Stuart Croall @stuartcroall@librem.one
Surviving leukemia since 2001. I was grateful to receive fresh stem cells in 2009. Now, trying to make choices to model a better world for my family and others.
Joined Jun 2019
Stuart Croall
boosted
I've decided to establish a Guppe group ( @fyre_exyt ) to start building a team around Fyre Exyt, a project I've been envisioning since I quit FB in 2006 (?) to create a detailed guide to escaping the datafarms. Ideally it would take the form of a website or app that would walk users through the process. Maybe also guides for installing apps, choosing hosts, and creating accounts on replacement services.
I don't have tons of cognitive energy or capacity these days, but I do believe in the promise of #federated platforms, and #open protocols and such.
I would like the #Fediverse to be a place I can move my friends and family to, eventually (particularly my kids) and I'm trying to sort out what to do to make that easier and more appealing to them.
Perhaps I should apply my energy to answering some of those questions I posed...🤔
Stuart Croall
boosted
🎉 We've been partying in #Fediverse for 3 years! 🎉
Here's a summary about our journey, project team, goals, stats and future plans:
fediverse.party/en/post/fedive…
#FediverseInArt #mastoart #fediverseparty
Here's a summary about our journey, project team, goals, stats and future plans:
fediverse.party/en/post/fedive…
#FediverseInArt #mastoart #fediverseparty
Stuart Croall
boosted
Does anyone use #Moodle or something similar for #education, particularly for grades 6-12, who could speak to the ability of such platforms to provide reading resources, integrating other sites and platforms as necessary?
I have an 11 year old who is learning remotely, here in #Winnipeg #Manitoba and what the province and school division have set up at this point in non-ideal, at best.
The platform they're using is Microsoft-based (Teams/Office 360), but the expectation is the kids access (particularly) #reading resources across a variety of other services and website, each requiring a separate login, some with a pre-established "class code" or, in some cases, a full registration per student, including significant personal information.
I find this a bit frustrating, annoying, and inadequate, particularly for students at this level. Do other platforms integrate these resources better? Is it a reasonable expectation that a student should able to access most resources without hopping services, or am I dreaming of some kind of utopian fantasy?
I have an 11 year old who is learning remotely, here in #Winnipeg #Manitoba and what the province and school division have set up at this point in non-ideal, at best.
The platform they're using is Microsoft-based (Teams/Office 360), but the expectation is the kids access (particularly) #reading resources across a variety of other services and website, each requiring a separate login, some with a pre-established "class code" or, in some cases, a full registration per student, including significant personal information.
I find this a bit frustrating, annoying, and inadequate, particularly for students at this level. Do other platforms integrate these resources better? Is it a reasonable expectation that a student should able to access most resources without hopping services, or am I dreaming of some kind of utopian fantasy?
Stuart Croall
boosted
This!
"As Tristan [Harris] so eloquently puts it, we need not worry about the day when machines overcome human strength (when robots “take over the world”)…
We must worry about the day when machines overcome human weakness, when they can manipulate our behavior to achieve their own goals.
Thanks to the simple, rational pursuit of advertising revenue, that day has already passed."
- #JeffSeibert, 2020
https://medium.com/swlh/the-mechanics-and-psychology-behind-the-social-dilemma-719d618aa8ce
Surviving leukemia since 2001. I was grateful to receive fresh stem cells in 2009. Now, trying to make choices to model a better world for my family and others.
Joined Jun 2019
