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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

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First Microsoft 'saving us' with a plan to build an Azure zone in NZ and now Amazon... stuff.co.nz/business/126468116 massive Digital Corporate Colonialism incoming.

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Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧

Office hours session now live. To connect, see instructions here: pacificopencourses.col.org/ds4

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Glyn Moody

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

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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... 😓

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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)...

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(and FOSS = Free and Open Source Software - like this Mastodon system you're reading this post on.)

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FOSS creates huge opportunities for indigenous communities around the world to ensure the technology they use reflects their unique and precious cultures. Software is a personal and cultural sovereignty issue and deserves a global uprising - in the form of people who desire to learn. We need a new 'enlightenment' with true, deep digital literacy as the goal if we want to achieve a true balance of power. Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple and others like them are just digital colonials.

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Oops - need to proofread - we're facilitating "an online course in how to build Open Educational Resources (OERs)"... forgot to include that little detail.

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The CPU averages around 0.5% and the memory is consistently at 10%, which suggests that the per-learner memory component is negligible... and it's mostly fixed memory use requirements, so the capacity could be more like 100x or 100k learners. The load average for the server peaks below 0.4 and averages somewhere close to 0.05... so it's hardly doing anything. It suggests that we're vastly overspec'd :) 😂

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Wow. The course the OER Foundation is currently facilitating for 1200ish educators concentrated in the South Pacific, is running on a USD50/month Digital Ocean droplet. The initiation of the course, when you'd expect max resource hit is showing ~ 10% *peak* (CPU & Memory) resource use on that system. That suggests our infrastructure could easily handle 10x more learners or 10k learners. So that suggests a per learner cost of USD0.005/month. I'd say that's pretty cost-effective.

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Greetings to our participants and welcome to @salmen @kevintabi @molebogengmariha @paulatuimabula @9animeplus @mayra82 @yashmikareddy @apomana09 Don't forget to upload an avatar image and edit your display name here: mastodon.oeru.org/settings/pro

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NZ Covid hard lockdown, day 12 activity... Dogs demonstrate that it's entirely possible to be noble... without being dignified...

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And, with that, I have new (upgraded) gimbals. I note, too, that there's a new #FOSS OpenTX firmware update and a new version of the (Qt-based) "companion" app.

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog

This past weekend in the Financial Times, Kim Stanley Robinson ponders the nature of the current climate emergency, trying to capture the "structure of the feeling" of our current moment.

ft.com/content/ff94df96-b702-4

In 2020, Robinson published an astonishingly good, optimistic and furious novel about the climate emergency, "The Ministry For the Future," whose goal was imagining what that "structure" feel like if we actually averted the end of civilization.

pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min

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Crazypedia ✌️:hackers_town:

The second best time to leave Twitter is now.
#JoinMastodon

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Wow. Someone got #BadApple, a 3.5 minute+ music video, to play in it's entirety on the @PINE64 #PineTime #FOSS smart watch.

This device has a total of 64kb of RAM.

Y'all are crazy!

odysee.com/@TT-392:b/bad-apple

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Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧

Setting up a digital messaging platform for teachers to support each other in development is a idea we should consider in Samoa

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Help teachers in Fiji to create a dedicated list on mastodon which can be used as a support group for helping practitioners.

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@dajbelshaw there's more than a little irony involved in forcing commenters to have an account on Github.

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