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Ruth Mottram

An odd evening: I realised just how clueless kids are when it comes to how to actually use a computer. Microsoft is infantilising our kids by turning everything into a browser app (#DigitalNatives my foot). Meanwhile I, their mother used a 45 year old scripting language to more or less painlessly sort + backup ~55,000 family photos by year + month... #BASH

9 October at 21:44 | Open on fediscience.org
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Morgan

@Ruth_Mottram I'm like right on the edge and it's horrifying, many of my classmates (college students) don't even know how to use email

9 October at 21:59 | Open on disabled.social
C. Anthony Lewis

@Ruth_Mottram I concur... before I stepped away from permanent employment I ran a Stage 1 IT module. Over the 25+ years I can't say I noticed any significant change in student abilities. Even in the 'standard' packages that everyone 'knows' how to use...

9 October at 22:04 | Open on mastodon.social
Christo. London, England

@Ruth_Mottram
There was a time when schools IT was Nicrosoft and Spreadsheets. I remember parents in IT coming in talking about coding.

9 October at 22:04 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
Ruth Mottram

I currently hold a Novo Nordisk foundation grant (charitable research foundation funded by maker of #Wegovy + #ozempic), working on ice sheet models.

I occasionally describe the drug as a modern day philosopher's stone. It turns fat into gold + helps a lot of other conditions

mastodon.social/@waldoj/113052
@waldoj - People taking Wegovy are 33% less likely to die of Covid ... based on 17,604 study participants over three years. Semaglutide is a *very* interesting drug. nytimes.com/2024/08/30/health/

I currently hold a Novo Nordisk foundation grant (charitable research foundation funded by maker of #Wegovy + #ozempic), working on ice sheet models.

I occasionally describe the drug as a modern day philosopher's stone. It turns fat into gold + helps a lot of other conditions

mastodon.social/@waldoj/113052
@waldoj - People taking Wegovy are 33% less likely to die of Covid ... based on 17,604 study participants over three years. Semaglutide is a *very* interesting drug.

31 August at 6:59 | Open on fediscience.org
Ruth Mottram

Kid left a box open on the sofa, resident #BlackPanther went to sit in it.
Happy #Caturday folks...
#BlackCat #Cat #voidcat
6 April at 10:25 | Open on fediscience.org
Ruth Mottram

Spring is here: lying on a carpet in the sun late #BlackCat #Void #Caturday entry...
17 March at 11:09 | Open on fediscience.org
Ruth Mottram

Allow me to recommend @organicmaps

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11203866
QT @pluralistic - Hard to overstate how enshittified Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith. Gmaps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite being fully visible in Street View.
Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

Allow me to recommend @organicmaps

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11203866
QT @pluralistic - Hard to overstate how enshittified Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith. Gmaps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite being fully visible in Street View.
Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant -...

4 March at 20:58 | Open on fediscience.org
Ruth Mottram

Absolutely agree with this @organicmaps are amazing

mstdn.social/@W_Lucht/11190311
Have I my mentioned how totally awesome @organicmaps's new "Outdoors map style" is - a mode that highlights tracks and trails?! It's absolutely splendid, and amazingly accurate even for small paths (built on OSM).

By the way: #OrganicMaps is fully offline, requires no registration, has no ads, no tracking - and works very well. So it depends on donations, like the fediverse does! Use and support them if you value it

Absolutely agree with this @organicmaps are amazing

mstdn.social/@W_Lucht/11190311
Have I my mentioned how totally awesome @organicmaps's new "Outdoors map style" is - a mode that highlights tracks and trails?! It's absolutely splendid, and amazingly accurate even for small paths (built on OSM).

9 February at 19:14 | Open on fediscience.org
Dr. Dirtbag

@Ruth_Mottram @organicmaps Another satisfied Organic Maps user here. Open Street Map has shockingly detailed and current data on even the most obscure places, and OM makes it very usable. Offline OSM navigation with OM has proven indispensable for bike touring and international travel in general.

9 February at 19:29 | Open on mountains.social
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MarjorieR

@Ruth_Mottram @organicmaps agree Organic Maps is very good for walking and I've also used it successfully for biking when I didn't have my bike computer.
Worked well both in Devon and Austria.
I have found some small errors in what is presumably the underlying Open Street Maps where roads aren't joined and it plots a very roundabout route instead. Also some trails I wanted to use were marked private on the ground so not usable. Still can't work out how to contribute and put these right.

10 February at 10:17 | Open on social.linux.pizza
Ruth Mottram

Happy #Caturday all

Not my photo but shared on the family group from signal....
3 February at 13:35 | Open on fediscience.org
Ruth Mottram

Latest book on the list for this year: Maus.

I read somewhere recently that this book had been banned from some US schools, which seems like a good reason to finally get around to reading it.

And as it's #Caturday too, here's a photo of our own little old lady reading #Maus on #FamilyReadingEvening

#bookstodon #BooksOf2024

sternaparadisaea.net/about-me/
27 January at 20:45 | Open on fediscience.org
Ruth Mottram

So, the #BBC got here. And they're hosting their own server it seems...

social.bbc/about

31 Jul 2023 at 14:57 | Open on fediscience.org
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RobertJackson

@Ruth_Mottram

Good to see this ... from the outset it seems they are explicitly acknowledging that Mastodon and the Fediverse, by and large, operates in a manner consistent with their own stated values.

I rather suspect the BBC's instance will be held to that :ablobcatheadbang:

31 Jul 2023 at 16:48 | Open on masto.ai
Cabbidges

@Ruth_Mottram Well of all the newsies the BBC would be the last I'd expect to realise Twitter et al have run their course. They have recently not been known for their impressive judgement. More for their unimpressive "news".

31 Jul 2023 at 16:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Taylor Nuttall

@Ruth_Mottram R&D crowd only so far it seems, not the full institution

31 Jul 2023 at 16:54 | Open on mastodon.scot
Ruth Mottram

@mcrocker @damianogerli try kagi search. It's *incredible* like the old days when Google really worked...

10 Jul 2023 at 20:54 | Open on fediscience.org
Ruth Mottram

Holy Moly, just downloaded #Pixelfed #Android beta app and it's brilliant!

You *can* use #Tusky or #Fedilab of course, but if you're used to an #Insta type interface the #PixelFedBeta is way better. Very sleek and without the stories nonsense (AFAICS).
Nice work @pixelfed

pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

23 Feb 2023 at 19:56 | Open on fediscience.org
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