I'm currently testing https://piefed.social/u/Libb all my new participation will be posted there, at least for the time being.
A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. Also, I like to write and to sketch.https://thefoolwithapen.com/
INSOLITE. Pour lutter contre la sédentarité, des élèves pédalent en plein cours dans un lycée breton
C'est bien de chercher des solutions à ce qui est un vrai souci essentiel, mais un vélo d'appartement? Pourquoi ne pas leur proposer plus d'activités à l'extérieur plutôt?
C’est peut-être une question naïve mais j'avoue que les encourager à rester assis sur un vélo d'appartement au lieu de les envoyer dehors faire du sport me laisse perplexe.
Vu de l'extérieur (je suis vieux, j'ai quitté l'école y a bien longtemps), c’est un peu comme de proposer des séances de lampes à UV à quelqu’un qui ne prend pas assez la lumière. C'est une solution très technologique, coûteuse, et qui ne fait que traiter le symptôme au lieu de traiter sa cause. Au lieu de lui proposer la solution la plus simple qui consiste à (lever son cul de sa chaise, ouvrir la porte et) sortir de chez soi un peu chaque jour, pour marcher au grand air. C'est gratuit ou presque, le soleil est plus efficace qu'une ampoule même très high-tech, et c'est aussi potienllement très (re)sociabilisant ce qui, en retour, pourrait devenir une motivation plus grande pour encore plus d'activitiés à l'éxtérieur et donc pour prendre plus de lumière (et pour une meilleure insertion sociale).
Ça aurait aussi le mérite de les encourager à se sortir la tête des écrans, un peu plus. Ce qui ne ferait de mal à personne, jeunes comme moins jeunes ;)
It's a great move, I 100% support. But I worry too many people don't realize that it's a long journey we're just starting. A multi-years journey, if not decades long. The change, if change there is, won't be instant. It also won't be painless, seeing how so many people expect things to 'just work' a few may feel a little... frustrated. And this will also have a monetary cost too.
I really, really don’t understand how people see LLMs as the only options for stuff like this…
We can't tell that is what the OP thinks and I would rather not assume anything. But if that was the case, I would imagine OP is from this generation that seems to have completely lost connection with the written word. It's a huge loss for them (and for the whole society), a dramatic one even but one can't realize how tragic it is, and how much they are losing, if they don't have an opportunity to experiment what it's like to be writing (and reading).
To the OP, if you're wondering about writing in a journal (paper or digital, it's up to you but be assured it can be private), feel free to come say hello in the !journaling@sh.itjust.works. I'm the admin there and if there isn't much activity going on, I'm pretty sure this kind of situations may be of interest to way more people than we imagine. At the very least, if you have questions I will do my best to answer them, hopefully others would chime in too ;)
Edit to clear: not being able to read/write long-form content anymore is a tragic loss for younger generations, and that will cost dear to most of them because the few that will have learned to master those 'low-tech' activities, and to focus their attention, will outperform the others and they're the ones that will get the all the rewards we associate with 'winning'. But if they're the ones that will pay, for the most part they're not at fault. It is us, the adults that were supposed to be educating them, that are responsible. We failed. Hard. Now, they will pay the price.
Yep, it's kinda silly. But I have little doubt they can't all last that long. So, I'll repeat myself: don't worry too much. Keep doing your good work and one or the other community should impose itself.
But lately I’ve been in a rough state mentally (I say lately but it’s always been with me) and having GPT guide me and being able to just dictate what I think helps me a lot on various levels, for various reasons.
Do you mean you use it to brain dump your thoughts and things like that?
If so, have you considered simply... writing stuff down with a pen on paper? Aka, journaling.
I've been doing that for, well, almost all all my live (started as little boy, I'm now well into my 50s) and it has always been tremendous help to better understand whatever is going on in my head/happening around me/with other people/the world.
Pen and paper journaling is also 100% not online, unless you want it to be. And it's cheap, when it's not completely free ;)
We're now 446 members in !journaling@sh.itjust.works and things start to move a little... kinda, maybe? One person posted a new thread ;)
I have 8 months left (I gave myself a year) to try to revitalize the community, so there is no urgency but I'm surprised to see more people subscribing one week to the next but almost no one posting. That being said, like I said, I have a few months left before I reach my deadline and I keep on posting a new and thematic thread each week... hopefully motivating a few people to participate.
