Greg Grossmeier at 2013-09-06T19:20:39Z
Why I'm not hopeful after yesterday's revelations: Too esoteric. "they fiddled the math" won't incite rage at the grocery store. We already had that revelation: "they're reading all your gmail and yahoo mail." Unfortunately, that wasn't even enough.
Sure, a bunch of crypto experts and security geeks and idiots like me will make some changes to the way we do things, but will it be enough? Will what Bruce S suggested (having the engineers take back the net) really work if every single entity large enough to manage a global communications system is in every way a tool of the government (at least with respect to this)?Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Anthony Garcia, Mike Linksvayer, Rob Myers and 2 others likes this.
Show all 5 repliesMeh, they always distrust the gobment. I'm worried about the Nancy Pelosi supporters. Or hell, the Obama supporters.
That's true, I didn't consider that the radio show had one of those "100% republican" slants. I just hope that they walk the talk and realize that neither of the two main parties are worthy of trust or votes.
Edit of my last post because I had a grammar fail
A bit less elitism would be a good start. Please take that constructively.
Pete: Fair. But is my underlying fear still valid? That even this (and everything up to now) isn't enough?
Andy C at 2013-09-06T13:42:11Z
Blogged - http://nbrightside.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/low-low-low/
The post I didn't want to write but I had to write.
Warning - completely devoid of humour and a little bleak but that's cancer for you.
PS. This was 9 months ago. No need to ask after me - I'm doing fine now.Rob Myers, Evan Prodromou, mcnalu, ghostdancer and 1 others likes this.
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Feels a bit weird to like that post but it was well written. It's also good your doing well.
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Steve is a vegetarian and you forgot to buy mushrooms and tomatoes?
Keeping your head until you made it says something about you.
I didn't read it for personal reasons (nothing to do with you so please don't be offended) but I think doing the exercise is a wonderful and brave thing to do :)
Christopher Allan Webber at 2013-09-06T21:42:25Z
Does anyone else have panic attacks checking and re-checking their booking dates on a flight? Yikessss.Rob Myers, jasonriedy@fmrl.me likes this.
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I do, even when spending other peoples' money.
I do.
Specially after having lost an international flight (not for not knowing the correct departure date, but anyway, since then, I become even more paranoid) :sI usually just check, re-check, check again, check to make sure, email the details to someone to ask them to check that I've not done anything stupid, check one last time, click the payment button, then check the resulting screen. After that I check the confirmation email, forward that to someone else to check, and then check their response. Finally I check the confirmation email and the itinerary page the next day, the day after that, each day before setting off, and in hourly increments on the day.
I wish I was joking.Rob Myers at 2013-09-06T22:44:41Z
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Just make sure you get the names right, too. Giving the airline your wife's maiden name gets the TSA all confused.Greg Grossmeier at 2013-08-22T16:55:39Z
How I read the US Embassy in Iceland's warning about the Chelsea Manning protests:
"Stay away if you're a god-fearing American, cuz we're recording everyone's faces and will red-flag dem sumabitches faster than you can say 'fourth amendment', got that?"Evan Prodromou, Rob Myers likes this.
Mike Linksvayer at 2013-08-16T16:30:07Z
@conservancy helps Samsung resolve #GPL compliance matter re: exFAT driver amicably. http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/ … #exFAT #opensource #FOSS #linux
Or directly, http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/
Or https://lwn.net/Articles/563687/Bruno Miguel, Rob Myers, Alexandre Oliva, Christopher Allan Webber and 3 others likes this.
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Mike Linksvayer at 2013-08-11T06:16:15Z
I was going to post a note here complaining about a crowfunding project's "we'll do our best to open source it if we go bust" FAQ entry, but I got sidetracked into notating a long post http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/08/10/street-patrons-missing-coordination-protocol/Greg Grossmeier, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Christopher Allan Webber, Jonas (kabniel) and 1 others likes this.
