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Worf posted:everybody younger, older, dumber, and smarter than me should be banned Now we’re talking
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AEMINAL posted:
You just made me remember something, I haven't thought about in ~20 years! Sister downloaded a virus from limewire which made the computer speakers randomly neigh like a horse, and intermittently make the CD drive open and close several times in a row. Those were the days!
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Jan 27, 2024 02:31
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Gelf posted:You just made me remember something, I haven't thought about in ~20 years! lmao
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Jan 27, 2024 02:56
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R.L. Stine posted:i can't think of a single smart person. it's not a generation thing everyone is just stupid. humans will die out without having done anything of merit. i don't even know the so-called 'alphabet' I work in the marine sciences, and the projects and models I see people build out every day absolutely boggles my mind with how brilliant some scientists can be. But you can also talk to that same person about a topic outside of their discipline and they will be wildly stupid. Our problem imo, is that most humans think of themselves as generalists, and therefore think they have something valid or worthwhile to say about most topics. I reality however, there is probably a single topic that you have enough knowledge of that your opinion is worth broadcasting to the masses, and even that might be a stretch for a large chunk of society. I suppose anime is technically a topic though. Szechwan fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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Jan 27, 2024 03:07
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Code Jockey posted:lmao Several days would pass, and I'd become satisfied in my teenage nerd boy confidence that I had resolved it. As I relaxed and let my guard down, there were several occasions where I would once again be audibly slapped by a stray whinny, having silently bode its time for 48 hours+
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Jan 27, 2024 03:08
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Gelf posted:Several days would pass, and I'd become satisfied in my teenage nerd boy confidence that I had resolved it. Now this is progress
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Jan 27, 2024 03:10
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Gelf posted:You just made me remember something, I haven't thought about in ~20 years! I remember being caught with a prank link in the school computer labs in the early 2000s. The web address opened up hundreds of pictures of Goatse, made them all full screen so closing them would just reveal another one, it downloaded a small looping .wav file of a man yelling "HEY EVERYONE, I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO!" it maxed out the Windows volume and played that .wav file on repeat through your speakers. The only way to deal with it quickly was to turn off the computer, then upon rebooting it, everything was completely normal. Being the mature teen I was, I then gleefully sent the link to other people in my year. Good times.
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Jan 27, 2024 03:20
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Gelf posted:You just made me remember something, I haven't thought about in ~20 years!
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Jan 27, 2024 03:23
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Why aren't viruses this cool anymore 
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Jan 27, 2024 03:44
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hackers got more interested in getting rich. Truly capital corrupts all it touches
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Jan 27, 2024 04:47
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I like how boomers and zoomers are bad and stupid and every poster itt is a beleaguered millennial under siege from either direction. I'd be upset about this clear case of gen x erasure if it weren't for the fact that caring very much about anything is distastefully uncool
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Jan 27, 2024 05:58
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I like how people are equating "not great at cybersecurity typically due to choosing convenience over security" as "being called dumber than millennials (and their honour must be defended)" instead of an interesting phenomena. Like sure, some posters might be saying that but when studies are done the numbers show a specific trend and that isn't a manufactured slight. Bringing up cars is a decent analogy for once, because, like cars, computers and technology has been gradually abstracted and isolated from wanting end users or casual consumers modifying or repairing anything they have access to. Have you tried replacing a phone battery on a phone designed to look good and deliberately not be able to have it replaced? There's similar articles and studies done about the result of abstracting to higher levels, and discouraging people from touching low level (god forbid bare metal) systems and how that does seem to be having an impact on younger people's overall technical comprehension, even amongst compsi students. And it makes a lot of sense that it would happen. This doesn't mean (necessarily, I can't speak for every potential dumbdumb) that any of them are idiots, but it does definitely pose big questions about future capability to sustain infrastructure and even whether the basics of how computer education is taught need to be revised, because we're long past the point of someone being about to gently caress around with system files and see what it does. Anyway, to go back on topic, millennials rule, zoomers drool.
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Bad Purchase posted:i like to refer to them as generation zed, i can tell it annoys them but not enough to say anything
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Jan 27, 2024 06:13
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My family got our first computer virus on a Tandy 386 PC. We never put anything in that computer that wasn't bought from the trusty Radio Shack, my dad made sure. I don't know where the virus came from, but it rode on some legitimately sold software. (it was a virus that would like add a byte to the RAM every time a key was pressed until the computer would freeze)
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Jan 27, 2024 06:21
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Gelf posted:You just made me remember something, I haven't thought about in ~20 years! no wonder everything internet related feels like it sucks now, when we peaked in its' infancy
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Jan 27, 2024 06:23
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syntaxfunction posted:Have you tried replacing a phone battery on phone designed to look good and deliberately not be able to have it replaced? yes, it’s super easy. they do it at kiosks in the mall
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Jan 27, 2024 06:31
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TrashMammal posted:yes, it’s super easy. they do it at kiosks in the mall Yeah exactly, the solution is to pay others to do it.
