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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.

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

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gofoss

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

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/

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I really enjoyed this interview: rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ 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.

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Zetta

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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ripper

File system error: file too big

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Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧

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

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SharonMani

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.

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Marcus

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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Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧

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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