Notices by Steve Herrick (steve@social.coop), page 23

@twsh I use a phone app called TuneIn, which lets you search through pretty much all the radio stations in the world that stream online. You can browse by geography.

@clabeaux Hello! I grew up in Mason, and now live in Madison. We're locals twice over!

@twsh I've struggled to find good podcasts, but I can point you towards some radio stations you can stream. Do you have a national/regional dialect in mind?

@spudboy I wondered about that, but wouldn't know how to enable ssh before installation even begins. Anyway, I'm posting this from the computer in question!

@kdsch @spudboy If the surplus/profit is going to the same people as pay, then there's no incentive to keep pay low to keep profits high. The only reason to have profit at all is to be able to make business improvements.

Well, right after I asked, I solved it myself. There's a keyboard shortcut for the external monitor.

Has anyone managed to install Linux on a laptop with a dead screen?

@ZaneSelvans I've been thinking about this some more. Turns out there are various networks of news sources that share stories, but they're either tiny and narrowly focused, or they're huge and very general. More to the point, they keep their stories tightly licensed. The network I picture would be defined by open licenses. Only WikiTribune is doing that.

@mattcropp @camille Done.

@Matt_Noyes I can do it, though I prefer to translate from Spanish into English.

@tbeckett Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime" is both fascinating and hilarious.

@ZaneSelvans
I don't have a business model ready to go (or I would have implemented it already!), but it needs to be explicitly commons-based, so it can be used by anyone, anywhere.

@ZaneSelvans I asked the same question recently.

I'm not a journalist myself, so there's little I can do directly, but I envision a system that piggybacks on WikiTribune to provide local/national/international news. The information would flow in multiple directions, and could be available to readers and to print/broadcast outlets to reuse. It could also be translated.

I have various dated devices. Should I set up a clock/weather station in every room in my house, or create more e-waste?

@Irenical Welcome to social.coop!

@mattcropp @MRensema @elplatt I would love to be able to pay by PayPal, because I've had around $20 in my account there for years, just sitting there. Of course, once I did pay that way once, I probably wouldn't do it again.

Anybody want to make a payment in my name, and I'll reimburse you through PayPal?

@mattcropp Actually, yes, a couple. I should probably ask them what usernames they picked.