The watermelon flour sounds really interesting. Do you make it or is there a good place to buy it? I’ve used flax and pumpkin seed flour in some recipes, but I just grind gluten free flax or pumpkin seed to make the flour. I use a coffee/nut grinder. If you come up with some recipes using the watermelon seed flour, I hope you’ll share them. So far, I’ve been making apple pancakes just using teff flour. It seems okay. I put a little psyllium husk in to make it more fluffy. Haven’t tried the white rice flour. Is it worth purchasing? I have the brown rice and sweet rice flours and figured that would be enough. I’ve seen several recipes on the Internet for waffles using sweet rice flour or mochi. I’ve been buying several specialty flours to experiment with but haven’t found a lot of recipes I like with them. I have tigernut, chestnut and just bought okara to try. Found out okara doesn’t work like soy flour. It has an interesting taste but very crumbly. I haven’t been able to find a decent source of soy flour for years. Always on the look out for new and interesting recipes to try.

That’s why we specifically mentioned Fediverse and FOSS alternatives to get the word out about Software Freedom Day here: https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDMarketingSites The DFF board discussed this topic and wants to continue to reach out to people who don’t know about FOSS and the Fediverse. So, we are trying to meet them where they are and let them know about the benefits of using FOSS. Also, one of the groups did a talk on switching from X to Mastodon: https://mobilizon.fr/events/1ab64af3-b99e-473d-87da-7ad07497ab41 If you have suggestions for the web site, please join the SFD discussion mailing list and add your input. The new DFF board will be redesigning the entire site for next year, but did not have time to do so for the 20th edition of Software Freedom Day. Their main goal was making sure that we still had a Software Freedom Day this year after the old board stepped down.

I would love to find a cohousing project in my area. Have not found any good ones. Most of them seem like money making schemes. We had a group (not specifically ND) try to create a cohousing project locally. They went bankrupt and the developer bought out the property and made a profit selling regular homes. Most of the housing situations I’ve investigated geared to autistic people were very expensive. If there was a decent option in my area or anyone wanted to help put together a group to do this, I’d definitely want to get involved.

I’m also a programmer by profession. Haven’t been as lucky as you with finding friends through programming even though I’ve probably been to every computer related Meetup or group in my area. Speaking of computer science, anyone doing anything for Software Freedom Day in September? I’ve tried the past few years to hold an event for it online and no one showed. Would love to do something for it, but it’s really not much fun doing it alone.

I liked the Interlac alphabet Easter egg in the Legion of Super-Heroes TV series DVD. I also really like the cat game in certain versions of Android. Accidentally stumbled across it when looking through the Android code.