arteteco @arteteco@qoto.org

Meanwhile, in Italy, the prime minister Salvini says that churches should be open for Easter celebrations.

Unfortunately I couldn't find an article in English, I'll link to one in Italian.

I'll translate his words.

"I can't wait for science and God, for science alone is not enough, to defeat this monster. We are getting close to the holy Easter and we also need the protection of the holy Immaculate Heart of Mary".

#atheism intensifies

#covid-19

https://www.blitzquotidiano.it/politica-italiana/salvini-chiese-aperte-pasqua-3170785/

@kensanata
Thanks, I didn't know about it. So much for the 'don't worry, when the temperature gets higher we'll all be fine...'

Manwhile, in Turkmenistan...

https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/turkmenistan-government-outlaws-use-of-word-coronavirus/

@Blort Well, it depends on the uploader if he wants give permission to download but so far I've always seen the video being available to download with torrent.

See attached images

@Blort Yes, if you download the torrent for the video and keep seeding you'll also stream the content whenever someone will be watching it!

@Downes Nope, I did read the post. Let me quote you

> Online learning should be fast, fun, crazy, unplanned, and inspirational.

No it shouldn't. It depends on the online learning. My professor may have taken inputs in, but I've also followed courses where there were just recordings and no interaction. Pretty damn useful too, the person talking knew his shit (I already mentioned Mohamed Noor as an example, but I could provide many more).

If you like that kind of system that is fine. Saying that online learning should just be like that sounds terrible.

@Downes
I'm saying that I like the teacher to know his stuff and prepare a nice lesson instead of fiddling around improvising.

In an hour I have lesson with my cartography professor. He knows what he is doing, and has prepared exercises and stuff for us.
Did he have a million dollar production? No.
How much do I pay? University here for low income people like me is around 300 euros per year, which I am glad to pay.

Also I took a very nice course on coursera by prof. Mohamed Noor, from the Duke university.
I don't know how much money did it take, I don't think much.
It is free, you can follow it at coursera.org

@Downes Not sure I see your point. I just followed a nice 30 minutes course on some genetics stuff. The teacher had the exercises prepared,he knew what the content of the lesson was going to be and he knew how it fit in the whole course.
I liked that, and wouldn't want him to improvise exercises, and just come up with the next thing to say on the fly. Structure, carefully planned structure, helps a lot

Is it just me that got a small but significant boost in popularity since the #lockdown ?
Not that anyone cares more about me personally, but seems like fixing computer problems and configuring stuff and debugging malfunctions are way more valuable skills, now that everyone is relying on this machines for everything!

@Capitancuk ma infatti ci voleva un'emergenza sanitaria per far capire che tante cose si possono fare da casa...

@Downes Thanks!

@botaflo Sure, I just created the torrent with transmission, paste the magnet link on peertube and after a few minutes I was seeding the torrent. Once it got to 100% is was published in a matter of seconds really

Did you know that you can upload your videos to #peertube using #torrent? I just tried, as my connection is slow and I kept getting error by direct upload, and it works like a charm!

@schlink what kind of link do you use? I may take inspiration!

@freemo
If you already reached some conclusion feel free to not include me, I was late and as we've always done who's present takes the decisions, otherwise it would slow us down a lot.

Maybe just open a topic on discourse linking the discussion on mastodon, for transparency?

@khird @design_RG @mngrif

@freemo
Sorry, I have troubles following such threads on mastodon, could we open a discourse topic?

Regarding this "user unsilencing", it's I think a great feature and has been discussed already. I don't think there is a will to implement such feature, even though I don't think it would go against the mastodon philosophy

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3890

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7220

And is been touched here:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5694

@khird @design_RG @mngrif

@tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org ahahah, thanks, seems like I may be reported by a professor for such violation, so I better study the thing a bit. What a PITA though

@tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org Yeah, I understand what you mean... I need to find the terms and conditions and such. Thanks!

@tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org I understand class material, but even there: is the university or the teacher's copyright? (s)he produced it, so I'm not sure it's automatically property of the university.

Only thing I feel safe saying is that everybody, teacher included, has the right of their own contribution. The content is not even streamed through the university, they use microsoft servers (even though I'm not sure how that does work... I should check it)

They are not going to publish stuff (even though they state they could), they want classes not to be recorded and copied, which I'm not sure is a legitimate demand

#copyright question for all you nice people!

My university (in Italy) has moved to online classes, using microsoft TEAMS, for the coronavirus outbreak.

They published a regulation saying that all content from a class, which is a conference so everyone can chime in talk and show, is copyright of the university.

Now that sounds weird, I would have expected each person to own the copyright to its own contribution, since we didn't sign nothing for it, and the university to own dick bupkis.

Could someone help me here? Is the university trying to bullshit us?