laxmin

We (a University, in India) are trying to get out of the Google ecosystem, and CryptPad is the greatest thing that has happened to us.

Google has been whittling the 'Google for Education' now and the free version called 'fundamentals' has been stripped of many things and we can see the future where the cost of using Google might be a significant impactful expenditure on our tight, already stretched to the limits budget.

Also, the word, 'Crypt' is cool. Our teachers feel like Hackers.

Seriously - that was some of the great feedback we received.

Actually we are still discovering and learning about the biology of birthing.

We can now support extremely premature babies outside the womb, but as of now, the risks of growing a baby in an artificial womb is not overcome with the benefits.

Why?

Because you are trivialising the emotions of pregnancy and motherhood. It is not stress all the time, it is also joy and satisfaction and like everything in life, a roller coaster.

TIL Hono.dev. Thanks! I learn so much everyday from so many people, it amazes me.

Filemaker is great. We created a monster at our University to keep track of Research Grants and it worked for almost 20 years flawlessly.

Untill, a consultant replaced it with an 'enterprise' solution that cost 10000x more to run and maintain.

Sometimes, well designed systems, however simple they might be, would be all that is required.

I am on the spectrum and Yoga helps me a lot to get grounded.

I thought it is just a personal thing and was afraid I would be ridiculed if I said it helps, even in support groups.

I am not alone, nice to know.

To nitpick, can't compare dog meat's acceptance in western society to Beef in Indian culture.

The Cow is revered at different levels in India. From a 'mother' to a 'diety'.

The comparator would be eating pork in a Islamic State.

In the multicultural society, we need tolerance. The ban on beef is not intolerance, but a form of tolerance. You are welcome to eat any meat, but beef. This is at best an inconvenience, but of great significance to Hindus.

This again brings up a similar topic of tolerance of intolerance.

Here is the bargain that exists in a multicultural, multilinguistic, multireligious society like India (There is no other country that comes even close) - We don't eat Beef or Pork. There, all accomodated, tolerated and agreed upon.

Simple social contracts work.

You really need to learn that the beef that India exports is largely Carabeef.

Buffalo meat.

If you had googled for it, you will find the following AI generated summary:

Carabeef is a meat that comes from the Asian water buffalo and is the primary agricultural export of India: Production India is the world's largest producer of carabeef. In 2023, India's carabeef production was estimated at 4.4 million metric tons (MMT). Exports In 2022, India exported 1.44 MMT of carabeef, which was 33% of its production. India is the fourth largest exporter of red meat in the world.

The Indian Voting Machines are the answer. No operating system, no passwords, no connections, no bruteforcing anything, system on a chip, so widely distributed devices that hacking even a few of them is challenging, etc.

The US voting machines are just waiting to be hacked, just a matter of when, not if.

Streisand effect is oversold.

It is temporary as heck. People will forget about anything, no matter the extent of Streisand effect and go onto the next tictok video or whatever.

Who gives a flying fk anyways about an article on wikipedia.

Yes. How dare they! Only EU must buy Russian oil.

The billions of India can go without energy security. Why? Because the white man says so!

> Indian exports of restricted items such as microchips, circuits and machine tools surpassed $60 million

60 million? Not even 100 million? Wow, that is such a high number!

You need to partner with Universities, Colleges, small specialised schools and preferable a couple, in every major area.

E.g. 1. American system: the US, Canada 2. The Commonwealth system: the UK, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and don't forget the largest student population in India and Indonesia. 3. EU: France, Germany

Accreditation standards are important.

1. Canvas is not really open source. It was open source a long time ago, but now it is open-code really.

Instructure was taken over by a Hedge Fund and since then, all the new developments are not part of the Open Source. The open source is a bit crippled now.

None of the new features such as the New Quizzes (yes, its called that), New RCE Text Area, New Analytics, etc etc are not available on the Open Source Version.

So yes, the Billion dollar market is desperate for a new true AGPL LMS.

And it is time for one to disrupt the market.

2. Good Question.

3. Flexibility in grading and marks is really, really, really important. Because the systems, curriculum, standards are not flexible. Even with a University or College, different programs have different grading standards. It is not an option not to support the different types of grading unless the education system itself changes. If you can't support the diversity out there, you quickly risk becoming obsolete even before you start.

Yep, it is LTI time now. Not SCORM or even xAPI, TinCan, etc.

Agreed. We run a self-hosted Canvas LMS as well as Moodle LMS in our University. On Canvas Open Source, We don't have access to the new quizzes, new analytics, RCE text area, and a host of other 'new features'.

We are always on the lookout for new LMS.

Canvas is okay (speed is a concern) but some things are very counter-intuitive. Like matching quiz questions to competencies/outcomes/standards. Also assignments.

Moodle has a hundred different settings for anything - so people get confused and standardisation is hard.

I agree with @Abdullahkalids