Education and Technology with a focus on Free Software.
NM Educators and greater learning community, I am pleased to announce the resumption of the NM Community Big Blue Button Project. I will use this page to update those with whom we test the server of our current status. At present, I have purchased a new domain, set up a vanilla instance with TLS, basic…
The first difficulty to address is why the open education community accepts the non-commercial license as non-free. For starters, there is an essay at Freedom Defined arguing not only why these licenses are non-free, but how they actually make the “situation worse than the traditional copyright model.” They then go on to state the reasons…
NM Education Leaders, Status update: alpha testing only, server broken, audio/video down, screen sharing still up open to public (05-02-20; 09:26pm)Status update: server on hiatus until STUN malfunction and browser inter-operability issues are fixed (Winter 2020) I have created a NM Community Big Blue Button instance and it is open for testing. The NM Community…
It is with great joy that I report that the new api for listenbrainz.org works flawlessly with AirSonic 10.6.1 – this is amazing and returns me to the early days of AudioScrobbler (I imported the last 10 years since last reset of history) but with Free Software flavor … amazing … https://listenbrainz.org/user/oemb1905 #freesoftware #hackingprojects #gnulinux…
In the last post, I shared what my fallback teaching methodology is for digital learning classes, but I focused mainly on the pedagogy and not the infrastructure or, guiding framework, underpinning those approaches. I did not talk about what types of software/hardware I use, how those help me work, and why/how I came to choose…
Friend, Thanks for calling on me to provide a few suggestions about how I approach digital learning, blended learning, online learning, distance learning, etc. Yes, lots of terms over the years, so forgive me for jesting, but overall I break down the approaches into two groups (synchronous/asynchronous) and I have a few primary collaborative add-ons…
This is the first in a series of posts about free schooling. In short, free schooling refers to an informal association of educational leaders and students that agree to the free schooling credo. These posts are in the process of being collected into a larger work entitled Free Schooling.
Folks these days would love to be able to stream their own music as effortlessly as Spotify, Apple Music, and other proprietary services, but often do not know how to do so. This tutorial is designed to provide a Free Software solution for music and media streaming. Using the documentation docs here and across a…
fail2ban Jonathan Haack Haack’s Networking oemb1905@jonathanhaack.com //fail2ban// This tutorial is designed to help you install fail2ban and get a basic set of configurations in place. As always, these blog posts have an associated wiki post that receives updates and changes: fail2ban wiki post. sudo cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.localsudo nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local Once inside the configuration file jail.local…