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in my grad seminar we actually used a Riseup pad for our running notes document this semester
@inquiline in #Canada we are not allowed to use this tool because all student work, data etc. must be hosted on servers located in Canada (though owned in all cases鈥攁s this year鈥檚 transition to an entirely Microsoft backend for all campus electronic communications functions implies鈥攂y US corporations.)
@inquiline riseup pads FTW! we use those for notes for our privacy activism meetings.
the solution is not for prof's to build their own course websites, either (unless they want to ofc)
i want a tech world where i can be reliant on others, actually (in an interdependent, not extractive sense), not have to do everything myself; but also not have the "trade" of not doing it myself be surveillance, extraction, &c.
doing it yourself is sometimes not great, actually!
I would happily pay the equivalent of a fully-loaded Mac to some local CS student to be my Linux-wizard-on-retainer....
i also refused to distribute my slides via the LMS this semester, and gave them to the students via private dropbox link
(and even then i did not really want to, but they expect them)
(do i wish i didn't use dropbox these days? maybe. is switching a main priority? ehh)
@inquiline meanwhile I have professors who refuse to respond to their actual emails and only communicate via Canvas 馃檮
Sitting with the fact that the extractor company, in the current news, calls itself "Instructure".
There's a knowingness in that omitted "fra".
it's also giving "stricture for instructors"
@inquiline I love the collective riseup pad idea
at one point in the semester one of them pointed out that i was refusing to use the course management system *and* refusing to use google and it was making them think about infrastructure and i was like, yes, yes
(i do also use google, unf)
