Paul Sutton – personal blog
Public Money, Public Code
This is a campaign, by the fsfe. Any code that is developed, with public funds, should be released under a license that makes it available to everyone.
Links
VIDEO
This is the talk from LibrePlanet on PMPC
TAGS
#public,#money,#public,#code,#fsfe,#campaign,#LibrePlanet,#Video,#Talk
Libreplanet Videos
Just had this through from the Free Software Foundation
All the talk videos from LibrePlanet 2021 are now live.
LibrePlanet videos are now live! Post on site.
You can watch and share them from both:-
REFERENCES
TAGS
#FreeSoftwareFoundation,#Talks,#Video,#Live,#LibrePlanet, #PeerTube,#MediaGoblin
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Wormholes
I just found an interesting paper on arXiv about wormholes. While wormholes are still hypothetical,, this paper looks at how we can look for them, formation ,structure.
Feel free to discuss further on discourse. I will update this post if I create a thread on there. Otherwise I will start a thread on the Open University forums.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#Physics,#Astronomy,#Wormholes.#arXiv,#Astrophysics
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OpenLearn : Discovering Chemistry
Just signed upto Discovering Chemistry with Open Learn [1]. This is a 24 hour course from the Open University [2] via their OpenLearn platform.
This is partly for personal interest, partly for career development and will help me develop useful knowledge going forward. I have set up a thread on Discourse [3] to facilitate discussion.
I would like to learn more about Isotope shift , which is mentioned in a arXiv article [4] from 2017. This topic is probably beyond the scope of the chemistry course, but is a good starting point. Hopefully however this Chemistry course can build on what I already know about isotopes at least.
REFERENCES
1 Open Learn 2 The Open University 3 Discourse Thread 4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04250
TAGS
#OpenUniversity,#OpenLearn,#Chemistry,#Learning
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Ensuring a Smooth Transition in the Year of Covid
Matt Bromley starts this course by summarising the key principles for a smooth transition from primary school to secondary school in usual times, before going on to explore how we can adapt the process to enable students to transition well during the context of Covid.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#CreativeEducation,#Support,#Children,#Transition, #Primary,#Secondary,#Academic,#Pastoral
More learning resources
Free code camp offer more than just courses, you have access to lots of other useful sources of learning too
You can work on this independently or perhaps join the study support group and learn with others.
The next South Devon Tech Jam is 8th may so an ideal platform to discuss further. The next Devon and Cornwall Linux user group meeting is on Saturday 15th May on Jitsi.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#StudySupport,#SouthDevonTechJam,#NGINX,#Docker
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Nethack vultures-eye 1
Nethack is a very popular game amongst some techy groups. Normal Nethack is a text based game. However vultures-eye, adds some basic 3d isometric graphics to the game, making it more accessible to people.
As you explore, you come across, monsters and other residents in the dungeon, some are friendly others not so, you need to discover all this as you explore the many rooms, corridors in the game.
Depending on your character type you get a companion with you. Here the player is a knight accompanied by a horse.
I have the game working on FreeBSD, so these notes / screenshots are copied over from my FreeBSD install.
Gold (zorkomids) are the main currency, you need this to buy new goods, and receive this if you sell something.
Shops are a place to buy or sell goods.
You can see your full inventory, detailing what you are carrying, wearing or how much currency you have.
While the game maps help you keep track of where you are.
When you die, you can view all the stats on how you performed during the game.
One of the many stairways down to the next level of the dungeon, you can go up and down these as you wish. The upper most level (1) has a stairway to the outside world, choose this, your game ends. Onwards and downwards, it has to be.
CONFIGURATION
Under FreeBSD the main configuration file can be found at ./vulture/vulture.conf
However other options can be found in /usr/local/lib/vulture-nethackdir/config
vulture.conf.
So taking a look at the local configuration file, you can set up screensize, sound, sound effects etc. This is pretty much self explanatory.
screen_xsize=800
screen_ysize=600
fullscreen=0
play_music=1
play_effects=1
wall_style=full
wall_opacity=0.8
recenter_after_movement=1
show_helpbar=1
show_actionbar=1
show_minimap=1
use_standard_inventory=0
use_standard_objmenus=0
messagelines=5
no_key_translation=0
highlight_cursor_square=1
debug=0
macro1=n100.
macro2=n20s
Resources
usenet – rec.games.roguelike.nethack
#games, #rogue, #roguelike, #nethack, #vultureseye, #unix,#freebsd, #dungeon, #crawler, #VultureNethack
South Devon Tech Jam May 2021
South Devon Tech Jam
Date Saturday 8th May 2021 Time 11am –> 14:00
Free signup via meetup
Or if you prefer not to use meetup then you can e-mail info AT sdtj DOT org DOT uk for more information.
This is a virtual event, and will be hosted on a EU/UK based instance of Big Blue Button. Link and information will be sent out to attendees.
TAGS
#SouthDevonTechJam,#Event,#Virtual, #TechJam,#STEM,#Computing,#Engineering,#BigBlueButton,#YearOfTheFediverse,
CONNECTING TO THE SOUTH DEVON TECH JAM MEETING
I have made a new blog post with instructions to help people connect. This can be found here
TEST LOGIN
There is a TEST LOGIN here which may be useful to help test your set up works ok. THIS IS NOT THE MEETING LINK
Debconf 2021
The 2021 Debian Developer conference will be:
**Start : ** August 22 – 2021 **End : ** August 29 – 2021
With a Debcamp preceding this:
**Start : ** August 15, 2021 **End : ** August 21, 2021
As with last year, the conference is virtual, however we still need help with the event, if you're interested please get in touch. Please see website [1] for details and join the mailing list [2] for further discussion.
There is an irc meeting at 18:00 UTC every two weeks, this is on IRC, In the United Kingdom this is UTC+1.
Next planning meeting is : Monday 10th May 2021 on #debconf-team irc, we are on the oftc [3] network.
Full details on how to get involved are on the website [1a] contact page.
LINKS
1 Debconf 2021 Website 1a Contact info 2 Mailing list sign up 3 OFTC IRC 4 Poster (work in progress 5 Salsa Gitlab
TAGS
#Debian,#Conference,#Developer
CONTACT
The Mailing list sign up page has a sign up form, however you can just send a message to the e-mail address given to request more information, you need to ask for replies to be cc'd to you.
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Kick it out
Kick It Out, The FA, Premier League, EFL, FA Women’s Super League, FA Women’s Championship, PFA, LMA, PGMOL and the FSA will unite for a social media boycott from 15.00 on Friday 30 April to 23.59 on Monday 3 May 2021.
#KickItOutGeneration,#KickItOut,#SocialMedia,#Boycott
Other sports such as RugbyUnion, Tennis have joined this Boycott.