I get encoding issues when sending books directly as epub, so I have to use a epub->mobi conversion service (sendepubtokindle). Is there any way to fix encoding issues directly on kindle? I would really like to skip a step of conversion.
This presentation explores how Indigenous cultural knowledge can be used as a framework for computing science and computer programming. First, this conversation introduces decolonial computing and some of the problems with “culture-agnostic” or “culture-neutral” computing initiatives. It then proposes an Indigenization of computer science to disrupt established western design principles in computing by focusing on culturally-specific interfacing in digital technologies and computer programming.
Regional variation? When I was growing up (in California, in the 1970s and 80s), we called them chalkboards because, you know, you used chalk to write on them. Also, they were often green.
Or "tonic" (which was already a somewhat archaic term for soda generally in the Boston area when I was going to school). Boston had a number of those. Frappe was another--which you still see now and then at old-timey ice cream places. (A "milk shake" was just flavored milk.)
And then we've completed the full circle and we're back to the beginning of the discussion about payment provider's censorship power…
Crypto's terrible payment UX makes it practically unsuitable for porn companies because it makes everybody use centralized intermediary instead of using the crypto itself directly.
