Teaching tools and techniques
If you're privacy-conscious (which is great!) and have set up Thunderbird to use PGP for signing and encrypting your emails, you’ve likely taken important steps to ensure that no third party, including your email provider, can access your private communications. You probably followed an online tutorial to get it set up—but have you enabled a primary password?
ReadYou may have come across terms like "passkeys" or the intriguing idea of going "passwordless." These concepts might sound confusing, especially since we're all so used to securing everything with passwords—and constantly reminded of the importance of having strong ones. So, how could a world without passwords possibly be secure? In this blog post, we’ll explore this new method of authentication and break down how it works in a simple, easy-to-understand way. We won’t dive into the technical details, but you’ll get a clear overview of what passkeys are and how they can change the way we stay secure online.
ReadNext to the very popular ChatGPT, a lot of other AI powered applications have sparked on the web recently. Globe Explorer https://explorer.globe.engineer/ is one of these, specially developed to explore knowledge and discover new domains.
ReadWe often get confronted by a difficult problem - the lack of understanding of our environment, be that our community, organization or computer network. This originates from the structure of such systems, a finite amount of autonomous parts, which interact constantly with each other and produce unexpected results. Because of this inherent complexity, such systems are aptly named "Complex Systems". There is still some confusion in differentiating Complex Systems from Complicated Systems and in this blog we will try to give a quick overview of each.
ReadLaTeX may be almost 40 years old now (first release dates from 1984), it is still a very active ecosystem. On CTAN, more than 100 packages are created or updated every month. To get the best results for your book or paper, you should keep your LaTeX packages updated. This is precisely the goal of TeX Live...
ReadDon't remember all the command line tools or which parameters go where? At some point getting lost in all these terminal screens running different algorithms one after the other? Let CyberChef prepare and cook all this for you!
ReadBigBlueButton is a great platform for online teaching. It has many features like built-in drawing tools (even supports multi-user drawing), breakout rooms, chat, shared notes, polling, screen sharing, session recording etc. But, the recorded sessions are no actual videos.
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