Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 13
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 12:34:32 EDT 
hosh
I'm thinking that I don't really care any more about what happens to any of these big companies and their ambitions. As long as there are excellent free open source products and services like Gnu Linux, Hubzilla, Calibre, and all the other thousands of applications in the repositories, I feel like my needs are well provided for. Thanks to the enormous efforts of so many people we finally have software, services and an internet that is wonderful and amazing. We don't need to worry about the corporate fortunes of Google and Facebook. We are independent and free. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 12:20:46 EDT
hosh
It's sad that Google is losing its social layer; actually the latest and grandest of its attempts to be social. I think the company lacks social skills.
Google Plus was a beautiful piece of technology; it's just that Google's commercial and competitive motivation in making it was so transparent. That was the only reason to dislike the product, but it was a big one.
Opera was quite a nice company during the era that it had myopera and stopped being a nice company after they abandoned it. That was also a very well crafted product. I quite liked myopera, but never really trusted it to continue.
But wow; you can't really trust Google with any of its products. S-o m-a-n-y disappointments. Good services and products just abandoned.
It's interesting that Tumblr's still around, despite being passed around between different companies. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Oct-2018 08:10:33 EDT
hosh
"The ruling elites of the United States and Europe, who so energetically and shamelessly publicized their political system to win the support of the peoples of Eastern Europe, are now stealthily getting rid of that same system." Contemporary capitalism requires adequate legal scaffolding, both national as an international, and arbitrators who rule on disputes between companies and on property rights, but in reality it does not need a democratic structure, except as a showcase, for how long our leaders will take the trouble to preserve the forms of democracy, while they empty it of any real content is the argument of a serious debate. " -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 12:44:50 EDT
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Is it the one from "This is Spinal Tap"?
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 01-Oct-2018 02:28:29 EDT
hosh
Cory Doctorow, "Walkaway"
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 20:52:44 EDT
hosh
I'm not sure we would want to dishearten him. But needing to seek venture capital doesn't sound like a positive thing. Someone will want to see a return on their investment. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 15:07:11 EDT
hosh
"...Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words..." -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 14:55:13 EDT
hosh
Well, thanks to you I just read the article on him in Wikipedia. Fascinating - an all around renaissance man! -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 09:55:15 EDT
hosh
You've really got to know a language or its rudiments if you want to claim to have read its books. That's how I feel when I approach Lao Tzu, or Rumi or Sarmad. I know enough basic Sanskrit to at least feel more comfortable when I read translations of the Upanishads or the Gita. I wish I knew Chinese, Persian, Arabic, Urdu... It's not impossible. But it requires a bit of effort. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 09:42:57 EDT
hosh
I've added a translation of Lao Tzu to the books section of my files. This is a translation by Lin Yutang. I don't know its providence, but it seems to me to be the most reliable one that I was able to find in the torrents. (I compared it to versions of Gia Fu Feng and Jane English, Bart, James Legge and a couple of others from the same torrent and the version by Ursula Le Guin which I have in Kindle.) The one that I had in my teenage years was just the Penguin edition, which I liked a lot - I still remember some of the verses by heart. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Sep-2018 08:42:29 EDT
hosh
I once considered making an account here: https://www.autistici.org/get_service . Their services are also free of charge but require pre-approval. Riseup have a list of "Radical Servers" at https://riseup.net/en/security/resources/radical-servers
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