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Torbay Covid Update Jan 21st 2021

Torbay Update

COVID-19 cases are not yet falling in Torbay, and cases are particularly high among working-age adults.

Facebook Live on January 26

We are running, with partners, a COVID-19 Facebook Live next Tuesday at 6pm.

The topics covered during the event will include what is happening locally around testing, vaccinations, schools, care homes and enforcement. There will be a panel of representatives from a range of local organisations including the NHS, Police and Torbay Community Development Trust.

Self-isolation and Staying at Home, what's the difference?

The national lockdown means that all residents in Torbay must stay at home, but how does this differ from self-isolation?

You, and your household, must self-isolate if you:

  • have symptoms of COVID-19
  • Are waiting for test results for you or a household member or a member of your support bubble
  • have had a positive test for COVID-19

Stay at home vs Self isolation : The differences

The stay at home message applies to everyone. You should not leave your house, except to exercise or for some very specific reasons. You may go to work if you cannot reasonably work from home, and you may leave to shop for basic necessities, to attend education or childcare (read more to find out if you are eligible; Critical workers and vulnerable children who can access schools or educational settings – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)) or to seek medical assistance. If you leave home for a permitted reason, you should always stay local.

If you are asked to self-isolate, then you must not leave your home for any reason. It is a legal requirement to self-isolate if you test positive or are told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace. You must not leave your home to work, get food or medicine or to exercise. There is support available, for practical things like shopping or a listening ear if you are worried or alone. Call 01803 446022 or go online at https://www.torbayhelphub.com/.

The differences between staying at home and self-isolation are crucial. Can you share these messages with your networks?

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Stay Home

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Employee Motivation

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One of the nice things about LinkedIn, is that there are some really inspirational people on there, with some great advice.

Employee Motivation

This was posted earlier by Brigette Hyacinth makes some interesting and important points here about how Employers actions and behaviour can really have a positive or Negative impact on employee Motivation.

I am currently looking for work but I understand with this infographic is saying. Previous employers have been both good, others have been not so good.

If people leave their job, think about why, if a CV has gaps, think why someone may have left their last post. I left my last post to seek better opportunities, an employer who will actually value my skills.

I really hope that my current projects, and the experience and skills being developed actually count for something.

If you want the best out of people, make them feel valued, listen to them, and notice what skills, help them develop and you will get a better work force. Employees are people not just some number on an employee database.

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Web Analytics

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MATOMO

Take back control with Matomo – a powerful web analytics platform that gives you 100% data ownership.

Matomo is a privacy friendly alternative to Google analytics. Offering what looks like a good range of features with both free and paid for usage plans.

GOATCOUNTER

Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.

GoatCounter is an open source web analytics platform available as a hosted service (free for non-commercial use) or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy to use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

With more and more websites tracking users, collecting vast amounts of data, more and more people are becoming aware of this, not liking what is happening and starting to make a stand.

With the GDPR in the UK/EU, failing to protect user data and privacy now carries huge financial penalties, as well as, of course, reputational damage.

Time to take back control. Time for business to respect user privacy and data protection.

Interesting series

  • Do Not Track is a personalized documentary series about privacy and the web economy.

A FEW OTHERS

CONCLUSION

With a good choice of alternatives, there is now NO EXCUSES.

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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Matomo,#Analytics,#user,#privacy,#NoTracking,#UserControl,#GoatCounter

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Joe Biden Inauguration

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Today sees the Inauguration of the 46th President of the United States of America. Democrat, Joe Biden.

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The Darkest Secrets of the Universe

Space Telescope Science Institute Public lectures The Darkest Secrets of the Universe Tue 19 Jan 2021

#space,#telescope,#astronomy,#lecture,#public,#online,#talk, #science

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Federated hosting

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If you are looking to host your own service such as Peertube, Mastodon etc, but would prefer to use managed hosting there are now several options

On a related note there is also the project by Aral Balkan who's Small Technology Foundation [1] is building the small web [2]

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Website on pi

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I spent some time on last night, setting up a mini web server on m Raspberry pi.

So running a http server on a Raspberry Pi.

For this project I am just using the python3-test-server package,

  1. Install python3-test-server
  2. Create a directory to hold some html files
  3. Change to this directory
  4. Create a very basic html file e.g index.html
  5. run python3 -m http.server:7800 where 7800 is the port you want to use

web server on pi

In the browser go to ip:7800

Website on pi

What I have done here, however is

  • Run the server on the pi,
  • Connected via ssh to create the site files and run the server
  • Edited the basic website on the pi via ssh, by running a text editor

  • To copy other files directly from my main PC to the Pi i used

    • scp file.jpg pi@ip:path e.g
      • scp file.jpg pi@ip:/home/pi/html/

I have, gone a little further than this:

In order to share my free software video dvd (and other resources) with people I:-

  • Uploaded files to the server
  • Created a web link to the iso file
  • Edited my router firewall so it would allow a connection to the pi

I then shared the appropriate IP address with a friend via irc so he could download the ISO file, and it worked really well.

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#YearOfTheFediverse,#httpServer,#website,#html,#css, #Python,#Firewall,#Networking,ProblemSolving,#Skills,#IT

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Watchlist

Watchlist has a list of various projects relating to Activity Pub Apps for the decentralized social media network.

#YearOfTheFediverse,#watchlist,#fediverse,#appss

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Decentralize Today

Decentralize Today, is a mixed media website, that hosts news & podcasts on the Decentralized fediverse.

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The decent(ralized) metaverse

This was posted to Mastodon on 30/12/2020

The metaverse is here: an immersive Web full of social virtual and augmented reality experiences. However, mega-corporations want to lock it down and wall it up to make another addictive, toxic ad-selling platform. We’re taking it in a different direction because we dream of a democratized new era of the Web where creators own their content, users own their data, and no single entity exhibits undue influence on the community as a whole.

We need to build web services free of tracking, free of ads, or other corporate nonsense, and respect user freedom and human right to privacy.

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