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When Schools Spy on Kids and Their Families

The Story Imagine this: a school accuses a 15-year-old of taking illegal drugs, but that isn’t the most concerning part for the student. The evidence is strange. The school shows photos of him at home. In his bedroom! The pills? A photo featuring him…eating “Mike and Ike” candies. The school has been taking photos of him through his student-issued laptop webcam. How long were they watching him? Were there photos of him changing clothes?...

WriteTheDocs Portland 2020, Writing Day Debrief Notes

Intro The Good Docs Project (TGD) had a session table on Writing Day during the Write The Docs 2020 - Portland virtual conference. I wanted to write up a debrief on all the cool links and topics that were shared during the session. The table started as discussions around TGD templates repository on GitHub. If any of these ideas excite you, then consider [joining us at The Good Docs Project!] (https://thegooddocsproject....

Fighting COVID-19 with Folding@Home

UPDATE 2020-03-26: Folding@Home has lept into exascale computing! .@foldingathome has surpassed an exaFLOP, making it the first to reach the exascale! You can read more athttps://t.co/qpZEfahRj0 — Greg Bowman (@drGregBowman) March 26, 2020 UPDATE 2020-03-23: Folding@Home has done an AMA, with the full thread available here. Intro Coronavirus (COVID-19) is officially a pandemic, as stated by the World Health Organization (WHO). Though, did you know that you can have the unused resources of your computers join multiple universities in actively hunting for therapeutic solutions?...

Python 2 End of Life (EOL)

04/20/2020 UPDATE: Python 2.7.18 has been released, and Python 2 has come to an end. Read more here: [RELEASE] Python 2.7.18, the end of an era Sunsetting Python 2 Intro I just wanted to drop a little post into the universe that support for Python 2.7.x has officially stopped, and is at End of Life (EOL). The last update, 2.7.18 will be released in April 2020, of which all code updates are frozen right now....