Chris @chris@social.cshire.xyz

Want to help in the fight against Covid-19? Why not try folding proteins on your computers? The client takes literally minutes to install and you could aid actual scientific research through your computer processors. Quarantine sucks, let’s do this! https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/

@darylsun I was super excited about it until I saw the lack of iOS client (Cloudnotes is really unreliable with Nextcloud syncing for me). I also wasn’t a fan of the GUI. I really like Joplin though, have been using that for about 2 months now.

Three principles for remote, online teaching I have considered over the past few weeks during the #coronavirus related school closures.

I’m sure there are lots of other considerations, but this is just some observations!

https://cshire.xyz/elearning-strategies-during-school-cancellations/

Just updated to the latest Mastodon version. Honestly I was expecting it to break horribly and I would declare my experiments in the fediverse pretty much over...worked fine! Official documentation on the site, as well as the release upgrade instructions on GitHub, made it a breeze!.....noice!

Teaching remotely during #Coronavirus is a challenge! However, in their rush to embrace the most convenient tools possible, many institutions are ignoring the #privacy of users...in this case children.

It’s great to see that solutions like BigBlueButton exist- free for all and open source! My students have found it great for remote lessons.

Open source is catching up in the ease-of-use arena, but is it ever going to be enough to convince administrators and teachers....

@nextcloud Will it be possible to update from 17.0.3 to 18 through the web updater too? Or does it require a manual upgrade?

If anyone knows a super simple way of integrating #indieweb webventions in Hugo let me know…because I am all out of ideas!

https://cshire.xyz/webmentions-and-hugo/

The new features available in Nextcloud look amazing…the fact that you can have the power of this software for free and without being dictated to by corporate interests is mind blowing! It’s nice to have some technology news that’s actually positive for a change!

Will definitely be upgrading my instance…

It wouldn’t be the December holiday without a thousand blogs detailing their resolutions or to-do list for the next year! So here’s mine…

https://cshire.xyz/projects-in-2020/

Integrating Collabora Online Server into your Nextcloud install is fiddly, but surprisingly achievable! It's not quite perfect yet...but it's a totally workable, privacy-respecting replacement for Google Drive on your own Nextcloud instance.

https://cshire.xyz/posts/2019/collabora-open-office/

@hspotorno Absolutely love Bitwarden, one of my favourite bits of self-hosted software. Multi-device support, 2FA etc. Loads of documentation floating around to get it set up if you're self-hosting and the Github is active enough to get support. Definitely recommended!

The process I went through to set up this Mastodon instance...

https://cshire.xyz/posts/2019/setting-up-a-mastodon-instance/

#Privacy #Self-Hosted

My skepticism regarding the indieWeb - https://cshire.xyz/posts/2019/indieweb/

#Privacy #Technology

Hello World!

I'm an international educator interested in tech, open source software and various other bits and bobs. I decided to host my own Mastodon instance...Can't wait to see where this leads!

#introductions