2015-09-08T15:04:44Z via Identi.ca Web To: Bradley M. Kuhn, Public CC: Followers
bkuhn: I notice you've moved across the country yet manage to record FAIF with Karen Sandler thousands of miles away. The sound quality seems too good to be a one-sided recording of a SIP conversation, but I could be wrong. How do you do it?
I'm looking to record some interviews over long distances using only free software, and I'm eager to work out the best way!Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) likes this.
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I think we talked about this on IRC already, but just to respond here: we each record locally with a mic of our own and Dan Lynch edits the recordings together.
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2015-07-06T13:59:47Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
London is in an interesting place for cycle infrastructure politics!
We're either going to see this summer as a peak we all miss, or the start of something big!X11R5 shared this.
Go go go!
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Old, but still clever =)
jajajaja, buenísimoProposal for a new US$20
2015-03-23T20:14:10Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Everybody wants to get rid of Jackson, and there's a great movement to put a woman on the $20 http://www.womenon20s.org/candidates
Tubman's a hard act to beat, but is that older more stately photograph of her the best we can do? What if we took the badass cover art that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_and_Diane_Dillon did in 2007, and put it on the bill?
The result is something you immediately want the moment you see it, even though you didn't know you wanted it before.
Photoshop job done by a friend of mine who is staying anonymous to avoid getting in the way of the awesome Women-on-the-Twenty movement. But really, this thing is the best.
And I don't even use US currency much any more!Space Hobo, Craig Maloney likes this.
2015-03-21T14:30:50Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
oh cool! when I click outside my note accidentally, I lose everything I wrote! Neat!X11R5 likes this.
You could give the desktop and/or mobile applications a try ;)
Matrix Federation With Pump Seems Nice
2015-03-18T12:15:26Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public, Evan Prodromou, Evan Prodromou CC: Followers
Hey evan, the matrix.org folks are moderately interested in federating with pump.io if you're game.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), jasonriedy@fmrl.me likes this.
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I imagine they've heard of the W3C Social WG standard being made...
Cool! Can you connect me?2014-08-07T21:45:18Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public, Evan Prodromou, Evan Prodromou CC: Followers
T EVAN http://jerkcityhd.tumblr.com/ HURF DURF AHLGUSGAHLGUBGLUGAHGABGLUHGA
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2013-11-08T09:15:28Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Excellent work, Streisand: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canonical-abused-trademark-law-to-target-a-sit...
Snark aside, there are two important things to note about this:- Ubuntu already has options in the system settings for you to do basically the same gsettings tricks mentioned on that site.
- Trademark law basically forces all trademark holders to be jerks, or lose the trademark.
That said, I don't have the confidence that the privacy settings code can successfully avoid bitrot over the next few years as more and more integration with online services is added. I already scrub through the package lists and do similar scope package uninstalls each time I upgrade.
It's really helpful to have someone like the EFF keeping tabs on this!
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2013-11-07T23:13:22Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
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2013-10-24T12:03:43Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Let's see how much of this curriculum is accessible to a precocious 5yo with an XO-1, and how much of it is tech-aggrandising twaddle that caught the eye of this here privileged white dude:
https://github.com/CodeClub/scratch-curriculum/tree/master/en-GB/Term 1Space Hobo likes this.
5yos have trouble with touchpads, especially capacitive ones that seem easily fooled by ground loops. I'll have to see about swapping that piece out with one from the rest of my fleet. Clicking and dragging is too much to ask for without an external mouse. This is compounded by the fact that if you hold down on the mouse button for too long, a context menu appears (one which does not include "put this in the script pane")
Still, fun to do all the dragging of jigsaw pieces around and chat while the lil'un picks backgrounds and sprites and so forth.2013-10-19T19:54:16Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: a(n) collection
http://cubieboard.org/ seems to be the raspberry pi for Freedom-Lovers!Evan Prodromou, Space Hobo likes this.
2013-10-19T19:51:58Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: a(n) collection
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Why do I always get error popdowns? At least now they don't seem to stop me from posting!
