Steven Rosenberg passthejoe@identi.ca

Quitter.se is upgrading to #GNUSocial. Good work @hannes2peer, and Thank you! !fediverse !vivalafederation

I can't take a "professional" sport seriously when they do not have a team in Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the country. I am neither watching the game nor rooting for either team.

preview of my & @LucasNussbaum's preface to the upcoming #Wheezy edition of the #Debian Handbook http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-handbook/debian-handbook.git;a=blob;f=en-US/00a_preface.xml, free as in freedom

BTW, a health insurance company told me today that it's completely impossible to correct an inaccurate invoice, or issue a corrected invoice for any period. Seriously. They cannot correct erroneous invoices; they just tell you a corrected total over the phone but provide no documentation.

As always, they blamed the "computer system" doesn't "allow regeneration of invoices".

I almost asked for a copy of the source code so I could fix it. OTOH, I don't know COBOL so it'd be an uphill battle to fix it, I suspect.

I was busy talking to people leaving together for BART at an event last night, so I forgot to take my laptop. First time I've ever came close to losing one (other than the time I was held up, and the robber ran away rather than shooting me, I guess).

I got it back today, but I was somewhat surprised how serene encryption and recent backup made me feel; almost didn't care at all. Do those things if you haven't. :)

Paul, I'll put your account on my list of accounts to delete. Just to be clear: there are going to be no new identi.ca accounts, so once you're gone, you're gone. Let me know if you do want to stay.

I have put some time and effort into preserving important URLs on the site. In particular, notices URLs, conversation URLs, and user profile URLs. However, when you transfer to a new piece of software, a lot of stuff doesn't stay. So things like the search results page, or the user replies page, are somewhere else.

This is new software, though, and sometimes I get it wrong. If you see particular URLs not working, let me know. If you see a class of content URLs that you think can and should be redirecting, let me know that, too.

Not all user accounts were converted to the new platform. The ones that weren't will have downloads available on archive.org, and I'll try to redirect URLs there if possible.

My priorities for development are to keep this a living, active platform.  But I also want to preserve the past and keep us part of the fabric of the web. So: no intention to throw things aside.

An interesting and valid point. I see two possible issues, one technical and one societal. Making links migrate with account movement might be workable at first. ( say one migration) but as time passes and more migrations and/or renbranding occurs the links to links to links could create a real mess. Being a technical issue I'm sure this could be solved.

The societal issue is the fact that many view microblogging as transient. Here today but in a month? Who cares what was said or linked to is old news or just irrelevant. I suspect that not too many people would cry out if things like pump.io only had a 6 month memory. Things move fast on social media, stuff stale dates quickly. This view of things may create a lack of will or interest to solve the linking problem.

Quite honestly I wouldn't have cared if @Evan had lost my entire identica history in the move to pump.io. for me and I suspect many others this is water cooler talk, and thus not really worthy of archival efforts.

As seen on Twitter via TTYtter:

[Sat Aug 17 22:06:09 +0000 2013] (x2) <instapundit> IT’S COME TO THIS: Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service. “... http://bit.ly/14piidM via @instapundit

Which leads to a few stories talking about the FBI creating a duty to help them spy perhaps as noted on TechDirt.

No, I can't say I particularly like the way this is going at all. Paging Glyn Moody...

the video of my LibrePlanet 2013 talk «Debian & GNU» is now available at http://media.libreplanet.org/u/libby/m/stefano-zacchiroli/ (Mediagoblin powered!)

LavaBit, email service Snowden supposedly using, shut down: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/08/lavabit-email-service-snowden.html

My Fellow Users, I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.

What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.

This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.
Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC
Defending the constitution is expensive! Help us by donating to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund here.

'This Is Not A Podcast' is proud to present episode 9 - 'The Prince of Aberyswyth' featuring special guest Evan Prodromou.

Many thanks to Evan for sparing us 3 hours while on vacation with his family and giving us such a detailed, wide-ranging and frank interview.

http://notapodcast.co.uk/post/57337280889/9-the-prince-of-aberystwyth

18% of attendees and 21% of speakers at #GUADEC are women! We are working hard to extend the openness of our community to more people.

And now some #Stego just for fun

have a look at the settings, you can configure how often the repos should be updated

Denny's Home World: KDE takes a swing at the tablet market http://dennygoot.blogspot.com/2013/07/kde-takes-swing-at-tablet-market.html

Man, more places should allow URIs for avatars. Updating on a oer site/service basis is a pain.. This is one of the reasons I have a self hosted web server. update the avatar pics there poof several paces update.. too bad it wasn't all of them

I'm expecting fewer conversations and more top-level posts.

Man, my identi.ca timeline is really starting to heat up.

You can with the dianara client