etalas etalas@identi.ca

I'm ready for a new academic year at the #University. Feels good to go #backtowork when you can use #freesoftware there too :)

Good one.

But systemd as a feminist conspiracy fomented by Debian Women members still wins the gold of Conspiracy Theories / Crackpot fics.

Somedays on pump.io I feel that I should learn Spanish. The little I know from Pixies songs and watching Dora with my kids just doesn't cut it. I machine translate as much as I can, and it conveys the general idea well enough but I don't trust it to convey subtleties that might be within a post.

Mike, I put the original here so you can study the details:
http://pomelo.iis.sinica.edu.tw:9090/u/trc/m/seaside-vegetation/

The one I uploaded to identi.ca is a preview extracted from the original above (which at the moment sits on an  experimental MG instance). The plan is to set up a stable and permanent instance here as a media depository for research and personal use.

I think flooding all people with every newly uploaded media can be too much. It will be nice to have a way to link up pump.io and MG user accounts so I can say in my MG instance "push this but not other images to my followers at that pump.io instance". I am not sure if this will work (or I am not talking nonsense) but seems like an alternative to making people subscribe to yet another service (i.e. my MediaGoblin instance) just to get notices of new photos.

I usually tell my family and friends that we are building a better internet. It's not ready yet, we all would like that it would be already ready, or the first internet kept free, but we're working on it.

Then I say that I help testing it and trying to find bugs to fix and doing some translations and promotion. Meanwhile I use the tools of the future, and I'm already getting some advantages (e.g. encetption, or selfhosting, or independence from big companies…). Then I say to them that they can help too, for example, using it to communicate with me. If they don't want, no problem, we're building the nice internet for everybody, for them too, they can join at any time. They can be the first ones, or the last ones to join. If they join when everything works, well, everything will work, but they will be the last ones to come on board, and their names will be not written in history :)

About the other tools, the privative ones, I say that they are not my favorites so even if they find me there I don't pay too much attention because I'm happier with the other ones. For example, I use whatsapp with my family but they all know that I would prefer to use Xabber. We already use jitsi, and owncloud, and email. GPG is next. From time to time I invite them again to Xabber or whatever :)

I try to spread the word in a positive way. This is a long run. We have discovered a treasure and some times we can feel frustrated when people don't see the advantages or we suffer the bugs and so. But be patient, don't stop walking, and remember that we're a global community, you're not alone.

Becoming a bit phylosophical, this is the same task of spreading the culture of peace and love. The world is against us, but we're not going to give up. And we know that we're going to win, even when the task is getting people to the bright side one by one. Sometimes our work seems to clash with people's freedom (they 'choose' to jail themselves and so) but the fact is that we cannot force anybody to be free or to love, it's something that they need to discover themselves. Of course we can show some paths and collective knowledge, but it's mostly a personal experience. We just need to not give up, and each one of us do something. Each drop counts.

Cheer up!

I've discovered that some people find the phrase offensive, comparing proprietary software to addictive drugs.

For my part, I don't have value judgements about drug addicts. They are suffering from a social ill that needs compassion to solve, just like the use of proprietary software.

Heavens. People may have to think for themselves. Expect the world to end any moment.

awesome: APT >= 1.0.x ships /usr/bin/apt which merges apt-get/apt-cache functionalities w/ a sane(r) UI #rocks

It seems that Girls Can be Anything When They Grow Up – Until They Start Playing with Barbie (/via @Fanta @Michael )

mmm interesting.

At home we were three girls, but we never had a Barbie. Other kind of dolls, yes, but not that one. One Barbie would be the cause of fighting among us for sure, and three Barbies were too expensive for our family in that time. Probably my parents didn't like the stereotypes that that doll introduced, anyway.

I didn't like dolls in general, my big sister liked to comb their hair and so, but I only liked to take out their arms and legs and head and put them again. Maybe they were my first tinkering activities XD

I remember me being jealous of my friends who had Barbie, though. Do you know what I liked about that doll? It was the only one that was able to bend the knees, elbows, and waist.

When I was 9, for first communion, a handheld came as present (I believe it was Eagle N Chicken) so I totally lost my (few) interest about dolls and began to tinker on that.

A bit later, an MSX (home computer yeah) and MSX magazines with pages and pages of Basic code, and a small book that explained (and drawed) very well "what is an algorithm", with an example of a robot making a cooking recipe :)

I'm so thankful to my parents for their choices of toys for us... But I still don't know how to comb my or other's hair!

interesting point of view for somebody counting podcasts in hex... ;)

@Karl Fogel claims this statement of mine is deep, so I guess I should post it here:

Most monopolies are centered around the human fear of failure, after all.

I talked to two GPL violators this week: one spent the week wasting my time with a bunch of political head games, and landed a barely improved CCS candidate on my desk, and the other is working on the weekend to try to get a product into compliance with the GPL.

Not all GPL violators are created equal.

"The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability." http://cn.tmagazine.com/health/20140215/t15cancer/en-us/ so plain & so true

I put AAAA in front of my DNS records. I kinda hope they are unique, otherwise I'll be very confused...

@spotify take on the init system debate https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00287.html is yet another proof of how much the outer world cares about #Debian choices

Is talky.io free software? Looks like palava.tv is AGPL, can self-host: https://github.com/palavatv

Video chat like skype, but entirely free and open software, using WebRTC. Embeddable on web pages!

https://palava.tv/

Teh future, but watching chromium turn on my webcam light is makes me wonder, where is the kickstarter for awesome low-tech webcam blocking shields? (My sister uses duct tape.)

Anyway, best thing I've seen in the 30c3 lightning talks so far; second place is the idea of making a mail server gpg encrypt all incoming non-encrypted email to your public key so it's encrypted at rest.