Also, is it weird that I have to actually type in "public" to post publicly any more? Bizarre.2013-10-19T19:49:26Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: a(n) collection
Oh hi there, identi.ca. I forgot all about you, because you no longer support RSS in any useful fashion. You're Just Another Web Site To Go Check instead of something I can subscribe to next to all the rest.
NNTP, IRC, XMPP, whatever: I'd take any protocol that people are already using for other things! But telling me I can install A Special App to read this is even less compelling than "remember to go to that one Web site frequently"!Still no way to generate a stream of "stuff I would have seen on the web page".That is, in status.net I could subscribe to my stream, and see everything I'd actually get on my user page. With pump2rss, I'd have to enter each wotsit I follow one at a time to make a disjointed flow of stuff, and I'd have to work to keep it in sync. Syndication is supposed to automate, not make more work.Oh neat, and https://pump2rss.com/feed/bkuhn@identi.ca.atom is blank because he only sends to contacts.How the OLPC have fallen
2013-10-19T19:32:22Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Two weeks ago, two cast-off XO-1s (the original One Laptop Per Child machines) were left on a desk at work. Since someone very close to me was about to have a fifth birthday, I snagged them and decided to set them up as a sort of extra birthday gift.
Once I saw an actual 5yo playing with this system, I was gobsmacked at how ideal they are for their intended purpose! I am now hooked and sold completely (especially since the XO-1 didn't even have any blobs for hardware access!)
Unfortunately, they're rather old and flaky, and it seems the best thing to do is to grab a bunch of old XOs and cannibalize parts to make one nicely-running machine. I contacted all my friends at MIT and laptop.org, but it seems that the organisation is in maintenance mode: they're making the new XO-4 Touch laptops and shipping them to deployments, but there's no way to get units or parts in small numbers to the US or UK.
There's a lot of confusion about the XO-4 Touch. Even folks who used to work for the OLPC foundation said "Don't they sell the those in Walmart?" but it turns out that that's the "XO-Tablet" which is just an android device like any other. I took this rather disappointing screenshot of it from a demo video.
It's quite a precipitous fall from a system that teaches 5yos how to edit pong games in situ to Yet Another Android Tablet that pretends that Neil Armstrong believes you can become an astronaut by playing Star Wars branded Angry Birds. This is just...depressing.
Apparently the organisation is in maintenance mode. They make plenty of new batteries, screens, and whole cases of XO-4s, but they only ship them to the actual Deployment sites. This means that if you're thinking of fewer than 100, they have no way of getting anything to you from the supply chain.
So if anyone has any leftover give-one-get-one laptops, tech eval units, or knows a group of folks who are going together on a bulk order for the new XO-4s, I'd love to hear about it.
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Show all 5 repliesHuh, do you have any old XO-1s around? Do you have a lead on getting actual XO-4s? I ask because I want to be clear that this post was an anti-endorsement of the XO Tablet!
Sorry, I meant the endorsement of the XO-1.
Apparently, my comment got lost.
Thank you, @spacehobo, for writing this. I had seen the "XO Tablet" in that big blue discount store, but lacked the funds to buy one. Now I won't bother.http://mid.gmane.org/CAFoGK8FHVzbM_gBCi3LxeVGeHwz2coXxyap4gQpz4n-GtEQr5g@mail.gmail.comHowever, if all that OLPC remains is a vendor of cheap, proprietary Android tablets wrapped in green silicone, then what motivation remains to continue to plug for it?
A very good question. Fortunately, it seems that the folks at Sugar Labs are continuing to fight the good fight.None of these people are Doctors
2013-08-31T21:02:29Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
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Woohoo! I can post again! Although it said to me:id 'https://identi.ca/api/collection/X4HyHTbIQmeQZFOm7C2JdQ' not found in stream 'user:spacehobo:lists:person'2013-07-27T11:15:04Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
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Check out those fancy codez!¯\（。々°）/¯Space Hobo at 2013-07-28T11:48:40Z
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Family Photos
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X11R5's uncle in his drawing room. Date unknown. Note tiny mice inhabiting overstuffed chair.Michael Gratton, Christopher M. Hobbs (inactive), jpope, Stephen Michael Kellat and 4 others likes this.
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