Just watched a live stream from the Diaspora development team, live Q&A video cast and release of the new version of Diaspora. More information and notes about this release can be found by following the link below. https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/44-diaspora-version-0-7-0-0-released
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August 2017 updates
A few updates : 1) A write up for the August tech jam can be found here *. It was a good jam, a few new people and we also managed to help some other visitors too. Physical computing activities going well as well as a useful talk on c++ by Phil Gardner. 2)…
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I know some of my contacts are interested in Well-being etc. I found this on Diaspora and decided to share here too, as it may be of interest, it is essentially software that can help with well-being. If there are any hackers out there, wanting to get involved please get in touch with the…
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I have now joined GNUSocial, the free, decentralised micro-logging site. My profile is here. Feel free to join and share what is happening or discuss cool topics.
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SATURDAY 12th August 2017 13:00-15:30 Paignton Library: Rooms 10/11/12 & Learning Suite Lucy – Physical Computing – 13:00 to 14:00 Tom – Ozobot – 14:00 to 14:30 Phil – C++ – 14:30 to 15:30 Throughout the afternoon (1.00pm – 3.30pm) Help, advice and troubleshooting.
Continue readingTorbay Tech Jam
The Torbay Tech Jam is an event that runs once a month, at Paignton library and information centre. The idea of the jam is to : The purpose of the TTJ is to provide a space for people to meet up, with the common aim of learning new skills and providing help / support…
Continue readingFed up of autoplay ads, may be time to dump Google.
If you are like me and find auto playing adverts annoying or event distracting, ( nothing worse than having your own music choices drowned out by some advert ). It may be time to consider dumping google who seem to be going against the trend of Apple who seem to be disabling auto play. …
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Contacted Smartiezone the other day. It was going to be concerning volunteering, but their website has a fault, in that the contact form text is the same colour as the backgroud, rendering it unreadable. (LOL) So, being a nice person. I have e-mailed them, to inform not only the problem exists, but also how…
Continue readingYMCA South Devon – Computing activities 2
So it is now 27th July, not heard anything at all yet, despite chasing this up with a phone call, which as yet has not been returned. It has been more than 48 hours. Lesson here is, if this is how potential volunteers are treated then I hate to think how they are treated if…
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Earlier today, I e-mailed YMCA South Devon offering to volunteer and run some computer activities. Probably making use of the Tech jam netbooks and Arduino micro-controlllers to undertake some basic tasks, As I use return receipt and delivery notification I know they got the e-mail and have read it, so will try and follow up…
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