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spv

hi, i'm spv. call me spv, or james if you want to be slightly weird without knowing me

here's an #introduction post because i don't think i've made one yet.
info to know about me: 17 from BFE, NY

i'm #autistic, and have too many other conditions to list. woooo!

i do #programming on occasion
#homelab on the regular
i like to work with #security, but i don't do it enough

currently getting a degree in #Computer #Security & #Forensics from #SUNY Broome

warning: i use a lot of #hashtags

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Nvidia #GraceSuperchip loses to #Intel #SapphireRapids in #HPC performance #benchmarks, promises greater efficiency
Barcelona #Supercomputing and #SUNY published benchmarks showing Grace Superchip, couldn't quite match TWO 48-core Sapphire Rapids #CPU. Despite not having earth-shattering performance, Grace promises to be competitive datacenter and HPC processor thanks to its efficiency. Built on Arm architecture. A single Grace CPU comes with 72c and 480GB of LPDDR5X RAM
tomshardware.com/pc-components

Tom's Hardware · Nvidia Grace Superchip loses to Intel Sapphire Rapids in HPC performance benchmarks, but promises greater efficiencyBy Matthew Connatser
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guyjantic has moved!

Pointlessly duplicated effort is not my favoritre thing. My school's #LMS (#brightspace) is set to prohibit having multiple sections of the same course in one LMS shell. I teach 2 sections of #stats. This means creating all quizzes twice, posting all announcements twice, uploading every document twice, constantly checking and tweaking the two course shells to keep them synched, etc.

Of course the decision to adopt the LMS was made without significant input or testing from the people who would use it. Of course #SUNY legal's opinion that allowing any student to potentially see which section another student might be enrolled in is a "FERPA violation" was made without faculty input (and I think without checking with any FERPA experts).

Brightspace employees say it's dead easy to separate sections completely, to satisfy SUNY's interpretation of FERPA. However, there is ONE INSTANCE of Brightspace at SUNY (apparently), running at 56 separate colleges and universities. One instance for thousands of courses at dozens of schools.

The SUNY sysadmin for Brightspace (who controls everything b/c one instance) says the Brightspace people are wrong. He doesn't explain why, hasn't responded (so far) to several schools asking him to implement this, and to the Brightspace documentation and employees specifying which settings need to be set at the instance level to make it happen; he just says "that can't be done".

Tens or hundreds of thousands of wasted hours of work, and probably a few cases of #RSI because someone at the top of an #authoritarian system has an idea he won't check out because (and now I'm guessing) it doesn't affect him, just a few thousand other people.

I'm getting closer to my goal of just abandoning my LMS entirely, except maybe for posting midterm and final grades. We've all been told that no other "online platform" can be used, meaning definitely no other LMSes but (at my school, anyway) several other platforms, like Discord and Slack. The prohibition seems to be driven by student complaints (i.e., if a student complaints something is "confusing," the dean or provost will declare that it is prohibited).

Yeah, getting closer to ditching all LMS use. Maybe I'll try this next fall.

#frustration#highered#professor
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Darrin L Rogers

In its wisdom, #SUNY central has apparently decided that allowing an instructor to manage multiple sections of the same course from one LMS shell is a violation of #FERPA

So here I am coding and entering grades and fighting with #brightspace to perfectly synchronize my two intro #statistics courses.

I would like to have a conversation with whatever SUNY lawyers made this ridiculous decision, with a FERPA representative on conference call.

#unpaidlabor#faculty#highered
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