This meme couldn’t get any more free xd

What’s up with all the cross-posting?

This resource is not free/libre/copyleft/etc… (see “Copyright © 2018-2021 Sean McPherson (SDG)”). Please post in another community.

That’s all fine and dandy until you gleefully enter your email on websites or services, only to get a “Sorry! We don’t recognize that domain. Please use a Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook, Yahoo or iCloud address or fuck off!”

And the trend to whitelist only a small number of email services and block everything else is becoming the norm, all in the name of “fighting spam”.

SimplyTranslate does adjust the list of available languages (to and from) depending on which translation engine you selected, the one with the most available languages is obv Google.

Edit: turns out it’s cuz I left it on “Autodetect”

this is where an asterisk would come in handy, I guess… An “our web client is open source but our backend is not” probably wouldn’t work either, since it’s lengthy

All true and very misleading, they could’ve just stated “open source mail client”… Forgot to adjust the description accordingly

this post is a certified multilingual classic. Sincerely, a multilingual

…they were made specifically for content creators?? xd

So if I understand crypto in the context of content creation right, you just install a software wallet for a specific cryptocurrency and start providing the wallet address? Or is there something I’m missing?

This is really nice, but I don’t have the essential resources required to self host sadly.

Great alternative, but is there something that doesn’t lock you in either Stripe or PayPal (most optimal would be something outside the US)? If not, then I’ll settle with Liberapay

Unlauncher. At first it seemed a little… too empty for my tastes, but then I noticed how much time it saved me from my phone.

well, this is awkward… I’d have assumed that the word “wiki” would mean anyone could edit the pages and edit out the vandalism.

I dream of a curriculum where we are free. Free to and easy to clone, redistribute, and to modify. Where there is democratic government, so a hostile takeover is near impossible. Where changes are made in the open so that we hold those that make them more accountable. A curriculum that is modern and interactive, with a smaller focus on lectures.

This is part of the reason why I opened this community, while it isn’t a dedicated “platform” like Khan, OpenStax, etc… it’s a place we can collect great resources that are truly “open” into one community (“open” as in having the right to do pretty much anything to your heart’s content under the CC/PD/etc license). It’s a good start and I envision myself going further and opening a truly free and open-source platform (“free and open-source” as in anyone can do the former + contribute to changes in the knowledge base) specifically to address the problems with modern-day public (and private, mind you) education. When will it come to fruition is an on-going mystery I have to solve myself.

Accountability is the one that I am most concerned about in the current landscape of today’s education systems, including online ones like Khan. A little bit of projection here but it seems to me that anyone at the top (say, the principal(s) or board of education, administration) is able to absolve liability if they fuck up in any way. The fact that they can make changes without unanimous approval from students and teachers is appalling and leaves a huge burden to deal with. You could voice your concerns but the chances that your concerns are taken seriously are slim.

Sorry for the tangent here, I am just furious about how little progress in the grand scheme has been made for the past decade despite technological improvements.

The person commenting an old thread should be aware of that, so I don’t see what forbidding them to comment helps with.

See, the thing is, not everyone keeps that in mind before posting in an old thread. I’ve also made the assumption that the user expects a response from the og posters and/or OP, which might not necessarily be true.

Not a lot of people are fans of “necroposting” (if memory serves right, it means to post on a thread after being inactive for a long while). Worst yet, it’s probably less likely you’ll gain any responses from the same people that have posted in a thread long ago or from anyone really. I think if the time limit is not too long and not too short (so as to cover both bases) like say… 3 to 7 months till the post becomes archived, then it’d be acceptable. However, it’d be cool if instance maintainers get to control that feature since I’m sure they won’t be all agreeing on the same limit.

Is there a time limit the lemmy devs/admins have agreed on so far?

Glad to see someone finding this useful as much as I did!

Make sure to specify the license of the content (looks like it’s CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) and list any possible anti-features you may find :)

Make sure to specify the license (looks like it’s CC BY 4.0) and list any “anti-features” you may find, so as to save a user from clicking into something they consider a deal-breaker for them :)

These days “educational” usually means some form of indoctrination or brainwashing. It also usually means a curriculum that promotes and fosters a student attitude of blind acceptance of whatever is presented to them in the classroom, no matter how insane or ridiculous it might actually be.

I was afraid someone would bring this up. I pick and post resources that are licensed with something that could prove beneficial for the internet community, e.g. something you can take, adjust it and make it your own in case you feel the original doesn’t bode with your personal preference or political stance(s). Additionally, I try my best to post resources that aren’t specifically teaching History, Geography or the likes to avoid a wildfire in the comments (however, that’s not to say History and Geography resources aren’t allowed, far from it.)

Also, you lost me when you started to describe an example about… what now? I literally created the community a day ago, you’re welcome to contribute to it if you want to.

Take a deep breath, forget them wild preconceptions about this site and the community and take a look at c/open_e_resources to see if it confirms your presumptions, I’m sure you’ll find something you’ll like.