François Marier fmarier@identi.ca
Vancouver, BC
Free software developer. Moved to https://fosstodon.org/@fmarier
Karl Fogel at 2022-11-10T22:25:39Z
"Musk told workers in the email that he wants to see subscriptions account for half of Twitter’s revenue."This explains everything! Obviously he needs to reduce all other revenue sources drastically enough to achieve this goal. And I think he can do it, I really think he can.François Marier, Stephen Michael Kellat, Alexandre Oliva likes this.
Minifree x200 unboxing/discovery thread
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-12-19T01:16:00Z
Just unboxed the x200 I ordered from http://minifree.org/. I got it in the mail. I must have unwrapped 50 feet of bubble wrap.... I have no worries about it being damaged in the hop across the pond.
I turned it on and it quickly flashed a drawing of a penguin hugging a gnu from the libreboot bios, and in 5 seconds it was booted and at a prompt for me to log in.
I logged in. Opengl was working, wifi was working, out of the box. What universe am I in???
This thing has 8GB (oops, said 16GB initially) of ram, a 1 terabyte hard drive. It's lightning fast. I can't believe this is a totally free system. I also embarassingly admit at how surprised I am at how nice the Trisquel install is on here.
I can't believe it. It runs so nicely, it's so light, it's so fast... it's the nicest machine I've ever owned.
What is going on??? I thought free software users were supposed to have a hard time with hardware? Hats off to Minifree, impressive frelling work. Whoa.
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still .. 15 secs is a pretty fast boot .. not sure I believe thats from a platter!
I guess its a much more high-end machine than I'm used to seeing (quite likely - I use mostly second hand gear at home)
and maybe thats REALLY fast hard drive!
AFAIK the thinkpad X200 only officially supports 4GB RAM, 8GB is the maximum which may or may not work depending on the configuration (but the people from minifree of course preinstall a working one), so no, 16GB wouldn't have been a possibility.
Yes, that was a mistake on my end. It's 8gb!
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-12-23T19:12:39Z
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Interesting this version....I am very happy with my X200s...it's a good laptop, very strong and confortable....Mine it's not totaly free...I work with Gentoo...
Could be the only difference between both bios and System?
♥
So much love in my inbox this morning.
Can't help gawking at various news outlets, but I keep coming back to that love.
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/me hugs joeyh
I was very surprised by your decision, but that's because I haven't been following Debian politics very closely.
Anyway, thank you for all the contributions you've made to free software inside of Debian, and will no doubt continue to make outside of Debian! Thank you in particular for git-annex and for sponsoring Pumpa when I had trouble finding a sponsor! :-)
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Now you have to read all new ones from today!
Stefano Zacchiroli at 2014-05-03T20:10:43Z
Dear Erich Schmidt,[…] http://www.axelspringer.de/dl/433625/LetterMathiasDoepfnerEricSchmidt.pdf — monumental open letter by Alex Springer CEONicola Busanello, François Marier, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer likes this.
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Evan Prodromou at 2013-11-19T01:00:34Z
#howtobeannoying write your own social network software, insist everyone you know has to use it.uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, Stephen Judge, RuiSeabra, warp and 8 others likes this.
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sounds like somebody made a first comment! yay! :)Francisco M García Claramonte, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Christopher Allan Webber, Olivier Mehani and 1 others likes this.
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Ok, it is time I freed some to get git-annex going.actually i finally have to give it a try, too.- My family's git-annex assistants noticed I had a new laptop and between themselves decided to put on rsync.net encrypted copies of all our shared files for my assistant to speedily download when I blearily arrived at the coffee shop.
Sorta like some 90's vision of friendly networks of personal agents actually happened.Olivier Berger, Olivier Mehani, François Marier, Amitai Schleier and 3 others likes this.
Dennis Zeit at 2013-06-06T08:49:30+00:00
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Duck Nebuchadnezzar at 2013-04-14T19:35:56+00:00
If they ever made a pill to help with idempotence, it wouldn't matter how many you take once it's working.François Marier, Evan Prodromou likes this.
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not to be confused with identimpotencejoeyh at 2013-04-01T15:38:34+00:00
ok, ok, this is what I was really up to in Boston, hanging with my bro's. http://ur1.ca/d8dxzFrançois Marier, P. J. McDermott likes this.
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the great brogrammers, @joeyh and @marktraceur http://goo.gl/q8EywGreg Grossmeier at 2013-04-01T15:51:15+00:00
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joeyh at 2013-04-05T17:10:26+00:00
using git-annex assistant to share files with my mom. Finally. ;) Rest of the family, watch out, I'm gunning for you next..François Marier, Christopher Allan Webber, Greg Grossmeier likes this.
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@joeyh awesome milestone, looking forward to doing the same with my folks!Will @joeyh solve http://xkcd.com/949/ at last?Christopher Allan Webber at 2013-04-05T17:49:04+00:00
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Lars Wirzenius at 2013-04-11T06:37:35+00:00
http://ur1.ca/dcb4i -- @joeyh's present to Branchable usersFrançois Marier likes this.
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The Anarcat at 2013-02-22T03:31:22+00:00
i call hackers "patenteux" :)François Marier, Evan Prodromou likes this.
Benjamin Mako Hill at 2012-12-31T17:59:08+00:00
Just posted a short essay on "Freedom for Users, Not for Software" (http://ur1.ca/cd84v)François Marier, Christopher Allan Webber, MacRat, drew Roberts likes this.
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The problem is inescapable association with price or access. We need a new, liberty-linked term to unite around; neither "free" nor "open".@mako, well written and well thought, as usual
"Freedom for Users, Not for Software" by @mako http://ur1.ca/cd84v << liked very much!! #creativecommons #freesoftware #PowerToThePeople
Evan Prodromou at 2012-12-22T16:24:01+00:00
We have radicals and moderates in Free Software as in all social movements. And strife between the camps is a natural part of that.François Marier, ghostdancer likes this.
Moderates signal their ability to compromise with non-members by chastising radicals for anti-social behaviour.Evan Prodromou at 2012-12-22T16:25:23+00:00
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Evan Prodromou at 2012-12-22T16:25:23+00:00
Moderates signal their ability to compromise with non-members by chastising radicals for anti-social behaviour.François Marier likes this.
The dirty secret neither camp wants to admit is that both are important and probably necessary to make progress.Evan Prodromou at 2012-12-22T16:25:59+00:00
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Do note that, to the BSD-ish end of the community, I am usually seen as a radical ideologue :-)
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn at 2012-12-13T23:04:54+00:00
Got a "promoted tweet" in my twitter stream. Reported the author as a spammer to twitter. I had forgotten that was coming.François Marier likes this.
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn at 2012-09-04T22:03:12+00:00
Now *that's* a digital signature. Buying health insurance online, they ask me to type my full name twice to digitally sign.François Marier likes this.
Richard Fontana at 2012-07-08T20:50:54+00:00
A note to journalists http://ur1.ca/9qwzr #Copyleft.nextFrançois Marier likes this.