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		Sharlin 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the loc... Grade schoolers didn’t exactly have laptops in the 00s.

ethbr1 2 days ago [–]

Thanks to the largess of a media company (read: school admin golfed with the right people), we had them issued ~97.

A lot of kids learned about cybersecurity and emulator config (and Harvest Moon) because of it, so net win?

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