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Be me.
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Go to school
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Everyone else in my class counting on fingers
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Pull out Abacus
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Crowd immediately forms
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“Hey guys! He’s doing multi-variable calculus over here!!!”
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Smile smugly. Don’t these kids know the abacus has been around for 3000 years?
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Teacher tells me to stop cheating. Accuses me of black magic
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Just laugh. Calculate pi to 100 places. People running out of the room screaming and crying.
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Sent to principle’s office. Principle amazed by my technological expertise. Nominates me for Head Boy.
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Ministry of Magic sends down delegation to investigate my new kind of wizardry
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Correctly estimate the future national gross domestic product for the next two quarters
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Voldemort appears and tries to steal my device
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Perfectly calculate the circumference of his head. Voldemort banished to the shadow realm for 10,000 years.
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Everyone cheers
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Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur
True story
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Fake: anon used bigfuckinmistake.exe instead of bigfuckinmistake.sh
Ace: No mention of sex because sex is for sheeple
wine bigfuckingmistake.exe
Similar though far less extreme thing happened to me in highschool ~99
Some kid decided to rename the other kids home directory folders because they were their student IDs, not an easily identifiable name.
Sure enough, when said students went to log back in, their data was gone.
They took away MY access because they wanted me to come to the staff room to get it restored so that I can fix it for them.
Why we had access to all students home directories and data is beyond me FFS. But yeah.
I did plenty of shit I shouldn’t have done, for sure, but that wasn’t me, and it was the one time I got my access revoked.
Anyway, it was a good lesson to install a keylogger on a few machines which logged to the local c: and then I got some other accounts for free internet and print credit so there was no more logging me out after that.
Get new parents
Is that a flatpak?
Hopefully, I was hoping for an AppImage variety
Ew. Plain RPM only
This happened to a friend of mine in the 90s. He was checking his email with pine. The lady who ran the school computer lab called the terminal “the black program with the blinking thing.”
This more or less happened to my friend circa ~2000s. They were technically amazing for our age. When the school “database” was deleted they and a friend were suspended for an entire month, almost expelled.
Turns out they had warned their teacher that the files were in a public shared folder and anyone could just literally delete them. No backups, these were grades, assignments, etc for dozens of teachers over many years. They were severely punished for trying to disclose a vulnerability essentially and blamed for the whole thing.
Never report vulnerabilities yourself to an organization, always use a neutral, trusted third party to report it.
which organization would you use in this situation?
If you were in highschool at the time, really the only ethical thing to do for someone in your position is to delete all the files and shine a light on their bad security practices, but don’t say anything about it to anyone. It’s that last bit that always gets you in trouble. Absolute candor is something adults almost never want to hear from children.
genuinely think of the teachers
My teacher one year gave me an F because he didn’t bother to grade anything in a timely fashion, also didn’t store (or organize) any student assignments that had been handed in, and when the end of the year came made me go digging through a giant stack of everyone’s assignments to find mine to prove I deserved a reasonable grade AFTER I had already been sent home with an F. I eventually got the grade I deserved, but I shouldn’t have had to fight for it like that. Apparently this was a common routine for this teacher, but lots of students didn’t bother to fight it. It didn’t get fixed until that cabinet was physically emptied and I handed all the assignments back to their authors.
I am thinking of the teachers. And I think OPs situation is remarkably similar. But kids, being kids, will not be heard by adults when they shout warnings, like “Why haven’t you graded and returned any of my assignments yet this term?” or “This valuable/dangerous thing should be secured, who responsibility is that?” It may not be moral advice, but like the song says, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
Linux is a gateway drug. Habitual use can lead to harder OSes, which are also Linux.
Oh please Christ tell me that kids these days aren’t that dumb when it comes to computers.
I’m sorry to inform you that when I was in high school I had classmates ask me if I was hacking when opening up the command line. We don’t have snitches though and the people here have the ability to listen to explanations.
Computer literacy is definitely down in gen z and alpha.
IMO around 2006 is when you see the decline. It’s the delineation between kids who started with computers, and kids that started with phones or tablets.
