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Then I gave him 2 days to do a new paper, with all the corrections we had discussed.

(This was to keep him busy while IT removed all his access because he had accidentally deleted many files the day before, did notice, and didn't see fit to inform me.

Also, I had my own report to start.)

This person had *successfully* completed 3 years of master degree in digital information. He had good grades.

When I asked if he had ever worked with Excel, he said yes, and volunteered a class homework of his showing advanced features.

I asked him to reproduce these techniques in front of me.

Another assignment, he had to add up file sizes: 25 Mb and 1.5 Gb. He concluded to 26.

"What unit is this?" I asked him, hoping he would realise he forgot to convert the Mb to Gb or vice-versa or the round-up.

"26 documents," he replied.

He explained to me that file size = number of documents.

My previous intern used ChatGPT to get his master degree in computer diploma and it *showed*. It was really bad.

He didn't know how to use Excel. I had him add up 10 numbers, no fraction. He used his phone's calculator for the sum. He got the WRONG sum because he mis-punched several numbers.

I just think it's so funny that Diluc is often referred to (especially by Paimon) as Diluc-laoye (sometimes translated as Master Diluc —laoye is often used for masters of a household or in Diluc's case, perhaps more saliently, a master of a business) but ENG Genshin tends to omit the honorific.

Mara-struck Jing Yuan. He has a sad but peaceful expression and ginko branches growing on him

#JingYuan #HonkaiStarRail

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🌼Remember the powers that be rely on your despair. That's why they bombard people from every angle; they know we're too powerful when we're organized, joyful, & loving each other. If all you can do is survive that's still an act of resistance. It takes millions of small actions to move mountains 🌄💝

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I do sometimes like the localisations or they at least make me chuckle. "Statue of Klee-ven" made me laugh because usually the statues are called Qitian-Shenxiang (probs I would translate as Seven Heavenly - Divine Statues / God likenesses) but the Klee statues were "Ke Li (Klee)-Shenxiang".

I must be doing something right because any indirect criticism I ever see about my papers has never been about debating the actual contents but individuals claiming the journals publishing my papers are fake & not peer reviewed, to now even making up fake quotes from my papers to misrepresent them

once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling

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"You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can't bomb it into peace."

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please help trans kansans and their families, if you’re able. everything helps.

The "Facebook knew their product was causing body image issues in teen girls and did it deliberately" narrative is taking the ACTUAL RESEARCH Facebook did entirely out of context! They commissioned that internal research to SEE HOW THEY COULD STOP IT HAPPENING.

It's so frustrating and disheartening and the government motives are so clearly pretextual, and as both a provider and a privacy activist it fucking infuriates me

IE: the UK has mandatory age verification, the EU as a whole is in the process of implementing it, Australia has banned essentially all online interaction for under-16s, NZ is either trying to or has passed it, etc etc etc.

I just happen to believe any mechanism for state suppression of disfavored viewpoints is bad because, as you can see in the US, which views the state disfavors can shift overnight!

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.

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Panel 1: In december the under 16 ban went into affect Discord mandated age verification. Between Face-scan and providing a photo ID, I thought I was safe with a scan Panel 2: My account was insta-suspended in under a minute, I am over 30 years old and it identified me as under 13 Panel 3: Discord gave me an ultimatum: give them a photo of me holding my ID or never use my account again Panel 4: I tried arguing I feared for my privacy; they have leaked ID before, I tried arguing I'VE BEEN PAYING THEM FOR 8 YEARS. They didn't listen Panel 5: I couldn't talk to most of my overseas friends for a month Panel 6: Looking for advice online: Turns out victims of the UK/AUS ban had it better than the norm; at least a person saw my complaints. Most suspension tickets are auto declined by bots; I cannot envision Discord scaling this for worldwide fairly Panel 7: I eventually complied, I'm pretty luck; I could get away with an expired license Panel 8: Currently discord is being hammered by people cancelling nitro subscriptions, I'd cancel mine if they hadn't had done it for me already Panel 9: my advice is this: Ensure Discord isn't your only point of contact with your friends

Re: the #discord ban and me being stuck in baby face jail due to the Australia under 16 ban

Remember my list of Things from the other day? Yeah, this was Thing 3. bsky.app/profile/raha... I have since come to the conclusion that yes, they are in fact the ones smoking crack, not me.

It’s becoming increasingly evident that these institutions that are supposed to serve the public are corrupt. These criminals do not follow the rules, and they don’t pay their taxes. They continue to abuse their power and assert control on those they deem powerless.

The Discord issue is definitely concerning and I don’t blame people for “voting with their wallet” and dumping Nitro. As you should. But it won’t work.

Every Nitro sub could cancel and Discord will still continue with this. Users must take stronger action against the lawmakers/banks enforcing this.

Instead of security bankrupt Age Verification ID laws I need people to start campaigning for apps to implement required security training of red flags for scams, grooming, phishing, etc. lmao Make people have to take modules like we do for work, at least they'll be forced to know what not to do then

The fun part about this is that it does literally nothing to protect teens or kids. None of these steps EVER consider providing people with resourceful tips of danger signs 'disengage' or 'report' etc. Fucking morons. Creeps have been on kid's sites since Neopets in the 90s FUCK OFF WITH THIS SHIT.