From peter at easthope.ca Tue Sep 1 15:30:22 2020 From: peter at easthope.ca (peter at easthope.ca) Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:30:22 -0700 Subject: Computer power; was Re (3): Logjam vulnerability and epiphany. Message-ID: My biggest Internet usage is still email. For the majority of my Web interests, Dillo is preferable to Epiphany. Opens almost any Wikipedia page in a few ms (blink). JavaScript is the biggest block to Dillo doing electronic banking. Is execution of code from a remote server on your machine, with access to your accounts, really a good idea? From: Samuel Greenfeld Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:14:18 -0400 > We would need Linux kernel development support to get systemd as > well the XO-specific drivers (camera, DCON, etc.) working with a > modern environment. The camera is dispensible. Decent UVC cameras are available from salvage shops for 10 dollars or less. Minimal, at least, operation of DCON and power management are necessary. Elaboration is helpful; not essential. > And even then, the laptops might not have enough RAM to handle many > workloads. Even the XO-1 has ample go power for ETH Oberon and A2. Hypothetically of course but not far from reality. From: James Cameron Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:21:33 +1000 > ... not a problem on NL3 or ED20 models with OLPC OS 20.04. Endless hardware upgrading keeps Google, Microsoft, etc. and etc. in business. Necessity to human needs is arguable. Too many people I know would have trouble explaining what the Web is and have forgotten that email worked as well on a 486 in 1995 as it does now on an expensive contemporary machine. I doubt that shiney new computers will help these people understand more. The world already has far more than enough e-waste. https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2015/ewaste/index.html Must the frenzied production continue? In case you've read this far, thanks & apologies for the disturbance, ... P. -- https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Medical_Machines https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon Tel: +1 604 670 0140 Bcc: peter at easthope. ca From lionel.laske at gmail.com Wed Sep 23 16:20:24 2020 From: lionel.laske at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Lionel_Lask=C3=A9?=) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:20:24 +0200 Subject: [Announcement] Sugarizer v1.4 is available for your device Message-ID: Hi all, I'm proud to announce the version 1.4 of Sugarizer, the leading learning platform for children. https://sugarizer.org New in this version: - 8 new activities included: - *Fraction activity*: Fraction activity is a game coming from Sugar to learn fractions. The player should nudge a bouncing ball to land at a point of a given fraction. - *Planets activity*: An amazing 3D model of planets to let you explore the Solar System. - *Chess activity:* The famous game of Chess to play against the computer or to challenge your friends. - *Curriculum activity*: An activity to self-evaluate your skills. Acquire different skills from multiple categories and upload media elements to demonstrate it. - *Implode activity:* A logic game based on blocks: remove all the blocks by removing blocks in groups of three or more. A very addictive game that was a success on the XO laptop. - *MindMath activity*: A mental calculation game similar to countdown numbers rounds. Achieve a target number by performing mathematical operations. Optimize your score against the computer and be better than your friends. - *Vote activity:* Create a poll and share it with your friends in one click. Result in real time and report at the end. - *Tangram activity:* The famous classical Chinese game in which the goal is to rearrange the seven separate pieces into a complete image of various shapes. - *Simon Mode in Tam Tam activity:* Choose your instrument then play this famous version of Simon Says against your computer. - *Improved User Experience*: Join activity in Neighborhood view in one click, Improved home view spiral, Duplicate journal entries, Better keyboard handling in Android, Auto logoff mode. - *Improved stability:* more than 30 fix and update on Sugarizer and activities A short animation of these features is visible here: https://youtu.be/BAbHkQzBpP0 A full description of Sugarizer activities with demo video, category and recommended age is available on https://sugarizer.org/activities.html New features of Sugarizer are decided by users, suggest yours for the next version. Sugarizer 1.4 is available on your browser [1] but also for your Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS or Windows device. Download it from : Google Play [2], Amazon Store [3], Apple Store [4], F-droid [5], snapcraft [6] and if you don't like stores, you could also install it by yourself using instructions on the Sugarizer website [7]. On Android, Sugarizer could also replace your launcher with Sugarizer OS [8]. And if you want to deploy Sugarizer Server for your school, follow instructions here [9]. Lionel Laské P.S.: Special thanks for their contribution on this version to Dhruv Misra (Fraction activity, Curriculum activity, Vote activity), Prakash Ujjwal (Chess activity, MindMath activity, Tangram activity), Andrea Gonzales (Planets activity), Sarthak Gupta (Implode activity), Kumar Saurabh Raj (Simon mode), Paulo Francisco Slomp (Portuguese localization) and Christoph Derndorfer (German localization). Many thanks also to all Google Summer of Code students and mentors who made this release possible. [1] https://try.sugarizer.org [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.olpc_france.sugarizer [3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NKK7PZA [4] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sugarizer/id978495303 [5] https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.olpc_france.sugarizer [6] https://snapcraft.io/sugarizer [7] https://sugarizer.org [8] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.olpc_france.sugarizeros [9] https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server [10] https://sugarizer.org#desktop -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: