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I like modern tech, but I'm slowly coming to hate the internet. I read Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism late last year and found it preaching to the choir, but noticed that most of the negative effects of technology use were actually from internet use. The attention economy, privacy violations, enshittification, etc. are all mostly byproducts of the internet being so tightly integrated into our...

I don't know how well known this show is. Maybe I'm saying something obvious, like "hey, have you all heard about The Wire?", but in most of my social group this completely slipped under the radar. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine I started following discussions about geopolitics and international conflicts on our local discussion board, and in there it's the opposite,...

Recently, my COVID-era friend circle has drifted apart. It was a lot of little things that changed our priorities. We had / lost partners, went sober, got in-person jobs, got stressful jobs, made more / less money, etc. It was also the continual theme of realizing that after 3+ years, we hadn't necessarily broken the surface on our friendships with everyone in the groups....

I have come across mentions of WGU and Georgia Tech University, hence the question. CU Boulder on Coursera also comes up pretty often. I'm not from the US so can't attend in person. Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~comp/1ngi/are_there_any_good_online_cs_degrees_is_it_advisable_to_enroll_into_an_online_cs_degree Votes: 25 Comments: 20

What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :) Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits. You can make a chart...