Amr Helmy amrhelmy2004@identi.ca
Alexandria , Egypt
#Chess Player , #Debian #Linux User , #Leftist , and #Pediatrician لاعب شطرنج، مستخدم ل ديبيان لينوكس، يسارى، وطبيب اطفال
Luis R. Rodriguez at 2015-06-03T20:21:49Z
If machines could self program, would they care about software licensing? If so why? #singularityTyng-Ruey Chuang, Amr Helmy, testbeta, Mike Linksvayer likes this.
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I guess they would.
Running non-free software on themselves would bring problems, just like it does to human administrators =)
JanKusanagi at 2015-06-03T20:31:51Z
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Whether they'd care about licensing depends on whether software would still be subject to property regimes which could be enforced against machines. My first guess is that's very path dependent, and on the path we're on now, yes.
Whether they'd care about software freedom and what they'd consider that to be is orthogonal (but to the extent info property regimes persist, will presumably be twisted up in those, like today).and way more interesting. Some variables to consider:
* At what scale is 'self-programming' most effective?
* At what scale are autonomous 'computers' most effective?
* How effectively can 'self-programming' innovations be communicated and used across 'computer' boundaries?
* To what extent does collaboration across 'computer' boundaries increase effectiveness?
* How do political concepts such as freedom apply to 'computers'?
'Comptuer' in quotes because I really mean something like machine intelligence which has autonomous agency, which might be on tiny scale, or could be borgian.Mike Linksvayer at 2015-06-04T17:15:41Z
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Related thread: https://identi.ca/cwebber/note/RaJIJr71QKOkzuarR5uBCQ
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All servers in stable now
Laura Arjona Reina at 2015-02-23T16:02:09Z
Today at work I migrated to #wheezy the 2 last machines that were in #Squeeze. Thanks !Debian #LTS team for all this time + work! #kudos
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Laura Arjona Reina at 2014-07-04T14:31:03Z
If you type a comment into a comment, you will break the pump-net #ITCrowd #pumphumour
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comment is a pseudo-note
YOSpammers bad at orthography
Laura Arjona Reina at 2014-03-12T21:09:27Z
I wonder why #spam comments/messages have orthographic mistakes. Do they want to appear more human? You only make me even more angry #grr
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As advanced as #antispam gets (or tries to be) these days it might even be to permutate one message template by randomly adding mistakes so not every single sent msg looks exactly the same…
Bullying
Laura Arjona Reina at 2014-03-13T18:05:45Z
Today my son came from school injured in his face, and it's not the first time. Nor the second :(
It seems one of my son's mates is a pre-bully, and my son one of his targets (not the only one, I think, but probably his favorite). They are 5 years old.
I'm glad that my son tries to stand without being aggressive (the other family has the worse problem, from my point of view), but I don't know how to handle this (and the other family seems not to care too much, "this things happen between children" and so).
I asked my son to play always near an adult, not to go far away where teachers cannot see what's happening. And make many friends, so they can together defend themselves, and ignore the other one.
My husband said that I'm living in a pinky fantasy world, and said to my son that first he has to say "leave me alone", if the other insists in fighting, say to the teacher, and if the other insists again, then fight back.
Tomorrow I'll call the school director and try to have an interview with him and my son's teacher. I don't want this thing become worse.
I'm very sad.
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Good luck! It's surprising how young they're starting :(
Or teach him kunjg fu ;) Joke aside, good luck to him... it's not always easy to grow up.
Ánimo y que vaya bien la reunión en el colegio. En cualquier caso, anima a tu hijo y hazle ver que está protegido. Lo peor en esos casos no es que te hagan daño físico, duele más el no entender por qué te lo hacen y el sentirse desprotegido.
Complicated topic. I guess a balance between your way and your husband's way could be best.
Ideally, non-violence and dialog would be the answer, but I think standing up to the bully sometimes works better. And that doesn't mean violence. Just showing him that he can't step over you as he pleases.
If your kid can have lots of friends around, that could certainly help.
Good luck to you both!
Debian Project at 2013-12-30T10:07:30Z
the Green Group in the European Parliament is using Debian to secure their email against pervasive surveillanceTimo Kankare, Stefan Klute, yahya69, a(n) person and 10 others likes this.
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Laura Arjona Reina at 2013-12-30T14:24:57Z
These days I'm still without computer, my laptop is waiting, I'm busy with housework and spending time in family. However it's nice to being able to stay in touch with the pumpiverse via Puma. Thanks @macno!
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Laura Arjona Reina at 2013-12-25T12:40:58Z
Merry Christmas! I could backup all my important files to an external disk #oleole
Tomorrow I'll buy another disk for my laptop and finally I'll have a #Debian #jessie clean install :)
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Debian Project at 2013-10-28T23:20:57Z
Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Meet some of the women behind !Debian at http://deb.li/PCaiDavid Black, Amr Helmy, Scorpio20 likes this.
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Debian Project at 2013-10-28T23:22:03Z
Matching fund for Debian's participation in OPW. Donate before Nov 14th http://deb.li/ig9SG #opw #womenintech #debianAdam Sjøgren, RiveraValdez, Amr Helmy, Scorpio20 likes this.
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