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Jan 27, 2024 06:33
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syntaxfunction posted:Yeah exactly, the solution is to pay others to do it. or you just use a heat gun
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Jan 27, 2024 06:37
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titties posted:gen x erasure This is as close to a self-dox I will ever risk, however I really do miss these days and the folks from this cohort who we lost from my industry during downturns and pandemic BS! We had internally developed OMR data editing software (OG version would have been 93/94) named "EDDI" - if you clicked "Help" on the dropdown menus, rather than offering help documentation, it would bring up a photo of Eddie Murphy. It would also occasionally show the user pictures of the beloved office cat. Some of the underlying tech in this area has not significantly changed since the 70s. Down in this antipodean small pond I am increasingly finding it difficult to find printers and graphic designers who understand why it needs to be done the old fashioned way.......and that I'm not just ignorant! And I'm not even 40 yet.......
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syntaxfunction posted:I like how people are equating "not great at cybersecurity typically due to choosing convenience over security" as "being called dumber than millennials (and their honour must be defended)" instead of an interesting phenomena. Like sure, some posters might be saying that but when studies are done the numbers show a specific trend and that isn't a manufactured slight. Ngl the copy-paste-not-knower hire I had to teach basic windows commands was a very quick learner Maybe a big fortnite or Minecraft breach/hack is all we need to wake these thumb callused touchscreen scrollers up??
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Jan 27, 2024 06:52
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Gelf posted:This is as close to a self-dox I will ever risk, however I really do miss these days and the folks from this cohort who we lost from my industry during downturns and pandemic BS! Idk what any of this means but it doesn't sound very cool and i hope it works out for you
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Jan 27, 2024 07:14
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titties posted:Idk what any of this means but it doesn't sound very cool and i hope it works out for you Thank you for extending your empathy to those without titties, titties.
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Jan 27, 2024 07:22
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Cabal Ties posted:One of my first experiences of online trolling was joining some goons in an online mmp browser based game, some light rpg thing. hunter2
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Jan 27, 2024 10:01
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Livo posted:I remember being caught with a prank link in the school computer labs in the early 2000s. The web address opened up hundreds of pictures of Goatse, made them all full screen so closing them would just reveal another one, it downloaded a small looping .wav file of a man yelling "HEY EVERYONE, I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO!" it maxed out the Windows volume and played that .wav file on repeat through your speakers. Hahaha I also was immediately reminded of this and had a similar experience
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Livo posted:I remember being caught with a prank link in the school computer labs in the early 2000s. The web address opened up hundreds of pictures of Goatse, made them all full screen so closing them would just reveal another one, it downloaded a small looping .wav file of a man yelling "HEY EVERYONE, I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO!" it maxed out the Windows volume and played that .wav file on repeat through your speakers. worksucks was the best thing ever created on the internet
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Jan 27, 2024 10:17
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PoPcornTG posted:I've had to teach Gen z. They are extremely bad at computers. They don't know how to use google to find out an answer when something stops working. They just give up. that's every generation also i have some sympathy for people not being able to find what they want using google. it sucks poo poo these days.
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Jan 27, 2024 11:19
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im gonna need to know what krugers are and wtf 19-dickie-two means, thankyou
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Jan 27, 2024 11:25
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Renreeja posted:im gonna need to know what krugers are and wtf 19-dickie-two means, thankyou Can't you google it?
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probably not from my tablet ㅠㅠ seriously though part of millenial computer literacy is having a sense for what won't come up through googling. I would guess Kruger is gonna bring up some loving company, and 19 dickie 2 is gonna bring up like a picture of somebodies yard or something
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Jan 27, 2024 11:37
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My first "computer" was a TI-99 and while it was an actual computer, I did nothing but play games on it. TI-Invaders for days.
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Jan 27, 2024 13:07
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The difference between knowing how to maintain cars and knowing how to use computers is that while you can avoid both in your personal life, most jobs don't expect you to randomly maintain cars but do expect you to know basic computer use. I think the issue is kids no longer learn it on their own but older generations still have the expectation that kids just naturally know computers and don't need to be taught. This was mostly the case until recently but it isn't anymore. You have to actually teach people things like what a folder is and how they can be nested now, at school, at work, somewhere. Just like older generations were taught.
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syntaxfunction posted:This doesn't mean (necessarily, I can't speak for every potential dumbdumb) that any of them are idiots, but it does definitely pose big questions about future capability to sustain infrastructure and even whether the basics of how computer education is taught need to be revised, because we're long past the point of someone being about to gently caress around with system files and see what it does. lmao oh my sweet summer child. no one is going to be maintaining any kind of "infrastructure" in the near future entirely regardless of what happens with computer education
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Because AI will manage everything?
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