lillput.bsky.social
Digital-Inclusion-preoccupied pensioner for @techresort.bsky.social . Loves excellent beer in good pubs. From Bristol but mostly living in coastal Sussex. Martello Tower-botherer. Occasionally codes for fun. Owns more boardgames than is reasonable.
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I particularly like that they say it in an inclusive way, it gives me hope...
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Yep! Most of my young workforce have neurodiverse traits of one sort or another. Many of the clients they help also have some of the traits and quite often, when has a client has left, one of our staff will say "they're one of us..."
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Is it because all neurodiverse folk are different from each other but doctors expect to see a narrower range of signifiers?
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Does that mean integration has happened somehow?!
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I've given up with doing that to family on FB, life is too short. The only time I bother is when they're playing the 'bit of fun' grab your credentials 'games'
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Magnificent!
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Definitely Neutral Good but I'm challenging the assessment for dog ears. Obviously that's true for books you don't own. I once thought that dog-earing a "household-owned" book was evil and then my partner said..."...but I really like it when we both read a book and I can see where you stopped"
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Sorry about that. They started at our house looking for more table scraps and there were none today.
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who suddenly decides in their 30's (or 60's) that imaginary numbers are suddenly really interesting/important/relevant.
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at the time and the OU stuff was really good material that taught/reminded me of stuff I'd pretty much forgotten. And it did it much better than my 1970's/80's SMP maths books did. I think we need to have these very short courses but we need them as lifelong availability to anyone.../4
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...but who knows what's going to be relevant to you in future when you're only 15 now?
When I started my OU degree in Technology we had a pre-qualification maths unit to aim to give people a little bit of confidence and it seemed to work really well. I had a (bad) maths A Level .../3
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The more times they fail, the more they're convinced that they can't do ANY maths at all. Some of the functional syllabuses seem to have some potential if they could lose the patronising tone. For a lot of people "relevant" number skills would probably work.../2
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Yep - it's horrible for young people who just can't do the maths prescribed in the usual formal qualifications. For a lot of them, it's not that they're not numerate but in the ones I've seen it's the abstractness of the concepts. /1
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I'm a very casual sports watcher, mostly trained by partner who, astoundingly, seems to know the rules of ALL sports. Paralympics in this house is just an excuse to work out from footage the rules for even more obscure sports!
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Assuming Discovery (not Disney)MotoGP, cycling, downhill skiing, foreign football, other sorts of skiing, snooker, cricket, basketball of some sort, cyclocross, if we looked for long enough probably tiddlywinks.
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I LOVE that we have young people delivering a complex digital inclusion service but the fact remains it's not fair /grump
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That means we feel used and the person who has been dumped over gets no continuity of support . All the while we know the 'job coach' has been paid for their (lack of) effort and we rely on charitable grants. /2
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In my experience the third-party 'work coach' organisations are the worst. They get paid on numbers not quality so the second they can place someone with you they immediately lose interest in the claimant (for usually NEETs who struggle in 'mainstream' settings). /1
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and a fair bit of juggling. To be honest employing people who have struggled to get employment makes us really proud and it works well for us, but it would be nice if there was some financial recognition for what we do. /end
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But it also needs the right sort of employment to work alongside benefits. For those employers (like @techresort.bsky.social ) happy to employ people working alongside chronic ill-health we can't ignore the fact that it is slightly more expensive because it takes more management /1
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Could have been worse...Courier?
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Once did mine on 7th April. By the following January I got myself in a real froth having forgotten I'd done it. Never again. Now do mine in November or December
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This whole stories gives me flashbacks to the early 1980's during the 'Fowler' pension reforms and the reductions in max solvency margins (not sure if that was at the same time) and what ensued...
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Ooooh! Look at Raspberry Ripple, with a flower just peeking open
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Will this make it worse...?
osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open
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Wouldn't be without my subscription. Used to be about £20 for the download of a "single" map (but the singles were considerably bigger than the equivavlent physical maps). The subscription is so much better
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Three definitely too hard
Barley Mow, Bristol
Beerwolf, Falmouth
Free trade, Newcastle
Evening Star, Brighton
Half Moon, Hitchin
Brewery Tap, Peterborough
Plockton Hotel, Plockton
Square and Compass, Worth Matravers
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Oh - and other tech fails include "we're sending you this email to tell you we've sent you a secure email" so you log into the secure email and the message is "there's a new tax bill for you - but it might not be ready for you yet"
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Also they seem to have an inability when you've ticked the "please collect via my tax code" to actually do that. I definitely ticked mine, as did my partner but, no, it just demanded cash payment. We both got bored trying to work out why.
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It's OK? I got it ALL
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being of the cack-handed persuasion, myself, and over 60 I had to learn to use scissors right-handed and that has stuck with me. You can always spot us - running the wrong way in "run around the circle of chairs" games and banging our noses on revolving doors. Proudly sinister, me.
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and it's been entirely digital and today the new account popped into the existing banking app in an extremely timely manner. I can't wipe the smile off my face, if I'm honest. It's the only thing about our organisation change that's been as easy and smooth as it should be these days. /end
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This is one of the things I'm bringing up with tiny charities I work with. In addition that the 'answer' the LLM gives you doesn't tell you how/where it got the info. They also don't really understand that their data is being used as training data.
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Quite a lot of individuals express that concern and we can reassure them. We try and persuade companies who are concerned that removing the hard drives and just sending those for destruction (it costs about a tenner to put a new SSD in) deals with the data but still reuses the rest.
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Most beginner users don't take well to Linux so we usually use ChromeOS flex if we can but it's a fiddly, quirky job to install. So it's quite complicated and not a cheap, simple fix.
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But it takes about an hour of effort and quite often some new components. The Win11 thing will probably raise a load of devices which are still viable but it's a more involved task to get them usable for most people. /2
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Reuse of the whole, made item is presumably the best first step but even this isn't necessarily simple. @techresort.bsky.social we aim to reuse laptops and phones for people who can't afford them. /1
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I think if I see another young person's CV which uses the phrases "I like socialising" or "I play computer games" in the "Tell us more about yourself" section, I may just scream ;-)
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was told by a brilliant recruiter that the reason he'd been offered a job (which wasn't high-flying, or flashy - it was paid work helping in a charity shop) was because he was able to talk about the other work he'd been doing and why it was important. /2
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This is a REALLY important point. We've noticed that our youngster @techresort.bsky.social often have more success in job applications almost immediately from the time they start working (or volunteering) for us. A long time ago one of our first employees who had significant difficulties /1