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Comment Re:This is what classism looks like (Score 1) 236

The solution is easy and obvious. Pay people fairly. Tax people fairly. Pay should be in ownership and profit sharing. Taxes should be paid on accumulate capital and net worth. Get rid of corporations. Oh, and nationalize the entire legal and medical 'industries', our health and the law should never be for sale to the highest bidder, nor are they enterprise in any way. Do away with classism and class discrimination by guaranteeing fair and equal access to capital. Stop letting the rich charge the rest of us usurious interest rates and stop letting them exploit us.

We can't have capitalism when 10% of people own 90% of all the capital because that only leaves 10% of all capital for the 90% of the rest of us. It's not enough capital, we are all poor as in undercapitalized. This is why everything is broken.

Comment Yeah, famous German carmakers have turned ... (Score 1) 102

... complete retard in that way.

Disclaimer: German here.

German carmakers today are precisely at where US car-makers where in the mid to late 60ies: aloof, disconnected and arrogant, relying to much on brand-recognition to pull off non-sense like planned obsolescence or subscriptions for your heated seats.

Comment Ruby never was that much ... (Score 2) 78

... of a thing to begin with.

It came to fame when some Java guys finally discovered convention over configuration, built yet another web framework around it and bedazzled the world with a 15 minute presentation of Ruby on Rails. The marketing of the ruby on rails FOSS project was the true genius behind all the hype. However, Ruby itself was still struggling with basics such as utf 8 and other details, so people stuck with php, Python or whatever else they were using at the time.

Rails never really caught on in a larger scale. If it had, Ruby would be a thing today. I think it's safe to say that TypeScript has taken its place.

Comment Correction needed in both directions (Score 1) 47

First,mandatory screen time needs to be limited. If they want text books in ebook form, great, but they'll need a way to restrict school issued pads to school work during the school day.

On the flip side, I have more than once heard a parent complaining that homework is being given that requires a computer to complete where a school doesn't allow chromebooks to be taken home. That's equally absurd. Not every family can afford to give each kid a computer, and sometimes computers break. It's not like parents can just grab an extra one at the corner store like they would a pack of pencils or paper. If school work requires a computer and/or internet connection, the school should provide it. If that includes homework, the students must be allowed to take it home.

If the schools don't like that or can't afford it, they can issue text books and homework that can be completed with pencil and paper (yes, that includes accepting hand written essays).

And as for not letting parents view the assignments, that's ridiculous. Of course the parents have a right to see it. If some company wants to claim that to be proprietary information, I guess the school can't use it at all.

It's crazy to complain about students on their screens too much and then have mandatory screen time. It's equally ridiculous to complain that parents need to be more involved and then shut parents out.

/rant

Comment Re:Sounds like enshitification (Score 1) 125

Agreed. This is all stuff that at MOST should be accessible over the LAN. The ESP32 is cheap and provides the WiFi and enough power to run a simple RESTful web app. If I actually need/want to access it remotely, it'll be through a well protected integrated web servie on a jump box.

A cheaper manufacturer could probably make the ESP32 do double duty as the primary micro-controller with a suitable interrupt routine.

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