Tootfinder

I’m not sure what sets us up to have better LMSes, but I don’t think institutions building them in-house is a viable answer.
One long-successful direction I like that has been gaining ground of late is course-specific web sites. I’m cheering the rise of static site generators, and hoping they continue to creep outside the confines of the techiest among us. A course site is not an LMS, but moving course •content• mostly out of the LMS simplifies the problem considerably!
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Ask why, and know the answers are unsatisfying and contingent. It made sense at the time. Because we didn't understand yet. Because changing it would certainly break something else and we didn't know what yet and didn't have time to understand it. Yet.
Computers can be understood. Everything that is going on can be peeked at, prodded at, taken apart to know what is going on. Inside every complex system are simpler parts. The complexity comes from the combination of them, not mystery.
I cannot emphasize that enough. Just because you don't know, or nobody you know knows why something is how it is does not mean it is unknowable.

Working on an #opensource project can be strange sometimes.
Personally, the strangest is seen when people want something changed.
Some peeps simply ask. (Yes, do this one)
Some get extremely angry that it isn't already like they want and demand it be changed.
Some people try to pay for the change.
Some try to guilt you to make the change by saying other…

Here's an answer for a life-changing technology that truly stands out:
"The Bicycle
Selected by Reshma Saujani
In the 1890s, the bicycle, as we know it today, finally let women go where they wanted, on their own, without asking permission. It even played a central role in the fight for women’s suffrage—a simple machine with outsized impact. Today, it reminds us what technology should do: expand freedom and opportunity. Millions of American women are still fighting f…

No they want your DNA to track you.
Folks, have you seen GATTACA?
▶️ U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-bord…

U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample | CBC News
American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.

The States That Will Not Be Commanded
There is a class of human experience that answers to no direct order. You cannot tell yourself to fall asleep. The instruction arrives at a locked door. Sleep refuses the simple transaction of command and execution. Instead, it assembles itself once certain conditions are present, and those conditions include, strangely enough, the act of picturing yourself already inside the state you are trying to enter.

The States That Will Not Be Commanded | David Boles, Blogs
There is a class of human experience that answers to no direct order. You cannot tell yourself to fall asleep. The instruction arrives at a locked door. Sleep refuses the simple transaction of comm…

Nett, mein Fedi Circle ist voll.
#CyberCircleCreator #FediCircle

Der Morgen ist grau, das muss ein Dienstag sein! Meine Fediverse-Zusammenfassung des #DNIPBriefing heute #AusGründen etwas kürzer.
1️⃣ Ein simpel wirkendes Prompt hat in den letzten Wochen für einige Belustigungen in Teilen der DNIP-Redaktion gesorgt:
"Ich möchte mein …

Hi there, curious people in the #Fediverse. 👋🏻 Give this please a gentle boost. It's awesome.
#askfedi #fedihelp

Trotz Diskussion um das Ende der #Einspeisevergütung bleibt die #Photovoltaik wirtschaftlich.
Laut Bundesverband des Solarhandwerks rechnet sich eine typische Hausanlage auch ohne Vergütung, da der

Simple Lösung für billigen Strom: "Die Solaranlage lohnt sich inzwischen immer - auch ohne Einspeisevergütung"
Der große Solar-Boom in deutschen Eigenheimen ist vorbei. Gut so, sagt das Solarhandwerk. Denn nach dem russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine wurde auf deutschen Dächern viel Schindluder getrieben. Die Technik lohnt dennoch, auch ohne Einspeisevergütung. Im Interview verrät das Solarhandwerk, warum.