I wouldn’t worry too much about IQ numbers falling. It doesn’t fully capture human intelligence, and definitely has some biases (IYKYK).

The IQ test has had a profound impact on psychology and society, offering a standardized measure of cognitive functioning. Yet its limitations are significant. Cultural biases, reductionism, limited predictive validity, and a history of misuse all complicate its role as a definitive measure of intelligence. While IQ tests can be useful tools, they must be interpreted cautiously and supplemented with broader measures of human ability.

Ultimately, criticisms of IQ testing remind us that intelligence is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be fully captured by a single number. The challenge moving forward is to balance the utility of IQ tests with a recognition of their limitations, ensuring that assessments of intelligence are both scientifically rigorous and ethically responsible.

https://simplyputpsych.co.uk/psych-101-1/criticism-of-the-iq-test

You’re a freaking genius, you know that?

Ill do that and give it a whirl. Thanks for the PWA tip, i had completely forgotten about that.

No macOS or iOS support, but looks clean.

Keep in mind, some of the children in Alpha had their schooling methodology switched up during the Covid-19 pandemic. They went from learning in a classroom environment to learning in an online environment for a couple of years.

The teaching strategies do not translate the same across those two mediums, and the teachers had to adapt to it as fast as they could, but they were not experienced online teachers.

Teachers with 10, 15, and 20+ years of classroom experience all of a sudden had to teach their classes online. They has to learn the system themselves, as well as teach their students how to use it.

Many schools were underfunded and were not able to offer adequate technology to accommodate for this change. Many families couldn’t even afford internet, so governments had to establish voucher programs to fund low-bandwidth tiers of internet for them (which develops at the speed of red tape government).

At least one adult had to be home with their children if schools were online-only, so they had one less income earning presence in the home, unless they were able to work online themself. That affects the longterm financial goals of each family, which they might still be recovering from to this day.

By the time children went back to a classroom setting, they were missing some key skills that they would have picked up normally. Now you have 3rd graders returning to a classroom in 5th grade, but they still have 3rd grade reading levels. They have to learn 5th grade level material, and take 5th grade level testing. The online material they learned online during the covid years were a completely different set of educational material versus whats used in a classroom, so now the students have to adjust AGAIN.

Anyway, thats just my thoughts on it.

No their email verification has never worked right. They have insanely strict filters on it to “prevent spammers”.

Still closed source proprietary software, but good for them.

Yeah I have a dedicated IoT wifi network for those types of random devices. They are isolated, so any device on that particular network cant talk to any other device. If they must communicate with each other, I will set up firewall rules between the two, but wont let them access anything else on the network.

If they need internet access, you can rate limit their speed to like 1kb/s and set their dns resolver to a pi hole to keep tabs on where they are phoning home to and block accordingly.

If you can configure that devices TTL, set it low to like 4 or 5, and increase by 1 if its having trouble reaching the necessary destination. Also, block access to outside countries, as you probably aren’t needing remote management from the foreign motherlands.

Discord is still a privacy nightmare regardless, but at least they won’t require your ID by default.

Looks like a bug report is already there and has been there since Firefox 106. What exactly are you asking? Its been on their radar for a while now.

Who snitched to bluesky about that israeli war crimes account? Now those 13 year old children on bluesky cant watch other 13 year old Gaza children getting sniped by israeli forces.

Stay woke. Fascists creepin. They gon’ find you. Gon’ catch you sleepin.

The current description of Tails seems to say the opposite. They say ALL traffic goes through Tor. And only the Tor Browser is installed.

Tails?

Tor for everything

Everything you do on the Internet from Tails goes through the Tor network. Tor encrypts and anonymizes your connection by passing it through 3 relays. Relays are servers operated by different people and organizations around the world.

https://tails.net/about/index.en.html

https://tails.net/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/why/index.en.html

If its an Android or iOS phone, then it will prompt for a password or pin after a few failed fingerprint scans.

Fingerprint is just there for convenience, but you can get around it in most cases.

if we remove microsoft signing as an option for whatever reason (which we have) then it’s still very possible, and very easy to implement signed updates into your own custom update mechanism

Im not convinced

the part that we’re arguing against isn’t that a microsoft signing key would have fixed the problem, it’s

I didn’t say a Microsoft signing key is required. Im saying Microsoft requires that you go out and obtain a signed certificate that proves your identity as a developer.

this update mechanism already exists: it’s the reason the hijack was possible. whatever the technical process behind the scenes is irrelevant… that is how it currently works; it’s not a “what if”

The update mechanism was successful hijacked because integrity checks and authentication checks were not properly in place. Notepad++ even said that they moved hosting providers after this happened to them.

Per https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-chrysalis-backdoor-dive-into-lotus-blossoms-toolkit/

adding signing into that existing process without any 3rd party involvement is both free, and very very easy

Can you point out an existing open source application that runs on Windows that only uses GPG signatures?

They literally are

Agreed.

If the updates were signed, then the malicious actor could not push their own updates. It would fail authentication and integrity checks.

The gpg sig method works great on other operating systems that aren’t Windows or MacOS, but Windows and MacOS do not use that method to verify the authenticity of developer’s certificates.

The update mechanism works fine, but you will not be able to execute the binary on a Windows or MacOS system. The OS will not allow it to run without it being signed.

The malicious actor would not be able to drag and drop their malware in without the Notepad++ certificate. The signature wouldn’t match.

The certificate is not only doing authentication of the developer, but it is also doubling as an integrity check to make sure the code hasn’t been modified.

And they’re both ass tbh because the community edition for each one has arbitrary limitations built in, and you need a premium license to unlock its full capabilities.