Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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Time for a proper introduction. I'm a wildfire and climate change researcher who has somehow remained employed in academia for 6 years. I worked in government for almost 10 years before that. Before that I studied neuroscience and biochemistry, before that business and German. Public interest science. Outreach, industry engagement. Anything to deepen the links between science and society. Oh and reading, and basketball, and work-life balance, and frivolity.
Agreed, people can't learn or teach unless the are also in the right state of mind to do so.
Face to face contact in the same room is priceless, esp as you get to diverge from topic and discuss other topics that may be concerning people, esp given the state of everything.
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Saw my students today for the first time in a week (was traveling last week). Did an opening circle activity to catch up with them. Gave them an opportunity to ask me a question, they could pick the topic. 3/4 of the questions were students asking about how I was and how I liked my trip, 1/4 about content.
This reinforces my belief that human connection is the magic in a classroom. Learning cannot happen without a classroom space infused with humanity.
Would this normally be set in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab ?
@Viktoria Welcome to Mastodon
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Masto moderation stuff
If you as a user, open up a report - please do not assume that I am aware of every context of the report.
Provide context, provide links, provide enough information so someone "competely unaware" can process the report without having to spend 10-30 minutes for each one.
I know, i fully agree with him being prosecuted, i was just expressing concern as to what his followers may do as a result.
I agree with this, small traders are different from large corporates, and as people have also said, people need income for rent / food etc/
I am not too sure on Video as i generally upload to peertube and either manually share here, or let peer tube federate.
With regard to photos In some cases I try and reduce the resolution to say 640x480 as it seems reasonable for here and is less of a download issue for others.
Guidance on good practice for this would be good.
@rysiek Brilliant, i prefer this anyway, we need the sex pistols to reform and record a God save the King version.
I can talk to people at code club but that is a physical event, I am trying to reach out to local youth groups to promote a coding contest and appear to be going round in circles and not getting anywhere.
So how can the fediverse bring about changes,
One of the issues i have is that people are so tied in to corporate platforms, such as Microsoft, google etc, that trying to do anything or reach out to people is really difficult.
@juandesant Great news :)
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I am really glad that we can finally confirm that the Joint ALMA Observatory successfully returned to science observations after the infamous cyber-attack of October 29th, 48 days ago!
You can read more about it here: http://www.almaobservatory.org/alma-successfully-restarted-observations/
#ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray #CyberAttack #Resiliency
I would rather keep the NHS.
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Should all computer include a native BASIC capability with instructions? Yes argues David Brin in "Why Johnny can’t code"
@KaiserScience The raspberry Pi used to come with return to basic,
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Fragment of Ancient Egyptian goddess found in 2,700-year-old settlement in Spain https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/11/fragment-of-ancient-egyptian-goddess-found-in-2700-year-old-settlement-in-spain/145362 #Archaeology #Ancient #Antiquity #Spain
Source: https://twitter.com/AntiquityJ/status/1604948443402850318?s=20&t=cvwqceG9vt71nhIvjqJs_A
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What they are building with #elk reminds me a lot of the early days of Twitter before they killed off third party apps.
If you don't remember or weren't around, for the first 5 years or so of Twitter, 3rd party apps flourished and was a big part of the appeal of using Twitter. People did all sorts of things from regular clients to unique views of the data (StockTwits was originally built on top of Twitter).
Eventually they decided that 3rd party clients got in the way of their advertising plans and they essentially killed off the entire ecosystem. They played it down like they were only limiting certain types of apps, but what happened is that no one wanted to build on top of an unstable platform anymore, and didn't.
If I have to think back to where Twitter started changing for the worse, it was that moment. All downhill from there.
But here on Mastodon there's a chance to revive the creativity and competitiveness that was lost at that time. I'm excited for what #elk is building and look forward to seeing how it inspires others to build unique experiences on top of the fediverse.
People use google as they are unaware of alternatives or are so tried in to google it is hard to leave.
I am trying to download documents for a coding contest, rather long winded, on next cloud I can share a folder and you can just download ALL of the contents.
The contest organisers in their wisdom created a google doc, with links to other documents that all need to be downloaded, very frustrating when I am used to a better way of doing things.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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