Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

As the above was posted to twitter, I feel like replying to say this.

Just remember, that if you are recruiting staff, if a past employment history says the applicant has worked for one of the offending companies, put the CV / application in the BIN.

Time for the small, hard working person to fight back.

Bay businesses urged: ‘Unite in fight against insurance giants’

https://www.torbayweekly.co.uk/news/bay-businesses-urged-unite-in-fight-against-insurance-giants-1-6696206

Once the big businesses have your money they don't care.

#insurance.

Confederate and Columbus statues toppled by US protesters
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53005243

I wonder if the 'colonialism' part of these protests are going to impact on the Mayflower celebrations 1620- 2020.

I know this is delayed or cut down due to Covid19 but it also a celebration of the bond between the UK and USA.

@schestowitz
Removing “Annoying” Windows 10 Features is a DMCA Violation, Microsoft Says

https://torrentfreak.com/removing-annoying-windows-10-features-is-a-dmca-violation-microsoft-says-200611/

Another reason to dump Microsoft.

@design_RG @globcoco @Phaedrus +1

@globcoco @design_RG
Given a more detailed response on the forum
https://discourse.qoto.org/t/learning-latex/299

Hope this helps

Paul

@globcoco @design_RG
We probably need a LaTeX category on the forum to discuss in more detail. I will give some more detailed answers from personal experience in the Chemistry section of the Forum the moment.

@globcoco @design_RG I used a template for my resume but that still assumes you have been using it LaTeX for a while.

I would start with simple documents and work up

Personaljournal (which runs Write.as ) has MathJax installed which allows for LaTeX maths to be part of the page.

I made a blog post on LaTeX and Chemistry here
https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/latex-and-chemistry

@design_RG I found https://www.markdowntutorial.com/ great for learning markdown, there is also https://stackedit.io/ as a online markdown editor, integrates with github, so It may also do the same for Gitlab.

@chrism
Further to previous reply you can follow ArXiv on mastodon too if you search for @arxiv.

@chrism Sure go ahead. I am working through an open learn course right now, and this is covering the history of the universe, life time of stars, there seems to be a lot of cross over with other open learn courses.on this.

The more content / discussion we have on there the better, we all learn something new but the forum(s) also look active, which encourages others to post.

Looking forward to seeing more content.

Paul

What is the Fediverse?

https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/what-is-the-fediverse

@freemo Cool thanks, I will think about moderator status.

@freemo I will invite a few people to here over the next week or so days and suggest they mention they also know me, @zleap that way we know who they are, will be selective at first, then friends can invite friends.

Hopefully there will be interest and people are open enough to come here and sign up.

I will however see if I can invite stem ambassadors here.

On a general advocacy level.

I have 2 blog posts planned tone covers what the fediverse is and the other covers alternatives to main stream social media, so it is a good opportunity to tie in invites to that.

I will make a point I am here, but try and direct people to the main mastodon instance so they can choose based on interest.

Also have an article in the draft stage too.

Hopefully things will start fitting together.

@cybeardjm Yeah a friend here had a friend in Cameroon (I think) so computers sent over didn't last very long for the same reasons.

@cybeardjm Same problem, here i did lend my neighbours daughter an old netbook, + raspbian + chrome browser, works great.

@cybeardjm In the mean time companies have to throw computers away due to data protection laws, why we can't just wipe old hard disks and install Linux, I am not sure, you need to be pretty determined to undo some of these data wiping tools, and specialist too.

@cybeardjm I think there are still kids here who lack computers, or perhaps tablets, some parents may have smart phones but 2/3 kids + smartphone don't really work well when they need internet access for homework / learning.