Anyone who whines "but we're a staaaartup" is a legal target for Remote Punching Protocol.Evan Prodromou at 2013-08-12T02:21:12Z
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Bastard Operator From Hell at 2013-08-02T11:00:06Z
#BOFH Today's excuse: Virtual Transmission DereferencingRob Myers, Stephen Michael Kellat likes this.
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Greg Grossmeier at 2013-08-01T17:06:54Z
The one bad thing about using a personal email server instead of gmail:
When I get an annoying marketing message from some place that got my address from a conference/something and I train spamassassin that it is spam, it only affects me.
It felt great when I would mark it as spam in gmail because I thought to myself "hah, hopefully this'll mean others won't be affected by this!"Sarah Elkins, Rob Myers, Evan Prodromou likes this.
Get with the times man, email is so old school, use pump.io for errrrrrrverything
I'm pretty sure you can report it to razor and DCC and things like that.Evan Prodromou at 2013-08-07T01:26:15Z
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2013-08-01T15:03:25Z
Ducktales, a whoo-ooh.Rob Myers, Evan Prodromou, Scott Sweeny, Doug Whitfield likes this.
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Show all 5 repliesFortunately, I'm too old to know the theme song to Ducktales.
Darn you, sir!Just don't search for "Scientifically Accurate Ducktales".Your avatar is grainy.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2013-08-01T15:03:54Z
Now it's stuck in your head all day.Rob Myers likes this.
Greg Grossmeier at 2013-07-31T17:34:27Z
You know, I feel really privileged to work at an org that is making discrete changes and planning more based on the NSA revelations.
Our logo appearing in an NSA slide doesn't hurt our motivation....Evan Prodromou, Dan Scott, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, a(n) person and 2 others likes this.
Right. So: how much data does Mozilla share with law enforcement officials? I use Firefox Sync; lots of passwords, history, and bookmarks in there.Evan: good question, and I don't know. I've always had it on my long term ie never todo list to setup my own sync server...
Christopher Allan Webber at 2013-07-26T15:26:48Z
Off to get my disdended uvula snipped. No, not the other body part with similar spelling.Rob Myers likes this.
Wow. I didn't know people did that. It sounds painful.It wasn't the whole uvula... basically my uvula had the normal shape, but then at the base of it there was a long, thin segment of flesh (thin and almost almost tube-like) that hung down and constantly touched the tongue or the back of my throat... often times it would constantly feel like my throat was congested. They just removed that part. Also, they used a harmonic scalpel, which apparently was less smokey than older laser procedures, but still smokey... it's a bit weird to have a bacon taste in your mouth and to know that the bacon taste is your own flesh.Christopher Allan Webber at 2013-07-26T17:52:04Z
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mmmm, bacon...Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-16T23:54:55Z
https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/wiki/OpenshiftDvd Mrsdn, James Bryce Clark, Rob Myers, Mike Linksvayer and 2 others likes this.
Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-16T19:50:43Z
Nothing is forever.Aeva Ntsc, Rob Myers, Greg Grossmeier likes this.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz at 2013-06-28T09:31:12+00:00
MPs: laws on #GCHQ snooping "completely useless" http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/382711/mps-laws-on-gchq-snooping-completely-useless *now* they wake up? I knew about it 6 years ago.Rob Myers likes this.
Mike Linksvayer at 2013-06-12T06:20:02+00:00
Also, the guy from the Revolutionary Communist Party was (doubtless is) !enraged about Unity. "Get into BA!"Greg Grossmeier, Rob Myers likes this.
Walter Sobchak at 2013-06-09T21:42:03+00:00
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Dr. Matt Lee at 2013-06-08T20:03:21+00:00
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Very cool news!
Ryan Finnie at 2013-06-05T19:52:40+00:00
@x11r5 fans: I will be converting him to pump.io sometime after the identica conversion. Not immediate, but hopefully soon.Bruce Cowan, /usr/share, a(n) person, Stephen Michael Kellat and 7 others likes this.
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@fo0bar @x11r5 is part of the spirit of identi.caghostdancer at 2013-06-05T19:59:00+00:00
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