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  • Brickardo@feddit.nlOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPrivacy in academia?
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    4 months ago

    Another commenter mentioned going by a pseudonym, which is pretty much what I had in mind - I’ve always been grown up on the idea of not disclosing your full name nor your physical location, but many universities’ websites not only shows the full names of their profs, but also their coordinates and their office hours.

    There’s a publicly available record of where and when someone is readily present, for better and, especially when it comes to preserving one’s safety, for worse.

    Let me make this point clearer: would you publicly disclose where you live or where you spend most of your time? I hope you see some of my concerns now.

    I trust this is the right place to find like minded people and maybe find a solution, not to argue about what an academic should or should not be.






  • I think that Ready Player One was terribly ported from the book format to the movie. The book went so much more over the top than the movie did, the latter turning down on a lot of nerd aspects. Having said that, different formats need different ways for conveying the same idea. The main character would literally get a “+1 blazing sword” in the book. +1. As if it were an MMO or something.

    Having said that, Dune (book and movie) were terrible. The movie felt plagued with references to stuff I didn’t get. Only recently did I read the book just to find it was as uninteresting as the movie.

    I’ll never forget those opera singers singing right to my ears when a ship would land… Now that’s a way to startle a person.

    On the bright side, reading the book has allowed me not see the second part of the movie.