Notices by Gwmngilfen (gwmngilfen@fosstodon.org), page 38

I have internal funding and approval to offer an 'e-learning 3.0' MOOC this fall (*lots* to cover here). I'll be using gRSShopper to offer it, and participants can use their own gRSShopper instances to take it.

I like to have guests participate in my MOOCs. I have my own ideas, of course, and a good set of topics. But I'd like input. Who would you like to see in the upcoming MOOC? I'm looking for diversity of perspective, new voices, internationalism...

Spent most of today on birdsite, felt sad and angry, spent last 15 min here, felt better. Anyway, boost my extreme idiot dog and help me find my pals here

It's always #blackcatappreciationday in this house.

If you are a #webmaster, switch from #GoogleAnalytics to #Matomo (formerly #Piwik) for your website analytics.

Matomo is the only analytics platform that gives you full control over your data and more:
- Free open-source software
- 100% data ownership
- User privacy protection
- User-centric insights
- Customisable and extensible
- Easy to use
- No data limits

Link: matomo.org

#FOSS #privacy #opensource

Q: How do I explain Bitcoin to my grandfather?
A: imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin

Mastodon isn’t perfect but it’s some kind of evidence of human willingness to try to patch things up, at scale.

That’s not nothing.

Unity 2018.2 officially supports WebAssembly, https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/08/15/webassembly-is-here/.

The blog post explains their road to WASM, and compares performance, code size and memory usage to asm.js. The future of the WASM support is discussed briefly.

#wasm #webassembly #unity #game #web

@zyx
Folks are fed up with Twitter making other tweet-feed providers unable to function properly. It's a new policy to force you to use their app only.

@zyx http://sp3r4z.fr/mastodon/totalUsers_days

wow… ~¼ million new people in one day :D

Using #Google products like I do, occasionally? I'd like to recommend these:
https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity and click on the three dots, pick «Delete activity by», and then delete them all (for example). I like to keep some of my YouTube history around, for a bit. But you can delete it, too.
Also visit https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols and check whether you have «Web & App Activity» disabled ("paused") as well has «Location History».
All of this didn't hurt my Google experience one bit. 😃 👌

For everyone asking for Quote toots in Mastodon -- it's deliberately not been implemented:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/

(also there's lots of design decisions that seek to try and limit potential abusive behaviour)

“scientific literature shows how the lower spending power, stress, anxiety and depression associated with low social status makes people more vulnerable to bad diets” - George Monbiot argues persuasively that the main cause of obesity is dietary sugars

https://gu.com/p/96n5a/stw

Yes, we still need to follow change control rules even if you only want to change "one little thing" in prod. 💻

just deleted my google account from my phone... so far it seems the world did not end.

No joke here folks. If you are involved in tech I urge you to URGENTLY ESCALATE the news of Symantec SSL/TLS cert distrust.

15 mins of checking in NIghtly and I've found the following are broken:

oyster.tfl.gov.uk
southwesttrains
johnlewis
pcworld
currys
bt
O2
ebay

If these everyday names are not on top of it, your ORG is likely not too.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/07/30/update-on-the-distrust-of-symantec-tls-certificates/