One of the advantages with Scratch is that it has a really nice interface, it is also available in a range of different languages.

Before the last Code Club I asked the tutor who runs the group in the room next door to the IT group. While they are learning English, I decided to ask if any of his group are interested in Code Club.

I am posting this to illustrate how to change the language of the Scratch front end, so children who speak other language can access this resource easily.

Video

Notes

1. You need to be logged to scratch
2. You need to start a new project
3. Click on the globe icon and select a language 3a. Note that the globe is normally on the left, but for the languages that read left to right, the globe icon is on the right hand side.

Tags

#CodeClub,#Change,#Language

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I have found another way to change the Default Linux console font to something that is more readable, from the default which is really small text. The instructions are at [1]. This works on my current Debian [2] 11.0 set up, but as usual Your mileage may vary. If you ask on a forum, social media or IRC about this, please quote the website below [1] and not this blog post.

The contents of my /etc/default/console-setup are now as follows:-

 1 # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON
  2 
  3 # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page.
  4 
  5 ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"
  6 CHARMAP="UTF-8"
  7 CODESET="guess"
  8 FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
  9 FONTSIZE="16x32"
 10 SCREEN_WIDTH="80"
 11 
 12 VIDEOMODE=
 13 
 14 # The following is an example how to use a braille font
 15 # FONT='lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'
 16 

Hopefully this is useful.

For the record my settings are:-

ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]"

CHARMAP="UTF-8"

CODESET="guess"
FONTFACE="TerminusBold"
FONTSIZE="16x32"
SCREEN_WIDTH="80"

VIDEOMODE=

REFERENCES

1. How to change your linux console fonts 2 Debian 3 Free Software Foundation

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Interesting article posted to the Fediverse by the Science Daily bot.

• Climate change threatens European forests

So trees are essential for several things including CO2 reduction, so we are chopping down trees and also pumping more CO2 in to the atmosphere, which is causing climate change, which in turn is also causing trees to die.

One way to sow the seeds of our own destruction. Once Humans are gone, I think the Earth will recover, probably quite quickly.

We have seen evidence of how wildlife takes back control, during the first lock down in March –> May 2020, with no cars or people around, villages had animals take over. See BBC news link below.

Well worth reading the article, for a picture of what is happening.

Citation information:

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. “Climate change threatens European forests: Well over half of Europe's forests are potentially at risk from windthrow, forest fire and insect attacks.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 March 2021. .

REFERENCES

• Science Daily
• Mastodon Qoto
• Science Daily News Bot Account
• BBC News article
• Qoto Discourse discussion

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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Mastodon,#ScienceDaily,#Climate, #Change#Trees,#Dying,#Forests,#MaxPlanckInstituteforBiogeochemistry,

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