Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 9

TIL:

“If tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai.

(*This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas Mandarin uses chá.)”

Via:
https://twitter.com/padraigbelton/status/951948982309261312

https://mastodon.social/media/yoXXT3x4Zsc0cFV_Jco

Leave shitty people in 2017

In programming, trying to be smart often backfires. If nothing else, debugging gets more difficult.

Two chances for Free Software artists and designers to meet up with fellow artists and developers at Libre Graphics Meeting 2018 in Seville, and for the first time this year Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) will have a Libre Graphics track also!

Come say hello to @GIMP devs at LGM, or my presentation on GIMP at SCaLE!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/01/09/libre-graphics-meeting-scale-2018/

#FOSS #photography #art #LGM #libregraphics #artwithopensource

Hey, so my husband got his lay-off notice today. He was the brewer at Mendocino Brewing Company.

Do any of you socialists know how to put together a worker's coop? Because it is absolutely ridiculous that the brewery is standing on one side of a locked door, and everyone who knows how to brew and bottle beer is on the other.

Not meaning this as a dig... But when people think #federated #forums is a "new idea", I feel really old.

This is like cycle 3 of federated forums for me: UUCP, then USENET, and now...

It seems tech moves in cycles of #centralization to #decentralization to centralization. We never learn the lesson "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

Sadly, the cycle last long enough for everyone to forget about the old tech that did the job.

"Books are friends, which we keep around because they make for good company..In the act of reading, we are in the company of the text and the motions it performs ..In the act of writing, we provide company for someone else as they (eventually, maybe) read our words and take in what we have to say. The point of writing thus, at some level, becomes to provide good company, and the point of writing about what others have written is to become a part of this company of friends."

-- @sargoth

Tech Companies Are Complicit in Censoring Iran Protests https://www.wired.com/story/tech-companies-are-complicit-in-censoring-iran-protests/ http://www.post-gazette.com/news/world/2018/01/12/Iran-tried-to-block-the-internet-to-disrupt-protests-It-wound-up-disrupting-daily-life/stories/201801120136