Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 11

@GreenandBlack you'd think so, but the land registry is pretty murky.. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/19/who-owns-england-secretive-companies-hoarding-land

Enclosure of the commons.

"between 1760 and 1870, about 7 million acres (about one sixth the area of England) were changed, by some 4,000 acts of parliament, from common land to enclosed land".

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/10/battle-for-freemans-wood-lancaster-common-land-locals-property-development

@mayel Congrats on the mini human!

@mayel This is what I like about Indieweb. Also that it has multiple backend servers available.

I like the one identity, one datastore model, and I choose which client apps I let interact with my data via a backend server (which I can swap out as long as it speaks the right protocols).

Hope ActivityPub heads in that direction away from where Mastodon took it, if it's ActivityPub or Indieweb (or some bridged hybrid!) I'm not too fussed. Solid's same idea too but not a fan of the VC there.

@mayel I think the approach you describe is the best approach.

I prefer tools, but only if they have good products built on them. Not much point me having a fancy hammer and nail without a picture hook and a picture to put up with them.

I'm on a big Emacs kick lately, doing more and more in it. It ticks all of the latter of the questions in the list. I might not have gotten into it tho without spacemacs and org-mode adding polish to the tool below. ('slick' being a relative term here...)

@o0karen0o Keep fighting the good fight! Some people get annoyed, others get intrigued. Can't remember where I heard about Mastodon, but good chance it was someone like yourself two years ago, and I'm glad whoever it was turned me on to it

@liaizon Amen to that

Doing the Parkrun regularly has got me into the habit of running every Saturday morning, even when there's not a park nearby. Really glad I found out about them. Running regularly is good for my mental health.

They're a great org, free organised runs once a week: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/

@Gina High five! Also ran. Kudos on the 7am though, that's pretty epic.

@janellecshane Ooh yum sweetcorn puddles

@sydneyfalk Check mate

@mairin I certainly do but also important is 'how to work with UX peeps on your project', like I'd rather be part of a team with a good UX person than pretend I can do it all myself.

@nicksellen The recent Stir to Action had a few articles picking up on this point as well. Don't have it to hand but from memory it was interesting but not super rigorous. One made a good point that local focus or municipalism should always be thought of as a means not the end in itself.

@ntnsndr We're doing it in association with the local council, who are running the whole summer school, of which we're two sessions a week.

From a brief survey, the students were most interested in gaining skills that will lead to employment, and learning the basics so that they can use computers for their schoolwork. Also browsing websites and sending emails.

We also want to make them feel confident in maintaining and fixing their computer themselves.

As part of a summer school, we're running a bunch of lessons with refugee and asylum seeking youth on how to use, repair, and upgrade a bunch of Dell E5400s.

Tomorrow we're discussing types of long-term storage, putting in an SSD, and installing Windows. (Dual booting Linux in the next couple of sessions)

I'm currently using dd to clone img of Windows install media onto 15 USBs.. (3 at a time). I used woeusb to make the main copy. MS installation tool is crap.

Hope this shizzle all works

Heck.  The third and final part of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is grim, bleak and depressing.

Biased data sets in law enforcement.

"The problem is that crime statistics do not reflect the crimes actually occurring; rather, they provide a picture of the state's response to crime."

"The data on which we train technology 'uncritically ingests yesterday's mistakes', as James Bridle puts it, encoding the barbarianism of the past into the future."

(Future Histories)