Notices by D. Joe (deejoe@mstdn.io), page 7

@nmashton
Neil Ashton. Our aim is exactly that.
However, we have a ways to go as a technology.

Openwords will be entirely #opensource #OER .. we hope to exit as a #workercoop or benefit Corp. We're watching platform coops closely.

You can support us in different ways, feel free to contact us directly.

As I gear up to take another crack at learning Spanish with Duolingo, I wonder: are there any #platformcoop (-ish) alternatives emphasizing community control over data?

A Duolingo-like tool for education in endangered and otherwise under-resourced languages would probably be nice. But it seems very inappropriate for Duolingo Inc. to control and profit from the fruits of those communities' cultural heritages.

Tired: SJW culture is ruining gaming!!!
Wired: No Easy Mode culture is ruining gaming.
Inspired: Gaming culture is ruining gaming

I really need to get back into adding local business into open street map. There is like only one other person adding doing that in all it Long Beach.

Toronto Muslims and allies are raising money for victims of the Danforth shooting: https://www.launchgood.com/project/toronto_shooting_victims_support_torontostrong#!/

It's via DawaNet which has carried out many large fundraisers, so it's solid

Carl Malamud continue to be a hero to me: https://thewire.in/education/who-may-swim-in-the-ocean-of-knowledge

hackers.town going down for a bit... please boost to get the word out... I'll be back when the disk image is downloaded.

regular message to whatever Culture ship is in system at the moment: me and a small group of friends are ready for pickup whenever you feel like swinging by.

Britpol, but actually USpol could do with some of this.

Yeah

I don't know why I bother to argue with people. In the vast majority of cases, it just results in hostility, no matter how civil I attempt to keep the tone. In a small number of cases, an interesting exchange results, in which both sides learn something new. I would love to be surrounded by people with that kind of mindset.

It's interesting to me that "emoticon" and "emoji" look so similar but are etymologically unrelated.

"emoticon" - "emotion" + "icon"

"emoji" - 絵 ("e", meaning "picture" or "art") + 文字 ("moji", meaning "(written) character" or "kana")

Earlier this year at the #CS3 conference for universities and research organizations, Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek talked about the future of Enterprise File Sync and Share. The talk is now online, courtesy of #CERN!

https://t.co/I9WPdg7ndG https://t.co/asDUcwP3wP #nextcloud

We run multi-user operating systems on computers with MMUs, then we run web apps and databases on top of them that just throw that all away and process all requests in a single memory space. Then we cache everything in a memory-based key-value store with a single keyspace. All in the name of eking as much performance as possible out of our servers.

And then we wonder why we're constantly getting pwned.