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Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-12-17T20:55:22Z
Mailpile: Too Cool for PGPSome kids are just too cool for school.
And some security experts are too cool for OpenPGP.
It's almost become a rite of passage for security folks: work in the trenches, build a reputation, climb the ivory tower, write a detailed epiphany about why you've given up on PGP. Suggest we all buy an iPhone and use Signal, start giving people phone numbers instead of e-mail addresses......Matthew, uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, Timo Kankare, Freemor and 7 others likes this.
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Brilliant post =)
Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-11-30T08:43:41Z
My fight against CDN libraries
A very nice writeup and awesome work by David Revoy of the Pepper & Carrot webcomic:
A CDN ( acronym for Content Delivery Network ) library is often a single line of code proposed "generously" by an external service to let you link and embed a complex features, the easy way. A common example is Google Web Fonts:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lobster" rel="stylesheet">
Paste this line in the header of your website and 'tadaaa!', you can use the font 'Lobster' to decorate all your texts. Easy, quick, efficient and fast to load. Merci Google. So, what's the problem?
Well a big one: Privacy of the readers of Pepper&Carrot. In our example, users of Google Web Fonts are bound by Google's privacy policy. It allows Google to collect a large amount of data about readers: log data (e.g. browser version), location data (the IP address of your site's visitors) and more because they can track your path or history threw all the website using their other networks of CDN.
... And I didn't had a CDN only for Google Web Font. I had also a CDN for Addthis (easy social-networks buttons), Gravatar (easy avatars), Font-awesome (easy icons), etc... As many, many website around!
Read the full post at his blog!
#privacy #web #openculture #comics
My fight against CDN librariesOfficial homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free/libre and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
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useless in 2016 ?
Krugor at 2016-07-31T08:24:54Z
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I wouldn't call a payphone "useless", at all. Or disposable cameras...
agreed
Vacation
sazius at 2016-07-09T16:44:49Z
We're visiting my relatives during my vacation. I just got relieved of baby duty. Now reading Linux Voice magazine on mom's veranda :-)
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NextCloud Calendar normal
Douglas Perkins at 2016-06-26T09:25:46Z
Just imported my calendar to NextCloud from OwnCloud. Works just as before, no problems.
Tested using DAVdroid on Android and Thunderbird on Debian.
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Freemor at 2016-04-09T14:29:48Z
2016-04-09 by Freemor
I'm getting tired of term "Sharing" or "sharing economy" being applied to things that clearly are not sharing. It muddies the waters in discussions of these services, it more about marketing then the reality of the situation, and frankly it's highly inaccurate.
Sharing is something does without profit in mind.
- If I let you borrow my car for free that's sharing. If I charge you for the use of my car, I'm offering a paid service.
- If I let you stay at my place for free because I have the space, that's sharing. If I charge you it is a service. If we make an arrangement where I stay at your place in exchange that is barter.
- If I give you half my chocolate bar for free, thats sharing.
- If I trade you half my chocolate bar for one of your cookies, thats barter
Things like Uber, AirBnB, etc. are not about sharing. There is an exchange of funds involved. The companies provide a service to people how in turn provide a different service to clients.
If you go to Uber's "Drive" page it is quite clear from the wording that this is not about sharing. Phrases like:
"earn what you need"
and
"we deduct a service fee"
clearly show that this has nothing to do with sharing. So any references to Uber as a sharing service are completely inaccurate. It is a business plain and simple.
So with the "sharing" mystique stripped away it is clear that Uber is just another taxi service and thus should be regulated like any other taxi service.
AirBnB is about the same, their website starts off with:
"Rent unique places to stay from local hosts in 190+ countries." (emphasis mine)
Renting is not sharing. Also the "Hosts" pay a service fee to AirBNB:
"You'll only pay a 3% service fee".
So, once again we have a Company offering a service to people who offer a different service to clients. No Sharing. And with the "Sharing" mystique once again stripped away it's clear that this is just an unregulated hotel service.
