Carl Chenet carlchenet@identi.ca
Paris, France
Cloud Architect. Debian developer & Python addict. Wrote some articles about Free Software. Tea addict. Wine lover.
Olivier Berger at 2014-11-06T05:50:27Z
The release team is pleased to announce that #Debian 8.0 "#Jessie" is frozen. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/11/msg00003.html #freezeCarl Chenet likes this.
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satoshi and ageism in tech
Whether or not Dorian S. Nakamoto (64) is satoshi, inventor of bitcoin, I'm finding ageism in tech to be an interesting lens through which to look today.
The myths that have been circulating before: "satoshi" was some "shadowy pseudonymous cabal of libertarian cryptographers" (dTal); the bitcoin code was the product of genius. "My fifteen point list of obvious likely bugs was systematically destroyed by a codebase that quite frankly knew better" -- Kaminsky http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-kaminsky-highlights-flaws-bitcoin-2013-4
Compare with how I've seen the bitcoin code described today: "Satoshi's style of writing code was old-school. He used things like reverse Polish notation. [...] We have rewritten roughly 70 percent of the code since inception. It wasn't written with nice interfaces. It was like one big hairball." -- Gavin Andresen
Then there's the HN thread, which seems mostly concerned with protecting a kindly grandfather (who is into model trains no less) from the world, and various reddit threads in various stages of denial and confusion, which I stopped reading when I got to the predictable "(sounds a bit senile tbh)" http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zpuer/the_newsweek_article_is_probably_incorrect_look/
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Olivier Berger at 2014-03-06T16:46:31Z
Bootstrapping #docker use for #debian ers a bit more easy with some docs : https://wiki.debian.org/DockerFrancisco M García Claramonte, Carl Chenet likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-03-03T08:57:06Z
adding historical releases to sources.debian.net, now playing: #Debian Sarge https://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/Carl Chenet likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-02-25T11:13:15Z
deployed a bunch of new features on http://sources.debian.net | blog post coming,but feel free to spot them first :)Carl Chenet likes this.
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Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-02-14T13:52:10Z
kudos for the "losing graciously" post http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316 but it makes me wonder about #ubuntu tech-ctte independenceNicola Busanello, Luis R. Rodriguez, Stefano Costa, Carl Chenet and 2 others likes this.
Evan Prodromou at 2014-01-13T02:09:18Z
This is one of my goals for the immediate future. Facebook and Google+.Carl Chenet likes this.
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2013-11-29T10:26:04Z
#Jessie release update https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/11/msg00007.html possibly the most revolutionary in #Debian historya(n) person, Carl Chenet, a(n) person, Danc likes this.
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Evan Prodromou at 2013-11-19T02:23:59Z
If you contribute to Free and Open Source Software, and haven't yet done the 2013 FLOSS Survey, please do! http://floss2013.libresoft.es/index.en.htmlTomi Toivio, Stefano Costa, aether, Sandro Santilli and 3 others likes this.
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done. Thanks.
I already did so.
Hey, https://identi.ca/reiter, that's the difference between a survey and a scientific study, IMHO. For a survey, Laura's much better one than the previous ones :)RuiSeabra at 2013-11-19T21:19:44Z
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Let's do this! :)- OMG I can post notes again in chromium!
Glad to see so many (non-DD) visitors to DebConf13 here in Bdale's Freedombox talk.Carl Chenet, Evan Prodromou likes this.
I wonder what happened.
I've noticed this in all browsers (at least Chromium and Iceweasel) occasionally the posting window simply doesn't appear. Maybe some JS hasn't loaded properly. Clearing cache and restarting usually helps, but is a bit annoying...
- Got to have a bonfire in Euripe finally. Makes it feel like a real place somehow.
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That would be Europe. Too much good cheese? Stefano Zacchiroli at 2013-08-15T23:11:16Z
happy 20th birthday, #debian ! http://bits.debian.org/2013/08/20-birthday-debian.html (and no, it's not hex!)zinayfuzz, Mostafa Roshanavand, rocky, giammi@identi.ca and 21 others likes this.
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Parabéns, Debian, pelos 20 anos - http://br-linux.org/2013/01/parabens-debian-pelos-20-anos.html - Via @Christiano AndersonStefano Zacchiroli at 2013-07-26T16:16:15Z
«On [Linux] kernel mailing list behavior» https://lwn.net/Articles/559061/ ← I'm really glad to see this discussion happening in #lkml circles.Carl Chenet, etalas, johns likes this.
I strongly agree, nothing is more discouraging for a new contributor than being despised and/or harassed while trying to contribute. And the same for long term contributor, having invested so much free time for the community.Carl Chenet at 2013-07-27T07:29:55Z
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Stefano Zacchiroli at 2013-07-19T10:41:00Z
@Sander: I definitely don't. And it's a pity so many people in FOSS circles *still* take him as a role model on how to behave. *sigh*Patrick Niedzielski, The Anarcat, Carl Chenet, Aeva Ntsc and 10 others likes this.