Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org), page 13

@Gina
You should absolutely follow @switchingsocial they post about all the best alternatives to commercial apps...really comprehensive and always informative:)

RT @openstreetmap
OpenStreetMap wins Free Software Foundation @fsf award for projects of social benefit! The award was presented by FSF founder and president Richard Stallman and accepted by Kate Chapman, on behalf of the @openstreetmap community: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/03/27/openstreetmap-wins-free-software-foundation-award-for-projects-of-social-benefit/

Being selftaught in #IT is weird. It's all crippling imposter syndrome until after days of trying something actually works and then WHO'S THE IMPOSTER NOW! I'M A TECH GENIUS!! BOW DOWN TO YOUR IT GODDESS!!!

We're on Mastodon! A big thanks to Fosstodon for the help! We'll be posting updates and news about LibreOffice, along with tips and tricks for using the software.

Good morning, Prague! Fourth day of #IETF104 https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/104/

For me, today, the "key rollover" session (should we change the #DNSSEC key of the #DNS root zone every year, to make it an unnoticeable event?) https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/104/materials/agenda-104-ksk-00 and HRPC (Human Rights and Protocol Considerations) https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/104/materials/agenda-104-hrpc-05

Google is truly the new Microsoft, moving to the second phase of Embrace-Extend-Extinguish with regards to e-mail:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18282636/amp-gmail-shopping-rsvp-forms-inbox-google-beta
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/03/keep-data-secure-with-gmail-confidential-mode-beta.html

#InfoSec

This episode of Libre Lounge comes from Libre Planet where @joeyh sits down with @cwebber and @emacsen for a conversation about Secure Scuttlebutt, a security conscious offline social network.

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-14-secure-scuttlebutt-with-joey-hess.html

#WordOfTheDay

chowder

/ˈtʃaʊdə/
noun
mass noun
A rich soup typically containing fish, clams, or corn with potatoes and onions.

Origin
Mid 18th century: perhaps from French chaudière ‘stew pot’, related to Old Northern French caudron (see cauldron).

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If you visit Boston in New England and Manhattan in New York on a trip to the US, ordering clam chowder will produce two, very different soups.

@mirzaba

pandoc converts among a dizzying array of formats

Then and than are different words.

Grant proposal: a directory of grant-funded projects whose URLs are now 404s.

I really want some agender t-shirts or badges/pins or something. And I'd like to buy them from queer creators. Anybody got any recommendations?

as a programmer, let me say: stop putting computers in everything it makes the things worse

@codl yesterday i realized gendered single person restrooms are a common thing and i just, can't get over how incredulously strange and bizarre it is that they exist and how you could literally remove the signs and nothing would change

PSA: for every food co-op i've ever heard of you don't need to be a member to shop there. you can still buy your groceries there and support a community or worker owned store instead of a distant mega corp