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Big jump in donations! We're now at 55% to the first goal and past 19k.. how fast can we beat 20k? http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.htmlPanko, Ivaylo Valkov (Ивайло Вълков), n2t, hardandfree and 6 others likes this.
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Evan Prodromou at 2014-03-07T21:30:15Z
To what extent does Satoshi Nakamoto deserve his privacy? To what extent is his identity newsworthy?
If the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a pseudonym for a person or group of persons who have a non-obvious agenda that would impact the Bitcoin economy, clearly that is something that people deserve to know. If Bitcoin was a creation of the Chinese government or the Church of Scientology, that's probably valuable information.
And if it's determined that inventing Bitcoin was a crime, somehow, or that the accounts that seem to be controlled by Satoshi Nakamoto are implicated in a crime, well, then, that's probably worthy of uncovering, too.
But what if Satoshi Nakamoto is just the pseudonym of a single man or woman who wants to be left alone? It's an interesting journalistic exercise to uncover his or her true identity, but is it worthy of a news story? And is it ethical to reveal it?
I think not. I think people should get to say, "I don't want to be paid attention to," and they get to be left alone unless there's some pressing need to identify them.
Even if "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a group of people who wish to remain pseudonymous, I think leaving them alone is probably a good idea.
What good is served by harassing people in their homes? Who really cares?jrobb, sazius, Olivier Mehani, lnxwalt@microca.st and 3 others likes this.
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Laws are not likely to apply here. We want the press to be free to pursue this sort of investigation when something like Enron happens, so we can't outlaw this behavior. At the same time, we want members of the press to know that it is not justified in this situation. It makes Newsweek and its reporters appear small-minded and vengeful.lnxwalt@microca.st at 2014-03-08T04:17:32Z
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People who invested in Bitcoin just for the greed of money deserve to be stung. That being said what happened at Mt Gox should never have happened. People had faith in that company because of the name they had built up, yet nobody was speaking out about the impending doom. Somebody had to know what was going on.
It seems that the creator(s) of Bitcoins may have stored a larger number of them personally. For having trust in Bitcoins this would be important information.
Where was this kind of investigation when major banks secretly borrowed trillions of dollars from the Federal Reserve and counted it as "capital" so they could avoid being shut down? Show me a photo of the CEO of Bank of America in his / her yard trying to escape from reporters.
Well, then, neither should they have done this to Mr Nakamoto.
Artopal at 2013-12-17T04:09:58Z
:( Maybe you just need an assistant? ;)mray INACTIVE, Jerald Vanderraad likes this.
I have one. Emacs org-mode. There's nothing a human assistant could really do that org-mode can't. Everything I need to delegate requires someone with a higher level of knowledge about Free Software non-profit org operations than anyone who wanted a title like "assistant" would have.
The only thing an assistant could probably do for me is book my travel, but I'm traveling less in the next year anyway.
Bradley M. Kuhn at 2013-09-09T00:43:14Z
I completely indulged my most base and selfish urges this weekend and engaged in my true passion: writing Free Software, instead of doing all the Conservancy work that I should have been doing.
I wrote a patch to etckeeper that closes Debian Bug #613278, and allows the user to edit the commit message automatically made by etckeeper after package manager operations.
This all started because I simply wanted to have the aptitude command that caused the dpkg changes to appear in the etckeeper autocommit when running aptitude. Joey Hess confirms there's no way to get this info other than walking the process tree back up from the dpkg hooks calls, so the next best thing was closing the bug above so that I could at least past in the aptitude command myself into the commit log.
The patch only worked for Git because it's the only one of the VCS's that seemed to have a --edit/-e option, which forces editing of the commit message even if you've specified the commit message another way on the command line.
That led me to also write this patch for Mercurial that adds the --edit/-e option and submit a bug for Bazaar to add the same.
This all took me most of the weekend, which is insanely embarrassing. My hacking skills are, of course, quite weak these days. :-/
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yeah,
$ bzr uncommitted
$ bzr commit
is not something you want to do every time you need to add/change something in a message...
You need to have some fun too
Electronic Frontier Foundation at 2013-05-23T17:48:18+00:00
Google's new instant messaging platform abandons open standards and hurts user privacy: https://eff.org/r.b9SmDennis Zeit, Jerald Vanderraad, RiveraValdez, Mihalcea Razvan and 10 others likes this.
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Thanks, @eff!
Google should be punished.I still rely upon Gmail but hopefully that will change in the coming months.
DuckDuckGo has a xmpp server now http://ur1.ca/dyw8k
♻ @eff Google's new instant messaging platform abandons open standards and hurts user privacy: https://eff.org/r.b9Sm
Free Software Foundation at 2011-05-20T20:38:42+00:00
Announcing a new addition to our list of free GNU/Linux distributions: Parabola! http://ur1.ca/48gbc !FSF !GNUPatrick Schnorbus, Jure Repinc (JLP), a(n) person, Jerald Vanderraad and 5 others likes this.
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Max Shinn at 2010-12-28T17:26:05+00:00
Whew! After a five and a half hour hack session, !gnusocial photo management is looking better than ever!Jerald Vanderraad likes this.
@trombonechamp Looking forward to it!
Wikileaks at 2010-12-08T01:00:20+00:00
STATEMENT: "We will not be gagged" #cablegate #censorshipJerald Vanderraad likes this.
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Christopher Griffiths at 2010-11-19T05:20:58+00:00
To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.Jerald Vanderraad likes this.
Dvd Mrsdn at 2010-10-07T14:13:46+00:00
I have made the top of today's identi.ca popular notices list with just three people favouriting my dent. That is pathetic.Jerald Vanderraad, Dvd Mrsdn, Bruce Cowan, Deceased. Please use 'andyc@pumpdog.me'. and 1 others likes this.
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@davidmarsden I have ironically favourited that ;)Matt Copperwaite at 2010-10-07T14:16:54+00:00
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@davidmarsden how can you find how many people faced a dent?Deceased. Please use 'andyc@pumpdog.me'. at 2010-10-07T17:18:04+00:00
@davidmarsden Yes. You don't need many dents to hit Popular. If you're lurking on Page 2, pleasuring yourself will bump you to 'Popular'.Deceased. Please use 'andyc@pumpdog.me'. at 2010-10-07T20:20:44+00:00
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@davidmarsden Popularity has a exponential decay factor. Stuff that's popular right now will shoot to the top, gradually move down.Evan Prodromou at 2010-10-08T17:34:52+00:00
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