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Fw: Digital Marketing intro course
by David E Payne 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

A "Digital Marketing intro course" is on at Queens Collective co-working space, 6 pm tonight. There's no mention of fees, perhaps in the hope that people will decide to pay for a complete course. http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Digital-Conversations-for-non-profits/event… 20 Queens street is the Art Deco? building with the staircase (including a wheelchair sort of rail-elevator) visible through the front glass. Queens Collective is on the street side when you get to the top of the stairs. Don't be fooled by Bing Maps, which a few weeks ago had it confused with (FBA?) 20 Queens Road, overlooking Albert Park Lake and golf course. (Bing always was obsessed with golf, according to Bob Hope! Lets see how many of you lot are old etc. enough to understand that remark.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dav-id Speaking of digital marketing ... I think "Hubzilla" is a misleading name for the website connection platform. (see pre-release brochure? at https://red.reticu.li/page/andrew/hubzilla ) It's not one big organism and there's multiple "hubs" so it should be more like, "NodeSwarm" or "WebsiteCluster". (GNU "Hurd" has been taken.) Unless you think of the hubs as cells that make up a (hoped to be) monster!

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Re: [luv-talk] spying
by David E Payne 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

<thinks> (Hmm this existing thread kinda fits what I came here to post about ... Hey! Why are my thoughts appearing in this post! Must be SPYS!) On Fri, 14/8/15, Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [luv-talk] spying [SNIP! ] ... At the moment, my wife and I are actually on the road to Seattle, Washington state, USA, where there's a well-known Scandinavian neighbourhood called Ballard. ... [SNIP! ] (Sorry if I misunderstood and it's Mr. Wallis that's gone to throw eggs at Microso.. er, I mean that is visiting Seattle! D.E.P) _______________________________________________ Ahem! On the general topic of being less spied upon ... System issues aside, we & our contacts can "social network" with more privacy than the likes of Facebook, Google and Microsoft or the advertisers they study us for want us to have. By instead using services and products such as Krowd, Matrix, IOS/AltMe and the soon-to-be-rebranded Red Matrix. "Hubzilla" https://github.com/redmatrix/hubzilla is the more efficient (finalising development & testing) re-engineering of the "Red Matrix" JSON & PHP based platform for *n?x based websites to securely connect as "Hubz" via "Zot Protocol". Somewhat comparable to the same developer's "Friendica, also Diaspora, Matrix, Pump.io, GNU social, possibly Carl Sassenrath's IOS & AltME etc. but Zot protocol is said to give it unique capabilities. "Nomadic Identity" enables a Red Matrix/Hubzilla member to use any services from any Hub, access all their content even if their original Hub is down and control sharing of any datum to particular individuals, whichever Hub they try to access the datum from. When the code is merged soonish the whole thing will be rebranded as "Hubzilla" (not a name I would have voted for, but I support developer Mike Macgirvin's right to decide how it was decided.) https://redmatrix.me/pubsites I haven't seen a list of public non-developer Hubzilla sites yet, perhaps there aren't any yet. The (as yet unfinished) documentation for Hubzilla is linked from https://macgirvin.com/help In order for a "Red Matrix" Hub to become a Hub on "Hubzilla", the administrator will need to clone the Hub, (then possibly a separate step to recreate the channels?) and then copy the content to the recreated channels. So some of those who don't want to continue running a public Hub are leaving around now. Charles Roth MPC - <could stand for M.obile P.hone C.leaner but I'm guessing Member of Privy Council>; besieged by deteriorating health, both mental and physical, announced recently that he would be closing his hub https://parlementum.net/page/encycl/welcome on Friday 21st August, Spokane, Washington State, USA time. (I think he's a coffee AND tea snob & in WA, USA too! He recently publicly posted his street address but as he may not have realised it was public I won't post it here. [Yet another co-incidence similar to last time I went to repost something here, and another time not long before that too! Must be the spies, or the medication ...] ;~) At one stage he offered the setup and Domain name to anyone wanting to takeover the Hub, then later posted that he would probably shut down before 21st, now it looks like it will close on 21st. He has saved the content but who knows if it will appear again on another Hub? So if you want to check out his eccentric, eclectic links mix, you'd better go look at https://parlementum.net/chat/encycl/1&JS=1 soon. (A lot of "Red Matrix" seems to require Javascript enabled in a graphical browser in a GUI.) There may be more content and links only visible to some or all members of Red Matrix or Parlementum too. I haven't swallowed the red pill yet so I don't know what they see.

