Paul Sutton – personal blog
Tom Brady leaves NE Patriots
Big news from the NFL, Tom Brady one of the most successful, all time football players has announced he is leaving the New England Patriots after a long career under Coach Bill Bill Belichick.
Tom Brady has won a total of Six Superbowls since taking over from Drew Bledsoe in 2001.
You can find more info on the NFL website.
Paignton Code Club Update
I have just received an e-mail,m to let me know that Code Club has been cancelled until further notice due to Corona Virus.
We can probably carry on with things online the links below could be useful. If you're working through the Scratch projects you can work through each module in any order. Have fun and just keep experimenting and expanding on what you are learning.
If you do you own projects, then you can also refer to these modules for extra help.
If you are working through Responsive Web Design, feel free to carry on. If you ask on the forums, then someone should be able to help you.
References
Console / terminal File viewer
One of the nice things about forums, IRC etc, is you get to find out about all sorts of software that is really useful. Sometimes this just seems to address fit what you want.
One such example is a program called view
manpage description is:-
mcview – Internal file viewer of GNU Midnight Commander.
You can use view to view pdf files, or rather the text content within, which is pretty good, very useful if compiling $\LaTeX$ with pdflatexfor example.
You can also use view on a png graphics file, however this just displays information about the file, for example resolution. Again useful from the terminal / console at least.
Resources
#console, #file,#view,#pdf,#linux
Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 2 release
I am sharing this, as it appeared in the e-mail to :
[email protected] and [email protected]
mailing lists.
Therefore, please refer to those lists for information / follow up. Hopefully this helps spread the word.
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The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second alpha release of the installer for Debian 11 “Bullseye”.
Improvements in this release ============================
Hardware support changes ========================
Localization status ===================
Known bugs in this release ==========================
See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues.
Feedback for this release =========================
We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it. Installation images, and everything else you will need are available at our web site[3].
Thanks ======
The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release.
Cheers, — Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) https://debamax.com/ D-I release manager — Release team member — Freelance Consultant
March SDTJ Write Up Date: March 14th 2020.
We had a semi successful jam today, despite ending up just in room 12. This was due to the partitions not being opened up by the caretakers. Nevertheless, after arriving at about 9:30 to set up, I started by setting out the admin table, plugged in a power block for the main table, then set up two more tables to be used for netbooks, PIs and the laptop. Due to the partitioning, there were issues with the Wifi not reaching the room properly. However, visitors with Apple laptops seemed to have better Wifi connection. We had our regular young people, plus two additional visitors.
We did some work with the freeCodeCamp tutorial we are following and other visitors were working on their own projects. We had many young people attending, which is great. At about 12:30, some of us retired to the Learning Centre to continue with the freeCodeCamp tutorial, which is progressing nicely.
We were graced with the presence of Dr. Phil Mitchell of the company Lumentum (Optoelectronics Telecommunications). He was confident that he could help us access funding for a year's membership of Meetup, in order to raise our profile locally. We were also able to explore the potential synergies that could emerge. Encouraging our young talent that there were technology careers available within the Torbay area.
Paul B and Lucy M promised to furnish Phil with a “shopping list” of other things that we are keen to obtain for the Jam.
Above two photos are of a Arduino robot, it can keep upright and stay stable.
Paul Bennett brought along some test kit. Pictured here are a Digital Oscilloscope and a signal generator.
Analogue keyboard, brought along by Lucy Morgan, this was hooked up to the test kit above in order to observe the output.
Scope output 1
Scope output 2
General coding / work area, several laptops, pis and netbooks.
LibrePlanet 2020 3
Sunday 15th March. This years Libreplanet talk schedule will resume shortly. There is a embedded webchat for IRC under the video stream,
Big Tech and Human Rights
On 21st November 2019, Amnesty International released a report looking at how big tech companies such as Google and Facebook have adopted business practices that are not compatible with human rights laws and privacy.
You can read the full report at the link below and also download a PDF.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/
Please feel free to discuss further on the fediverse.
This is a repost, originally posted to zleap.net in November 2019.
Disroot file upload
Today, I am going to look at uploading and sharing files.
Sometimes, we need to send files, that are too big to attach to an e-mail, or we want to share with people, on for, example forums, social media (e.g Fediverse) chat e.g IRC ( e.g https://www.oftc.net/ ) etc.
One of the features of Disroot is a service for just this purpose.
You may also want to send people your CV, or other sensitive documents. This service is also great for that purpose, as it is encrypted.
Disroot is quite radical, it is one of the many services that are designed to move away from central control. Privacy is seen as important. There is no advertising, or annoying auto start videos to slow your workflow down.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SERVICE IS NOT TO BE USED TO SHARE COPYRIGHTED OR ILLEGAL MATERIAL.
The service that Disroot provides is done so in collaboration with :
Lufi – Encrypted temporary file upload service.
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Lets get started
Firstly goto the Disroot website. You don’t need a user account for this.
Under services go to Upload
You will be taken to the Lufi page.
Click on Upload files You should be taken to https://upload.disroot.org/
Here you can select how long the files will stay on the server for. Select this and then drag and drop files to the upload area.
Scrolling down you will find links to the file(s) you just uploaded
Clicking on the my files menu gives you the option to also delete files from the server manually or perform other tasks.
Hopefully this short introduction is useful.
This post was originally posted to my old blog on http://www.zleap.net.
Date : Today 14/3/2020 Time : 11am to 15:00 Place : Paignton Library
LibrePlanet 2020 Update 2
This year LibrePlanet, is a fully virtual conference. This is due to the Corona Virus Outbreak.
Talks will be livestreamed.
Please join IRC chat
Details of the IRC channels being used can be found here
I am on IRC as zleap.