Chris Watkins chriswaterguy@identi.ca
Melbourne, Australia
Director of the Appropedia Foundation (I also manage @appropedia): knowledge sharing for sustainability & development.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2013-12-02T20:53:35Z
The two hardest problems in computer-political science are messaging and messaging.Chris Watkins likes this.
Mike Linksvayer at 2013-12-02T20:33:35Z
My trite response is that software freedom is somewhere between "ignore" and "laugh" in Gandhi's stages of nonviolent activism. Feeling hated/attacked by the software industry underestimates just how poorly software freedom, as an ethical concern, is doing. Software freedom is unknown to almost all in the software industry (fortunately its realization is not quite so stunted), nevermind among all software users. That's worth working on correcting.Chris Watkins, Jason Self, David Thompson, Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
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I have to sadly agree with @mlinksva. I had thought we were going pretty good. I've recently started looking into interactive fiction and software freedom seems to be unheard of. There isn't a single free IF development system. Free as in gratis? Noncommerical licenses? Verbatim distribution only? All of that, and it seems that's all that the IF community really cares about. I brought up the matter with one of the developers of an IF system & it was dismissed out of hand.Jason Self at 2013-12-02T22:43:25Z
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Interactive fiction is probably a good case study, reflected in many other fields: software is appearing everywhere/mediating everything, but software freedom is not, except as an artifact of free software being used. But ethical concepts, zero signal on other side.
That's largely what my talk earlier this year at lfcollab was about, though overly license-centric: http://gondwanaland.com/i/software-eats-commons-linux-collaboration-summit-2013.pdfMike Linksvayer at 2013-12-03T02:34:33Z
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I don't disagree wtih you on this, Mike, but I think we also have a lot of cooption going on. We're going through the stages of social justice movements on Internet time in rapid prototyping model, or something.
Mike Linksvayer at 2013-12-03T20:46:11Z
I just "shared" my own comment that others had shared and comment-commented on so I could easily find it again paging through https://identi.ca/mlinksva ... though admittedly it seems silly to "share" one's own comment.
This note is a not quite feature request/idea, because I'm not sure what the right thing is, but I'd like to be able to page through and search comments/minor things I've done. Maybe /$user/comments ?Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Chris Watkins likes this.
Show all 8 repliesSo does Dianara, probably an additional "minor activities" tab would be what I'm wishing for in a non-web client context. Dianara does have a minor inbox stream like the web sidebar, but that's anyone I'm following.
There needs to be a "bookmark this" minor activity :-)
sazius at 2013-12-03T20:56:57Z
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Pumpa also has an Activities tab which shows all your (major and minor) activities.sazius at 2013-12-03T21:04:56Z
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For things to be consistent, commenting on comments (shared or otherwise) shouldn't be possible :p
mray INACTIVE at 2013-12-03T22:11:20Z
that was an initial concern of mine when I first tried pump.io
although I trust the magic behind the process I'm still curious whether there is a simple answer for that.Chris Watkins likes this.
Iwan Setiawan at 2013-12-04T01:35:06Z
On a train. Listening to "podcast" which is good for my health. Food for thought, food for the heart.
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Mike Linksvayer at 2013-08-06T18:47:22Z
https://speakerdeck.com/audreyt/ofun-optimizing-for-fun is a fun slide deck, from 2006 (mention of svk made me look for date).
Indirectly via @trc.
@chriswaterguy cc'd for McD analogy.Chris Watkins likes this.
Iwan Setiawan at 2013-08-02T16:20:08Z
Welcome back! Enjoy the new identi.ca!
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Mike Linksvayer at 2013-07-27T20:16:55Z
how many companies are 100% distributed -- everyone works from the location of their choosing?
http://scottberkun.com/2013/how-many-companies-are-100-distributed/Chris Watkins likes this.
Mike Linksvayer at 2013-07-27T20:37:14Z
Account mobility between friendica sites http://friendica.com/node/55Chris Watkins, jpope likes this.
Stephen Michael Kellat at 2013-08-01T23:31:41Z
@x11r5 can do better than that!Christopher Allan Webber, Chris Watkins, Mike Linksvayer likes this.
Chris Yeong at 2013-02-12T12:44:46+00:00
You could also try FlipLauncher. http://ur1.ca/csatqChris Watkins likes this.
McScx at 2013-01-12T01:09:41+00:00
@chriswaterguy I use QuickDroid for this on my Android 2.3.6 phone. Might work on Android 4.1, too.Chris Watkins likes this.
@mcscx Forgot to say thanks for the #QuickDroid recommendation - it's great. I've linked it from Notification Toggle. !Android
Glyn Moody at 2012-12-16T13:13:19+00:00
Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets - http://tnw.co/UJUmOi can't waitChris Watkins likes this.
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woot! cc @t♻ @glynmoody !Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets - http://tnw.co/UJUmOi can't wait
bigbrovar at 2012-12-18T07:39:27+00:00
@chriswaterguy the transformer uses a tegra 3 which is based on a much older arm cortex 9 while the N10 is based on exynos5 cortex 15Chris Watkins likes this.
Dr. Azrael Tod at 2012-12-18T08:04:43+00:00
GHz is irrelevant, ARM Cortex A15 vs. A9 isn't - about 30-50% "faster" one would guessChris Watkins likes this.
Rajit Vikram Singh at 2012-12-18T09:34:49+00:00
@chriswaterguy Because of the new ARM architecture, it is SCREAMING fast. As fast as my One X that houses a quad core Tegra 3.Chris Watkins likes this.
Dr. Azrael Tod at 2012-12-17T13:04:14+00:00
i wont recommend anything with locked bootloader, 'cause you cant rely on updates by the maker. Nexus4 is fine too (no sd, 16GB max)Chris Watkins likes this.
H Masoud at 2012-09-24T14:53:07+00:00
The way I see it: MacOS and Windows were also created by bright engineers then were hijacked by greedy businessmen.Chris Watkins likes this.
@shm0 You're right. Despite I don't like apple Steve Wozniak is a tough hacker
Michał Andrzej Woźniak at 2012-09-24T23:51:11+00:00
.@forteller @csolisr @jankusanagi @chriswaterguy so, here's the plan's draft: http://rys.io/en/88 !identica !diaspora !statusnet discuss!Chris Watkins likes this.
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That would be here: http://ur1.ca/aez6r
@rysiek Friendica > Diaspora. Mainly because Friendica can add contacts from Diaspora, StatusNet, and even Twitter/Facebook.@rysiek I found a nice app that can be added to the stack: http://ur1.ca/aes51