Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@cybeardjm I remember a friend having an AMstrad CPC, and we both had a zx spectrum.

@cybeardjm I did a teaching assistant course, in that it highlighted children are very good at working out how to do things, an example given was setting up a computer in a village in india, as part of a study, the kids , being curious, figured out how to move it, what the icons were and what the mouse (or i think track ball did in relation to the screen).
You still need to find good teachers to teach the basics, which is where the problem lies i guess.

@cybeardjm And teach NO means NO end of.

@InternetKevin @IronMan@mstdn.social Well yeah, good point.

Lets hope there is change come November otherwise the whole world is stuffed or at risk of something far worse over the next 4 years. We all need a stable and strong United States.

@cybeardjm Yeah good point, We need a decent strategy for this.

The same problem happens in forums women are subjected to sexist attitudes that they know nothing. to the point where a colleague does not disclose she is female.

@InternetKevin @IronMan@mstdn.social
The last pandemic was 1919 so I think that was Woodrow Wilson as president.

@cybeardjm I would guess we have a chance to promote gender diversity in STEM here at least.

@cybeardjm Nice, so what has happened to gender diversity, mind you i was at school back in 1987 so they were still teaching computer science back then I think.

We are now trying to get more girls interested in STEM.

@cybeardjm Cool. Sounds good,

@cybeardjm We need something like that for Supporting Microsoft windows, esp when people are told constantly how to keep their anti virus updated.,

@freemo @design_RG @globcoco

Ok cool :)

@design_RG @globcoco I am trying to invite a friend here (yule) who creates his own games with unity 2d/3d

The idea would be that we can at least offer some pointers to people getting started.

@design_RG @globcoco Nice, Well done,

We need more stories like this, linking contribution to paid work, not that should be the main motivation but the fact one can lead to the other encourages people to contribute.

Is this the sort of thinking we need to solve our homes crisis ?

https://www.bigissue.com/latest/bristol-community-turns-shipping-containers-homes/

#bristol,#homeless,#containers,#shipping,#convert,#homes,#uk

@globcoco Ok short piece on Freee software is up under Software Engineering.

@freemo Ok cool, I will see what else I can add.

Added some content to the Physics, Misc and Chemistry areas on the discourse forum, is it worth adding links under computer engineering to free software such as the fsf, fsfe and gnu.org for example ?

If we can educate people about free software then any resource are helpful.

@schestowitz We easily forget what happened in the Balkans in the early 90s.

@schestowitz Any taxes on the corporates will be branded by them as unfair and result in some sort of threat / blackmail against such moves.

Politics needs to stand up to them and say 'NO!' you are going to pay more tax end of.