Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-04-19T23:01:28Z
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that's why I don't try to fix computers....
I'm like the BOFH:
Luser: "I need more disk space in my account"
BOFH: rm -fr ~luser "ok, you have now"
Luser: "thanks!"Hubert Figuière at 2016-04-20T03:17:37Z
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it has been a long time since I saw a circuit diagram inside the back cover ..
I do kind of miss that ..
:-)
Michael at 2016-04-22T07:54:49Z
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-04-20T17:59:34Z
There's a real use to these "obvious when stated" studies though... you could imagine pointing to this if you have a job in city planning, or even in decisions of how your office workers will be affected by your choice in location...
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-04-04T16:32:14Z
I'm building the 8sync website on top of Flexbox and I don't care if some older browsers don't support it.
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-03-09T17:36:19Z
@j1mc Oh hey, I finally remember doing that!
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White House FLOSS draft policy
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-03-10T17:19:55Z
I bet @Mike Linksvayer would find this interesting!
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A little too focused on "opensource" and the "pragmatism" they see on working this way, but it's something! And hopefully can lead to much more =)
Offtopic mandatory complaining about:
“America has long been a nation of ”
Last I heard, America was a whole continent, including countries like Brasil, Canada or Argentina. Maybe the tectonic plates have shifted since then :p
JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2016-03-10T22:13:21Z
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@cwebber@identi.ca @jankusanagi@identi.ca The truly interesting stuff is Sensitive but Unclassified and higher in restriction, alas. My agency despises open source too.
Jessica Tallon at 2016-02-17T19:22:40Z
Lots of work has gone into this, there is still quite a lot to do but this is significant progress!
^____^
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kodkod at 2015-07-19T09:24:36Z
@cwebber@identi.ca I believe that projects like MediaGoblin and people like you with a "stubborn, community-over-money, pro-copyleft direction" do a much bigger service to Software Freedom than any VC funded permissively licensed megaproject ever will. And after reading your post I'm doing what I should have been doing a long time ago: Setting up a monthly donation to MediaGoblin!Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), ChicagoLUG, j1mc, lnxwalt@microca.st likes this.
Reflecting on "Goodbye, OpenStack"
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-07-19T03:04:49Z
I just read "Goodbye, OpenStack" (thanks for the link @David Thompson) and it has me thinking about a number of things:
- Those I know who work on OpenStack complain about its insane complexity; there's even a comic about it. OpenStack seems like a lot of things at this point. A good number of them seem like things I want to succeed: an API for on-the-fly-provisioning seems important, with a free software backing. That seems great. So does the storage system Swift... we even have support for that in MediaGoblin.
- I've been long jealous of projects with tons of funding. MediaGoblin and most of the projects I actually care about are desperately resource-constrained. It's hard not to look at the sea of VC money out there and not feel like I'm hurting the project by not trying to tap into it, but then I think of all the compromises I'd have to make, and how much doing such things seems to affect real communities. But wouldn't it be worth it to be able to pay more people to make the dream come true? But looking above, OpenStack is pretty much the dream machine of money in the free software world. Having a ton of money pouring into it doesn't seem to help its coherence maybe?
- OpenStack's decision to use permissive licensing is frequently lauded as one of the reasons it's so well funded. That post seems to indicate that pretty much everywhere is running a proprietary fork, which makes OpenStack sound eerily similar to Android.
Maybe there's some value left in my stubborn, community-over-money, pro-copyleft direction. Then again, being a resource strapped outlier isn't always much better than the above. (And I'm still jealous of all that project money.)
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@cwebber@identi.ca I believe that projects like MediaGoblin and people like you with a "stubborn, community-over-money, pro-copyleft direction" do a much bigger service to Software Freedom than any VC funded permissively licensed megaproject ever will. And after reading your post I'm doing what I should have been doing a long time ago: Setting up a monthly donation to MediaGoblin!kodkod at 2015-07-19T09:24:36Z
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@kodkod Aw thanks, and monthly donations are greeeeeeeatly appreciated!
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-07-19T13:46:56Z
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https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-videos/presentation/openstack-is-doomed-and-i... is hilarious and sad.
"[There are people who like the implementation. People with Stockholm syndrome, and consultants.]"Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-07-22T21:46:14Z
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Free Software Foundation at 2015-07-13T22:19:17Z
Live near Phoenix, Arizona? Join FSF campaigns manager Zak Rogoff and other community members this Saturday for a bite and a chat about free software.https://u.fsf.org/1cxChicagoLUG likes this.
