Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 71

Good reading list of speculative narratives, utopian thinking and critique.

http://speculatingfutures.club/

"Feeling like there's a future is vital for moving through the present"

Homebrew Website Club meetup in London tomorrow evening (Wednesday 13th), come along and work on your indieweb site!

https://hwclondon.co.uk/#register

#indieweb #london #hwc

Nice! The New Economics Foundation’s crowdfunder to kickstart a cooperatively-owned cab firm in London got fully funded.

http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/faircab/

#london #coop #faircab

"Open source is an excellent example of how something that does not directly increase GNP can fuel real prosperity[...] It is a stunning example of how both the market and the state can be bypassed by cooperative creativity. The barrier between user and provider is eroded; a direct agreement between society members is maintained… Marx would have been a Firefox user." Derek Wall, Babylon and Beyond

"Intellectual property". The enclosure of ideas built upon the commons of all prior thought. What a ridiculous concept.

Upstream, makers of great podcasts on alternative economies, need some new gear to make the podcast. Help them out if you can spare something: https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/upstream-needs-new-equipment-urgently

I used snap for the first time today, while setting up a demo nextcloud server. All dependencies in one bundle, it was incredibly simple. Has anyone else used it, is there a catch? (aside from the wasted disk space from not sharing dependencies) Pros/cons?

I’m quite tempted by https://fed.brid.gy (turning your indieweb site into a first class citizen of the fediverse, basically become your own instance), but I really like being part of the #socialcoop instance. I only really actively look at the local timeline (and passively I see a bunch of interesting stuff from elsewhere that gets boosted). Would be a shame to lose that.

I've found myself with a different attitude towards expiration dates since becoming a food #coop owner. Whereas in an extractive store I'd always look for the freshest of any perishable food, now I find myself picking the oldest one that I'll be able to consume in time in an effort to prevent waste.
Today there was quite a bit of milk on its last day (and also at 1/2 price), so I decided it was a good day to make some fresh mozzarella