Maybe other type of content would work better to attract more participation, that I can't tell.
Je n'ai pas trouvé de solution. Je paye donc qqe chose comme 2 euros par mois pour un numéro poubelle (en plus de nos 'vrais' abonnements à ma compagne et à moi, tous chez le même fournisseur) qui ne sert qu'à ça: être communiqué quand on a pas le choix. Et auquel, bien entendu, on ne réponds que très exceptionnellement voire jamais.
Vu qu'on est deux à l'utiliser pour ce genre de choses (et qu'on pourrait très facilement être plus encore, si notre famille était plus grande), je me dis que 1 euro chacun par moi c'est pas la fin du monde. Cela dit, si je pouvais trouver une solution plus simple (avec un téléphone de moins)...
Je suis curieux de connaître les autres solutions proposées.
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Can only upvote once, alas ;)
Same here, a few years ago I made the switch and never regretted it (from Mac, not Windows though) ;)
It's not perfect, but neither was macOS (or Windows) so I'm OK with that.
Wonderful memories, thanks for sharing! I had a goofy smile throughout reading that!
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and “well, you’re not young” to a good chunk of the population (:
(leaning forward) Can you write louder, kiddo? I can't hear that well anymore :p
Pas besoin de t'excuser, et merci pour la ref.
Please tell me it had a visitor counter on the front page and blinkies in the footer?
:) (Nodding knowingly, kids have no idea these days)
But no it did not had these, not in the early days at least. Back then, it was already something for young (and ignorant me) me to be able to display text and put an image... thumb-sized, because dial-up Internet was slow and anything but cheap. A little later, I started (over)using gif like many, also learning to create my own (I'd rather not remember any of my 'creations' :p). But I never was obsessed with that. The moment I fell in love with my website, wanting to make it even more uniquely mine, is when I first heard about and tried CSS. That came later for me, but I could not tell how much.
It was a clumsy learning process, all done by hand through trial and (soooo many) errors, but that was mind blowing. I madly fell in love with CSS... Flash forward quite a few years later, when they finally managed to make me run away from the complex beast they had turned CSS into, and even steer away from the idea of handwriting my own website like I had been doing for all those years.
On that note, Neocities is still alive and the websites there remind me of the walkman and pez dispenser I had, love it!
Thx for the link!
I remember neocities. A bit like I remember Lycos and even more fondly remember my very first Walkman (Sony's very first model, my uncle brought me back from Japan back then). I have been using that poor thing for countless years. It was beaten to death, paint was gone in so many spots there was not much left to be read on it but it worked well. I loved it. I often listened to cassettes on that beaten up Walkman while I was trying my hands at writing HTML and CSS up until years later when it died of one last fall on the ground. No matter how silly that is, I was sad losing it. If I remember well, I also managed to get my hand on a compatible DC adapter, so it would eat that much batteries.
Disclaimer: I'm not that old.
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Ha ha you’re just french
You got a point ;)
So what to do?
A good starting point would be to admit that we made wrong choices. And that includes the (too) many reforms in the public education system.
What's the purpose of public education? Answering that question should not require thousand pages of gibberish text.
It doesn't matter one's personal beliefs, values, political stances when seeing their kid barely being able to read and write, let alone have some grammar and vocabulary. This should worry any parent to their chore.
Why? Because it's their own kid that is being screwed by not getting a proper education. Alas, so many parents themselves simply don't give a crap about reading. Why would they worry about their kid not reading?
There is no nuanced thought possible without a rich enough vocabulary to put those thoughts into words. There is also no articulated discussion possible when there is no grammar to translate said thoughts and ideas into meaningful sentences. And in such a simplified world everything will either be black or white, good or bad. Unsurprisingly, exactly like what our society is turning itself into. A gigantic cacophony of 'us' vs 'them', 'good' vs 'evil'. And I doubt this will end well.
And that's a sad thing happening in France too.
I mention reading and writing because it's my main point of interest but it's as true for math as it is for sciences, as for any other matter that requires efforts and doesn't give immediate rewards. All of them have been/are being reduced to nothingness in the name of not 'asking too much from the kids'. Like if learning those (admittedly difficult) matters served no purpose and turning public school into the opposite of what a public school is supposed to be.
