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helgztech

@helgztech@fosstodon.org

Aussie academic. Vocational education, sociology & educational technology, information security. History & scifi nerd. Living on Wiradjuri land. she/her. #infosec #floss #foss #oer #solarpunk

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scubbo, to random
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Wake up babe, Godwin's Second Law just dropped

helgztech,
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@scubbo his Wikipedia page needs updating 😊

rayckeith, (edited ) to random
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    helgztech,
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    @rayckeith side note: beware metadata and data aggregation. Buy your menstrual hygiene products,ibruprofen, and birth control at the same intervals whether you need them or not, preferably with cash. Pay attention to any other visible behaviours associated with your cycle and build in randomness. This includes mood swings that may be tracked by Facebook interactions.

    helgztech, to random
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    Why in god's name would you EVER work for, attend, or send your kids to a college that has put a sniper on its roof and aimed it at student protestors? Like that should be IT for that institution. I would not go within a hundred yards of that institution if it were the last university on earth.

    helgztech,
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    I mean we put up with a lot of shit for the sake of paying the mortgage, but you're pointing a gun at our kids? That's a line you can't cross.

    Daojoan, to random
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    Be different. Be a freak. Live a life that people tell stories about.

    helgztech,
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    @Daojoan This is ironic, right? Cos I'm too fucking tired for this shit.

    helgztech, to random
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    Whenever I get back into open source, I feel so much more optimistic about things. FLOSS is so contrary to the notion that people are fundamentally selfish. Maybe a lot of people are, but here is a community that loves to make cool things and share them. Where the idea of the greater good still has some value and is not antithetical to personal freedom. You get to feel like your computer is actually yours, not a corporate-mandated data-gathering device, and actually have fun with computing.

    helgztech, to opensource
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    I love the way I can just type 'apt-get install softwarename' and 30 seconds later I have a new tool installed. No licences, no subscriptions, not even hunting in a store for it. rocks.

    grimalkina, to random
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    Reading a 2016 paper on inquiry-based learning where "cognitive load" is once again used as a reason to stop any learner from doing anything FUN and HARD and EXPLORATORY my God

    Being alive increases your cognitive load. We are not in some kind of robotic fry-out state every time we have to consume novel information. Working in a repetitive assembly line is low cognitive load and also destroys people

    This one little tiny concept taken out of context is used for so many bad arguments.

    helgztech,
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    @grimalkina omg exactly. I'm like whatever, it's task-related load that means they're grappling with ideas, so back off.
    I push back with the notion that you need friction to get traction.

    (The same people will happily pile on the educator's cognitive load via a shedtonne of unnecessary administrivia, testing, etc. )

    See also: gamification

    alcinnz, to random
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    Linux Elitism...Again - Kev Quirk:
    https://kevquirk.com/linux-elitism-again

    This behaviour is shameful! Flooding a request for empathy with pushback. This is no way to promote software freedom, it rightly turns people off!

    Some people (not me) have had a bad experience with "Linux", we must respect that.

    helgztech,
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    @alcinnz wow those replies are astonishingly awful. I hope this doesn't put people off trying linux - and I'm sure it will, because I know how I feel when I see this behavior around other topics I'm interested in.

    I have to use Windows products for work. It's not optional (running it in a virtual machine is still running it; these holier-than-though folk can buy me a capable computer if they think that's the answer, too). Crikey.

    helgztech, to RSS
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    Yo, podcasters. Please make the rss of your show easy to find. Don't just point at a subscription platform. Some of us don't use mobile apps.

    helgztech, to random
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    This is the bad place.
    https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112326402687724234

    helgztech, to foss
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    Time, use and practice are key to switching OSes, platforms and apps: you get comfortable with what you use. A good start to moving away from Microsoft Windows might be to install Libre Office on Windows, and start learning to use that for your daily word processing, presentations and spreadsheets. Take some steps with open source software before you even have to tackle a new operating system.

    helgztech, to ukteachers
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    As educators it is incumbent upon us to approach new tools critically. Pedagogy must be evidence-based. We don't just adopt random strategies without testing them. This includes so-called artificial intelligence / machine learning .

    helgztech, to random
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    We mustn't put heads in the sand, but compassion fatigue is real. We drown in a sea of news; biased reporting is infuriating and stories switch from tragedy to trivia with barely a blink of the eye.

