Nigel Green mrnigelgreen@identi.ca
MK, United Kingdom
Wannabe Python hacker, open source enthusiast, noisy guitarist, inquisitive sort
Six-day Match! Anonymous donor will match next 83 Supporter sign-ups!
Software Freedom Conservancy at 2015-12-18T18:26:03Z
URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/dec/18/six-day-match/
Six-day Match! Anonymous donor will match next 83 Supporter sign-ups!
Join before December 24th to have your Supporter donation count twice!
Not only have individuals been coming out to support us, as we have now reached 500 Supporters, but those with larger funds to share have as well. We have already raised two large match-grants to fill our donation progress bar from both ends! We're excited today to announce another anonymous match, for 83 new Supporters, who sign up in the next six days.
Please, if you have been thinking about Supporting Conservancy this holiday season, please do it by December 24th so we can meet this match. And, if you happen to have the funds to do a large match, please contact us by email if you'd like to make a big impact and match the next batch of Supporters!
Finally, if you've already become a Supporter, we thank you again. Now, we ask you do a bit more for us. We know it's a lot to ask, but we hope if you're already a Supporter, you'll reach out to your friends, family, and colleagues to tell them why you became a Supporter and encourage them to do the same.
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Article on Saudi Arabia That Al Jazeera Blocked - from The Intercept
Freemor at 2015-12-18T20:11:57Z
This article was published by Al Jazeera America on December 3. Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar appear to have blocked the article outside of the United States because it is critical of an ally of Qatar, so we are making it available here to international readers. Read our accompanying piece, Al Jazeera Blocks Anti-Saudi Arabia Article.
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VCS friendly, patchable, document line wrapping
Christine Lemmer-Webber at 2015-12-17T16:39:11Z
A new blogpost: Having spent years being frustrated with plaintext conventions that are either just vcs/patch unfriendly or just annoying to view, I've finally come up with a good solution: each sentence on its own line, and wrap that line!
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glad to know I'm not the only compulsive M-q'er out there...
Nathan Smith at 2015-12-18T00:38:41Z
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" In trying to please the plaintext gods, we have defiled their temple. Can we do better? "
And, as importantly, can we appease them to be safe from their wrath?
Their wrath would be the merge conflicts, I suppose. So it all goes hand in hand!Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-12-18T13:56:51Z
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I admit I was surprised at the conclusion. I thought it was going to be the opposite, indented at the beginning of each sentence. I think that reads better, and it creates fewer lines by virtue of wasting less whitespace.
But now I tried it out, and indented-first-line makes emacs indent the lines below. And when I tried dustycloud-style, I was surprised to see that emacs even did the right thing when autofilling the first line! When it inserts a new second line, it preserves the indentation of the existing second line. Awesome.
So the proposal makes perfect use of the existing tool. I will adopt this right away.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-12-18T14:03:45Z
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Others have pointed out that "we should be changing the tools, not the way we write things", which is probably true. You can
wdiff, and you can usegit --word-diff, but applying patches is not as easy I think, and certainly version control systems usually don't have a good merge strategy. And what about those \n shifting around?I'm down with more tool-based strategies if they exist and work though. Refutations welcome! :)
(I do think that all formats do work within tools though. The fact that we're filling/wrapping paragraphs is to satisfy our existing plaintext editor tools...)
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Conservancy is sooooo close to passing the 500 line
Christine Lemmer-Webber at 2015-12-16T21:46:23Z
Hey, have you checked the Conservancy supporter page lately? Only 3 donors away from passing 500!
Have you donated yet? Get 'em over the line!
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Now 500! Awesome.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-12-17T14:46:09Z
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Sean Tilley at 2015-12-17T19:30:43Z
This is me most mornings until 2AM. It used to be a lot worse - I used to stay up until sunrise.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), AJ Jordan, Nigel Green likes this.
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Not sure if it's me getting older, or the changing of the web, but I don't find as much of interest to browse any more. Still, I should be thankful it's only 2-3 hours lost now rather than 8-10...
Roger Fisher's idea for making the decision to use nuclear weapons less abstract
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Christine Lemmer-Webber at 2015-12-08T17:36:12Z
Things are happening for sure. Last week I was in San Francisco for the Social WG face to face meeting. It was the most successful meetings we've had so far in the group. I'm really optimistic.
More should be said, I should probably write up a post.
Jessica is anticipating server to server federation basics landing in mediagoblin probably by end of january.
