Carlos Solís csolisr@identi.ca
Santa Ana, Costa Rica
Estudiante de informática de la UCR. Libreculturista, geek, auxlanger, otaku, gamer y traductor-adaptador... con poco tiempo libre.
Jason Self at 2015-07-08T01:55:33Z
For criteria #1 you can't do better than http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/gluglugStephen Sekula, Carlos Solís, testbeta likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-07-07T22:18:37Z
I for one welcome our imminent Guix container overlords http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00123.html
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Screwed up 'git send-email'? What did you want it to do?Oh, you mean you intended to do --thread?Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-07-07T22:59:33Z
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I should have used --cover-letter to write the patch 0 message, but I didn't and then I told 'git send-email' to make a new thread for each patch without realizing. Newbie mistake.As you may or may not have seen on the list, I am grappling with getting git send-mail to do what I want, too. :-)
Evan Prodromou at 2015-07-04T03:09:02Z
Full disclosure: non-snitches also get stitches, but mostly because of skiing accidents.Carlos Solís, Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
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JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2015-07-02T12:13:01Z
I'd give an opinion, but you know... I might go to prison for it =)
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THERE ARE NO STRINGS
Did a physics coding tutorial today. Encountered methods that lookup by string. Got upset. Made this.
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Jason Self at 2015-04-09T17:18:08Z
I've heard some complain of how long the GPL is but but this PDF of Apple's proprietary Software License Agreement for iOS 8.1 is 471 pages: http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iOS81.pdfBob Call, kenkeiras, Infieles Agraviado, Carlos Solís and 9 others likes this.
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Well, in their defense, it takes a lot of words to restrict your freedoms and tell you all the ways they will sell and use your private information.Charles Stanhope at 2015-04-09T18:28:45Z
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that's pretty messed up.
To avoid misrepresenting this.
It's 12 pages in English and then the same content in many languages.
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@mrd I think you're being too serious. Don't take the fun out of it. Perhaps you need to learn all of the languages so as to be able to read and understand the entire agreement... ;)
Día de los documentos libres (II)
Laura Arjona Reina at 2015-03-25T10:15:09Z
Publica también en #estandaresabiertos (ODF, txt, csv...) los "originales" de tus PDF, así facilitas reutilización #DFD2015 @documentfreedom
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-03-25T19:33:47Z
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Looks like discussed at https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1060Mike Linksvayer at 2015-03-25T19:57:37Z
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I was told that this was temporary code because the Gogs devs are planning on implementing their own ssh server in Go, which makes me a lot more worried, actually.
Mike Linksvayer at 2015-02-18T18:47:50Z
http://www.reddit.com/r/redditdonate/comments/2wc7fe/software_freedom_conservancy/
You can probably guess from the URL.Carlos Solís, Douglas Perkins, sazius likes this.
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Also make sure to visit/vote at http://www.reddit.com/donate?organization=412203632 (that's Conservancy's identifier)Already voted for that one, the FSF, the EFF and the Creative Commons foundation#jeffwecan
Meet Jeff, the diseased lung in a cowboy hat, from Last Week Tonight (youtube.com)
Now that's a fitting mascot for certain... products ;)
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I had no idea that tobacco companies were still acting so repulsively. The amorality of corporations never ceases to amaze me.Mike Linksvayer at 2015-02-19T01:45:14Z
It feels like an ancient topic, but there's another why-not-NonCommercial page I hadn't seen before http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Why_OSE_Doesn't_Support_the_Use_of_Creative_Commons_Non-Commerci...
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Mike Linksvayer at 2015-01-24T03:30:29Z
https://ghost.org/ghost-pro-vs-self-hosting/
comparison chart, at the endEvery penny we make goes to the Ghost Foundation, which funds the development of our independent, open source software.
I gather withknown is going to take a similar path. That's good. As mentioned in semi-recent conversations not regarding any software or service provider in particular.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Carlos Solís likes this.
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@mlinksva@identi.ca Interesting but the must have a different definition of self-hosting then I do. My little server sitting on the shelf in the other room doesn't take either the time or the money that they list. Also it'd be nice to see the money going to 'free/libre software' projects.
@Freemor I think that's called shelf-hosting :-)
sazius at 2015-01-24T14:35:05Z
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@freemor that you set up a shelf-hosted server reflects years of knowledge. I'm equally happy to see free software sold on tiny servers to be shelf-hosted by the masses, ideally going the final 1% and getting RYF certification. The key in either case is availability for $ to the general public lacking any such years on knowledge.
Víctor Salmerón at 2015-01-02T04:23:58Z
Paso #1 para usar una red libre: estar dispuesto a usar dicha reda(n) person, EVAnaRkISTO, Carlos Solís likes this.
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10 short steps to contribute translations to free software for Android
Laura Arjona Reina at 2014-09-24T23:17:25Z
New blogpost: 10 short steps to contribute #translations to #freesoftware for #Android - http://larjona.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/10-short-steps-to-contribute-translations-to-free-software-for-android/
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Owen Shepherd at 2014-08-28T21:14:18Z
Looks cool! They aren't actually self-hosting their self-hosting service though... it's on github. :)
Surely dogfooding should be the minimum expected from somebody? ...Carlos Solís likes this.
Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
Alberto Moshpirit at 2014-08-17T01:24:35Z
I know it's not the greatest marketing pitch, but it's the truth.
Google is bent on establishing platform domination unlike anything we've ever seen, even from late-1990s Microsoft. Google controls Android, which is winning; Chrome, which is winning; and key Web properties in Search, Youtube, Gmail and Docs, which are all winning. The potential for lock-in is vast and they're already exploiting it, for example by restricting certain Google Docs features (e.g. offline support) to Chrome users, and by writing contracts with Android OEMs forcing them to make Chrome the default browser. Other bad things are happening that I can't even talk about. Individual people and groups want to do the right thing but the corporation routes around them. (E.g. PNaCl and Chromecast avoided Blink's Web standards commitments by declaring themselves not part of Blink.) If Google achieves a state where the Internet is really only accessible through Chrome (or Android apps), that situation will be very difficult to escape from, and it will give Google more power than any company has ever had.
Microsoft and Apple will try to stop Google but even if they were to succeed, their goal is only to replace one victor with another.
So if you want an Internet — which means, in many ways, a world — that isn't controlled by Google, you must stop using Chrome now and encourage others to do the same. If you don't, and Google wins, then in years to come you'll wish you had a choice and have only yourself to blame for spurning it now.
Of course, Firefox is the best alternative :-). We have a good browser, and lots of dedicated and brilliant people improving it. Unlike Apple and Microsoft, Mozilla is totally committed to the standards-based Web platform as a long-term strategy against lock-in. And one thing I can say for certain is that of all the contenders, Mozilla is least likely to establish world domination :-).
Source: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-later-you-wont.html
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The sad thing is that probably in years to come people will not wish to have a choice, if they find themselves comfortable with what they are using to surf the internet, even if what they use everyday is backed by a big bad company or if they have no freedom. The majority prefers functionality to freedom, I think this is a fact.Alberto Moshpirit likes this.
If I had the time, money, and energy I would write my own web browser.
I'm a happy user of Konqueror, Rekonq and Qupzilla. Firefox is not installed on my systems at this moment, I don't like it. Chrome will never be an option, sure.
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GNU IceCat and Tor Browser are also good choices with better privacy defaults than Mozilla Firefox, but both based on Firefox.
Glyn Moody at 2014-08-14T15:54:46Z
The Gentle Art of Muddying the Licensing Waters - http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/08/the-gentle-art-of-muddying-the-licensing-wa... #Microsoft did it, now the publishers are doing it #FUD #openaccessCarlos Solís likes this.
Mike Linksvayer at 2014-08-03T22:50:47Z
http://zanata.org/ apparently a FaiF alternative to transifex.
Noted in comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128371Carlos Solís, Artopal likes this.
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Also happened to note from another comment there that nope*n contains open*n-1 as in
nopenopenopeMike Linksvayer at 2014-08-04T01:46:00Z
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Mike Linksvayer at 2014-08-04T01:23:09Z
One small thing that never ceases to (something less than amaze) me is when I see some free/open/&similar person on twitter only, and they have like 100 followers. They aren't there for the audience. Are they there to follow stars? Or hoping that a star will notice them? Probably (a) it is still nice to be able to see/potentially interact with almost anyone in one place and (b) they just don't know about any of the fragments of the federated social web, or if they do, have a bad impression. I guess I should ask some of them. (b) can be improved, yay!Luke, jrobb, Christopher Allan Webber, Carlos Solís and 1 others likes this.
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Currently I duplicate my messages from identi.ca to other channels. Sometimes I wonder why I still do that. I will admire those who are on twitter but at the same time reject all followers there.
I don't get why they'd be using Twitter (or even worse Facebook) only, but until everyone that matters to you escapes the Lockiverse, I can see why someone might maintain a presence there along with federated networks.lnxwalt@microca.st at 2014-08-04T01:54:14Z
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The federated social web can hardly compete with any of the attributes that folks value in social networks. It works for me, because I chose to not use them before I became aware of the various projects, but I can think of a lot of benefits that Twitter provides over anything federated.
And Twitter has a lot of problems, chief among them that it is not a safe space! But maybe an unsafe space with lots of people is better than a space of indeterminate safety (I've been harassed on StatusNet) with relatively few people?
So, for twitter specifically, it isn't only about "stars" in that person's situation (probably), it could also be about following interesting orgs/etc (non-people).
And the "interesting orgs/etc" category won't come to the federated socweb until they have link click tracking tools that come preconfigured to support them (aka, never). See also: https://identi.ca/eff and https://identi.ca/creativecommons and <insert any other dead attempt at fed socweb from an org here>
I hope all other governments will follow the UK's move on ODF: https://u.fsf.org/119
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Yeah, great newsI hope we don't mess it up :-) I'm wondering how to use this to get access to libreoffice in my probably-typical "excel as business logic" workplace. MS Office's ODF export is maliciously half-functional.