News roundup: child tech illiteracy, cars-as-homes-and-snitches, ChatGPT-derived academic manuscripts, and more!

[worm food]

"Today’s kids might be digital natives — but a new study shows they
aren’t close to being computer literate"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/16/todays-kids-may-be-digital-natives-new-study-shows-they-arent-close-being-computer-literate/

"As housing costs skyrocket, Sedona will allow workers to live in cars.
Residents aren't happy"
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2024/03/15/sedona-approves-safe-parking-for-workers-living-in-cars/72958830007/

"Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance
Companies"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html

"Yet another obvious ChatGPT prompt reply in published paper"
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1bf9ivt/yet_another_obvious_chatgpt_prompt_reply_in/

"Experts alarmed over AI in military as Gaza turns into “testing ground”
for US-made war robots"
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/09/experts-alarmed-over-ai-in-military-as-gaza-turns-into-testing-ground-for-us-made-robots/

"Plants can take up CWD-causing prions from soil in the lab. What
happens if they are eaten?"
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wasting-disease/plants-can-take-cwd-causing-prions-soil-lab-what-happens-if-they-are-eaten

"Scientists divided over whether record heat is acceleration of climate
crisis"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/16/scientists-divided-record-heat-acceleration-climate-crisis

Enjoy your cascading, interconnected crises, butthorns!

[rek2 hispagatos]

Post by worm food
"Today’s kids might be digital natives — but a new study shows they
aren’t close to being computer literate"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/16/todays-kids-may-be-digital-natives-new-study-shows-they-arent-close-being-computer-literate/

I agree, is not a 1 and a 0 or black and white but yes younger
people are not used to put any efford to learn things, and
most people never had to use MSDOR/Solaris/Sun/AIX code in
C/Cobol/Pascal etc.. for the python and using pre-made frameworks and
pre-made social networks is the only thing they can focus on.

Happy Hacking
ReK2

[worm food]

Post by rek2 hispagatos

Post by worm food
"Today’s kids might be digital natives — but a new study shows they
aren’t close to being computer literate"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/16/todays-kids-may-be-digital-natives-new-study-shows-they-arent-close-being-computer-literate/

I agree, is not a 1 and a 0 or black and white but yes younger
people are not used to put any efford to learn things, and
most people never had to use MSDOR/Solaris/Sun/AIX code in
C/Cobol/Pascal etc.. for the python and using pre-made frameworks and
pre-made social networks is the only thing they can focus on.

Let's see if I can follow up properly this time... I think the concern
is that if you do not have any idea how something works, then you are at
the mercy of those that do. Tech companies know this and are flooding
the market with black-box-babysitters which primarily act as spyware.
For example Windows 11:
https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html

Coupled with a global decline in "literacy" more generally
(https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/5/unprecedented-decline-in-global-literacy-scores-osce-report-says)...

Post by rek2 hispagatos
Happy Hacking
ReK2

[Kyonshi]

Post by worm food
"Today’s kids might be digital natives — but a new study shows they
aren’t close to being computer literate"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/16/todays-kids-may-be-digital-natives-new-study-shows-they-arent-close-being-computer-literate/

It's a bit like learning languages and speaking them natively. Often the
people that are worst to understand in speaking and writing are native
speakers, because they aren't used to putting any effort into it.

[worm food]

Post by Kyonshi

Post by worm food
"Today’s kids might be digital natives — but a new study shows they
aren’t close to being computer literate"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/16/todays-kids-may-be-digital-natives-new-study-shows-they-arent-close-being-computer-literate/

It's a bit like learning languages and speaking them natively. Often the
people that are worst to understand in speaking and writing are native
speakers, because they aren't used to putting any effort into it.

Proximity blindness? I think that's pretty credible. However,
familiarity breeds complacency.