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South Devon Tech Jam reminder – Feb 2020
The February 2020 tech jam will be on Saturday 8th February at Paignton Library and information Centre.
Time : 11am to 15:00 Cost : £2
Website : http://www.sdtj.org.uk.
What are we hoping to have :-
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2020 Six Nations Rugby
This weekend sees the start of the 2020 six nations Rugby
Sat 1st Feb
Wales vs Italy 14:15 Ireland vs Scotland 16:45
Sunday 2nd Feb
France vs England 15:00
#rugby, #sixnations, #sport, #fixtures, #results
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This weekend, 1st and 2nd Feb is FOSDEM 2020, one of the many annual free software conferences which are held in different locations around the world.
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
#freesoftware, #fosdem, #brussles, #2020,
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Code Club 1/2/2020 reminder
Code Club 01/02/2020
The next Code Club will be Tomorrow: Saturday 1st February at Paignton Library and information Centre.
Carrying on from what we were doing on 18/1/2020, If anyone is interested in the Hour Of Code activity, we can have a go at that too.
More Scratch 3.0 coding, which is great and a good starting point before moving on to other programming languages.
Rocksndiamonds. which I hope we can eventually use to learn level layout.
We can also take a look at the Tech Pledge. See what people think about this as an idea to make the internet a nicer place. I will have copies printed out.
Also hope to get some feedback and input on my e-safety for coding website project that I am working on in repl.it .
#coding, #codeclub, #programming, #scratch, #python, #html, #css, #javascript,#coding
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Youtube-dl out of date
The youtube-dl tool on Debian 10 is out of date, it seems even the sid version is behind, by a good few months.
After some searching I have found a way to fix this.
Please note you need to do you OWN RESEARCH in to fixing this. I am not responsible for loss or problems caused by following what I have put here.
Firstly I was getting the following error
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JSHubLg7NE [youtube] 0JSHubLg7NE: Downloading webpage [youtube] 0JSHubLg7NE: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: 0JSHubLg7NE: YouTube said: This video is unavailable.
The webpage here was a little helpful
*https://askubuntu.com/questions/1200552/youtube-dl-troubleshooting-error-this-video-is-unavailable
In providing an explanation and some fixes.
Firstly on Debian the internal update option is disabled so
youtube-dl -U
Won't work, reading further this seems to download the latest version
While the above instructions worked for me, The old version was still installed, this needs to be removed so doing this before hand may help.
However if you want to check the current version before removing you can use:
youtube-dl —version
Then remove with:
apt remove youtube-dl -
The instructions
wget http://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
You will still need to change the permissions as per above website. I am not repeating them here, you need to read up.
However – Debian appears to expect youtube-dl to be in /usr/bin.
The above solution downloads to /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl, you can either put in the path manually when running as in:
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JSHubLg7NE
Which gets rather tedious to keep doing that.
In order to get round this, I have copied the binary to where Debian wants it
cp /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl /usr/bin/youtube-dl
Which seems to work for me, but is probably the wrong way to go about doing this.
You can now find the version that is now installed by using
youtube-dl —version
2020.01.24
Hopefully this is useful. You need to do your own research but the problem is fixable.
Once you have upgraded you can download youtube videos in the normal way with youtube-dl.
#debian, #youtube-dl, #error, #fix, #solution, #gnu, #linux
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Libreoffice 6.4 released
LibreOffice 6.4 is here! More performance, more compatibility, and great new features to try out – it's an essential upgrade for the world's leading free office suite. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/29/libreoffice-6-4/
#libreoffice, #64, #released, #office, #freesoftware, #freedom, #writer, #calc, #impress, #draw, math, #base
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Why Study Computing Flyers
Two flyers aimed at Schools, Teachers, Parents and Students to highlight why studying computing is exciting, important and relevant.
The flyers were designed and developed by the University of Glasgow, with broad input from a range of stakeholders.
One flyer is blank without a logo, the other bears the University of Glasgow logo.
The resources on CAS website are under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence unless otherwise specified by the resource creators.
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Tech Pledge
The Tech Pledge a community written document with the intention of making the internet a better place for everyone.
It asks you to commit to the following.
You can sign this pledge digitally at The Tech Pledge.
You can download a pack from the website, which has a pdf version that you can sign and display in your office.
Lets make the internet a better place.
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Adult filters – Compensation
A bbc report on 24th Jan 2020, covers the continuing problem of trying to protect young people from accessing adult material while using the Internet.
This scheme has been dropped, and the companies trying to develop the solution, spending millions, quite rightly want compensation.
This policy seems to have been doomed from the start, firstly it seems no one actually knows how to do this, the UK government also failed to inform the EU, so the implementation was delayed by six months, and industry experts were not convinced the policy would even work as users would find a way to circumvent the filters.
In addition to this, uploading of passports and other ID information raises serious privacy concerns.
There is wide acknowledgement something has to be done, but no one seems to have come up with a solution yet.
The solution(s) may have nothing to do with technology. It is about education, educate people properly on how to behave, how to treat others, equality and making everyone feel valued. This starts at home and is enforced in schools. Of course adults really need to set the example. Not sure how that is going to happen when you get vile trolling of people.
We have many laws, surely we need to start enforcing them. We should also hold parent / guardians responsible, perhaps the prospect of actual jail and a long term criminal record will result in action.
We need a gender diverse workforce in schools too, as that way we can have positive male AND female role models, Some schools hardly have any male staff, why is this, esp in 2020 when we are meant to have the equality act.
Another bbc article yesterday 25/2/2020 Facebook and YouTube moderators sign PTSD disclosure really does highlight the issue. Something is clearly NOT working,
#bbc, #news, #technology, #UK, #filters, #privacy, #compensation, #adult, #material
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LibreOffice Documentation
I found an article on Friendica announcing a guide for LibreOffice Calc 6.x (spreadsheet).
However further searching, I found a more useful page that links to guides for each of the various LibreOffice modules.
They are doing a really good job with all of this, great to see documentation for software too.
#libreoffice, #writer, #calc, #math, #impress, #draw, #documentation, #documentfoundation, #FreeSoftware,
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