amen, and amen Reclaim Hosting is extending it’s product offerings to include more generalized Instructional Technology and not just Domain of Ones Own and Reclaim Hosting. It’s that and more. Check it out in the YT video below:

I got married in 2006. It was great, we’d decided to get married on a ski slope in Canada. We flew out with a group of friends, skied around for a week or so, got married on a slope, had drinks and food, skied some more and came home. Piece of cake! Or at least… Zoom…

Repeated rumors of tech layoffs since this year have made those in big tech companies psychologically prepared. Tech Workers Are Resigned to Layoffs — Sixth Tone RSS No surprise really that China, who has depended on 5% economic growth every year (or more in the early days), is slowly winding down the wild west, frontier days…

There are still plenty of remarkable “digital artifacts,” as I thought of them while I was combing through Ukrainian social media posts for Black Square—for instance, a Kyiv rockabilly musician posted a video of himself in his fatigues, crouching in a hallway, singing a song he wrote about Javelin missiles set to the tune of…

https://micro.blog/aaronpk/12584357 Yes luggage rolly-wheels do suck stringy fibres up into them. I also notice this with office chairs too. One could build a wig out of all the human hair wrapped around the axles of all the Herman Miller chairs in the offices where I work.

Today I learned about a book written in 1989 by a sociologist named Ray Oldenberg. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4119.The_Great_Good_Place But the way I came upon it was via a discussion between educators at UW-Bothell, who are trying to adopt more “open technologies” for teaching. Alternate paths to the Learning Management System are desired, in an effort to make…

Prototypes now available for testing Arm has made available for testing prototypes of its Morello architecture, aimed at bringing features into the design of CPUs that provide greater robustness and make them resistant to certain attack vectors. If it performs as expected, it will likely become a fundamental part of future processor designs.… Arm rages against…

https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%214v1639061032110%216m8%211m7%211sqJDMXY2OMf5uoccfSLXJ5Q%212m2%211d35.66136626724206%212d139.8730573971878%213f151.87546812732816%214f22.52521244923659%215f0.4000000000000002 This hotel room costs less than a deluxe bowl of ramen, but you’d better come prepared. For budget travelers in Japan who’re looking for a cheap place to spend the night, capsule hotels are the first thing that comes to mind, since they often charge less than 5,000 yen (US$43) a night. The downside, though,……

They only “said” they changed the recipe but it’s still the same. In this metaphor, I’m clapping back to Mark Zoidberg and his renaming of the FakeBook to Meta-statis. https://www.vox.com/recode/22761598/facebook-facial-recognition-meta Big announcement this week from the newly renamed FaceBook entity to “meta” by ZuckerburgCo. Facebook is changing the embrace and exploitation of Face Recognition (which…

Lots of fun with green screen on the BlackMagic Design ATEM Mini Extreme switcher, doing virtual studio “visits” to other youtubers. Much fun is had, and the quality of the key’d in backgrounds is pretty darned good for the price. BMD for the win.