Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@AbandonedAmerica

Over here that would be saved as a museum, as it would be part of our history.

e.g

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cheshire-greater-manchester/quarry-bank

@hasmis

Al, well this was just a idea, I have tried to invite the local Biotech hub along

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/support/experimental-medicine.htm

but got no reply yet, so wil keep trying, need to contact

https://spaceskills.org/home

too,

While we can do activities at the group meets, it is mostly bring your own projects, i think adding in some talks etc and building bridges to industry is also important.

@hasmis

But the US won't extradite him anyway so why try and threaten that.

The best way to punish Zuck is to get people off his wrenched platforms, or at least the good people and leave it to the trolls, etc we don't want them here on fedi really

@hasmis

Well lets see who turns up, been advertising in my local library for ages and no one has expressed an interest.

The building challenge sounds fun.

I run a stem group so really want to create more hooks to get people in, I am more into Chemistry and Astronomy while Lucy who I run this with is in to Computer Science.

Torbay is hardly a hub for this sort of thing.

@hasmis

I agree with the internet safety law but disagree in some cases that CEOs should face prison as we can't do that if the CEO is out side the UK anyway the US is not going to extradite Mark Zukerburg

End of the day we need to hold people who post content accountable such Andrew Tate, we are to useless in the UK to do this, Romania seems to be able to manage it.

We are better off issuing fines, or even better promote the alternative such as fedi.

Rishi Sunak facing major Tory rebellion over internet safety law

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64247034

#BBC #UK #Law #Internet #Safety

Paignton Library STEM Group Civil engineering event

Paignton Library learning centre
Saturday 11th Feb 2023 11:15 hrs to 13:45 hrs

@Szilvia @aral

For what I want / need, writefreely works fine, I can type a blog entry, add pictures, embed video, add tags and it has default activity pub integration.

Granted adding pictures does requre

 which for me is fine.

There are also several options as to the type of blog.

As with everything else choose the right tool for the job and let the job dictate the tool.

I don't care about integration with old fashioned social media (e.g twitter, facebook, instagram etc). I do care about activcity pub integration, and software freedom so writefreely ticks the box for me. I also find it easy to use, it is nice and quick ( at times wordpress can be painfully sluggish)

Wordpress has a miriad of security issues, which is probably due to the fact it has lots of features, each plugin can introduce a new security problem and if your key plugin does't keep updated sync with wordpress, then you could lose that feature.

As I said, use the tool for the job.

@aral

I use writefeely on my blog, works great, I have a post coming uo on how to embed posts in to the blog but edit the width and or height.

Thanks for the clarity on this btw, i thought the software was WriteAs.

It also seems pretty lightweight, so just works on a wider range of systems.

@ernmander@floss.social

You can also eat quiche co. ld, great for lunchboxes

@nextcloud

I have the Nextcloud desktop sync client on my Debian 10 netbook and Debian 11 desktop (Long story as to the versions) but the desktop client runs fanstic, got it connected to #disroot and it just works.

@TootUncommon@sfba.social @Strangely @jaykuo

Thing is schools can only do so much, end of the day we can also warn young people employers are increasingly looking people up on line. If they see you have boosted material by Andrew tate and it looks as if you're supporting his narrative then your application could just be binned. Not just employment but for courses etc.

What we need is far better role models, I don't mean sports stars either we need people working in STEM who are role modles, but I am sure most science people just want to do their job, research, write papers etc be influencial that way rather than celebrities.

Professor Brian Cox does a really good job, but he has chosen to do both. Most people don't want the baggage that comes with that.