 6y ago
Be glad there weren't any guns visible in the background!