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The 30th anniversary of a long wait for some ...
by spyder.king＠yahoo.com.au 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

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East West Link - contacting the government
by Peter Ross 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

Hi all, Labor opposing East West Link - good news, at least for me. There is no contract signed yet - so all uncertainty claims are quite strange. It is up to the government in power to create certainty - by waiting with the contracts until after the election. The process is before the courts because the link did not go through a proper planning, assessment and consultation process yet. The lack of process created the uncertainty. So the government can correct it by honouring process. This would make it a decision made by a government which asked for a mandate from the electorate. Below my letter to Terry Mulder (terence.mulder(a)parliament.vic.gov.au) Maybe you would like to contact him too? Thanks Peter Dear Terry, the Labor decision to dump the East West Link is a good one for us in Melbourne. Please cancel the project if you care for Victoria. It may save hundred of millions or billions of dollars of claims when the project finally ends in the bin, as it should. The East West Link is not a properly planned project. I contacted you before about my concerns. Some of the events and claims are truly bizarre if you are familiar with the area as I am. I work in Kensington. I frequently use the bike track along the Mooney Ponds Creek you want to overshadow with another bunch of lanes. I also spend a lot of time waiting for and in trains from and to Craigieburn and Upfield which never go on time. It is not a surprise that the whole case is before the courts. The rush to lock it in resulted in a shoddy process which defies logic and did never satisfy requirements of proper consulting with the public. Even now, the design is still work in progress, and some of the "corrections" over time looked as professional as me designing a model train with my son. How can this being assessed? How can the community have a sufficient input in this process? How can you sign contracts with this uncertainty? It will be a liability for any future government and all Victorians. A tender process where you continue with one bidder only is another detail not making sense. I never do that if I want a good deal. You were elected with the Liberals claiming support for the Metro Rail Link. You did not advance the project. Instead it became another train wreck of "planning on the run". Please bring that back into action instead of tinkering with the East West Link if you want to do something for Victoria. Thank you Peter [contact details]

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The Propaganda Excuse Train
by Brent Wallis 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/how-to-get-around-on-public-transport-str… A so called "independent always" news outlet forgetting that the vast majority of us don't have the costly advantage of living in the latte sipping circle around the CBD. Arrogant ignorance multiplied by 1000. What a bunch of Elitist and Selfish Bastards our political class have become! I am lucky to have an employer that understands... and a job that allows me to telecommute...but my youngest child is stuck on how to get to college in the CBD from Lilydale...on an important day that requires a presence. BW

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Re: [luv-talk] spying
by Brent Wallis 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Upped to LT list... On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> wrote: > Quoting Brent Wallis (brent.wallis(a)gmail.com) > > > Supermarkets... hold more threat to your personal ability to operate > > effectively with privacy and choice. > [...] > > It's a splendid and spirited rant, but I think you must have me confused > with someone else, as I see zero threat from some piece of > Poetteringware to my personal ability to operate effectively with > privacy and choice. In fact, I tend to severely mock the 'systemd is > being forced on me' crowd, as they are delusional and a bit pathetic. > > I'm the guy who pointed out exactly how to (trivially) not use it on > Debian 8.0 Jessie, right here in this space, when asked how to do so. > > > Hint: Complaining that the "man" and whatever else evil org you chose to > > lay blame on is a fault really sux. YOU HAVE A CHOICE! > > Yes, and I detailed the exact apt-get commands to exercise that choice. > _Right here._ Perhaps you were sleeping? > > Oops... and apols I DID miss that! > > Do what YOU think is the right way to go? > > I'm going to go enjoy a splendid cup of Scandinavian-strong coffee. > Hmm....Are you actually in Scandanavia? Son moves to Hamburg on the 24th to join a team that codes real time 3D for http://www.goodgamestudios.com/ Heaven forbid.. he is a coffee snob as well and aims to take regular trips North... over the next few years... I will warn him about you...send me a pic so I can wack it on his "people to avoid" list ? :-P ;-) BW > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > luv-main(a)luv.asn.au > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >

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Pro or anti-kid this time?
by Russell Coker 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

http://tinyurl.com/pm26mz2 -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: [luv-talk] Innovation Patents
by Daniel Jitnah 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Yes!!! Good for all!!! It appears that ACIP is undertaking more consultation and they are asking for further submission by 28 September, so it may be that a further submission to strengthen the case may be appropriate. It may also be good that other people and organisation (SFM) who also submitted earlier did the same as well. Specially given that there is a shift in the position towards our side. Daniel. On 05/08/15 20:44, Lev Lafayette wrote: > People may be familiar that Linux Users of Victoria was involved in > submissions against the Innovation Patents system for software. > > Along with others, the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) > released a report last year recommending that the Innovation Patents be > abolished for software. > > It would seem that the argument for net economic costs has now gone even > further. The Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) now > recommends (follows) the abolition of the entire Innovation Patent system. >

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Fwd: Celebrate 100 years of discoveries with us at Science in the Square
by Russell Coker 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

Free science events. WEHI events are really good. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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It's Open House Melbourne's annual weekend of inspect-able buildings
by David E Payne 24 Jul '15

24 Jul '15

It's Open House Melbourne's annual weekend of inspect-able buildings see http://www.openhousemelbourne.org/ may not work well with a character based browser or screen reader!

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