Scale Week 9 恭喜 gōngxǐ
Week 9 · Sun Mar 10, 2019
Scale Week 9 of 2019 opens with a congratulations, GONG HEI to the first show of a new art gallery, Oui.Gallery in HK doing contemporary art shows with topics ranging from global to China to HK to Shenzhen to technology. Have you heard of Scuttlebutt? We take a look at this social network of the asynchronous living. Trustware is investigated. Other articles include historical texts related to Unix philosophy and a historical precendent with Toshiba being regulated by the USA government similar to how Huawei is being handled now. Thanks for reading Scale. Feedback is welcom! Join our Telegram chat, submit your links, and upvote the best ones.
Word of the week
恭喜 gōngxǐ
恭喜 gōngxǐ or Gong Hei in Cantonese means Congratulations, in a celebratory tone.
Gong Hei is used heavily in Cantonese culture during Chinese New Years to congratulate, respectfully wishing one joy. It is often used 恭喜發財 gōngxǐ fācái in Mandarin or often in Hong Kong, Gong Hei Fat Choy, meaning together congratulations for becoming rich.
Curated links
- Oui.Gallery GONG HEI Group Art Show Announcement — Jon Phillips · @rejon · art show in HK to open Oui.Gallery, influenced by tech and art
Week links
- https://projectalpha.eu/the-toshiba-kongsberg-case/ — @rejon · A precedent for US intervention in non-USA-based electronics companies pre-huawei
- https://staltz.com/an-off-grid-social-network.html — @rejon · studying scuttlebut thx to tyler
- http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/hardware-software-trustware/ — @rejon · Told by a friend to check out...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy — @rejon · overall stuff that got me started in code
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement — @rejon · overall stuff that got me started in code
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_model — @rejon · overall stuff that got me started in code
- https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence — @rejon · overall stuff that got me started in code
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace — @rejon · overall stuff that got me started in code
- https://blog.sfox.com/ethereum-classic-in-2019-an-interview-with-anthony-lusardi-3a3e966f0c34 — @rejon · interested in etc
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_industry_in_China — @rejon · aiww and I talking about
- https://1stminingrig.com/whats-up-with-progpow-benchmarks-addressing-the-criticisms/ — @rejon · unclear the facts, who wrote this, and more that needs to be verified
- https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf — @clemsos · bitcoin asic faq
- http://mediashift.org/2018/02/heres-how-one-japanese-newspaper-is-moving-robo-journalism-forward/ — @clemsos · robo journalism
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