A big part of the problem is just not enough funding going to education - we have nowhere near enough teachers to go around, which ultimately means lots of kids are missing out on the one-on-one education moments that smaller classes would enable ("Just draw a picture").
But also, in my experience, some of the problem is also the attitude schools have towards this, which tells me they're not trained enough to deal with the variety of mental and social issues kids face nowadays.
The default setting at my daughter's school is to talk to me like I'm a parent that needs to be told how to parent, like I'm the one not doing something right. Admittedly, I feel a lot of this attitude probably comes from the school's principal - he clearly loves the smell of his own farts - but it shits me when they get this haughty, arrogant attitude when talking to you because they're "educators", rather than partners (with parents) in teaching our kids how to be humans.
Kids today are dealing with so much more than what I had to deal with going to school in the 70s and 80s. They have information flying at them from all sorts of sources, and it's nearly (nearly) impossible to raise a kid today without access to technology and the internet. Otherwise, you're at risk of creating a social pariah, as they'll invariably miss out on things.
These things have changed the mental and social game considerably, and I feel our education system has done a pretty shit job of keeping up with these changes.
Yep, agreed, but at least the government of the day can try and reign them in with legislation and regulation. Not saying they are (or will), but they'd have the option, if they had the balls to do it.
Not heaps, although I should probably do more than I do. Generally speaking, on Saturday mornings:
Between 2am-4am, Watchtower on all my docker hosts pulls updated images for my containers, and notifies me via Slack then, over coffee when I get up:
For containers I don't care about, Watchtower auto-updates them as well, at which point I simply check the service is running and purge the old images
For mission-critical containers (Pi-hole, Home Assistant, etc), I manually update the containers and verify functionality, before purging old images
I then check for updates on my OPNsense firewall, and do a controlled update if required (needs me to jump onto a specific wireless SSID to be able to do so)
Finally, my two internet-facing hosts (Nginx reverse proxy and Wireguard VPN server) auto-update their OS and packages using unattended-upgrades, so I test inbound functionality on those
What I still want to do is develop some Ansible playbooks to deploy unattended-upgrades across my fleet (~40ish Debian/docker LXCs). I fear I have some tech debt growing on those hosts, but have fallen into the convenient trap of knowing my internet-facing gear is the always up to date, and I can be lazy about the rest.
It's not just about data hoarding, though. It's also about a social media company having considerable influence over the messaging seen by a very large part of the voting population.
Yes, it's no different to other social media companies, but with one exception: the company in question is subject to the whims of the Chinese government. Something the US government is clearly fearful of.
Yeah, 100% agree on the client devices. One of my VLANs is for the kids' devices. I don't trust their schools' admins or their shitty BYOD policies, so I just let them access Plex (via Nginx reverse proxy); Pi-hole; and the internet.
It all comes down to what you trust each type of device to do and how you want to handle their traffic.
I have seven VLANs, with each one's traffic being treated very specifically. The subnets for each VLAN route to specific interfaces on a virtualised OPNsense firewall, which is where my traffic handling and policy enforcement takes place.
Also remember VLANs are just plain useful for segregating traffic, particularly broadcast traffic, without having to invest in separate switching/routing for each subnet. Having a single managed switch that limits the broadcast domains for you is a really efficient way to (physically) setup your network.
Aaargh! Audible did this to the Stephen King Dark Tower series. Don't get me wrong - Frank Muller did OK in the books he read, but George Guidall (books 1, 5, 6 & 7) has an almost Johnny Cash quality to his voice, that just made his reading really fantastic to listen to.
I haven't gone into detail on this, but I suspect some shiny-suited, greasy-haired wanker lawyer has been able to make a case that things like site-specific CSS classes and the like can somehow be covered by DMCA.
I'm 100% speculating (not American, not a lawyer) but it's more than URIs and Javascript, is what I'm saying.
Adjacent question: is there a compelling reason to run HAOS? I run my HA setup in docker on a Proxmox CT, using Portainer/Watchtower to manage, so genuinely wondering if there would be benefits I'm missing out on.