Meanwhile, many schools for richer kids are more than ever focusing on making them learn more of those demanding matters, with the blessing of their parents.
So, which kids do you think will end-up getting the best positions? Who do you think will end up being the next decision and policy makers? The next innovators or 'disruptors'? And who will the the ones deciding what part of public money should be invested into... public education? Yeah, that doesn't bode well.
Information is hard to get by too, it is either click bait or filtered through the wants and needs of the ultra rich. Any tips warmly welcomed!
Yes, it's hard to get by and it also has a cost but quality info is still available. Even better, if it still requires time and... curating, it's can also be free.
That's the reason why public school should matter a lot more (teaching kids and probably their parents too how to access said info, which is not through TV, or YT, or social media).
As should matter public libraries because next to books, any public library here in France will have a decent selection of newspapers and magazines for adults as well as for younger audiences even though I'm more akin to encourage kids read 'adult' contents (I fell in love with reading at a young age reading Ovid and then Homer). Newspapers/mags in public libraries are free for anyone to read but they're also kinda hard to get into because there is no simplified or 'guided' entrance.
Hence the importance to teach kids how to read (and how to properly use a book or a newspaper). It also helps a lot to have adults around then able to show them what to do, what to look for and how to use it.
Disclaimer: I will admit I'm an old moron ('un vieux con', we would say in French) that doesn't understand jack shit to the actual world and to the many issues younger generations are facing.
And yet another rant... not sorry :p
Did not know about that. I'm one of their customers.
Did not need to switch as I've been using my own domain names (French registrar with French and/or German hostings) since I created my first website... back when quite a few of you reading this today were not even born yet. No, that does not mean I'm that old. Absolutely not :p
I also have a proton and a tuta account (and @ mailbox.org one), just in case someone prefers a more privacy-friendly email than my non-encrypted domain emails, and since neither tuta or Proton are compatible when exchanging encrypted emails, I have both. That being said, I seldom use them: most people simply don't care about privacy.
I use(d to use) gmail for all crappy online stuff I don't care much about losing access to. I will probably end up getting rid of it entirely but, to me at least, even though I know it's possible to do it without a YT account, that would also mean quit watching YT, which is something I still appreciate doing.
"With each IT service our government moves to American tech giants, we become dumber and weaker," Dutch MP Barbara Kathmann, author of four of the motions, told The Register. "If we continue outsourcing all of our digital infrastructure to billionaires that would rather escape Earth by building space rockets, there will be no Dutch expertise left."
True that. For every nation. And not just with IT services.
But then at the same time those governments (talking from France, btw) do their best to prevent any initiative by making it a hassle to start a business, and by punishing the (unavoidable) failures that starting a business, and taking risks and taking the initiative means. We should encourage people to fail (and start over again), if we want to see a few of them succeed.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the other way around. FF was there first ;)
+1 to that.
It's so much more pleasant (well, when the shop owner know what they're doing). I've almost completely quit using Amazon and only shop online for what I can find a local alternative.
Including for books btw, at least here in France, the law has made it so that new books must be sold at the same price everywhere (including Amazon) and since the experience is so much more pleasant in my local bookshops I see no reason to give my money to Amazon ;)
Est-ce qu’ici certains ont testé Illustrator/Photoshop/Lightroom via Wine
Ca dépend des versions de logiciels que tu veux utiliser, mais si c'est récent, oublie. Encore plus en usage pro: le risque de perdre du temps, et pas un petit peu, est énorme. Jusqu'il y a raltivement peu, je gardais un Mac Studio just pour ce genre de softs—mon ordinateur personnel étant quant à lui passé sous Mint sans le moindre regret.
Je vais me décider à revendre ce Mac, de toute façon il est déjà rangé dans sa boite... C'est juste que, client Apple depuis les années 80, ça me parait dément de ne plus avoir au moins un Mac qqe part ;)
Quand je parle de soleil ,je parle pas de se dorer la couenne pour soigner son bronzage. Je parle de recevoir une doise de lumière naturelle (même par temps gris). Je pense que nos ancêtres se débrouilalient pas mal sans lampes à UV, sous les mêmes latitudes, mais peut-être je me trompe.