@blacklight "If the young but knew..." My first computer had a whopping 4K (yes, 4 Kilobytes) of main memory. Today I'm forced (occasionally) to deal with a circle (jerk) of Agile coders who are powerless when the IDE on their MacBook Pros won't launch, with absolutely no idea where to start in fixing the problem; the file servers, the datastores, their Macbook, the network, or a hundred other things they know nothing about. Oh, and trying to teach them about IPv6 is basically pointless.
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Lorq Von Ray (lorq@small.circlez.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 21:30:13 UTC 
Lorq Von Ray
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BJ Swope :verified:β (cybeej@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 21:30:11 UTC 
BJ Swope :verified:β
@Natanox @lorq @blacklight I think it is due to the abstraction of technology. As products and services lower the barrier to using tech they usually remove the need to learn the underlying fundamentals. So more people use the tech but less understand how it actually works. Itβs both good and bad.
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Natasha Nox ππ (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 21:30:12 UTC 
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@cybeej @lorq @blacklight Do you (both) think it has to do with the commercialisation of education itself?
I keep seeing all those certifications and courses for and by companies and their products as well as universities and schools being filled with tech by either Google, Apple or Microsoft, and I wonder whether studying informatics is the only way nowadays to actually get taught necessary basic skills to understand the technology you're working with.
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BJ Swope :verified:β (cybeej@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 21:30:13 UTC
BJ Swope :verified:β
@lorq @blacklight trying to teach anybody about IPv6 is pointless, I say as somebody whoβs been doing this stuff for ~30 years now.
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