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Jakra

@Jakra@aus.social

Science/IT teacher in a country Australian town. Don't really want to be identified by my students, so leaving it brief.

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Jakra, to Teachers
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A letter to parents from the SSTUWA
23 April stop work action
Dear parents,
It is likely that your child’s public school may be closed on the morning of Tuesday 23 April 2024. If it is open, it won’t be for lessons as normal.

Jakra,
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This is because the State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia is holding a stop work action to urge the Department of Education to treat seriously negotiations for a new general agreement covering the salary and working conditions of teachers and principals.

Jakra,
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The SSTUWA’s community research suggests over 80 per cent of WA voters agree that all children deserve a quality education.
We agree too and that requires better salaries and working conditions for teachers and principals.

https://www.sstuwa.org.au/application/files/8417/1349/5973/Letter_to_parents_from_the_SSTUWA_-_19April24_11am.pdf

Jakra,
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The teaching profession in the public education system is, in the words of the Facing the Facts review chaired by former WA Premier and Federal Minister Dr Carmen Lawrence, “at breaking point and requires immediate steps to improve education and morale.”
The Education Department’s own red tape review said: “Our analysis indicates that the problem goes to the more fundamental question of whether the job of teaching as currently performed and organised is doable or sustainable.”

Jakra,
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This situation applies to the schools your children are being educated at if you are a parent of one of the 72 per cent of primary students or 66 per cent of secondary pupils who goes to a public school.
We want the public education system fixed. We want it fixed for the benefit of teachers, principals and above all for students. This is the first stop work action teachers have taken in over a decade. That’s how serious the situation has become for our members.

sortius, to auspol
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Talk about over policing. More cops than people at the 420 rally, but they let white supremacists march down Collins St

Jakra,
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@sortius drugs are bad m’kay. Not sure what that says about Nazis.

Jakra, to internet
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Something fishy going on in NBN land? Two of the Katanning POI seem to have no traffic.

Jakra, to Teachers
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Western Australian Teachers taking half-day stop-work action next week.
The Education Department’s own red tape review said: “Our analysis indicates that the problem goes to the more fundamental question of whether the job of teaching as currently performed and organised is doable or sustainable.”
Please support your local teachers in this action.

Jakra, to random
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Well fuck. I wasn’t watching where I was stepping as I swept the roof, fell through a plastic roof panel on the patio. Saved myself on the way down, nothing serious barring a few scrapes and bruises. #lucky #stupid #cleaning #accident

Jakra,
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@MorpheusB That was me genius move! I made sure I didn't hit the ground, not immediately. I managed to catch myself on my elbows while my son got a ladder. Sadly, just as he got the ladder in position, the next panel failed and I fell again. Tbh, I'm lucky I came out of it as good as I did!

Cmastication, to random
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I did the dumbest little project tonight. I find it amusing that my European colleagues don't realize that their country is basically the size of Indiana.. or Tennessee or some other state that they can't find on a map. So I pulled the data to determine which state is most like which country. My 3 metrics are: population, land mass, and GDP. I have the data cleaned up. So maybe now a simple Shiny app?

What should I do with this project?

Jakra,
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@Cmastication also include comparisons to other places. Sure, European countries aren’t that big. Now include African nations, and Asian, even Australian. For example, Texas is less than 1/3 of Western Australia’s land area! Population is a lot lower though.

Jakra, to selfhosted
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If a terrorist organisation set up nextcloud servers for control and communications, there's be no central organisation for law enforcement to go to to demand access to communications. I wonder how that plays out on a global stage...

Jakra, to selfhosted
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Huh, looks like @nextcloud Talk can be (or is working on being) federated between Nextcloud instances. That'd be pretty cool. Instant, video, and audio messaging without relying on someone else's platform would be pretty cool. Its hard choosing a platform that works on desktop, Android, and Apple, and is not trying to monetise my children.

Jakra,
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@jakob42 @nextcloud Just this: https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/5723

Jakra, to linux
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Trying to update firmware on an HP Spectre X360 laptop from linux, but I can't extract a .bin file from the downloadable .exe file. Has something changed in this space? The .exe file extracts only another .exe file!

Jakra,
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Ok turns out you can create a usb to boot from, but this has to be done from INSIDE WINDOWS and ON AN HP COMPUTER! Not really helpful!

Old_IT_geek, to auspol

Another religious school, another scandal. Why do parents pay thousands to put their kids in a toxic environment? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/03/nsw-catholic-high-school-all-saints-college-maitland-teacher-charged-sex-student

Jakra,
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@Old_IT_geek because it means they can choose the demographics of their child’s peers. If you drive a Mercedes, and only want your kids to hang around with people who drive a BMW or better, you don’t send your kids to a public school.
I hate the very existence of private schools, religious or otherwise.

krafter, to OldTech
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I don't think (most) people appreciate old technology anymore.

Today I brought my typewriter (a Smith-Corona Silent) to each of my classes to take notes with. Other than my friends, most people just didn't seem to care (or even notice).

And of all teachers, my History teacher asked me to put it away.

Is it just me, or do ppl not appreciate old tech as much as I thought they did?

Jakra,
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@krafter In the era of that technology, notes would have been taken by hand. I don’t think anyone would have been taking notes in a lecture on a typewriter. Typewriters were for formalising something to be read by others, rather than for one’s self.
Even now, the evidence suggests handwritten notes are more effective for learning.

Jakra, to opensource
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Just thinking about the ssh xz back door.

xkcd: Dependency

https://xkcd.com/2347/

Jakra, to NixOS
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Welp, locked myself out of my computer after apparently messing something up with my flake.

Jakra, to ai
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Today I have rediscovered playing music from a set of my own curated purchase, rather than from an algorithm of recommendations. My musical tastes are much more varied than the algorithm would suggest! #ai #algorithm #web3 #streaming

Jakra, to NixOS
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Whyyyyyyy is it so hard? Using sops-nix to encode passwords in a flake. It all seemed so easy. But /etc/fshadow in the built image has no password against the user, can't log in. No debug info, nothing to suggest where to go next!

Jakra,
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Much progress has been made! By which I mean, I’m at the same impasse, I’ve achieved northing!

Jakra, to TodayILearned
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Is this constant sense of impending panic due to my inability to keep up with a normal workload, or the symptom of wearing WAY TO MANY FUCKING HATS?! Can I please just focus on ONE THING AT A TIME? At least on a time-frame of a minute?!?!?!

smolrobots, to random
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  1. Facebot. Holographically projects a calm face in front of your actual face when you need to go outside and do normal human stuff.
Jakra,
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@smolrobots Hmmm. Its good, but I feel there's something that can be improved... Can you try again, but this time, project a clam face instead? Yeah, that'll do it!

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