Things are very actively happening, though I think we're doing a bad job of communicating it. I hope to make a blogpost this week giving an update.
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Accepted into the Stripe Open Source Retreat 2016
Christine Lemmer-Webber at 2015-12-08T17:51:08Z
Proper blogpost coming up later today, but in the meanwhile, you can read Stripe's announcement: Open Source Retreat 2016 grantees. And guess who's in it?
That's right, Stripe's going to pay me to focus on MediaGoblin for the first few months of 2016, and are generously giving me office space to complete the work... no strings attached! This also means I'll be living in San Francisco for the first few months of 2016!
One of the things that appealed to Stripe greatly was our work on ActivityPump.
The aim is to get MediaGoblin 1.0 out the door by the end of the retreat (while simultaneously advancing general federation standards work). We can do it! And thank you Stripe for the generous opportunity!
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How awesome is that! We're so happy for you, and for us!Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-12-08T19:51:32Z
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Wow, that's nuts. We use Stripe for our payment processor at work - I had no idea that they had such interest in federated technologies!Sean Tilley at 2015-12-08T22:56:48Z
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Congrats and best wishes -- I'm looking forward to seeing how this work plays out!Sumana Harihareswara [on Mastodon] at 2015-12-10T15:18:46Z
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allright allright.
mray INACTIVE at 2015-12-06T10:09:25Z
I'm a supporter now, too.
I just love your Kuhn Fu moves too much.
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Fortune at 2014-02-11T06:06:03Z
(education) % A Parable of Modern Research: Bob has lost his keys in a room which is dark except for one brightly lit corner. "Why are you looking under the light, you lost them in the dark!" "I can only see here."
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Charles Roth at 2014-01-22T17:43:34Z
Results are in for the MRI and everything looks normal, which is good. The search for the source of my headaches, blurred vision, and hearing issues continues. #whewNigel Green, Matt Molyneaux likes this.
[Updated] Pumpa Faenza Icon
I've updated my previous Pumpa Faenza Icon. Mostly because I wanted a svg version since they scale so much better. ;)
Updated the icon from the Faenza svg source and the pumpkin svg. I'm not great with inkscape but, I think it turned out pretty nice. Not sure why the svg isn't showing the pumpkin in firefox but, it does in inkscape/gimp/dolphin/KDE menu for me.
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If anyone familar with inkscape looks at the svg version and sees why it may not be showing the pumpkin layer in firefox (and chromium), let me know. ;)
The svg shows up for me too (eye of MATE), doesn't show up in Firefox. How strange.
Oh, hey that looks nice! :-) Maybe I should take it as the official logo for Pumpa? :-) The current logo is nice, but very lo-res.
YES! thanks :D
Tsyesika@io.theperplexingpariah.co.uk at 2014-01-22T09:02:39Z
sazius at 2014-01-21T22:04:01Z
I've been using the Nexus 7 (the old 2012 model) for a while and I really like it. No need for ugly hacks to jail break it, and Cyanogenmod works like a charm.
I haven't tried the newer Nexus 7 model, though. But check Cyanogenmod forums, it probably works as well.
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Evan Prodromou at 2014-01-20T20:04:37Z
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Wow indeed. a must read
Oh! Beautiful article! Agree: it's a must read.I was forgetting: thanks for sharing it, Evan! :)Bad Example
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Tsyesika@io.theperplexingpariah.co.uk at 2014-01-18T18:17:26Z
[New blog post](http://theperplexingpariah.co.uk/page/6)
Outlines how I've setup my firefox to make it much more usable than the default. Let me know what you think :)Scorpio20, Matt Molyneaux, Evan Prodromou, Luis and 6 others likes this.
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Proxyfox for sites I use tor on and pentadactyle #vimfanboy other than that I more or less have the same add-ons :-)
theru@microca.st at 2014-01-18T18:48:50Z
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That is a great read
I should try pentadactyle, I tried vimperator but didn't really like it much. I'll try proxyfoxTsyesika@io.theperplexingpariah.co.uk at 2014-01-18T19:07:20Z
This is great, and I already learned a lot! Thanks!
Stephen Sekula at 2014-01-18T19:07:26Z
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Tsyesika@io.theperplexingpariah.co.uk at 2014-01-14T16:01:53Z
Got my fairphone today, really like it, seems to be fairly fast and feels quite good to use. Will probably be posting a review of it this weekend :)
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Cool - I've just added my name onto the list for getting one of the next batch. Will keep an eye out for your review!
Nigel Green at 2014-01-14T16:25:55Z
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