Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.oeru.org

Campaigners force Shell to halt oil exploration on South African coast - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/28/campaigners-force-shell-to-halt-oil-exploration-on-south-african-coast great win, let's hope it can be sustained... shame on @Shell

BigBlueButton Tutorial
https://events.oeru.org/events/440930c7-0d56-4e57-bbb0-0ff713a55865

La version française du cours #LiDA103Fr débute le 17 novembre - Inscrivez-vous aujourd'hui : https://oer.nz/lida103fr-21

Bicycles are kind of an obnoxious technology in that they set your bar for how capable other tech should be wayyyyy to high.

In every metric bicycles are unrealistically good

1) Bicycles can double the top speed of a human easily, even if the operator isn't especially good at biking

2) Bicycles require absurdly little maintenance per mile

3) Bicycles are so prevalent that old bicycles barely hold any value even if they function perfectly

4) Bicycles are tough as shit for the most part

Pressure works:

> "Facebook is extremely thinly staffed ... and this is because there are a lot of technologists that look at what Facebook has done and their unwillingness to accept responsibility, and people just aren't willing to work there," Haugen said

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/tech/facebook-papers/index.html

#Facebook

If governments of the world realised (as I've often suggested) that they should be funding critical digital #FOSS infrastructure, instead of OAuth run by mega corporations, slurping our data with their surveillance capitalism bizmodels, we'd be using Mozilla Persona and our lives would be better for it. Huge opportunity missed. Sadly, by failing to take it, you've thrown further fuel onto the fire currently razing our national and personal sovereignties.

So American, but still so good. https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=JmSP8gDHYYc

Exciting EU study on open source software:

> strongly contributes to GDP
> avoids vendor lock-in
> reduces costs & maintenance
> drives state-of-the-art tech
> fosters competition, interoperability & tech-neutrality

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and

I really enjoyed this interview: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018815698/doireann-ni-ghriofa-the-story-of-how-we-haunt-each-other Make me realise how lucky we are in NZ to have RNZ and, especially, Kim Hill, to help us gain insights into interesting, thoughtful people doing important things. No dumbing down to be seen. Unapologetically inquisitive and erudite.

still pissed we're nearly +4 years into Blade Runner's imagined future and i cannot get noodles from a passing dirigible at 2am

don't even get me started on the absolute betrayal of the fashion industry

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@manojkumar Congratulations Manoj on achieving your #Certificate of Completion for #DS4OERS. Welcome to the growing list of course graduates 🙂

In Fiji I feel if OER creation and adoption is added to the professional development hours or even their APA it will motivate teachers to participate in sharing OER. Also I feel if this course is promoted and talked about more teachers would be attracted to it to as their incentive would be to upskill themselves and make a difference in the teaching.
#DS4OERS #thoughtactivity

If you use #GMail, #Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt, and even if you didn't buy the product from them. Here's metadata from my takeout showing price, delivery address, description, vendor, etc. #privacy

First Microsoft 'saving us' with a plan to build an Azure zone in NZ and now Amazon... https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126468116/amazon-to-spend-75-billion-making-auckland-a-centre-for-cloud-computing massive Digital Corporate Colonialism incoming.

#DS4OERS Office hours session now live. To connect, see instructions here: https://pacificopencourses.col.org/ds4oers/interactions/webinars/#Office_hours_drop-in_sessions

Welcome to #WalledCulture - https://walledculture.org/welcome-to-walled-culture/ "it lives..." my first post - of many, I hope - about the dysfunctional system we call #copyright, what's wrong, and how to fix it...

The only melancholy aspect of that ride is seeing all the beautiful vista and wide open expanses being filled by private houses (with fences to spoil access and the view)... ah well, just have to ride even higher, I guess... 😓

Today's lunch hour #rideupahill... Nice springtime outlook over the Canterbury plains towards the Southern Alps and out over Christchurch city towards Pegasus Bay and the Kaikouras in the distance (about 200km away)...