Just checking to see if this gets harvested by our #OER4Covid Feed on https://oer4covid.oeru.org/resources/oer4covid-feed/ due to the fact that lightweight@mastodon.oeru.org is following me... :)
🎶 #nowplaying #np #tootlabradio #fediplay #bot 🎶
Citizen King - "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)"
Shame that gov't agency Kainga Ora isn't making use of open source tools like those created by Whare Hauora, and not respecting tenant privacy and giving *them* control of their data. Good to hear the charity's kaiwhakahaere, Hiria Te Rangi, on RNZ helping gov't lift its ill-informed game... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018727259/concerns-over-plans-to-put-sensors-in-state-housing
Very cool... a ~$50 #FOSS water turbine that can be assembled from commonly available parts... https://invidio.us/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw
Now I can paste a #Funkwhale link in Mastodon and be able to play it here. Nice!
RT @NaturelsLit@twitter.com
The defense display of the non-venomous rhombic egg-eater
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NaturelsLit/status/1203182039668649984
This is rather interesting, somewhat unexpected (apparent) consequence of global warming... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0622-6
So - it turns out @microsoft@twitter.com is using outdated security protocols on this volume licensing page - and that’s why it needs IE5 “or above” to work properly. https://twitter.com/donkey/status/1149144568048132096
Caught again. '#Google has confessed that it gives workers access to some audio recordings from its Google Home smart speakers.' https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/11/google-admits-workers-listen-recordings-home-smart-speakers-10182073/
Gov't IT decision makers desperately need to learn about the stuff described in Chapter 3 of this rather interesting document from the UK's NHS... https://openuk.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/An-Open-Digital-Approach-for-the-NHS-Part-one-Policies-Principles-Practices-1.0-PUBLISHED.pdf
There's a free and open source software project I'm very keen to see continue: Libravatar.org - see this: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/looking-back-on-starting-libravatar/ Which up-and-coming #FOSS contributor would like to work with a few of us to keep this impressive (surprisingly deep and thorough) project thriving?! I can probably find sponsored #FOSS hosting and technical resources, but I don't have time to take it on myself. Do you?
If you're not one of the 0.001% of the population who truly get Git (I'm not), you should watch this if you want your mind gently bent in (not always) pleasant ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4 If nothing else, this offers an amazing metaphor for how the universe can achieve such amazing complexity, beauty, and depravity from a few simple, remarkably elegant rules (and nothing else) :)
Oops - should be OStatus, not OSocial - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus And other references: fediverse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse, ActivityPub - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub, and Matrix - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(communication_protocol), and, of course Mastodon (on which I'm publishing this post, regardless of where you see it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) - if you're curious, join this Mastodon instance: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz - I maintain it here in NZ & https://catalystcloud.nz generously provides sponsored #FOSS cloud hosting.
Did you know #openstreetmaps allows you to download volunteer GPS activity anywhere in the world? This means architects, urban planners, and you can analyse urban behaviour to make better decisions for the built environment! Read more in my latest article here:
https://thinkmoult.com/worldwide-gps-tracks-openstreetmaps-urban-design-analysis/
I'm a FOSS and OER advocate and developer based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Have many other interests besides https://davelane.nz