From 64212db6db3129d06f9bfbd770f6e3b4d0d149b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Slade <slade@lambda-y.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:27:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] more glosses

---
 content-org/babbageBLOG.org                                    | 3 ++-
 ...e-can-be-told-what-irc-is-you-have-to-logon-for-yourself.md | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content-org/babbageBLOG.org b/content-org/babbageBLOG.org
index 65e9a7d..9fa636b 100644
--- a/content-org/babbageBLOG.org
+++ b/content-org/babbageBLOG.org
@@ -5943,7 +5943,8 @@ also had a pocket connection via my mobile
 phone [fn:weechatinterfaces]. This gave me a persistent connection and
 log history and all that.
 
-Then I started using [[https://matrix.org][Matrix]] more, (in part) since some projects have
+Then I started using [[https://matrix.org][Matrix]] (=a modern, but heavy, "IRC replacement",
+itself theoretically a Slack, Discord, &c. competitor) more, (in part) since some projects have
 chosen it as a more modern/capable alternative to IRC, and, soon
 after, it was the case that most of the IRC rooms I was in were
 bridged to Matrix anyway. And then it seemed perhaps more convenient
diff --git a/content/posts/no-one-can-be-told-what-irc-is-you-have-to-logon-for-yourself.md b/content/posts/no-one-can-be-told-what-irc-is-you-have-to-logon-for-yourself.md
index 65f1112..f73cb47 100644
--- a/content/posts/no-one-can-be-told-what-irc-is-you-have-to-logon-for-yourself.md
+++ b/content/posts/no-one-can-be-told-what-irc-is-you-have-to-logon-for-yourself.md
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ also had a pocket connection via my mobile
 phone&nbsp;[^fn:1]. This gave me a persistent connection and
 log history and all that.
 
-Then I started using [Matrix](https://matrix.org) more, (in part) since some projects have
+Then I started using [Matrix](https://matrix.org) (=a modern, but heavy, "IRC replacement",
+itself theoretically a Slack, Discord, &amp;c. competitor) more, (in part) since some projects have
 chosen it as a more modern/capable alternative to IRC, and, soon
 after, it was the case that most of the IRC rooms I was in were
 bridged to Matrix anyway. And then it seemed perhaps more convenient
-- 
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