From pj at pjb.com.au Wed May 4 10:53:00 2016 From: pj at pjb.com.au (Peter Billam) Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 10:53 +1000 Subject: [Taslug] Blockchain discussed in the mainstream Message-ID: <9b8415$17po7af@ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net> Hi. Just a followup to Scott's talk: Blockchain is getting lots of serious coverage in the very bank-conscious Swiss press, eg: http://www.nzz.ch/finanzen/private-finanzen/herausforderung-fuer-banken-und-den-staat-blockchain-der-naechste-wohlstandsschock-ld.17609 (I wish they wouldn't make these ever longer-and-longer URLs) It's in german; the title is roughly: Blockchain - the next shock to standard-of-living A challenge for banks, and for states. and the summary: Blockchain is more than a digital technology. It's a system that allows much simpler and less expensive ownership-transactions to be established, and organised. That's going to have consequences... Peter Billam P.S. That page also comes with a message at the top: You are using an adblocker. Please deactive it. (Read more...) P.P.S. > For this month's Launceston meeting, we'll be taking a look > at using the F/OSS 2D animation package Synfig Studio. synfig looks amazing :-) P.P.P.S. Michael wrote: > Re: [Taslug] some content-type stricter than text/plain ? > I believe that adding whitespace at the end of each line > prevents newlines from being stripped. all my email lines now end in a space :-) http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 From karl at kgoetz.id.au Wed May 4 20:06:50 2016 From: karl at kgoetz.id.au (Karl Goetz) Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 20:06:50 +1000 Subject: [Taslug] Blockchain discussed in the mainstream In-Reply-To: <9b8415$17po7af@ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net> References: <9b8415$17po7af@ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net> Message-ID: <81d7a45a-350c-e4e8-bfdd-d85d4e554330@kgoetz.id.au> On 4/05/2016 10:53, Peter Billam wrote: > Hi. > P.P.P.S. > Michael wrote: > > Re: [Taslug] some content-type stricter than text/plain ? > > I believe that adding whitespace at the end of each line > > prevents newlines from being stripped. > all my email lines now end in a space :-) I don't have enough Internet for all those extra characters! :) kk From jsbragg at scriptforge.org Thu May 12 09:26:38 2016 From: jsbragg at scriptforge.org (Scott Bragg) Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 09:26:38 +1000 Subject: [Taslug] Hobart May 19th Meeting - Chatbots Hackfest - Hotel SoHo, 6pm Message-ID: We're taking a break from our normal programming to bring you something a little different. Chatbots seem to be the new hotness, so let's take a deep dive and create our own. Bring your laptop, grab a beer and let's code up a leaky buggy chatbot for our IRC channel, GNUSocial or the old facebook page. The pad for adding notes, links, tech support stuff, etc is here: https://pad.taslug.org.au/p/may-chatbot-hackfest If you can't make it, keep an eye on the EtherPad which has a chat feature and the IRC channel to help out. ## When: Thursday 19th May from 6pm ## Where: Hotel SoHo, Davey St, Hobart ## Agenda: 6pm - Arrive, set up, grab a drink, start hacking ## Coming up May 28th - Launceston meeting June - Nothing planned - contact @faulteh if you have a talk! -- -- Scott Bragg From henry.it.ltn at gmail.com Wed May 25 12:48:02 2016 From: henry.it.ltn at gmail.com (Henry) Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 12:48:02 +1000 Subject: [Taslug] Launceston May Meeting Message-ID: Hi Luggers, This coming Saturday (30th May) we will be having a talk about James. A first time entrant in a game jam. He will be talking about using open source software like LMMS, Krita, and Blender to create the assets for a game. As usual the meeting will start at 2:00PM at the Royal Oak Hotel. Some of us will be there from about 1:00PM to have a bite to eat and a chat. Hope to see you there. Attitude ? )