Screwtape screwtape@identi.ca
Sydney, Australia
Font nerd, photo nerd, Linux nerd, Python nerd, web nerd. I make great toasted-cheese sandwiches
"Free as in Sausage Making: Thoughts on Freedom within the Debian Project" by Sam Hartman
Debian Project at 2019-09-16T06:39:10Z
"Free as in Sausage Making: Thoughts on Freedom within the Debian Project" by Sam Hartman https://hartmans.livejournal.com/99077.html
JanKusanagi at 2018-11-26T23:14:39Z
Welcome back, identi.cans!! =)
We missed you! 🤗
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Alexandre Oliva at 2018-10-04T23:00:19Z
as of today, software users of the world have had a Free Software Foundation to defend their rights for 33 years. happy anniversary, FSF, thank you, and keep up the great work!martinho, Screwtape, AJ Jordan, McClane likes this.
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Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaa!
Thanks FSF, and congrats!! =)
JanKusanagi at 2018-10-04T23:42:42Z
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2018-06-06T04:43:28Z
Whoa, Unicode really did get a Copyleft symbol? https://glitch.social/@a_character/100155946276956781
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RMS will be proud! =)
JanKusanagi at 2018-05-23T13:06:17Z
» Screwtape:
“[...] Thanks to client-side decorations [...]”
Yuck!
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clacke@libranet.de ❌ at 2018-05-02T03:58:02Z
Similar to inotify-tools there's http://www.entrproject.org/ , which I love because of its minimal and very unix-philosophy interface.Screwtape likes this.
Doug Whitfield at 2018-04-09T21:44:23Z
Let's do a little experiment. It's obviously biased by my relative participation in each, but I'm comparing the reach of twitter, facebook, Diaspora, pump, G+, and GNU Social (plus anything that can talk directly to it...that is not via NavierStokes).Please like this if you see it. Obviously, if you want more people to like it, then you share it, but I'm only going to count likes.Stephen Sekula, David "Judah's Shadow" Blue, Splicer, Sarah Elkins and 26 others likes this.
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Show all 12 repliesHere are the final numbersGNU Social/Mastodon: 49pump.io: 31Facebook:26Diaspora: 15G+: 7Twitter: 0What's interesting is that on Diaspora, pump, and GNU Social, I all got actual comments about how the study was being conducted. I got literally zero comments on twitter or G+. There's all sorts of bias in this, but I have more "friends" on facebook by an order of magnitude and significantly more on twitter than the free platforms. So, it seems like people join the proprietary networks and just don't use them very much.Facebook is up to 29. The slow burn...Diaspora is up to 17GNU Social up to 97: https://nu.federati.net/conversation/510099#notice-1072972ActivityPub 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
JanKusanagi at 2018-01-24T20:25:09Z
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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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AJ Jordan at 2018-01-19T03:40:09Z
https://icannwiki.org/Root_Zone#Human_rights_and_the_root_zone: "The root zone does not censor queries for any reason. Any user's queries are responded to regardless of their intentions."Distopico, Screwtape likes this.
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Meltdown
AJ Jordan at 2018-01-06T12:25:46Z
so weird and messed up that we now live in a world where vulnerabilities are commodified and given cutesy nicknames, logos and domains. anyway I just bought a Meltdown tshirt
Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-11-22T05:38:10Z
BTW, today ActivityPub got voted to go to Proposed Recommendation in the Social Working Group!
Which means that at this point it's up to W3C membership and management to move it to the space of it being an official spec.
The implementation reports page is looking pretty good too!
Now I really need a rest...
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@cwebber@identi.ca congratulations!
Diane Trout at 2017-11-22T16:44:14Z
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Coffee grounds for seed raising
I'm experimenting with waste coffee grounds for growing vegetables from seed. Not sure how it will go, but the benefits are that they hold water well, are finer that the commercial pine-bark potting mix I've been using, fairly sterile (from fungus and bacteria), hopefully nutritious since they're crushed seeds, plentiful, free of charge and smell quite pleasant. :)
Downside may be that the pH is too low. My pH test kit say the grounds are about pH 5 and the kit notes recommend 5.5 - 6.5 for potting mixes, so not too far off. Some quick experimenting seemed to suggest that adding dolomite limestone at 1:8 gave me a pH of about 6. Seems like quite a lot of dolomite, so I might have to test again later and see if the pH settles higher as it breaks down.
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Don't mix up your pips
Ben Sturmfels at 2017-10-25T05:07:24Z
Tip from David Beazley I found useful: Use
python -m pipinstead of justpipand your much less likely to accidentally use mismatched version of Python/Pip.clacke@libranet.de ❌, Charles Stanhope, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Screwtape likes this.
Ben Sturmfels at 2017-10-03T06:31:07Z
Nice! Alt + period in Midnight Command hides/shows hidden files.
pump.io denial-of-service security fixes now available
AJ Jordan at 2017-10-01T22:10:02Z
I've just published security fixes for several denial-of-service vulnerabilities in pump.io. All admins are impacted and should update ASAP. http://pump.io/blog/2017/10/denial-of-service-security-fixes-now-available
Please share this widely.
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Update complete. Took the opportunity to jump from 4.X to 5.X.
Stephen Sekula at 2017-10-01T22:31:33Z
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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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Christopher Allan Webber at 2017-08-02T17:59:50Z
Star Trak: "Our prime directerv: no influence alien werld"
beam down yeah get our microbiobes all up IN here
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wow
wow (talk)
wow (code)
wow (paper)Quiet talk starts slow and grows exponentially. My head stopped hurting at all the maths and started blowing off at the awesome around minute 30. Then at minute 56 he shows one slide of code that uses a SMT solver on a regular haskell functions, to find inputs that produce a desired output. Angels descend, singing, etc.
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Your "talk" link is broken!Ben Sturmfels at 2017-06-30T03:19:21Z
Woo, inbox zero!
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Now I just have to deal with the 5 billion tabs I have open in IceCat. :)
Ben Sturmfels at 2017-06-30T03:20:19Z
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