Stefano Zacchiroli at 2015-03-24T17:42:12Z
slides of my #lp2015 talk « Distributions and the Free "Cloud" » now available at http://bit.ly/1C7WGWgDanc, Olivier Berger, Srikar, Debacle and 5 others likes this.
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Now to get the talk to go with it! Icecast crashed and restarted during your talk though.
april.org at 2015-03-13T10:18:16Z
Paris adhère à l'April et renforce son engagement pour le logiciel libre http://apr1.org/wY
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sazius at 2014-11-26T18:28:51Z
Doctoral thesis successfully defended, also survived the doctoral dinner/party, the after party and the after-after party. Sleep needed :-)
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Evan Prodromou at 2014-11-10T18:39:06Z
Congratulations to Mozilla for 10 years of Firefox.ben mtl, Aleksej, elbinario, John Hume and 8 others likes this.
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People sometimes forget how important Firefox was. If Firefox hadn't succeeded we might still have mostly pages that require Microsoft IE to function properly. That used to be pretty common.
sazius at 2014-11-10T19:27:55Z
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does this count the time as phoenix and then firebird?
I just posted about that! No, it's 10 years since version 1.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Version_1.0sazius at 2014-11-10T19:27:55Z
People sometimes forget how important Firefox was. If Firefox hadn't succeeded we might still have mostly pages that require Microsoft IE to function properly. That used to be pretty common.
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Also, without the competition, we'd still have MSIE 6, not 11.lnxwalt@microca.st at 2014-11-10T20:12:22Z
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Jason Self at 2014-11-05T19:56:22Z
Installed the new version of libreboot on my X60s. Woot. Free software BIOS FTW.ben mtl, a(n) person, Efraim Flashner, cmhobbs and 6 others likes this.
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Owen Shepherd at 2014-11-05T00:15:56Z
I've just submitted a first draft of my opinion on what a social protocol should look like to the W3C Social Working Group. We are at the stage where WG members bring candiates to the table, we discuss them, work out what we actually want from the protocol specs and then pick a base specification to work from and what we need to do to it to make it suit peoples' needs.
Anyone familiar with pump.io's API should find it reasonably familiar. I'm always open to commentary and critique from all angles, and here I'm basically opening it up to comment from pump client developers
If you are friends with the developers of the other federated social networks (GNU Social, Diaspora, Friendica, etc): Please try and get them involved in the SocialWG. Now is the time when we start to discuss the protocol specifications.
If they care about us developing a common protocol for the federated social web, this is our best shot at it.
I know various other members who have connections are reaching out. The more people trying to bring this to their attention, the better.ben mtl, joemaro, 4slam, Luis and 14 others likes this.
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Show all 8 repliesI think it can just be a user-interface difference.
There is a huge difference to regular posts with selected receivers and private messages.
The first one are simply regular posts. You post them. And if someone is looking on them, it is fine. if not, it is okay as well. For example: I'm receiving 1,000 to 2,000 messages a day. I cannot see them all.
Private messages are addressed in my inbox. I seem them separated from the other messages. They don't disappear that fast.
You can't do that with simple notifications either. For example: I'm getting about 40 or 50 notifications a day. If I simply got a notification for private messages that were addressed to me, I would get even more notifications and additionally I wouldn't had a chance to find them again, several days in the future.
We need an additional field, where we can separate these posts. Not every system may respect it - but systems who do, should be able to make the separation.Michael at 2014-11-05T22:57:34Z
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>> heluecht:
“Private messages are addressed in my inbox. I seem them separated from the other messages. They don't disappear that fast.”
But that already happens in Pump.io. Messages addressed to you (private or not) appear in the "Direct" (inbox/major) timeline, in addition to the "main" timeline, so you can easily find them.JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2014-11-06T01:05:46Z
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If this process is going to succeed, the W3C standard must be:- a superset of most socnets' functionality (that means not every feature will be supported by all socnets)
- extensible (means socnets can add additional functionality that is not specified in the standard without breaking compatibility)
- able to accommodate a variety of interaction, security, privacy models; each socnet's model is somewhat different from the others
- a superset of most socnets' functionality (that means not every feature will be supported by all socnets)
Trisquel & Whoot! Whoot!
