Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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@thor @zleap @write_as @writefreely Giving the normies access to free communication over open protocols not controlled by governments or corporations is worth the risk of the already inevitable evolution or death of current fediverse culture. It’s what it aspires to from inception.
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Wikipedia to be translated into IsiZulu, Sesotho, Tshivenda, and Afrikaans by a group of young people https://www.fastcompany.co.za/inspiration/wikipedia-to-be-translated-into-isizulu-sesotho-tshivenda-and-afrikaans-by-a-group-of-young-people-926edbd6-0675-48a9-a5a1-b8fc38b6275d
Just found this on LinkedIn, very true. Employers need to think WHY people leave, and learn from it.
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@zleap
It currently does work. The article says that yahoo needed a representative in china. However, fedi doesn't have any- anywhere. Fedi is also not a company.
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RT @wmmna@twitter.com
6 days left to register for an online course that explores how artists use biohacking, gaming, robotics, photography & collaborative experiments to examine existential threats, survival strategies & our fascination for catastrophic scenarios http://schoolofma.org/artistic-toolkit-for-apocalypse.html @SchoolOfMaaa@twitter.com
Yahoo pulls out of China over 'challenging' business conditions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59136937
I wonder if / how the fediverse would work in China ?
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@zleap sure, feel free!
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@zleap The government doesn't, either. If they keep doing a crappy job, people will protest. If protests get ignored, they escalate. Right or not, it's a simple mechanism.
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Stop publishers from exploiting the captive market of student buyers. Textbooks should be free and open. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/inequitable-access-anti-competitive-scheme-textbook-publishers
The UK is pathetic
Birmingham police let Insulate Britain mob walk FREE... only for activists to return and stop traffic three hours later
I feel sorry for the people who have jobs and ave to go to work,, people actually want electric cars but they are currently too expensive for a lot of people, plus not enough car charging points in some areas.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10155731/Officers-swoop-Insulate-Britain-activists-M25.html
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Working on the online learning platform for Africa 
The other side of SchoolForAfrica.org 💪
A place where kids can get free online courses and people who want to contribute can submit lesson material 
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We're looking for a C++ developer to join our desktop client team!
You would work with our small and agile team to bring new features and improvements to the desktop client application. You ideally have some open source experience, know your way a bit around git and Github and live in the CET timezone.
Please boost appreciated
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@thor THE ESTROGEN IN THE PLASTIC IS TURNING THE FREAKIN' CATS GAY
I got 2 go, so will carry on with this tomorrow.
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I wonder if cryptocurrencies are the 21st century equivalent of the secret societies that littered the American social landscape from 1870-1945.
But an extremely individualistic take on them.
* sense of belonging to an initiated group with higher secrets
* built on weird, incomprehensible rituals and mysteries
* chance to make a lot of money, but the inner circle always makes out better than the rank and file
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Pushing renewable power immediately could save trillions in health costs - Enlarge / Building a lot of these would pay for itself, albeit indirect... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1809437 #science
It seems to be that Greta Thunberg et al are just out to get at people, no matter what people do , or politicians do, it is branded not good enough.
If an adult treated a child like that, constantly saying you are useless, not listening and not good enough it would be seen as a form of child abuse (psychological abuse)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59116611
Could make people thing why are we even bothering when what ever small steps we take, will never be good enough.
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@torproject @zleap
> from trac to gitlab
a service that doesn't need javascript to done that does
> discourse
a forum that needs javascript
> Currently, the Tor Forum is fully hosted by Discourse, and because they do not support onion services yet, it won't have an onion site soon.
> not even using your own system
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> from trac to gitlab
a service that doesn't need javascript to done that does
> discourse
a forum that needs javascript
> Currently, the Tor Forum is fully hosted by Discourse, and because they do not support onion services yet, it won't have an onion site soon.
> not even using your own system
ngmi
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Today, we're very happy to announce a new discussion and user support platform: the Tor Forum.
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-forum-a-new-discussion-platform
This is typical of the UK
Furious COP26 delegates are told to attend REMOTELY - despite burning tonnes of CO2 flying across the globe - because 'high attendance' has caused chaos at Glasgow venue and massive queues to get in
firstly why wasn't this held remotely anyway, ? secondly this shows how the UK could not organise a booze up in a brewery.
What happened to planning a head, surely we know who to expect, how many etc. How much were the useless experts paid to make such a mess of things. ?
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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