Is anyone else seeing a huge increase in students who are getting their degrees left, right, and centre like it’s nothing? Especially in the IT sector?

There’s so many students that aren’t even putting in a second of their attention into their course, they rush using AI at the last moment, and pass like the assessment was nothing.

At the start of this year, there was a tutorial group of about 20 students, and they had to program a website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, they were given about 3 weeks, and nobody paid attention in that class, on the last week of the assessment being due, everyone hopped onto chatGPT, and got the AI to do all the heavy-lifting, when the grades were handed out, almost everyone in that tutorial class got a 85% or above.

I didn’t go out of my way to use AI, and did the work myself, I scored a whopping 52%, barely passing, and these motherfuckers were laughing at me because of my poor grade, their work looked like a 20+ year skilled web-developer programmed their website, I told them they were gonna get caught, but low-and-behold, not a single tutor or lecturer emailed them asking for a interview.

I feel so stupid for not using AI now, because I’m slowly starting to catch that these unis are just here for the money, and are doing the bare minimum to get students to do the right thing.

Literally this week I had a tutor who told the whole tutorial class to use AI, saying “take shortcuts, enjoy your time here, don’t be stressed”. This is the same tutor who also said they’re working on earning their PHD, saying “it’s my 4th year now, I’m almost done, and barely know anything, but I’m here for the enjoyment, and so should you.” Fucking insane.

Has it always been like this in the past too?

Even if your account is set to “hiding all posts”, Google Gemini is able to access your posts, and create a massive indexed list of everything you’ve said, it takes Gemini about 24 hours to update each time, and the worst part is you only need to type “[Insert Reddit username here]”, and “Reddit” at the end, and Google Gemini will pull all sorts of information from your account.

I learned this the hard way on my previous account, when I received weird messages from accounts I didn’t recognise, or interact with, and they were pulling all sorts of comments I made with the exact seconds to it.

I later wiped the account and everything with it, but reddit unfortunately retains the title of every post you ever made, and keeps it there, even several years after it’s been deleted.

And Google Gemini sometimes doesn’t update on time (or doesn’t update at all), so it assumes the account is still there, and continues to pull old information you thought were deleted, but are still able to be recovered by its AI system to be summarised.

Stay safe, just warning everyone about it.

Is it loud? Like lots of planes flying past your house? I was in Tempe a while ago, and the planes flying past was just insanely loud, so loud that I couldn’t even hear the people I was talking with.

But what about the people living near WSI? Is it loud there too? How often do the planes fly past?

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The University of Canberra (UC) Vice-Chancellor Bill Shorten says the time is right for the university to merge with the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT).
The CIT has faced recent upheaval, including the resignation of its embattled former chief executive this week. 

What's next?

Mr Shorten says there is no timeline on his pitch, while the ACT government is yet to take a stance.

We got one in Woden, another one in Belconnen, but what if we were to get a third one, where would it be?

If you were to ask me, I’d say Gungahlin, it has potential, but they need to build next to the tram line to maximise traffic.

Driving around the western suburbs, it feels more wide and clean. The more east I go, towards Sydney city, the more cramped and tight it gets, and the alleyways are more noticeable there.

However the more west, the more wide it feels. Especially when I’m around St. Mary’s, Rooty Hill, Woodcroft, Blacktown, the roads feel wide and just overall clean, or I’m probably delusional.

I’ve never seen so many Lebanese people before than in Australia, like every other person I meet or talk with is Lebanese to some extent, super friendly people.

How did Australia get so many of them with Lebanon having such a small population and so far from Australia?

I’m planning on driving right now from here in Sydney to Canberra, and sort of want to go nowish, but is it safe to do so? Because I’m driving a very old car that can do the job, but will absolutely fold in a crash or anything else similar to that. The last thing I wanna do is smash into a kangaroo, which im a bit worried about.