Freemor at 2014-11-05T13:22:11Z
Upgraded my Workbench PC to #Trisquel 7 yesterday. Loving it. Upgrade went without any major hitches. Will do Server on the weekend when the demand on it is lower. Thanks to the Dev's for all the hard work.
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Jason Self at 2014-11-03T20:32:46Z
Yay! Excitement! Trisquel version 7 has been released and also has a revamped website!ben mtl, Digital Roffey, Sotitrox, Luis A. Guzman and 2 others likes this.
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Blaise Alleyne at 2014-02-20T02:03:39Z
I'm hardly defending Canonical. As you said, we basically agree on the problems with Canonical.
It's the reaction that I'm not on side with. For all the proprietary stuff that Canonical has been pushing, especially in the past few years, the vast majority of Ubuntu is still free software. Now, careful -- I'm not saying in any way that it excuses the proprietary stuff. But I do think it should change how we criticize and hold Canonical to account (however unwilling they may be to listen -- though, occasionally they do, e.g. Launchpad).
I think it makes sense to call out Canonical for all the proprietary stuff they do, even to avoid endorsing or using or supporting Canonical's efforts that rely on proprietary stuff. But my point is: they are so much closer to the free software position than most other companies. I think criticism is needed, but I don't think that hoping for their utter failure is a productive form of criticism. Unlike Apple or Microsoft or even Google, Canonical gets free software at a certain level much more than most other companies. It's just that they've been increasingly taking the "open source" way of proprietarizing the "secret sauce," or tolerating other shiny proprietary things, or even promoting them. But.. even if it's miles away from acceptable, don't you see how it's light years away from a proprietary software company through and through?
I think it's more productive to criticize Canonical with the possibility of redemption in mind -- even though I think a complete victory is unlikely. In the grand scheme of things, they're far closer to our side than anyone else. How would you criticize a friend, even if they're utterly misguided or doing something wrong? I'd treat a friend, or former friend or potential future friend differently than an enemy...
I don't want to see Canonical's proprietary projects grow. But I don't want to see Canonical run into the ground. I'd rather appeal to Canonical's free software foundations -- even if they've strayed from them -- than to just cast Canonical aside as if they were Apple or Microsoft.
Despite how many dumb things they've been doing, and increasingly over the past few years, wouldn't you agree that there's a difference between a Canonical and an Apple? Should there be a difference in the way we react or criticize?
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laurelrusswurm at 2014-01-17T20:53:49Z
Innocent people are being spied on all over the world. That means you. And your family. Your kids. Your Mom. Even Grandpa.
Do you text? Do your teenagers text? Would you be happy if the provocative photo your 13 year old daughter sent to her 13 year old boyfriend was secretly intercepted by the American spy agency NSA and filed it in perpetuity in their storage facility? Or shared with its Five Eyes "partner" CSEC?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/top-spy-won-t-answer-questions-about-g20-surveillance-1.2444004
How do you know what those shadowy people who have invaded your child's privacy are doing with that photograph? Or what are they doing with those totally innocent naked baby bath photos you sent to your Mom? There are a lot of people employed by CSEC. How many are predators? The very nature of spying is predatory.
Who can access this information that is being sucked up all over the Internet?
We don't know.
Whoever they are, whatever they do is being hidden behind a screen of smoke and mirrors they pretend is for "National Security." If the civil rights and personal security of innocent citizens is sacrificed, what kind of National security is it?
Who watches the watchers? When governments pretend they are NOT doing such things, anything can happen. The only reason Canadians are even aware of this is because a courageous young man named Edward Snowden was willing to sacrifice his privileged life to tell us.
