Paul Sutton

April 27, 2023

Internal Mars Structure

Just found this on the Fediverse.

In an Incredible First, Scientists Have Discovered What's at The Core of Mars

This is interesting, esp as if there is Sulfur, I have asked on the Fediverse if this raises the potential for Nitrogen too.

Links

April 27, 2023

LibreOffice Documentation 07/03/2023

Documentation update(s)

LibreOffice 7.5 guides (Published)

Writer 7.5
Calc 7.5
Designing with LibreOffice

LibreOffice 7.4 guides (Published)

Draw 7.4
Getting Started 7.4
Calc 7.4
Impress 7.4
Designing with LibreOffice

REFERENCES

1 LibreOffice 2 LibreOffice Bookshelf 2a LibreOffice Documentation * LibreOffice shortcut keys 3 Free Software Foundation 4 Free Software Foundation Europe 5 LibreOffice Conference 7. Udemy LibreOffice Training

TAGS

#LibreOffice,#Office,#Writer,#Calc,#Base,#Impress #Draw,#GettingStarted,#Documentation,#Libreoffice

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

April 27, 2023

New UN report highlights the scale of global climate change

Another article posted on Fediverse about the serious nature of climate change. As individuals there seems only a certain amount we can do, short of living off grid. So the question I asked on Science Forums [2] is “how many more reports are needed?”

In terms of recycling:

There seems to be a lot of initiatives out there but some local authorities in the UK seem unable to recycle some materials, I think the situation is improving.

There are some good ideas, such as turning face masks in to litter pickers [3] but this is in Cornwall, UK, I have not heard anything about this idea being rolled out nationally, but if it was, would that ideally need to be on a local level so the collection —> end product happens locally reducing the need for transporting materials and end products around?

Article

1 Climate news now – Fediverse 2 Science Forum discussion 3 Hospital face masks find new life stopping plastic waste

Tags

#UN,#Report,#ClimateChange,#ClimateScience

April 26, 2023

MS Teams Privacy

I had to attend a meeting using teams earlier, it got cancelled, so despite just loading up the lobby room in the browser, it still leaves cookies behind. The concern is the size here.,

ms cookies

Cookies left behind by MS Teams

Contrast this to the small amount of data that big blue button needs for a session, much smaller.

faircam

Cookies left behind by Big Blue Button

I will leave this with people. In the meantime Big Blue Button is a viable, secure, safe, easy to use and privacy respecting, open source alternative.

On an end note it seems Edge also 'leaks' information on sites visited.

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

SAFEGUARDING IS EVERYONE';S RESPONSIBILITY

Links

Big Blue Button

Tags

#Microsoft,#Teams,#Cookies,#Privacy,#BigBlueButton

April 26, 2023

Paignton Library Code Club – Minetest

Some of the laptops at Code Club have had Minetest installed, this is the free software clone of Minecraft. As with Minecraft, Minetest has lots of mods etc available.

The diode.zone peertube instance has some reviews of these mods. Please see link below.

Links

Tags

#CodeClub,#Minetest,#Mods

April 25, 2023

Can ActivityPub save the internet?

Interesting article on the verge looking at ActivityPub, the protocol that sits behind the fediverse.

Article

I think the future is now with the decentralised social media networks, we have needed a different way of doing things for a while, so the above article is well worth checking out.

I have been on the fediverse for a good few years, started out with Diaspora, then moved to Friendica, then moved to Masdodon. These platforms work, and some are growing, or more to the point the fediverse is growing as a result of people getting to know about it.

I am also using WriteAs for this blog and Peertube to share videos, they are all part of the much wider fediverse.

There is an excellent info graphic at axbom.com showing the many branches of the Fediverse.

Feel free to join and be part of the future of social networking.

April 23, 2023

New code club browser editor – Testing

Code Club have created a new in browser code editor, which we can try and test at code club.

More information can be found here

While this is in testing, this is a really important part of the software development process, so being able to test software is just as important as writing software.

Tags

#CodeClub,#Python,#Editor,#Testing

April 22, 2023

GoDot beginners course

As we have discussed the GoDot game engine at Code Club, I am sharing this from a recent Free Code Camp e-mail.

Unleash your inner game developer with this new Godot Game Engine course. This beginner-friendly tutorial will guide you through coding your own platformer game. You'll design your game's User Interface, enemies, and 2D background scenes. Along the way, you'll also learn skills like event scripting, animation, and camera movement. (25 minute read):