maiki @maiki@mastodon.sdf.org

I contributed to the Zaibatsu! Let's share our #book reading preferences and experiences of the past year.

My questions are on my #gopherspace #phlog gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~christina/ReadingQuestions.txt

Answers arriving shortly.

suggested hashtags #ReadingQuestions #2018Reading

@stman @maiki

Merci!

We will soon put on the wiki the answers to your question and to the many more we are receiving.

@maiki

Some members are listed here: https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2019#Organizing_committee .

Our logo intentionally resembles the FSF logo because we aim to be for silicon what the FSF is for software. We had extensive discussions with Richard Stallman before deciding to create the F-Si.

The F-Si is formally a "Swiss Verein" according to Art. 60-79 of the ZGB (see en.wikipedia.org for legal details and budget checking rules).

The F-Si budget is currently below 10kEur.

@fsi Who is "we", and why does your logo look derived from the FSF? As a foundation, how do we verify your existence? Which country are you established in? Who controls your budget, and what is your budget?

For the holidays, you could say thank you to some of the people who write free software you use, especially software that isn't hugely popular.

Those of us who write little-known software may go for months without hearing from a user, and it can be a little de-motivating.

Hearing from someone who actually uses one's software gives an energising jolt that can carry one through several weeks of darkness and cold and wet.

seasonal reminder that the salvation army, as their name and the bell ringer telling me to "enjoy hell" earlier would imply, is first and foremost a conservative, evangelical fundamentalist christian church and missionary program. (and i know there's plenty of marginalized folks who can and have commented here on how "helpful" and "anti-discrimination" they really are)

give your money to real charities or people in need instead of believing the same far-right evangelicals that always vote to fuck over marginalized folks when they say they'll really help people in need this time for realsies.

MobiliZon: the new Framasoft project designed to create platforms for managing communities and events (libre alternative to Meetups and Facebook groups) - https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

the LGBT standard was refreshed to LGBTQ and most recently LGBTQIA, but you may see the following proprietary extensions in older equipment:

LGBT+
LGBT-X
mini-LGBT
LGBT-HD
LGBT 2000
LGBT for Workgroups
i.LGBT
ASUS® LGBTQ Boost™
LGBTQ.11ac
μLGBTQ (embedded only)
LGBTQ Creative Cloud

@maiki I have heard of a few cases in which residents of a trailer park (who usually own the trailers, but NOT the land they sit on) were about to have the place sold out from under them, formed a co-op, & got a bank loan to buy out the landlords. If I Were In Charge™ residents would have statutory right of first refusal, & HUD would provide interest-free loans. Ultimately this should extend to other renters, but trailer parks first because those folks are among the most vulnerable.