Dec 14, 2018

About justified text on the web. Browsers and OS may render them differently. Corrado thinks they're better for people with various visual issues that affect comprehension. Main topic, why people complain about their broadband connection? They don't have their wifi configured properly or router issues. Mentioned: Wifi...

Dec 7, 2018

Covered this week:

Google Cemetery – what Google has “deprecated” and lost over the years

Phone numbers – Toll frees, 800, 888, 877 and the proposed new 833s - compare them to domain names

Losing your phone number means losing control
Facebook, Diaspora and Mastodon. Federation FTW
Great tip – use...

Dec 1, 2018

As usual, a wide-ranging discussion from storage to phones and other technologies. Bring coffee or drinks. Wasabi Cloud, Box.net, Dropbox, Carbonite mentioned among others.

Nov 24, 2018

As soon as Google announced the sunset of their failed social network, Google+ denizens began looking at alternatives. There’s plenty of time, the closure is scheduled for August 2019! Still, why invest any further time in a dying network? This week we talk about the many ways to communicate via open source platforms...

Nov 17, 2018

Matrix describes itself: An open network for secure, decentralized communication. Here at VUC we’ve known and admired Matthew Hodges, Amandine and some of the team for a while. We were lucky to run into Ben Parsons at TAD Hack and also online moments before we went live. The original topic of Diaspora will be...