Notices by Dave Lane (lightweight@mastodon.social)

So - it turns out @microsoft@twitter.com is using outdated security protocols on this volume licensing page - and that’s why it needs IE5 “or above” to work properly. https://twitter.com/donkey/status/1149144568048132096

Caught again. '#Google has confessed that it gives workers access to some audio recordings from its Google Home smart speakers.' https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/11/google-admits-workers-listen-recordings-home-smart-speakers-10182073/

RT @RobertTalbert@twitter.com

Three-year study on #flippedlearning in university chemistry (using the SCALE-UP model as a guide) shows significant improvements in student learning. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00316

Dear whoever invented the 'scroll down from the bottom of a news story and suddenly you are reading a completely unrelated one' thing on websites:

Please invent a time machine so you can go back and tell your younger self that this was a terrible idea.

Gov't IT decision makers desperately need to learn about the stuff described in Chapter 3 of this rather interesting document from the UK's NHS... https://openuk.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/An-Open-Digital-Approach-for-the-NHS-Part-one-Policies-Principles-Practices-1.0-PUBLISHED.pdf

Yowsers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vljy3lKIN-0

If you're not one of the 0.001% of the population who truly get Git (I'm not), you should watch this if you want your mind gently bent in (not always) pleasant ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4 If nothing else, this offers an amazing metaphor for how the universe can achieve such amazing complexity, beauty, and depravity from a few simple, remarkably elegant rules (and nothing else) :)

Oops - should be OStatus, not OSocial - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus And other references: fediverse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse, ActivityPub - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub, and Matrix - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(communication_protocol), and, of course Mastodon (on which I'm publishing this post, regardless of where you see it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) - if you're curious, join this Mastodon instance: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz - I maintain it here in NZ & https://catalystcloud.nz generously provides sponsored #FOSS cloud hosting.

Did you know #openstreetmaps allows you to download volunteer GPS activity anywhere in the world? This means architects, urban planners, and you can analyse urban behaviour to make better decisions for the built environment! Read more in my latest article here:

https://thinkmoult.com/worldwide-gps-tracks-openstreetmaps-urban-design-analysis/

#opensource #map #gps #gis