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For all programming resources produced by Crescent Software (by Ethan Winer), they're being curated and shared by Gene Buckle here: annex.retroarchive.org/crescen

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@saleh_gnutux @libreoffice @gnutux @bassam And for digitizing paper based history in open formats to restore and protect its accessibility. It's bo longer stuck in the 1990s hehe.

I was able to provide Ethan with all open document format originals (like ODT) so everyone can access and share the body of work.

There's a scan of the old paper book available at archive.org but it's rights managed through the lending mechanism.

3 years ago I volunteered to create a new edition of Ethan Winer’s 1990s BASIC programming book using LibreOffice (@libreoffice). Over the span of a year, with Ethan’s editorial input, I rebuilt the book layout from TXT sources in , and recreated all diagrams from scratch using , and . It turned out great!

ethanwiner.com/BTU_BOOK.PDF

Dev1: so our zombs will find the shortest path possible or the weakest with some randomness
Dev2: what if a person can't be reached?
Dev1: Eh?
Dev2: I mean climb a mountain or dig a super deep hole, or dig a super deep hole at the top of a mountain.
Dev1: Nobody would...what?🧵

😏 😋 😝 😜 🤪meeeeeeee

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Check out this free (Creative Commons) book, Designing With LibreOffice: designingwithlibreoffice.com/

I had this experience in French catholic schools growing up in northern which borders QC. Mom & I were French: thoughts, dreams, speech, activities.

But I was also Ontarian. My father was English with an English last name.

So I was harassed by my teachers as inauthentic, from a bad wrong language home, or variations on that BS. 😖

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By Lori Weber:

Opinion: Why I'm saying farewell to Quebec

I love living in a French city. I embraced the language early on and made sure my child did, as well. But Quebec has never embraced me.

montrealgazette.com/opinion/op


We see you.

We love you.

You're a beautiful emergence of Sol, Earth, Life: real people always and in all ways.

Your natural truth doesn't need proving because it simply IS; embodied within the very fabric of the universe.

Be joyous and rest in this.<3

@ElliTheSunbear With this information, we've just become closer. XD

(Some reflections on the effectiveness of donations, surprise gifts, advocacy, requests for help, unrequited love and unwanted attention.)

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The receiver of a gesture, item or resource decides if it is a [gift] or not, not the giver.

[Support?] becomes [Support.] through consent.

This is my favourite ice cream. I like it because it has these little chunks of chocolate in it.

Sorry, I mean full-diameter SHARDS OF SUCCULENCE! XD

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