Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2017-12-06T15:08:26Z
Announcing sources.debian.orgWe're happy to announce that Debsources, the Web application that
allows to browse and search the entire source code of all Debian
releases, is now hosted on the official Debian infrastructure and
available at https://sources.debian.org.uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, MATTEO BECHINI, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Stephen Michael Kellat likes this.
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Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2018-01-01T18:43:00Z
♲ snabeltann@flokk.no 2017-12-30 09:11:16:Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces lovingly formatted, open source, and free public domain ebooks.
Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style guide, lightly modernizes them, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to take advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.
https://standardebooks.org/
This looks like an interesting project!
#FreeCulture #ebooks #NoDRM #literature #publicDomain
Standard EbooksStandard Ebooks
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funny how those things always use pictures of tablets ..
not sure if its a good idea to use such pictures in promotions for community projects because it encourages the use of devices users cannot really have much trust in!
a tablet isn't really more convenient than a laptop if it means being forced to use a device that can't be trusted by its user!
Im in no hurry to go shopping for any such device until there is something available with root out of the box - same goes for phones.
re ebooks of course one can read those on a laptop too...
well, those look more ebook readers than tablets, imho.
I agree that ebook readers also have significant trust issues, but compared to tablets have a couple of differences (note that most of it only applies to epaper devices, not to certain tablet-from-an-ebook-vendor).
* they tend to be more single-task devices, so you don't load your whole life on them (but I agree that "reading habits" on its own is already an important information that somebody may not want to share
* there are a few ebook readers (surely not the kindle, and I'm not sure about the nook, however, and those are the ones shown on that page) that allow you to use them without having to create a remote account, and they work even if not connected to wifi. Of course it's still proprietary software and you can't know that it's not trying to connect to random wifi networks to send your data by stealth, but that would require explicit malice.
* reading a book on epaper is quite different than reading it on a regular screen, and depending on your eyes it may cause MUCH less strain, as it's pretty closer to what one experiences on a regular book; here a laptop and a tablet would be pretty much the same, but an epaper screen can be a game changer.
Anyway, I suspect that the use of those devices in the image above has more to do with the fact that they want to show that those books can be read on the devices one already owns and uses, rather than suggesting that privacy-conscious users buy one of those devices in order to read those books.
ActivityPub is a real standard now!
Christopher Allan Webber at 2018-01-23T16:10:02Z
ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendation! Yes! At last! Finally!
Let your social networks be free!
ActivityPub was basically 3 years of my life, and there were points were I wasn't sure if the time and energy I was spending on it was worth it. I'm sure it was today. Thank you everyone who participated in the standards process, have implemented... or are going to implement! You made it all worth it!
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maravilloso!!
Hmmm, I see your profile here needs some updating xD
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Congratulations!
On a related note, I stumbled upon a progress report of the FreedomBox project. In it they talk about integrating distributed social networks and in particular about Diaspora and GNU Social. How about someone bringing ActivityPub and accompanying implementations to their attention?
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2018-January/008242.htmlMarko Dimjašević at 2018-01-25T18:56:03Z
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I can't wait to release the version of pump.io with AP supportEvan Prodromou at 2018-01-25T21:46:23Z
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Configuring K-9 mail via command line
Ben Sturmfels at 2017-10-06T02:14:31Z
After reinstalling Replicant on phone, I couldn't bear to configure email settings again by hand, so wasted a couple of hours writing a script to do it instead.
https://stumbles.id.au/configuring-android-k-9-mail-from-the-command-line.html
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der.hans at 2017-09-07T21:47:55Z
Equifax hacked, details from 143 million *consumers* might be stolen.
Consumers because we aren't customers, we didn't ask equifax to store all our data.
So, the big question: will equifax now pay for credit monitoring for all 143 million people?
The data breach can be exploited such that credit requests go to other credit rating companies, so monitoring only equifax is not sufficient.
It's your data, you should have access to see what they have, especially when they're responsible for the data loss.
