Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
I think the Russian space agency are sending up an empty spacecraft to bring them back. In some ways this is NOT good news, on the other hand it does highlight the dangers and challenges of space exploration, so as we move towards setting up a presence on the Moon this will be something that one day we are going to have to deal with. So it is also a really good learning opportunity on how we cooperate and bring the astronauts / cosmonauts back home safely.
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Apparently some dickhead (or dickheads, as the case may be) uploaded malware into an issue on Codeberg and shared links to it and managed to get Codeberg onto a number of block lists so some folks can’t access the site now because their ISPs are blocking it.
If you know the folks who run these lists and can help remove Codeberg from them, I’d appreciate it.
More details: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/850
CC @Codeberg
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People are posting "2 sleeps till Christmas!" But really you can have as many sleeps as you want over the next 24 hours there's no rule
We have something far better here, not just technically but as a social community, where instances can be managed by individuals, Mastodon integrates with other services such as peertube too.
People are sick of data collection and been seen as a source of data / finance for a corporate income stream.
Welcome to 2023 if the trend carries on then 2023 will truly be #YearOfTheFediverse
I remember when I was in canada, sitting b a lake watching the skies get ever darker, then the rain drops started falling, by the time i got to a larger building on the site, the rain was much heavier.
For a Brit in Canada it seemed odd feeling, feeling the temperature etc change as a storm approached.
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PARENT: "Have you finished writing your letter to Santa?"
CHILD: "I don't believe in Santa anymore. Now I believe in a decentralized network of independently operating elves who federate using an open protocol called ActivityPub to share information about children's Christmas wishes and source gifts to fulfill them"
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@zleap @godlessmom The UK government has subsided employers for decades. Since 2012 it has slowly dismantled the social safety net, sold off social housing and its answer now in response to abject fuel poverty, where pensioners are travelling around on busses to stay warm, is to claim credit for pensioner’s free bus passes and introduce ‘Warm Hubs’
This after tanking the economy and giving billions to their rich friends with PPP contracts.
Criminal enterprise springs to mind.
@garyackerman i agree with that.
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The situation regarding IT management in many schools is well-captured by the hypothetical (and sarcastic) Putt’s Law. According to Archibald Putt, “Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand” (Putt, 2006, p. 7). Further, Putt articulated a corollary, “Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion” (p. 7). While these words are intended to be humorously cynical observations, they do describe the current state of IT management in schools:
• Technology professionals configure IT systems for students and teachers, but they are unfamiliar with emerging technology-rich pedagogy. In Putt’s terms, IT professionals are managing devices for purposes they do not understand.
• Educators complain about the IT systems in schools, but they don’t understand the complexity of managing IT systems, the potential conflicts and threats to the operation of enterprise IT, and general chaos that can result when enterprise networks are not tightly controlled. In Putt’s terms, educators seek to manage IT they do not understand.
• School leaders make budget and personnel decisions that impose unrealistic limits on IT professionals and they advocate for practices beyond the capacity of the available IT or are contrary to the professional tendencies of the teachers.
Reference
Putt, A. (2006). Putt’s law & the successful technocrat: How to win in the information age. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Affaire Cambridge Analytica : Facebook accepte de payer 725 millions de dollars pour mettre fin au procès
Facebook n’a reconnu aucune infraction, selon les termes de cet accord, rendu public jeudi, qui doit encore être approuvé par un juge.
Accès libre
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2022/12/23/affaire-cambridge-analytica-facebook-accepte-de-payer-725-millions-de-dollars_6155532_4408996.html
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Workshop to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling & Public Health March 27-28 Boston
Deadline Jan 15
@epiverse
@idjclub
#IDMastodon #epiverse #MathModeling
https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/increase-diversity-in-mathematical-modeling-and-public-health
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One of the keys to research is asking Why? See my thoughts on this here: #research #science #creativity #discovery https://brentstockwell.medium.com/a-key-to-making-discoveries-ask-why-8fc52291eba1
@dataparty @nullagent @rekcahdam
Great work, happy to boost and share.
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We're a collective of black hackers run by @nullagent & @rekcahdam.
We love ethical hacking, video games, Hip Hop and cinema!
This instance is hosted https://partyon.xyz/about as a supportive place for artist and technologist. Feel free to request an account!
We're building a lot of projects (link in bio). All open source, some commercial. We'll post updates on them from time to time.
Happy Holidays and PartyOn!
Indeed, and a proper education system that teaches that would help too, so people can be taught about this properly.
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@QasimRashid This is my response whenever someone tries to blame hate on religion: the hate came first, and religion is the excuse for it. We know this because people will bend religion around their hate. The Taliban is just one more group that excuses their hatred of women and other groups with religion. All such groups should come to a swift end.
I should be able to follow RSS from mastodon, in fact I can follow my blog from here using RSS. so ideally any new implementation would be really compatible with the federated networks, ideally activity pub plug-ins can do that, but not everyone may be able to install that.
Even the UK govern,ment departments have people on welfare despite working for the department that pays it out.
If they paid people more they would not need to rely on welfare to top their income up.
Apparently even GCHQ has a foodbank (cite bbc new
s on 23/12/2022)
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I just walked into my local public library with a curiosity and walked out with a bag full of books to satisfy it.
And they say magic isn't real?
Treasure, use, and support your libraries, folks. They're the heart and soul of a civil society. ❤️
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If you’re in DC and you see someone unhoused out in the freezing temps, call (202) 399-7093. This # is the DC shelter hotline. Or call 311. #dangerouscold #DoGood
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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