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Free Software Foundation at 2014-09-19T19:57:03Z
Have a great Software Freedom Day on Saturday! Join us in sharing your favorite free program with a friend. https://u.fsf.org/13d #SFDyahya69, mnd, ChicagoLUG likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-09-17T23:26:02Z
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Holy shit, that was amazing.
Yep, they had it! And like 30 other games as well as air hockey and like 8 pinball machines.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-08-30T20:45:39Z
Advancing the "deployability of mediagoblin" agenda, partly in prep for premium hosting, and also in solidarity with #debconf2014: going through the IntroDebianPackaging tutorial, then reading the Debian New Maintainer's Guide
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-08-05T04:02:09Z
I got in the grant application in time. Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
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Free Software Foundation at 2014-08-05T15:15:03Z
Libreboot breaks ground with a free software BIOS replacement that's easy to install. https://u.fsf.org/11jLuis, Adonay Felipe Nogueira, Christopher Allan Webber, ChicagoLUG and 7 others likes this.
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This is an excellent project. : )ChicagoLUG at 2014-08-06T03:40:51Z
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Evan Prodromou at 2014-08-05T15:27:19Z
At the end of this month, I'm going to be finishing up my work as CTO at Breather. It's been a great time for me, and I'm excited about the future of the company and the great team that's there. They're all friends and I deeply believe in the vision of peace and quiet, on demand.
In the meanwhile I'll be concentrating more on my work as co-chair for the W3's Social Working Group, pushing forward the state of the pump network with pump.io, consulting for other startups and developing some ideas of my own into products.
I'm excited and challenged, which I guess is where you're supposed to be in life. Wish me luck!netgeek, Screwtape, habi@fmrl.me, Mwaoshe Njemah and 23 others likes this.
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Show all 10 repliesYay SWG! Keeping my fingers crossed for great deeds!
This calls for beer in February. Good Luck!
Mark Jaroski at 2014-08-06T04:53:46Z
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alles gute, lieber evan!
Good luck evan
>> ChicagoLUG:
“Feels like it's just around the corner!”
It is! =)ChicagoLUG likes this.
Free Software Foundation at 2014-06-27T16:44:40Z
"Android without the mothership" via lwn https://u.fsf.org/10d
Donate to Replicant: https://u.fsf.org/10eChicagoLUG, Scorpio20, motters, uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs and 4 others likes this.
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All my (two) Android devices are Google-free and run F-droid as their only app store :-)
sazius at 2014-06-27T16:53:15Z
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>> sazius:
“All my (two) Android devices are Google-free and run F-droid as their only app store”
Same with all of mine (one) =)Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-06-28T16:37:20Z
I've started giving weekly updates in #mediagoblin on Saturdays. Here's today's:
<paroneayea> actually I was going to give my weekly update
<paroneayea> this week:
<paroneayea> - I sent in invoices so tillyq could be paid and replied to a
couple things related to that
<paroneayea> - I worked on the "token voting system" that allows people to
vote for what feature they'd prefer in MediaGoblin... this was
nice also as I got the ability to test out how Flask works more
practically, which was really interesting
<paroneayea> - some bookkeeping, but not too much
<paroneayea> - catching up on email
<paroneayea> - adding the request hook for tumulte
<paroneayea> - there were some snags with the gsoc midterm evaluations, so I
worked on taking care of those and pinged the mentors also to
make sure they were submitted
<paroneayea> - likewise, some conversation with berker about stuff related to
gsoc (talking about migrations with berker)... I forget if I
talked to breton this week or last, but I think this week also
<paroneayea> - some doctor appointments, I was out pretty much all day
tuesday due to that
<paroneayea> - processing the reward information in a form that should allow
Morgan to submit the info and actually place all the orders for
it... also scheduling a date to do 3d printing of the badges at
aeva's place
<paroneayea> there were a couple of issues with the export I got from the FSF
so I'm waiting on that to come back, but I just submitted that
yesterday, so
<paroneayea> that's it!
<paroneayea> that was my week.
<paroneayea> not a bad week now that I typed it out :)ChicagoLUG, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Christopher Baines, freedeb and 1 others likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-06-22T21:00:16Z
autossh addresses that, but also if you make frequent use of ssh tunnels, you know how annoying it is for them to go down. ssh tunnels / port forwarding stay open with this method... helpful, because that's part of my email setup.
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2014-06-22T18:33:08Z
Installed Drop Down Terminal, a gnome-shell extension for the quake-style terminals of yore.
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I've recently given up on quake-style terminals, because their focus style didn't suit my work flow but I do miss a single key press on demand terminal.
I've never really gotten much use out of them tbh.
But maybe this time!!!!