#InternetPrivacy #WhoOwnsIt #ConsumerProtections #EFF
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I don't want credit monitoring from these companies. The companies that expose all our data are the same companies trying to sell us a service to protect that data. If they get something wrong or somebody
"steals our identity", we're responsible for correcting it. What a racket. It seems this "industry" externalizes all the costs to people whose information it collects and then exposes. They win no matter what happens.
I want them to pay for credit freezes. (I want them to do some other things too, but it wouldn't be polite to express those things aloud.)
Here's a link to Equifax's own page on the matter (in case it is useful): https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/Charles Stanhope at 2017-09-07T22:42:54Z
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you mean "will Equifax give all my info to a third party to monitor it after they got it taken by another third party" ?
The "credit report" business has to stop. (we have a similar sh*t in Canada with the same robber barons)Also they can't be sued if you use their website. It has an arbitration clause in the ToS. Until these are invalidated you are f*****.I went digging for the information I had bookmarked about security freezes and came across Brian Krebs' explanation: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-embrace-the-security-freeze/Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-09-03T17:16:58Z
Mastodon is rolling out ActivityPub support this week & a new AP CR coming out. I feel like years of work are finally proving themselves. 😌
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Show all 5 repliesOnce Pump.io implements ActivityPub fully, yes. I hear @AJ Jordan is working towards that.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-09-03T17:24:11Z
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I'm not claiming I did any work on AP implementation in Mastodon of course, that's thanks to a herculean effort on Gargron and friends. But standards stuff unexpectedly occupied 2.5 hard years of my and others' life; sometimes I laid in bed wondering if it was worth it. Feels like it was now, and I'm grateful for that.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-09-03T17:25:15Z
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Yes, I am indeed! Slowly but surely. Been slow since I started college.
AJ Jordan at 2017-09-04T03:25:16Z
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Switching to Mastodon - see you soon!
mray INACTIVE at 2017-08-16T11:51:13Z
Mastodon will soon be supporting ActivityPub . So I'm going to switch there for good now. If everything works as expected I'd be in touch with everybody still sticking with pump.io anyway. But for now I'm not maintaining two timelines anymore.
My new home is https://social.tchncs.de/@mray - follow me there, or wait for ActicityPub here. See you soon!
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Until then, then! =)
Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-07-25T14:59:33Z
Ultimate excuse for not hitting a deadline: "Sorry, I need to extend the language before all the features work as necessary to do the release"
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Thesis supervisor: "I'll need to extend the English language to convey my frustration clearly."clacke@libranet.de ❌ at 2017-07-26T09:21:24Z
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-06-08T23:33:33Z
"nobody will use your code if it's GPL, make it permissive" is the open source version of "we won't pay you, but you'll get exposure"
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@cwebber@identi.ca is it wrong to like the at style hybrid license? You will either cooperate by sharing or paying
@diane Do you have a reference to the license you're mentioning? Sounds like using copyleft and having a system in place for buying exceptions?National Library of Finland
The National Library of Finland (in Helsinki) is unusually fancy for being in Finland. I had a meeting there today, and looked around a bit while I was there :-)
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Quite impressive!
Well central and southern Europe is practically littered with "fancy buildings", but we don't have many of them in Finland as we're a pretty young nation, and used to be quite poor back when fancy buildings were generally built :-)
Karl Fogel at 2017-06-05T22:19:50Z
.@GnuPG just announced their new funding campaign. I use GPG every day. I set up my quarterly donation. Join us? https://gnupg.org/donate/Kesara, uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, Yutaka Niibe, clacke@libranet.de ❌ likes this.
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Ben Sturmfels at 2017-05-16T10:47:51Z
lsblk- how have I never met this handy program before?uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, sazius, Charles Stanhope likes this.
There are simple too many nice tools included by default :-)Tobias Diekershoff at 2017-05-16T11:02:42Z
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-05-17T15:18:57Z
If you're wondering what Republican strategy we'll be seeing, assuming Comey's memo does say that, Ryan just hinted at it
"Comey, why didn't you do anything at the time then"
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Well, Comey still hasn't said anything about it.
