Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 23

@lightweight as the Open Source Technologists for the #OERu (Open Educational Resources Foundation), you might have some good tips on using free code software for #RemoteLearning. I've started a #Guppe group for sharing these, which everyone is welcome to follow and post to by mentioning the group user:
https://gup.pe/u/remotelearning

@alex
> I'm having to use Zoom and Skype for meetings and teaching classes because that's what everyone else is using

The power of #NetworkEffects ;) No judgement whatsoever on everyone doing whatever they have to do under the circumstances, including using proprietary software and network services. But it seems like a good time to share info on #FreeCode tools for @RemoteLearning as they exist, and identify gaps that new projects could fill in the future.

The #WaybackMachine isn't working for me today. The page at web.archive.org loads, but when I enter a URL to search, it returns an error:
> Fail with status: 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

@alex screen.so has no source code available, is owned by Slack, and depends on Goggle Firebase. Not my first choice for online screen sharing. But thanks for sharing :) I mentioned a couple of other things that could work here:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103880478777211204

Anyone who finds themselves doing #RemoteLearning, either as a teacher or a student, due to the current pandemic containment measures, is welcome to share tips and tricks by mentioning the @RemoteLearning #Guppe group. You can subscribe to the posts by following the group user.

Or there's this online #whiteboard:
https://whiteboard.siplo.lk/whiteboard

... which I found here:
https://community.jitsi.org/t/jitsi-dev-whiteboard-with-for-jitsi/12444/13

@halcy @bstacey @RemoteLearning

What about using an Etherpad?
https://pad.disroot.org/
@halcy @bstacey
@RemoteLearning

@dazinism
There's been some progress more recently:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/about-discourse/102
@lightweight

As a general rule, #NZ #CivilDefence suggests that everyone keeps enough durable food and water to survive for at least 3 days, in case of a natural emergency. I don't see why it hurts to have a month worth or more, as long as you build it up gradually, and turn it over so it doesn't get wasted.

@cyberdelik federated networks use servers and client apps. Distributed networks only have apps that connect peer-to-peer. #P2P

People like to take the piss out of #preppers, but you know those people fighting over toilet paper at the supermarket during this epidemic? I guarantee you they're not preppers.

Chen goes on:
"The two sides constantly erupt into flame wars on the Internet, as though this country can hold only One True Faith for the future: things are either black or white; either you're with us, or you're against us."

Chen is describing contemporary China, but his comments apply just as much to the anglophone world, with its noisy #CultureWars between liberal insurrectionists and conservative nationalists.

"Between the feeling of individual failure and the conspicuous display of national prosperity lies an unbridgeable chasm. The result is a division of the population into two extremes: one side rebels against the government reflexively (sometimes without knowing what its 'cause' is) and trusts nothing it says; the other side retreats into nationalism to give itself the sense of mastering its own fate."
- #ChenQuifan, 'The Torn Generation', published in the 'Invisible Planets' #SciFi anthology

@lightweight cool! Hopefully #Discourse will be implementing AP this year.

@lightweight a Guppe server allows the #fediverse equivalent of mailing lists to be created on the fly. Anyone can create or post to a group with an @mention. Check out kittens@gup.pe as an example. Users can subscribe to a group by following the group actor.

@bob As always in the infopocalypse, the challenge is helping each other innoculate ourselves against propaganda mind viruses, and identify reliable and empowering sources

@bob
All true, but don't underestimate the ruling class ability to spin this crisis, like any other, as a post hoc rationalization for their whatever they were already doing:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/21/bluff-bombast-blame-all-trump-can-offer-coronavirus-crisis

"Let’s do our share as web developers and stop bloating the web."
- #DannyVanKooten

Word.

@mplammers

@mplammers just one of many reasons why every piece of avoidable Javascript needs to be done away with.
#MakeJavascriptOptional!

@lanodan
#TeReoMaori is another language with gender neutral pronouns ("ia" for he/ she/ it), as is Mandarin Chinese ("ta" for he/ she/ it). I find the similarity intriguing as an ethnolinguistic data point.
@zatnosk