Somewhat related to this

https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/112631203369841124

I occasionally teach tech-related stuff to people of every age. Today I was in a classroom with kids ages 9-11. They had almost pristine laptops with Windows 11.

What I wanted to do:
- have them create an avatar with Picrew
- have them write a slide about themselves, and paste the picrew avatar in it
- start playing around with Scratch

Also mandatory from the course's management: have everyone login to the Google Workspace of the course. (I also put the links to the Picrews in the Classroom)

Tech issues I encountered:
- the "smart" classroom touchscreen whiteboard has some HDMI ports, but those ports mysteriously refused to work with my linux laptop. They also refused to work with some of the Windows computers the school had. Kept displaying a message about "trying to connect" or whatever. I've never had an issue connecting via HDMI to a "dumb" monitor, so I don't know what it was trying to do there.
- The school teacher I was paired up with was familiar with some of the other whiteboards the school has, which require a proprietary program that only runs on Windows to connect via bluetooth. This one was different anyway.
- The whiteboard was an Android device and had its own browser. This object that, I'm sure, cost north of 2000€ was barely powerful enough to open Google slides or Picrew, with noticeable slowdowns, and absolutely collapsed under the "weight" of Scratch
- The laptops the kids use have a regular blue Windows popup "Antivirus protection expired" because the McAfee trial version expired. I had to explain to them that there was nothing wrong with their computer, and they didn't catch a virus or anything. We didn't have the administrator password ready so I couldn't uninstall McAfee and get rid of the popup even if I had the time to do it for 20+ computers while I'm trying to teach.
- Picrew is absolutely inundated with ads, including some fullscreen images that obscure the screen until dismissed. One of the ads was creepy AF and scared a kid, and he didn't want to look at the screen anymore. I had to install ublock origin on all the Edge browsers, one by one (I know, but it was the only browser installed, and again, no admin password and no time even if I did)
- Some people straight up got pop up ads, with videos that started playing at max volume, disturbing the lesson. Many of them didn't even know how to dismiss them. I had to explain to them that it wasn't their fault. (again, solved by installing ublock origin)
- The new tab of Microsoft edge isn't mostly empty, but it's just full of news and links and stuff. There's nothing straight up NSFW, but most of it is inappropriate and distracting to kids.
- Millions of popups throughout the whole process. Popups for cookies, Popups for so-called tutorials, and "I understand" and "I accept" to click through to do anything at all.

Honestly, it made me kinda hate tech. I don't know how I'm supposed to transmit my passion for tech when every little interaction is such a minefield to navigate.

Finally managed to get emoji reactions working on my instance's GlitchSoc frontend \o/
Thanks to the following GlitchSoc's PR: https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/2462

I did some akkoma-specific commits to adapt it to the Pleroma/Akkoma API
Akkoma side: https://gitlab.kokakiwi.net/va-11-hall-a.cafe/akkoma/-/commit/c42da7fe5e55b466c228186f9348d7b293a25725
MastoFE side: https://gitlab.kokakiwi.net/va-11-hall-a.cafe/mastofe/-/commit/ca51624e56ee12f46aab6a03901af138c7333075

"je serai ta banlieue, tu seras mon Sarkozy, passe-moi au Karcher" officiellement déclaré pire roleplay à faire pendant le lavement chez les électeurs homonationalistes

"t'imagines après le sexe ça sent comme dans le garage"

l'immunité ouvrière c'est bien gentil, mais nous on veut Poutou avec l'immunité parlementaire en fait

Y'avait un live pas mal intéressant tout à l'heure sur le Twitch de Mediapart, et je viens d'en voir passer un extrait sans CW, alors je me permets de le reposter.

Il s'agit de Caroline De Haas qui prend la parole pour dire les choses suivantes :

Je pense qu'il ne faut pas que l'on se mente : la gauche n'est pas parfaite. Enfin je veux dire: sur l'antisémitisme c'est pas parfait, le racisme c'est pas parfait, sur les violences sexistes et sexuelles c'est pas parfait du tout. Donc oui, la gauche est pas parfaite. Les écologistes non plus sont pas parfaits. Mais très sincèrement, moi le 8 juillet au matin, je préfère me batailler avec Jean-Luc Mélenchon ou avec François Ruffin ou avec Clémentine Autain qui seront au gouvernement pour leur dire "faites mieux" plutôt que de me batailler avec l'extrême droite. Oui la gauche n'est pas parfaite, et oui on a des problèmes, et oui il faut progresser. Y'a des trucs qui sont pas tolérables. Sur la transphobie c'est pareil, y'a des trucs qui ne vont pas. Ok, c'est vrai. Là je vais me dire en fait on va les mettre au pouvoir puis une fois qu'ils seront au pouvoir, nous la société civile on ira leur dire "faites mieux" et on les lâchera pas. Mais je préfère ne pas lâcher Clémentine Autain que de m'approcher de Jordan Bardella.