    I've heavily curated all my feeds and pretty much abandoned the algorithmic ones. I know what is happening, but I don't need it in my face 24/7; that way lies helplessness and despair.

    1/2

    helgztech, to random
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    pet hate of the day: corporate portals that say "using Chrome as your preferred browser, ...." - yeah no I'm not using Chrome, period.

    helgztech, to random
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    How can I be THIS many years old and still not know what I want to do with the rest of my life?

    helgztech, to foss
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    folk and others, hit me up with some good Peertube or Youtube content. Linux user stuff, edtech, minimalism. Art and culture. Simple living minus the gardening. Philosophy, sociology.

    The YouTube heuristics are just atrocious. Watch one cat video? Here's 50 more. Oh you follow a productivity bro and some tech topics? Here, have some hustle culture with a side of some deeply disturbing misogyny. You like the English countryside? How about some Britain First?

    helgztech, to random
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    If people in and around your institution are having trouble finding things, do not create a new resource to explain things. Don't create another group or another page. Take things away. Redesign the pages you already have and improve the navigation between pages you already have. Reconsider how you're burying things under cryptic crosses, pointers and icons. Ensure your staff site search results aren't buried in student results. The answer isn't more stuff. It's less but better.

    helgztech, to random
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    I'm halfway through viewing this brilliant talk from Dylan Beattie on (not so)"plain text". Really interesting and entertaining.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo

    helgztech, to random
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    So weird seeing people gush over an obviously AI generated image. People's lack of discernment is astonishing.

    helgztech, to random
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    Someone please do a completely minimal Emacs intro for non programmers. Like what is the absolute essentials to start using it to write some notes. Like let a person get started without two dozen keyboardshortcuts. Pretty much everything I've come across so far is long-winded, boring and overcomplicated. Oh and youtubes that need a 46 inch screen if I've a hope of seeing the text. I'm too tired for this volume of verbiage.

    helgztech, to random
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    was Mandrake 🎩 - I think 6.0 but more likely 8.2, I forget - on disks from a Linux magazine. We only had one computer at that point (acer 386/486?) and I had to re-install Windows a couple of times to be able to reconnect to the internet and troubleshoot. I loved the sense of power it gave me to actually be changing the operating system.

    helgztech, to random
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    Maybe we need an eco-digital movement. Store your stuff on all those hard disks you already own. (back up, back up!) Delete accounts and data you don't use. Delete services you don't use.

    When is cloud actually more economical/less computing/power intensive than local? Is that online resource actually greener than a printed paper one?

    Swings and roundabouts?

    passthejoe, to random
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    I kept my server going for about four months. I just killed it. It was in the Oracle Cloud, and the upgrade of from 9.2 to 9.3 was taking a long time. I thought it was hanging, and I hit ctrl-c. That stopped a "scriptlet." I reran the upgrade, which said it completed. I should have know then to remove the new kernel. I rebooted, and that was it.

    I hadn't yet set up backups for this server because I considered it experimental.

    I'll start a new one soon.

    helgztech,
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    @voyager @passthejoe @mattdm is it possible to do a verbose upgrade so you know it hasn't hung?

    ajroach42, to random
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    My afternoon plans.

    helgztech,
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    @alcinnz @ajroach42 I sometimes listen to the local ABC radio, and I love how their sound people create audio landscapes. People will be doing an interview and there will be sounds of kids playing, or a river, or cars or something - this textured sense of location which is quite lovely.

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