google successfully persuading every usamerican (idk how is in other countries) educational institution that nothing would possibly go wrong if they just slid their useful little software in between teachers and students that everyone could use on their neat little chromebooks was such a fucking catastrophe
the way in was the IT department. chromebooks are interchangeable and semidisposable, which solved many problems for them. even then the vendors had to build special education versions that would survive the litttle dears throwing them down a stairwell.
@theodoraward @GhostOnTheHalfShell I’ve been repeating this all over Mastodon but it is absurdly, tragically easy to get a school district or educational institution to buy whatever snake-oil tech solution you’re selling, partly because the buyers don’t know enough to ask the right questions.
DuckDuckGo.com
this is like the guys on mastodon who mention libreoffice at every opportunity
do you honestly think anyone reading this post hasn't heard of duckduckgo
Sounds like massive win-win to me.
You can't have your vegetables if you don't eat your meth!
Yes, because healthy companies hold kids hoatage
They’re better off.
Ah yes, because Google believes themselves to be the only search engine in existence...No way that it could possibly spur schools to ditch them instead. For something less shitty like a meta-search engine that isn't interested in collecting your information. Ah, monopolies, this is why you need to swat them like flies and quickly too!
Are schools blocking AI? One can hope.
Public grade schools should go back to pencil and paper, and block student access to the internet entirely at school. Kids were fine with this since before 20 years ago, why is it considered drastic now? They could learn about the internet at school, but not use it there.
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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