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by cwoolfe 2y ago
This is possible! https://www.techlockdown.com/
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
There are plenty of companies successfully doing allow-list only filters. At home for focus: https://gertrude.app/ At work for security: https://adamnet.works/
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
yes, I see a lot of value in this approach, especially for ADHD learners (who represent about 10% of the student population). Imagine if the only thing a kid could access on their school computer was the thing they were supposed to be doing
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Our district uses Light Speed Content Filter. It uses a web proxy with tls decryption to read the page content and block certain videos flagged by the AI. Works way better than our previous system. That being said, now the issue is a matter
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Yes! For this reason our school district has stopped sending them home in the lower grades. Most parents are thankful.
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
We use Safe Vision to access YouTube by allow-list only https://safe.vision/
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Not only are we paying teachers worse than we used to, we are actually spending more on education! The scandal is the addition of more useless Administrator positions. https://x.com/TCCRI/status/1760792700771533084
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Yeah! I used Dragon Box in my high school math class back in 2015. Loved it!
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CDC reports social media associated with bullying, sadness, and suicide(cdc.gov)
5 points by cwoolfe 2y ago|3 comments
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Ok, now let's see the study that shows it is beneficial to teen mental health. I quit it and my mental health improved. Many others in a controlled study found the same effect. Alcott and colleagues (2020) randomly assigned 2743 adults
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
"It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we're going to try to go build," Garman said, "because that's going to be more and more of wh
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AWS CEO: In 2 years...it's possible that most developers are not coding(futurism.com)
4 points by cwoolfe 2y ago|4 comments
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Nuts are a very good and healthy natural snack; it's a shame they are banned by most daycares and schools now. It would be great if this became so common they could be allowed again. Without nuts...what do we have instead? Chips. grano
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Hey, great work over at fal.ai to run this on your infrastructure and for building in a free $2 in credits to try before buying. For those thinking of running this at home, I'll save you the trouble. Black Forest Flux did not run easil
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Senate Passes Kids Online Safety Act(congress.gov)
8 points by cwoolfe 2y ago|3 comments
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Yes! And don't forget to somehow encrypt the data on your SD cards, or do a check-in with the cloud to activate, otherwise your customers can make copies and give away all your software for free!
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Hard-coding explanations does seem like the way to go here. It's what researchers at Carnegie Mellon did back in 1984 with demonstrated success. See: Intelligent tutoring Systems: The ACT Project https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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Automated Math Tutoring in 1984 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by cwoolfe 2y ago|0 comments
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Well said. "Don’t design for amorphous groups. If you can’t name three real people (that you have talked to) that your API is for, then you are designing for an amorphous group and only amorphous people will like your API."
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Remote jungle tribe gets Internet; grapples with consequences(futurism.com)
2 points by cwoolfe 2y ago|1 comments
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
Great work! I've spent the last year listening to parents, teachers, and administrators voice their dreams and issues with technology and I think what you all have done here could add a lot of value in the education (EdTech) market in
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. God sent a man, John the Baptist, to tell about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. John himself was not the light; he was
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by cwoolfe 2y ago
"God is light." (1John 1:5)
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by cwoolfe 3y ago
Am I slowly damaging my 2020 M1 MacBook by charging it with a cheap 5V 1A USB-A to USB-C charger at night? What's the actual risk here?
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by cwoolfe 3y ago
The app isn't part of the developer program so when you try to open the app, MacOS says "You should move this app to the trash" haha! Workaround via running: xattr -c /Applications/Marker.app
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by cwoolfe 3y ago
And it runs on Raspberry Pi! https://www.sugarlabs.org/sugar-for-raspberry-pi/
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by cwoolfe 3y ago
As someone who switched to a heat pump recently, you should know "your mileage may vary." Don't confuse physical efficiency for cost efficiency. In many places, natural gas is still more cost efficient, even if it isn't
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by cwoolfe 3y ago
I used Obj-C professionally for about 2 years and Swift professionally for about 2 years. I have a slight preference for Swift. I've been doing mobile dev on iOS and Android since 2012 and there have been a lot of language changes and
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by cwoolfe 3y ago
Where can someone upload a contract and ask the AI questions about it in a secure and private way? It's my understanding that most people and organizations aren't able to do this because it isn't private.
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by cwoolfe 3y ago
It can still work; just needs a better implementation.

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