All over the world, innocent law abiding people are having their civil rights callously violated as their text messages are being vacuumed up wholesale by NSA to peruse at their leisure.
In Canada we recently learned that our own spy agencies allowed (asked?) NSA to spy on Canadians at the G20. Without probable cause to get a warrant, the Canadian RCMP, CSIS and CSEC were not able to do this themselves without breaking Canadian law.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-snowden-docs-show-u-s-spied-during-g20-in-toronto-1.2442448
The "Lawful Access" legislation the Harper Government keeps trying to pass would make it legal for our government to spy on innocent Canadians. It would make this legal.
The Canadian Charter of Rights And Freedoms exists to protect the civil rights of Canadians from just such government abuse of citizens. This is why it is so important that governments must not be allowed to spy on citizens without probable cause. There must be good reason they can present to a court, there must be evidence of wrongdoing before the state should be allowed to strip away any citizen's right to privacy.
Law abiding citizens should not have to worry that the government is reading their emails or text messages, or amassing their meta data.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/nsa-collects-millions-text-messages-daily-untargeted-global-sweeprozzin, Steven Hamilton, ben mtl, Tobias Diekershoff and 11 others likes this.
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JanKusanagi @identi.ca at 2014-01-05T21:46:21Z
>> Benjamin Rochefort:
“I should convince my friends to migrate to Jabber instead of using Google Talk.”
You should. As of right now, you're not able to talk to people who """upgraded""" Google Talk to Hangouts.ben mtl likes this.
Free Software Foundation at 2013-12-19T22:56:58Z
FSF awards Respects Your Freedom certification to Gluglug X60 laptops https://u.fsf.org/qrDaniel, Luis A. Guzman, ben mtl, Akari-chan likes this.
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Evan Prodromou at 2013-12-11T17:29:07Z
Yo, Pope Francis, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but Edward Snowden had is one of the persons of all time. One of the persons of all time.
http://poy.time.com/2013/12/11/person-of-the-year-pope-francis-the-peoples-pope/Bernhard E. Reiter, ben mtl, Mohan Ram, sazius and 5 others likes this.
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Show all 5 repliesI find it so weird that Time would shy away from "controversial" figures... considering their previous choices include Hitler and Stalin :-)
sazius at 2013-12-11T20:31:28Z
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Although looking at their previous choices, a lot of them seem to be just US presidents. Not particularly exciting.
There's always a lot of eyerolling about Time's PotY choices, but ever since they picked me a few years back, I'm willing to cut them some slack.Screwtape at 2013-12-12T12:08:20Z
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No, I think you are mistaken, that was me on the cover.Free Software Foundation at 2013-11-13T19:59:44Z
"The proprietary OS hiding in every mobile phone." Yet another reason why we need a free GSM stack. via @osnews https://u.fsf.org/oxl30bravo, Scorpio20, Artopal, Aleksej and 9 others likes this.
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You mean a Free UMTS stack. Foirget GSM, it is the past. UMTS is the present. Add LTE to it if you want to skate ahead of the puck.and s free evdo/CDMA/ etc stack for those who aren't on a gsm network. also isn't open moko a free gem stack?
David "Judah's Shadow" Blue at 2013-11-14T19:04:24Z
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Susan Pinochet at 2013-08-05T19:05:46Z
I couldn't stand it anymore. I've ad-blocked that awful clip-art on the pump welcome page.ben mtl, ciarang, uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, j1mc and 4 others likes this.
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I've sent in a pull request addressing this issue: https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/pull/867Aeva Ntsc at 2013-11-01T15:55:42Z
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Direct link to commit.
https://github.com/Aeva/pump.io/commit/3aa60e5f867b31acb22e91ea836907844f2514e3
LGTM!Christopher Allan Webber at 2013-11-01T15:59:46Z
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I feel that the clip art really covers that this software is only for white dudebros.
