Notices by cykros (cykros@freeradical.zone)

The first native English speaker to teach English in Japan was named Ranald MacDonald.

There's no punchline because this is actually a true fact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranald_MacDonald

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43836156

When it comes to how food and food related things are referred to, France is on POINT. A few years ago they banned calling things restaurants if the food isn't made on site, and now this. Some of these soy products are so obnoxiously labelled I've almost gotten them by mistake myself. Whole Foods can be a chamber of illusions with things like Toona and Cheez all over the place.

I want to hear a rap battle between David Attenborough and Morgan Freeman, done in their fashion of nature programme narator. How do we make this happen?

@alcinnz @gracie @ebel @mayel @alanz

The big difference there is, they're open standards. As such, any Debian contributor could choose to take what's been made, fork it, and make something out of it (such as Devuan, Ubuntu, or any of the derivative distributions), regardless of what the community wants to do. That is decidedly not true of centralized projects such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. One takes contributions and puts them in a pool, the other takes contributions and locks them up.

News about this woman cryptanalyst from WWII has been floating around, but just in case you haven't caught it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/the-woman-who-smashed-codes-your-new-winter-reading-assignment/ #cryptanalysis #ElizabethFriedman