Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 28

Went to my first Dorkbot this evening!

Really liked Annie Tådne's sonification of physical objects (https://tadne.se/) and Deerful's indie synthpop livecoding (http://deerful.com/)

'Dorkbot is a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of electronic art. The dorkbot motto is "people doing strange things with electricity".

Hi [*FNAME*]  

Not the best start to an email...

Listening to #librelounge again - the episode on funding free software development.

Only a little way through touching on rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods, marginal costs, commons, so-called tragedy, free rider problem - good discussion!

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-8-funding-free-software-development-pt1.html

@bob I would quite like that. I occasionally use simple markdown syntax in my posts. Also the nice thing is, most plain markdown syntax looks reasonable when not rendered. Would probably be happy with just bold, italic, quote, code, and keeping autolinking URLs as it currently is.

I got some feedback on my elisp exercism.io exercise, took a little while but it was really useful! Good advice to use `let` to scope the variable locally, and I learned the `or` macro as an alternative to an if conditional.

The downside of 'scratch your own itch' is that it leaves a lot of itches unscratched.

Either you need:

a) a way of enabling more people to scratch their own itch
b) a way of encouraging people to recognise and scratch other people's itches

Or both.

Reading about Chile in 1970, the book makes a few references to the comparative lack of computing technology in Chile at the time (50 computers) compared to other nations.

What's a modern-day analagous technology that access to is regarded as giving a country some kind of advantage over others? (Not including overtly militaristic stuff like missiles etc.)

@mike_hales Interested to hear how you get on Mike - what's your channel on Hubzilla Start? #Hubzilla / #Zap are really impressive pieces of software that I haven't had the reason to use personally yet. I prefer them to Mastodon but social.coop community is here for now. If I wasn't running my own website in an Indieweb way I would probably use Zap.

@jalcine 18.10 to 18.10?

Ooo, Magit Forge is niiice.

Let's me work with issues in a Github/Gitlab repo straight from Magit in Emacs.

(https://github.com/magit/forge)

@mike_hales @strypey

It's this, no? https://hub.disroot.org/

Although disroot is closed to new signups at the moment it looks like.

exercism.io seems like a nice approach to learning to code in new languages where you solve problems and get advice from a mentor on your solution.

Trouble is that for elisp the mentors seem to be AWOL...

@LeoSammallahti These facts are great. But any chance you can include the text from the image either in the image caption or in a reply? It will make them more accessible.

@OCRbot

@douginamug Ha, nice! I'm reading Eden Medina's book over the Easter break: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries

Thanks for the podcast link - that'll be a great complement to the book.

'For this reason, commons are not merely social spaces in which work and life might unfold in richer, more autonomous and sustainable ways beyond the scope of capital; the commons are also sites in which critique and resistance have the potential to develop'.

http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-13-open/open-access-bouillabaisse/ephemera-the-commons-and-their-impossibilities/

(Gotta chuckle though that the paper looks to be written in Microsoft Word...)

At first blush there feels like some overlap between the Viable System Model and Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework.

In that they both approach structures from a multi-level conceptual map, with units acting autonomously at each level but communicating between them. The polycentrism thing.

Would be interesting to compare and contrast them.

Also the Liberty Machine sounds pretty fun:

'a sociotechnical system that functioned as a disseminated network, not a hierarchy'

'treated information, not authority, as the basis for action'

'prevented top-down tynranny by creating a distributed network of shared information'.