This is pretty much my inspiration for self hosting. A three letter agency needs to infiltrate my network or show up to my house with a warrant. I'm not going to be able to stop them, but at least they'll have to work for it. I'd love a CSI Miami's episode level of effort for them to discover that I'm just a fucking nerd sharing Linux ISOs.

When I was at Uni, we had a mandatory Ethics class for Comp Sci/Comp Eng. I think it was for all majors under the Sciences banner.

I want to hear that lecture!

We definitely had to take intro philosophy and then one philosophy elective for our engineering program. In addition to that we had like these engineering meta courses, like "Engineering History" and "Engineering Cultures"

Those sound like bad-ass professors!

I would love to have a copy of this assignment! That reveal must have been a real gutpunch. Something that may have actually stuck with most students.

Haven't they already? Wasn't that what the attacks on the various universities were last summer?

The abacus is also woke unfortunately

Look at the fancy pants here that uses advanced technology like the abacus instead of counting on their nine fingers like the rest of us!

civil engineer [...] didn’t know what gentrification was…

Sweet jebus on ice-skates. The guy was potentially a literal if not figurative architect in service of one of the most profound mechanisms of gentrification and hadn't heard of it?! That's like designing cars and being unaware of traffic jams and induced demand.

What do you mean with critical theory?

basket = []
for pos in billionaires: 
    if pos not in basket: 
-       basket += guillotine(b)
+      basket += guillotine(pos)  # Corrected iterable naming

The distinction here is programming vs computer science. You're correct that it's not strictly necessary, but it really depends on the area of study. Please allow me a small rant about the distinction - this isn't directed at you.

Programming, honestly, could be taught like a trade. It's a skillset and a craft, with best practices and even regulations in some industries. But one doesn't need to know anything about how we got here or the fundamentals that make a computer work electronically, in order to write code.

Computer Science necessarily tracks back through the history of computing, in order to provide a grounding in how all this stuff ticks. You can't talk about Babbage without Ada Lovelace, you can't talk about Alan Turing without what the government did to him, and you can't bring up ARPANET or the internet without talking about Berkley techno-hippies. Every step of the way are people taking capitalist and government interest and subverting it to meet more worldly and socialized goals. Everyone in this story has an agenda and, shocker, the smartest people tend to dominate in this field and reliably don't fuck with conservative nonsense.

Yeah, that comment is just way over the top

Hooooo boy, this person is going to make a terrible and incomprehensible intro class full of irrelevant infodumping lol.

in my first semester of compsci we learned about chomsky hierarchy pretty much on day one, while we learned about while loops like a month later.

We definitely do not free ourselves from either of those online