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/
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!
@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?
@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:
#atheist, #evolution lover, very bad #banjo player, very casual poster, I am glad whenever a feel a sincere human connection