翠星石 on Nostr: nprofile1q…hs06p >because individual schools can't afford people who could keep ...
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If millions or billions can be blown on proprietary licenses, I'm sure schools can afford a single person who has basic competence at using a computer to keep such services running (sure they're hard to find, but you will be able to find them as long as you don't go looking for them via proprietary software).
Provided you don't go and use JavaScript or other memelang to implement such services, you'll find that such services will keep going along fine for years, needing only minimal maintenance.
Although perl is sometimes a write only language, you can be confident a perl CGI script is going to keep working even 20 years later with a minimal change at most.
>there're economies of scale to be had
Then the NZ government should directly hire a few people to host servers for all the schools, rather than adding 20-1000% markup to the cost to pay some business to do so.
>Doing nasty things would rapidly result in reputational damage here
The vast majority of businesses don't care about in slightest about reputational damage, as long as it doesn't impact the bottom line.
>openschools
Unfortunately, teaching alternatives, Linux and "open source", only teaches effective ways to bootlick corporates and become their slaves (except in a efficient way), eventually leading to the exact same problems.
If a school uses computer, schools should be permitted to only teach free software (or call it libre software or call it real software), as anything else is training slaves for multinational corporations, but of course not.
This may seem radical and too extreme, but would be in fact a minimal response that does the bare minimum to avoid digital slavery, that may not be successful.
If someone is taught how to use a computer properly, they will also be able to work out proprietary systems (the usual technique is to think of the worst possible way to do something and then try it) without any further training, although they will realize how bad proprietary systems are and not want to use them.
>Open school house document under a proprietary license
Yikes.
>proprietary youtube JavaScript
Yikes.
If millions or billions can be blown on proprietary licenses, I'm sure schools can afford a single person who has basic competence at using a computer to keep such services running (sure they're hard to find, but you will be able to find them as long as you don't go looking for them via proprietary software).
Provided you don't go and use JavaScript or other memelang to implement such services, you'll find that such services will keep going along fine for years, needing only minimal maintenance.
Although perl is sometimes a write only language, you can be confident a perl CGI script is going to keep working even 20 years later with a minimal change at most.
>there're economies of scale to be had
Then the NZ government should directly hire a few people to host servers for all the schools, rather than adding 20-1000% markup to the cost to pay some business to do so.
>Doing nasty things would rapidly result in reputational damage here
The vast majority of businesses don't care about in slightest about reputational damage, as long as it doesn't impact the bottom line.
>openschools
Unfortunately, teaching alternatives, Linux and "open source", only teaches effective ways to bootlick corporates and become their slaves (except in a efficient way), eventually leading to the exact same problems.
If a school uses computer, schools should be permitted to only teach free software (or call it libre software or call it real software), as anything else is training slaves for multinational corporations, but of course not.
This may seem radical and too extreme, but would be in fact a minimal response that does the bare minimum to avoid digital slavery, that may not be successful.
If someone is taught how to use a computer properly, they will also be able to work out proprietary systems (the usual technique is to think of the worst possible way to do something and then try it) without any further training, although they will realize how bad proprietary systems are and not want to use them.
>Open school house document under a proprietary license
Yikes.
>proprietary youtube JavaScript
Yikes.