So can we please stop referring to companies like this as "sharing" or being part of a "Sharing Economy". The use of that term is nothing but marketing buzz and an attempt to try and duck regulations that are generally there to protect the public.
Now if you take a site like CouchSurfing you'll be looking at something that is about sharing. Accommodations offered for free. No stings attached. No earning or service fees. However the company providing the site is not entirely in the sharing business, from their "Terms of use" we see:
"Couchsurfing may offer the opportunity to purchase products and services from third parties. You acknowledge that such products and services are offered and sold to you by one or more third parties. For more information, please refer to the applicable third party's terms of sale and privacy policy that are presented as part of the checkout process."
So even though CouchSurfing facilitates sharing they are in it to make a buck. They are a business. They are offering a monetized service.
I am in no way disparaging CouchSurfing. Everyone needs to eat. And bravo! they are facilitating actual sharing. Good for them. I'm just saying that their motivations are not entirely selfless.
I am also not saying that there is a dearth of sharing. Certainly the capitalistic society in which we live tries hard to push people away from sharing, as it is bad for their bottom line. Even so, I have seen many people offer public spaces and resources on-line for altruistic and/or selfless reasons.
People who run Tor nodes are sharing their bandwidth and computer resources. The same goes for people running I2P nodes, or people running publicly available Pump.io nodes or Diaspora pods. There is also the thousands of people that devote their time and energy to creating freely available GPL'd software.
So there is definitely a sharing economy out there. It just isn't the one you hear about. And sadly the "Sharing Economy" that is getting all the press isn't about sharing at all, just more capitalistic endeavours trying to wrap themselves in a palatable and marketable guise.
from: My Blog
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The "sharing economy" is a way for companies to extract value from social interactions that were previously done for free. They turn casual favors and altruism into profit opportunities.Benjamin Cook at 2016-04-09T16:43:23Z
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Very well put.
Completely agree about the "Sharing Economy" not being about actual sharing. It's a misnomer and conflates it with the gift economy of free software and culture.
I disagree that they "extract value from social interactions that were previously done for free". What they do is extract value from social interactions that previously didn't happen at all. That's why they are able to charge a fee.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-04-10T08:48:07Z
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OK, so tax appropriately.
New fork
My son was born last week. Feeling very happy but tired :-)
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Show all 14 repliesThanks Laura! Since the birth had some complications my wife had to recover for a few days, and the baby's care was entirely up to me (with the expert advice of midwives in the hospital of course). In retrospect that was a pretty special experience for me. Now we're sharing in taking care of him, and of course natural feeding is something only my wife can do :-)
Start spreading the news
I'm on leave from today
I want to be a part of it
New Fork, New Fork
With loafers for shoes
I'm going to stay
Right in the very heart of it
New Fork, New Fork
I want to wake up in a house
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm covered in drool
Two inches deep
These little boy blues
Are melting away
I'm gonna make a brand new start of it
With my New Fork
If I survive this thing
I can handle anything
It's up to you
New Fork, New ForkClaes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-04-01T09:11:37Z
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Hahha, perfect song :-)
Technically speaking, it's not a fork, it's more like a derivative product. Congrats on the baby.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-03-27T20:51:50Z
I'm writing up a long blogpost on "free software in the age of generative AI". It feels nice to get this all written out.
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A data-driven life: running, eating, feeling better, planning
Stephen Sekula at 2016-03-25T23:33:31Z
Some personal reflections on the data-driven life: exercise, eating, losing weight, and setting goals: http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2016/03/25/the-data-driven-life-a-status-report/
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Glad to read this, Steve. I'm sending the link to both sons.lnxwalt@microca.st at 2016-03-26T00:57:09Z
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>> lnxwalt@microca.st:
“Glad to read this, Steve. I'm sending the link to both sons.”
