Helgztech / is on Nostr

Aussie academic in vocational education, sociology, creative arts & edtech. Interested in theories of self & online learning. History & scifi nerd.
Living on Wiradjuri land. Pronouns: she/her.
#infosec #floss #foss #oer #solarpunk
"Sometimes antisocial, always antifacist".

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2024-05-14 03:32:23

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@npub18am…p424 I once swore at someone about trying to call our office fax machine and it turned out that yeah... it's using sound to communicate... they heard me 😳

2024-05-14 03:32:23

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@npub18am…p424 I once swore at someone about trying to call our office fax machine and it turned out that yeah... it's using sound to communicate... they heard me 😳

2024-01-27 23:06:22

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@npub1jeq…jglm @npub10tx…crtk I bricked a really nice Asus tablet flashing the wrong ROM image. It was a lovely bit of kit 😑

2023-09-08 00:01:35

Just renewed my @npub1yp4…7d3l membership subscription, now at associate rather than student rate. I wish I could afford to offer more. This is a cause that really matters to me, an I think is strongly connected to other critical issues like environmentalism, anticonsumerism, and anticapitalism. Freedom depends on free speech, and in the connected world, that really does depend on free software.

2023-08-21 22:34:43

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@npub1j43…jvze lol. I had been using openSuse w Yast/zypper and Fedora is my current main but maybe cos my first serious distros were Debian based I'm just comfortable with apt and don't even have to think about it. Never entirely 'at home' w rpm.

2023-08-21 21:36:55

I love the way I can just type 'apt-get install softwarename' and 30 seconds later I have a new tool installed. No licences, no subscriptions, not even hunting in a store for it. #opensource #freesoftware rocks.