But: Trump didn't order Comey to drop the Flynn investigation. He asked Comey to. By itself it's… scummy, but not something to do something about. It's the combination of that, the mention of other investigations that Trump says Comey should have dropped, and Comey being fired that raises eyebrows.
…which is my reply to that strategy, not to you specifically.Splicer at 2017-05-17T16:29:52Z
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Yeah, tbh, firing the person investigating you because you didn't like them investigating you seems like more of an obstruction of justice issue than this.
I guess taken in aggregate though, things are getting bad.
Charles Stanhope at 2017-05-15T17:16:42Z
I'm somewhat bemused by all the "mp3 is dead" stories coming out of tech news and being parroted by others. It's hard not to think that this isn't some sort of PR push to get the general population thinking that MP3 is obsolete so that the patent encumbered technologies can be sold as "advanced". I admit it appears to be working. Somehow terminating a licensing program is being reported as killing off an obsolete technology as opposed to simply indicating that the patents have expired and the technology is finally free for use by everyone.Carol Chen, uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, Christopher Allan Webber likes this.
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"They terminated the licensing". No. They terminated the licensing *program* because they no longer have any money to collect from the racketeering.
Problem is that most of those that write about it either don't even grasp the concept or are malignant to misinform.
Keep Calm and Use Debian (and have a nice weekend)!
Debian Project at 2017-05-12T16:30:05Z
Keep Calm and Use Debian (and have a nice weekend)!
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Dr. Roy Schestowitz at 2017-05-12T10:27:09Z
#microsoft calls its event "Build". About software you cannot build, you just take malicious binaries that are keyloggers, DRM, etc.uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-05-12T16:14:21Z
Hard time seeing any outcome that isn't one of these three:
1) Impeachment
2) Total fascism
3) Nuclear waruıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs, Greg Grossmeier likes this.
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Why only one?jxself at 2017-05-12T20:09:16Z
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@cwebber@identi.ca So situation unchanged.
@cwebber@identi.ca Also, is extortion against the Twitter terms of services?
Why not mix them together in a potent cocktail for the end of the post industrial age. Season with a civil war and you've got the sort of thing the history books only dream of.Dr. Roy Schestowitz at 2017-05-09T12:11:21Z
Nearly 0.63 users in #mastodon today. Might it reach a million by month's end? https://instances.mastodon.xyz/listuıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs likes this.
Ansible vs Fabric
Ben Sturmfels at 2017-05-08T07:24:25Z
I'm trying to love Ansible, but
ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini --sudo -v certbot-renew.ymlis just messy compared to sayfab certbot-renew.uıɐɾ ʞ ʇɐɯɐs likes this.
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>> Ben Sturmfels:
“>that I might only run now and again.”
Fair enough. In salt, you would put your host-specific states in top.sls. Then you can just run salt '*' state.highstate when you need to redeploy/update/whatever and forget about running any certbot-related commands, states or playbooks directly ever again. :)
If there's an "ansible.cfg" file in the current directory, you can put "inventory=inventory.ini" in the "[defaults]" section and not have to mention it on the command-line.Instead of saying "--sudo", you can put "become: true" into your playbook file.That makes the Ansible command-line a bit simpler, but still not quite as simple as Fabric.In my experience, Ansible really shines when you have modular configuration, where these hosts need this subset of configuration applied to them, but those hosts need that overlapping-but-not-identical subset of configuration applied. Using Ansible for configuring a single thing on a single host is overkill for production, although it's a good way to learn about it.Screwtape at 2017-05-08T08:45:09Z
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Ansible's config system is also a turing tarpit, and the tarpit is getting deeper and stickier
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Thanks for these tips @Screwtape. I've now mostly switched across from Trisquel 8 to GuixSD for my daily work, so appreciating the newer version of Ansible with the features you mentioned (
inventory=inventory.iniin ansible.cfg andbecome: truein playbook file).