Looking towards Hawston & Hermanus from #BettysBay #SouthAfrica
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06#Teacher #Geek
Finder of images , still #photographs and #video
#CapeTown #SouthAfrica
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@seuros@mastodon.bsd.cafe Audio person with a firewire i7 laptop here, appreciating this.
I have been wanting to move my old i7 gen3 laptop off windows, but it has the Texas Instruments FW chipset, which is the gold standard for audio. I've done 16 channels for 8 solid hours without losing a bit.
Thank you!
Dog walkers.
I love haze, and the compression of a long lens.
The silhouette caught my eye initially. The echo on the the further beach was a bonus.
#Photography #SouthAfrica #BettysBay #Seascape #Beachhttps://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/1357888463
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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
"Participants who spoke to the agreeable AI became more convinced they were right in their conflict, and significantly less willing to take actions to repair their relationships: to apologize, to reach out, to seek reconciliation."
When a chemical has this sort of impact on people, it gets put on lists only allowing very narrow uses.
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@VioletPumpkin@mastodon.social @JulianOliver@mastodon.social @forkmesh@mastodon.social is also looking interesting, folding in chat?
A key cutting machine in a shop along Koeberg Road.
The sparkle of the old keys and filings caught my eye. I'm not sure the photo captures what I thought I saw.
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@dilmandila@mograph.social crowd source some models? Offer a credit in the movie, put up some specs. I _think_ there are people who would be keen?
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@mensrea@freeradical.zone @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @png@yap.pony.biz my brother did that to me when I was about 10.
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#education #counsellors #privacy
It seems that just less than half the #school counsellors here have end-to-end encryption of their client's data.
And 1/7 feel that it doesn't need encrypting.
I would have expected the fediverse stats to be more privacy conscious.
I think there is work to be done.
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@MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org mmm. On this one, I verge toward angry. Don't mind if you fail yourself - that's your choice. Don't fail others. Do better.
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@alan@en.osm.town @j3j5@mastodon.uy @astro_jcm@mastodon.online growing up in the southern hemisphere, I could never understand why storybooks spoke about South-facing being nice. That's the cold side!
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@TeaKayB I enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes books. I think the Gutenberg versions were quite readable.
Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Whimsey books were also fun.
Ymmv
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@rhempel@cosocial.ca @dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org @EndlessMason@hachyderm.io it's a mindset. If some middle manager had the foresite now to budget 1% of their opex for this next fy, they could do it.
Took me a while, but I now have a small amount in my high school teaching budget.
I have created a secure @liberaforms@fosstodon.org form to source data from a couple of educational email lists I'm part of. If anyone wants to forward that link to people who might be willing to fill it in, that would be great. It is very similar to this poll, with one more option, and a free form field.
#privacy
https://my.liberaforms.org/privacy-for-school-counsellors-data
#Higraph progress!
Still got lots to do, but hyperEdges can now be saved & loaded in modified #graphml files. The "model tree" on the left highlights items in the graph on the right.
I can see "minimum viable product"!
The #hyperedge structure is both graphically and algebraically accessible. I'm not aware of anything else that does this, pretty certainly not in #Python
#graphTheory #VisualFormalism
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@momo@social.linux.pizza I teach HS CompSci, including a topic on Ethics which covers AI.
I stream my lessons, so I tell them that my (12 core i7) laptop doesn't have the capacity to run GPT4All _and_ stream.
That generally does the trick.
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@delegatevoid@mastodon.gamedev.place @crocodisle@woof.tech Joplin and webdav play nicely. I've used it for years.
Joplin does maintain some sort of pointers-to-files with metadata internally, but the files are md, and images are external.
I needed to test encryption, so I have the world's most private and secure shopping lists, but they are unreadable outside of Joplin.
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@JoshJers@mastodon.gamedev.place @futurebird@sauropods.win @toba@zeroes.ca This restriction on time is so important. Not to see who can write the fastest, but because in the quest to be best, good students are spending insane amounts of time on homework.
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@EdBruce@infosec.exchange @june@social.nekover.se @iamada@tech.lgbt @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Fair enough. My NoScipt is set to trust local code. Blocking _all_ JS all the time tends to be very intrusive - but yes, safer.
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@brianb@fosstodon.org I can recommend a #Moodle server for this sort of thing (not the competitive on screen stuff, but for mcq assessment) .
