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EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft
This was posted to Mastodon earlier, I am sharing to help raise awareness of the lawsuit. Also included below some links to alternative cloud solutions. Note: Disroot now uses a Cryptpad installation for some of their services.
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#EU,#Technology,#Sector,#AntiTrust,#Lawsuit,#Microsoft, #LevelPlayingField,
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Trojans boot camp 2022 2
Date : Sunday 9th January 2022 Time : 10 am —> 13:00
Location : Foxhole playing field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
2022 is here, so on with training and we are no upping the training to include contact football in preparation for the season ahead.
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Paignton Library STEM Group – Jan 2022
The January STEM group meeting will take place Today 8/1/2022 As with previous events, this will be a mix of Science, Technology, Engineering subjects along with discussions and a look at projects brought along to the event.
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Global Game Jam 2022
The GGJ Mission: To empower individuals worldwide to learn, experiment, and create together through the medium of games.
Dates: 20 – 30 January 2022
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#Global,#Game,#Jam,#Game,#Development,#Jan2022
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AlJazeera
I have started to watch the AlJazeera news channel, I am getting sick of the BBC, and to a point the other UK based news channels constantly going on about covid and ignoring other important events in the world, which if anything get a very brief mention. They seem incapable of putting out a broad range of news.
AlJazeera has some excellent coverage of what is going on in Kazakhstan
AlJazeera can be found on freeview just up from bbc news channel, and is well worth checking out. I am subscribed on Mastodon to a newsbot @aljazeera_english@newsbots.eu which federates news stories in to my stream.
They also do some excellent programming, for example there was a recent program looking at the history of the development of the spacesuit and this story was told by the granddaughter of the developer of the Apollo suit.
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#AlJazeera.#news,#channel,#world,#events,#coverage.
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Open Learn – Discovering Chemistry
Anyone looking at undertaking this course with Open Learn, I have set up a thread on discourse to facilitate further discussion.
Chemistry lies at the centre of our modern life, playing a part in areas as diverse as the development of new drugs and materials, analysing our environment through to more mundane activities such as washing your clothes and making your tea. But to truly understand the role chemistry plays you need to have a sound grasp of a number of fundamental principles.
This free course, Discovering chemistry, introduces you to some of these concepts, beginning with the idea that everything that you can see is made of building blocks called atoms. This leads on to a look at the chemical elements and how they are arranged in the Periodic Table, enabling chemists to rationalise patterns in their chemical and physical behaviour.
Next you will consider chemical reactions, specifically how atoms combine with other atoms to form molecules, and how molecules combine with other atoms or molecules to form bigger molecules. You will meet simple (tried and tested) theories to explain the bonding in molecules and at how their shapes may be explained, and indeed predicted. And in a wider sense you’ll be looking at why reactions happen at all and how fast they go.
This is also a beginner’s level course in the language of the chemist; you’ll learn about symbols, formulas and how chemical equations which represent reactions are constructed. Finally you will see how chemists count atoms and molecules, essential for making up solutions of a known concentration in order to carry out a reaction, or performing a chemical analysis.
#Learning,#Chemistry,#Science,#STEM
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mRNA Drug Development
Interesting post on Mastodon with regard to mRNA drug development at Moderna.
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Update and repost 5/1/2022
Interesting article from Scientific American on a Covid Vaccine for all
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#mRNA,#Moderna,#Drug,#Development
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Reverse Image Search
Latest resource in the Data Detox kit from Tactical Tech is reverse image searching. This helps you identify the source of an image, which in turn helps you differentiate between accurate and misinformation.
These resources are well worth checking out. I am still planning on trying to do a talk on privacy at a future STEM group event.
Could be something to discuss at the STEM group meeting or via Discourse or on Mastodon.
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#Data,#Misinformation,#DataDetox,#STEM,#Information,#esafety,
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Minetest – Minecraft clone
*An open source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.
This could be a great way to start programming and collaborating with others, could be something that can be discussed at the Paignton Library STEM group (see links below).
We do have two Raspberry Pi's, which we could install Minetest, Lua along with other related software. We just need people with the right expertise to help, either in person or virtually.
If you do come to the STEM group with the view to doing this then you will need to bring your own Laptop, Raspberry Pi or other device with you. We don't have Minetest installed on the computers at the library.
Image from website (Embed).
Available for :-
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Learning and Modding
First step with this is probably going to be learning to program in Lua. The following may provide some useful links for this.
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Other
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#Games.#FreeSoftware,#Voxel,#Minetest,#Lua
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LaTeX – Customising the Overleaf / Scismic CV
I made some modification to the Scismic CV template to make it suitable for my needs, however some of these modifications may be useful to others.
Firstly the sectioning on this is excellent, especially if combined with lists
\section{Education: The Open University}
\begin{itemize}
\item Certificate in Contemporary Science, Open University, 2012
\end{itemize}
What is also useful is being able to comment out individual entries. This is good if a specific course is not applicable to the post you are applying for. To do this just place a % at the start of the line.
%\item Planets: an introduction, (S196), 2006
This is fine, but what about whole sections such as a specific job or volunteer entry?
Firstly add this to your preamble
\usepackage{comment} % allow comments
Then add this before and after the section you want to remove
\begin{comment}
\end{comment}
The nice thing about this, is that by commenting these out
%\begin{comment}
%\end{comment}
The entry is restored.
While not strictly needed you can add clickable urls in to your CV
\usepackage{hyperref} % allow urls in document
\hypersetup{
colorlinks,
citecolor=black,
filecolor=black,
linkcolor=black,
urlcolor=black
} % set up hyperref
Goes in your preamble, while using the following makes a line of text a url which people can click, use sparingly though.
\url{http://your-url.co.uk/}
I have also added page numbers, which can be useful.
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{datetime}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyfoot[R]{}
\fancyfoot[L]{\thepage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
This is not perfect, but does work.
Hopefully these tips are helpful to people. This template is really flexible and overleaf have quite a few very professional looking templates. [6] along with cover letter templates [7].
I have added a section on jobs and employment to my forum [8].
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1 LaTeX Project 2 Learn LaTeX 3 Scismic 4 Overleaf 5 Scismic's Recommended CV Template for Biotech and Pharma Jobs 6 Overleaf CV Templates 7 Overleaf cover letter templates 8 Tuxiversity Forum
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#LaTeX,#CV,#Overleaf,#Scismic,#Customisation
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