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by wrs 23 days ago
When my friend's kids were totally obsessed with League of Legends, I offered to set up a home firewall with increasingly difficult workarounds, so by the time they graduated high school they'd at least have a cybersecurity certificate and possibly a Ph.D in networking.
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That’s how 80s kids learned computers and programming. Trying to install a game and having to lookup what the hell “fat32” was.
HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE you mean :-)
Yes! That was a deeply buried memory.
Dude. 80’s kids think of FAT32 as that new filesystem that supports more than 8.3.
You guys had filesystems??
They don't have them any more. There's just a "recents" and a search bar.
Nope, just fat. ;)
Adversarially train the children, rlai works on human brains too?
My childhood was filled with increasing escalations of restrictions to both the computer and the network, and my workarounds.

Excellent education