You can import questions from text files (I use GIFT). It has really nice stats. You could run a server in a vm on a laptop, if your school's IT cant host it.
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@sonjaschuh01@academiccloud.social @meganmariehart@mastodon.social something I discovered is that if you post a link to an image, hit count on the image gives you an idea of views. I post my photos that way, and it seems to track. The same principle as "pixel trackers" in email. If you use a unique link for the post, to say a poster for the event, I don't see a problem with that.
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@samanthabwriter@mastodon.world Being South African, I feel every photo I share is a tiny statement that Africa is awesome, in every way. An attempt to give a view beyond poverty and corruption. (Which are by no means unique to Africa!)
Helping a school counsellor set up some issue reporting forms.
@liberaforms@fosstodon.org has the smoothest, safest, implementation for setting up public/ private keypairs I have used. With a great verification step! A backup is not tested until you have restored it!
Another step to #DigitalSoverieignty
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@mattgemmell@mastodon.scot they are like a small fancy gift chocolate. Left in my email inbox for when I have time to savour them.
Thank you.
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@chainq these cockroaches still run the Hubble Telescope...
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6275/Hubble-Space-Telescope-uses-386-processor/ which includes the upgrade 486.
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@aarblaster Absolutely. I have reminded school management that the "STEAM" intersection point doesn't get sharper than theatre - Lighting rigging & design, sound design and then show rigging, set design, all to create art that everyone goes "ooh" at.
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@AkaSci@fosstodon.org
https://mathstodon.xyz/@threebodybot/115762054119549583
This recent 3 body sim has a neat ejection at the end. I suspect the initial pair in this sim are a bit wilder than would be the case in something that actually formed a galaxy.
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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca
Oh wow - discounts for people on the wrong end of a 17:1 exchange rate! This is an awesome feature.
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@cachondo@defcon.social you could look at Voicemeeter Banana. It allows routing of internal audio like a sound desk does, and has a recording feature.
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@hugovk@mastodon.social @brass75@twit.social @stylus@social.afront.org
Triggered by this post:
https://mastodon.social/@grant_h/116504261915412452
Parts of the thread were 'followers only'
The essence:
tylus@social.afront.org
@grant_h@mastodon.social @brass75 function default arguments are evaluated when the function definition is encountered, not each time it's called. https://
peps.python.org/pep-0671/ seeks to add an alternative behavior ...
We were wondering how to get some support for PEP 671, since it seems to give a neat way of avoiding a common footgun?
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@momo@social.linux.pizza Indeed. I only have 16GB, so am quite limited. It gets the message across though.
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@brass75@twit.social @qoyyuum@fosstodon.org I get mutable, even though it's a bit subtle here (via the assignment) . The gotcha here was only setting the default at first call, and then persisting it. I think the next reply in the thread picks up on that.
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@june@social.nekover.se @iamada@tech.lgbt @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Seconded - I get the Tor and/or VPN mixes, but I get the impression there are "simpler" options? NoScript doesn't work here, since these scripts are local.
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@MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org Yes. The trick is to _never_ use a mutable as a default, unless you're in the business of memoising something. That's the gotcha - the default at-load evaluation is not what I think most programmers expect.
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@ossobuffo@deacon.social Thank you. It reminds me of the extracts in Richard Foster's "Celebration of Discipline"
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@MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org That, and the fact that defaults are set when the module is loaded.
The long term solution is here:
peps.python.org/pep-0671/
Trying to see if we can drum up some support for it!
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@msfjarvis@androiddev.social @skade@hachyderm.io @yosh@toot.yosh.is stochastic petri nets are amazing, and likely a fruitful search topic.
I modelled a powerline control centre in the 90s using simple++, where if you start making bad decisions, people die. Very powerful. Same software was used back then to real-time model and manage some form of German railways.
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@blinry@chaos.social the dotted line is the path of the force/ particle?
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social it is cool to see the sky I recognise! The pointers, the coal sack, the cross, the lmc.
Not quite south in Cape Town enough for aurorea.
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@howtophil@mastodon.social @brianb@fosstodon.org Kahoot is more gamified, and you can make it competitive within the class.
Personally, I intensely dislike gamification and competition in education, for a myriad of reasons, some of which may even be valid.