Thanks! It's a long road. A long, long, long road. It took me 15 years to put on all that extra weight. I figure it will take about that to knock it all back down again.
Very nice post and nicely written!
Congratulations, Steve! Keep going!
I left a comment. :)netgeek at 2016-03-26T09:27:37Z
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Nice post. I have same issue now. I had weight 100kg (near 220 lbs) in 2012, then I lose about 18 kg (about 40 lbs) during 1 year conscription and now I gain weight to 110 kg (242 lbs) and first time in my life I feel that I too heavy.Nantes Métropole completes switch to LibreOffice
In April, Nantes Métropole, France’s 6th largest city, will complete its transition to LibreOffice, a free software suite of office productivity tools. The city has budgeted EUR 200,000 for bug fixes and new features, specifying that all improvements are to be submitted for inclusion in the LibreOffice project.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/nantes-métropole-completes-switch-libreoffice
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"specifying that all improvements are to be submitted for inclusion in the LibreOffice project"
Upstreaming FTW!
Efraim Flashner at 2016-03-24T05:04:40Z
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:D
Krugor at 2016-03-13T07:58:31Z
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Yourplace
Krugor at 2016-03-13T07:56:49Z
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Cool!! I WANT ONE OF THOSE!
I fell for that for a moment.
Beware that it has serious drawbacks: I've had a very nice meeting with my friends at Myplace this weekend, but they had to spend something like 5 hours on a car to get there and then back home, you can't just open a web browser and meet them.
Will probably do again, just not every weekend.
(Sigh, the problems you get when you get most of your friends from the FLOSS community :) )
Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2016-03-16T20:08:07Z
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Son of a bitch! Give me a drink (of coffee)!
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Michael at 2016-02-17T20:29:34Z
Es war gesund. Es gab einen Salat dazu.
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Good morning Pumpiverse!
sazius at 2016-02-14T10:18:59Z
Last weekend in the temporary apartment. Next Sunday morning I'll be having breakfast at home :-)
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Good morning to you. And it sounds like next week will be even better.Yes indeed, I'm counting the days until we get to move back home :-)
... and a good evening to you! :-)
Cierro mi cuenta en Twitter
Laura Arjona Reina at 2016-02-08T10:34:21Z
Cierro mi cuenta Twitter, lo tenía pendiente...
Estoy, como siempre, en las #redeslibres
Si quieres seguirme y no sabes, envíame un correo.
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Fieston conmemorativo y dia de fiesta nacional en el calendario para este evento, pero YA! xD
JanKusanagi at 2016-02-08T12:28:12Z
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Casualidades. Yo también la cancelé hace unos días.
Antonio José Cortés Moreno(Cuenta abandonada) at 2016-02-09T17:41:40Z
Closing my Twitter account
Laura Arjona Reina at 2016-02-08T10:31:08Z
Long overdue, I'll close my Twitter account today.
I'll be as always in the #freenetworks
If you want to follow me, don't know how: email me
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You are setting a great example. I hope I can follow in your footsteps.Charles Stanhope at 2016-02-08T17:47:35Z
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never had one. didn't need the crazy voices in my head, no matter the artificial brevity of their insanity :)
Less noise more signal, I get that. There is one benefit to maintaining a presence on Twitter and that's as an outreach to newcomers who are looking for guidance or help in choosing a more liberal social network.jrobertson at 2016-02-09T01:16:29Z
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Congrats!
Modern Prison
EVAnaRkISTO at 2016-01-19T16:36:20Z
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A voluntary prison, by the way, even if it doesn't look like it, judging by how many people volunteer.
JanKusanagi at 2016-01-21T21:18:31Z
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Kevin Everets at 2016-01-15T22:47:06Z
@cwebber@identi.ca I'm looking forward to the time when I can say to someone "apt-get install mediagoblin" then "Install Goblinoid via F-Droid" to get easy, Free media sharing for family and friends (possibly with a small divert through Let'sEncrypt).netgeek, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
