Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@pvonhellermannn @ianwalker

Inconsiderate parking seems to be commonplace in the UK sadly.

@stavvers

I have no problem with this bill, I have no problem with Trans people, in fact I know people who are trans.

I have an issue with how the press and media report all kinds of related issues in a way that clearly takes one side or the other, or just mis represents facts making it harder to make obhective decisions.

This bill is surely designed to help people, there has to be safeguards in place to stop exploitaton of anyone who is vulnerable (of any age). I am sure there are probably provisions for this in the bill. Where there are opportunities someone somewhere will find a way to exploit that person.

@clacke @goatsarah

They recognised that and took steps to try and resolve, any organisation that can't reflect and adapt is surely doomed.

Just look at the MET police, they have serious issues but refuse to face and tackle those issues robustly and head on, Even with change of leadership the rot was set in.

@Sirsquid@toot.io @gamingonlinux

Good idea

@autism101

I run a STEM group, my base line for success is more people being able to network and learn even small things or find someone who can help them,find new friends / contacts, rather than expecting people to produce something.

Hopefully we can start learing the GoDot engine, I know nothing about this, but there are enough resources on the internet to teach this. It will be a slow process so I am not going to put pressure on people,it is more plan sessions so they can watch a video for example

School / college / employment is about productivity, informal / casual groups are meant to be fun, so you could simply learn one very small thing, which is a big step.

@KateT

They look like some sort of co-ordinates, ? other than that not sure,

@atomicpoet
I think to begin with we need to find a way to help boost those offering services of hosting instances, or helping others to set them up.

That way, in the first instance, a person running a large or small a business can join an instance as an individual, say they are running business x and they are looking for help to join properly as a business.

But they should be able to find someone local to them (local can mean all sorts of distances) who can help.

@atomicpoet

Indeed, so a return to old fashioned customer service. I think we get that from small business, the small computer shop on the high street for example.

In terms of Laptops, I would like to see shops sell them withut an OS or have them so they are free software friendly, as much as possible, so if they come with wifi that works easily out of the box.

While I appreciate free software sometimes we HAVE to install that 3rd party firmware to get wifi working for example.

@atomicpoet

I think we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions, we have some 'brands' on here if we say count @nextcloud as a brand,but they are open source and not trying to target people with adverts to directly sell (we can download and use freely).

I assume we want to encourage people who are artists or sold traders, that is still a contentious issue and people are probably, quite rightly, concerned. So we need the right balance.

We have some really talented people here, esp in the science community, links to papers, journal articles are really good, and I follow those who post them. However I can also boost what I find interesting, but what my followers may find interesting, esp if I am aware people are looking for jobs or opportunities. If I can't help boosting that post means others see it.

Algotithms, would get totally messed up with that as I would then get bombarded with stuff I am not actually interested in as those algotithms don't take in to account the above thinking.

We have lots of small and medium size businesses who are struggling against the huge entity called amazon and others, so they may not be 'brands' as such but each business is a brand if they have their own made products.

I would like to think they are welcome here to promote and sell products or at least link to their websites so people can buy.

I am more concerned about the huge companies who have the ability to pay an army of people just to boost or artifically inflate how things are seen on here. However without trending you could boost this post a million times, there is no trending anyway.

@pj @aebrockwell @hasmis @freemo

Or in the case of Elon Musk stupidity in a group of one.

Actually from a fedi viewpoint he is a 'useful idiot'