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Jon Witts

@jonwitts

IT specialist, CS teacher, @Raspberry_Pi & @Google Certified Educator. Run @HullRaspJam. Passionate about #elearning & using tech to enhance and enrich learning

 England, Kingston upon Hull
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Joined April 2008
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You can order my book "Wearable Tech Projects with the Pi Zero" from Amazon or @PacktPub #PiZero #WearableTech packtpub.com/hardware-and-cr…
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Today's free @PacktPub ebook is "Wearable-Tech Projects with the Raspberry Pi Zero" by @jonwitts packtpub.com/free-learning/
Image from Pete Gallagher - Azure #MVPBuzz (@pete_codes)
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Come and work with me at @QueenMargarets - New job opportunity for a Teacher of Computer Science queenmargarets.com/careers
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Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient theguardian.com/technology/2…

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

Blake Lemoine says system has perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child

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To all the incredible teachers and educators working to help young people realise their full potential, we appreciate you! We have free tools and resources to help support you on your teaching journey: rpf.io/teach #CSEd #STEMEd #TeacherAppreciationWeek
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Aaaaaabra-aaabra-cadabra. Even if you don't know what The Doors of Durin are, this magical Raspberry Pi Zero-powered box of secrets is... magical. raspberrypi.com/news/only-th…
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Russia creates its own TLS certificate authority to bypass sanctions bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
Russia creates its own TLS certificate authority to bypass sanctions

Russia creates its own TLS certificate authority to bypass sanctions

Russia has created its own trusted TLS certificate authority (CA) to solve website access problems that have been piling up after sanctions prevent certificate renewals.

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Experts urge EU not to force insecure certificates in web browsers bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
Experts urge EU not to force insecure certificates in web browsers

Experts urge EU not to force insecure certificates in web browsers

A group of 38 cybersecurity professors and IT experts worldwide, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have cosigned a letter to EU regulators that warns of a proposal that could...

bleepingcomputer.com
A new security vulnerability has been found in Linux #DirtyPipe arstechnica.com/information-…
Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years

Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years

Dirty Pipe has the potential to smudge people using Linux and Linux derivitives.

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Over the past year, we’ve been trialling a beta of Raspberry Pi OS in glorious 64-bit. Now it’s time to open it up to a wider audience. raspberrypi.com/news/raspber…
Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) - Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) - Raspberry Pi

After a year of beta, it's time to open up 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS to a wider audience.

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Astro Pi@Astro_Pi28 Jan 2022
Oh hello, what's @astro_matthias unpacking up there on the @Space_Station?
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Good luck to all of the dancers from State of the Arts Academy competing at That's Showbiz Champions of Champions today. You're going to smash it! @StateArtsHull @thatsshowbizuk #tsbchamps
Latest news and rather helpful new tool available to review your school's computing curriculum provision 🌟🎁 computingatschool.org.uk/new…
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Delighted to say that we had 12 students achieve gold awards in the Bebras challenge this year, coming in the top 10% nationally for their age group! @QueenMargarets @bebrasuk queenmargarets.com/news/2112…
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BREAKING: hearing that @nadhimzahawi and Department for Education is about to do an NHS-style "call to arms" to recently retired teachers and others who could return to schools to help ease the massive Covid pressures.
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Reading about the Log4j issues on @TheRegister and this image from XKCD seems apt... theregister.com/2021/12/14/l… xkcd.com/2347/
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My wife has had the most humiliating experience @LloydsPharmacy in #Cottingham Had her medical and prescription called out in front of everyone in the shop and then laughed at by the member of staff when they couldn't help her!
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The level, or should I say lack of, customer service is astounding; but perhaps more worrying is the absolute disregard of any sense of patient confidentiality or that perhaps some of the data they are privy to may be under GDPR and should not be shared with members of the public
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There will certainly be an official complaint coming from us about this!
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It's here! EduBlocks v4 has lots of new features to make the switch from blocks to text even easier. 🎨 All-new design 📘 In-App Tutorials 👨‍🏫 Classroom tool 🖥️ HTML Mode ➕ Many more! Learn more: edublocks.org Visit the app: app.edublocks.org Sponsored by @arm
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Really pleased that this is now working in our @moodle quizzes; it is a great addition to our available tools for teaching programming! #caschat
QM Computer Science (@QM_CompSci) profile pictureQM Computer Science@QM_CompSci3 Nov 2021
It is now possible to help @QueenMargarets students learn programming using Parson's Problems inside a @moodle quiz, using the excellent #CodeRunner add-on and thanks to Richard Lobb and Paul Powell for all their hard work! #caschat
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