Stephen Michael Kellat at 2016-06-07T02:15:31Z
The first protestor group at the RNC that got permits is going to be...Westboro Baptist Church! I don't think anybody had them in their pool of guesses. The City of Cleveland will be making further announcements as time goes by.
Considering that one of the parks protestors will be camping in is right next door to where I work this could get dangerous.
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Considering where I work...
Stephen Michael Kellat at 2016-06-06T00:34:58Z
It was enlightening to say Friday that the majority of what I cope with at work consists of inessential weirdnesses.
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Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-06-02T16:23:36Z
Btw, guix is not affected, because their glibc uses GUIX_LOCPATH instead to avoid this kind of collision.X11R5 likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-06-01T20:51:24Z
So exhausted. Want to collapse on the floor instead of working on my TODO list. But I'm back at things again.
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It turns out collapsing on the floor for a while was the right idea after all.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-06-01T21:43:07Z
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I hope that the floor was covered by a soft carpet / pillows / mattresses :)
Sometimes a brief collapse can be a most transcendent feeling.Sean Tilley at 2016-06-02T17:44:05Z
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Alexandre Oliva at 2016-05-31T19:20:39Z
GNU Linux-libre 4.1.25-gnu, 3.18.34-gnu, and 3.12.60-gnu freeloong mipsel .debs for gnewsense/yeeloong are now availableX11R5 likes this.
My Zotero Database Looks Weird
Stephen Michael Kellat at 2016-05-28T22:47:14Z
I certainly have been storing citations to weird things in my Zotero database. It is useful, though.
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testbeta at 2016-05-24T20:44:06Z
Federated systems are still centralized at end points, who here are using identi.ca, quitter.se, microca.st or gmail, yahoo, apple's or likewise. My point is people put trust in major players that trust is justified. In the end major players have most of the userbase. Federation is still in infancy.X11R5 likes this.
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@testbeta@identi.ca As much as possible I do run my own servers (SMTP,IMAP,XMPP,murmur,davical,etc) I also use Bit message for what it is worth. None of my life is on the 'Major players' servers (with the exception of Identi.ca and freenode). Once I get off my butt and get a 'let's encrypt' cert. I'll probably look at running my own pump. Having a freemor@freemor.call webfinger is an appealing thought.
I could not do this in the world imagined by Moxie and the 'major players'. I grew up on the federated Internet (irc,uucp,nntp,smtp,xmpp,etc) and have watched with dismay as things like hotmail/gmail and other centralized things have messed it all up. I'm not saying federation is perfect but it is much more robust then centralized services (to things like government linking etc). A short while ago (before all this began) I wrote a blog entry talking about the three models central,federated,P2P and pointed out that they all have their strengths and weaknesses. And pointed out that the most important consideration is right tool for the right job.
I would never say all things must be federated... That's just silly. But some things work better federated just as some things work better P2P, and others centralized.
If Moxie believes central is the best tool for what he is making I won't argue.. But to say that federation is bad/useless/dead/unworkable is just plain incorrect. It may not fit for what he wants, fine. But don't blame the drill because it makes a poor hammer. Just use the right tool for the job and move on.Freemor at 2016-05-24T21:19:03Z
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@testbeta@identi.ca as to the trust point question. A federated service let's me change whom I trust very easily without loosing contact with people. Or even let's my friends and I take our chips and cheesies, set up our own servers that only talk to our own servers and go play in the corner by ourselves.
Neither of these things can be done in a centralized service. You have to trust the siloFreemor at 2016-05-24T21:30:38Z
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Yes that's true because you can run your servers. You know what you are doing. People who aren't well versed with server administration or even computers rely on such trust which has its origin in fear and reliability. Like there is chance zoho might go away but not gmail. That sort of trust.testbeta at 2016-05-25T08:06:15Z
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It all comes down to usable, accessible freedom.
#userops
I heard another term this week that I associated with userops, but it was more immediately understandable for people not in the loop, and it was less technically and more freedom-focused. Something like usable freedom, but with even more pathos.
Alberto Moshpirit at 2016-05-18T12:12:23Z
I assume that you use Google because it gives you something that free software and federated services don't. May I ask what thinks?X11R5 likes this.
GSoC Package
Efraim Flashner at 2016-05-18T13:54:29Z
My welcome package from Google arrived this morning. They sent me a notebook and pen. Maybe they think I'm going to write my code longhand?
What's your GSoC project?
building a bourne-shell compiler front-end for guile. it'll help guix cut down on magic binaries used to bootstrap the distro.
Efraim Flashner at 2016-05-18T14:45:36Z
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You're building whaaat. That's amazing.
They're gradually rebuilding the whole system to a LISP machine, aren't they? We have init, cpio and now sh is coming.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-05-18T19:48:38Z
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When you said "cutting down on GNU Guix's bootstrap binaries" I didn't realize it would something this drastic.Efraim Flashner at 2016-05-15T13:12:24Z
you could also use apt-pinning and set sid to 1? 100? and then it'll only pull in pieces to fix dependencies. Yesterday I pulled in the new upstream libarchive from experimental to fix dependencies.
Ever since I installed apt-listbugs ~3 years ago I stopped having large issues on my laptop while using sid
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Stephen Michael Kellat at 2016-05-12T02:13:43Z
At those frequencies the most that will happen is tissue heating. Limit your exposure and you'll live. Stick around too long and you'll understand what a hotdog overcooking in a microwave feels like.
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Jason Self at 2016-05-11T14:06:17Z
Famous last words. :)illyria, AJ Jordan, X11R5, Stephen Michael Kellat and 1 others likes this.
Alberto Moshpirit at 2016-05-10T18:42:47Z
La respuesta siempre es 42, no entiendo a qué viene la polémica.
lnxwalt@microca.st at 2016-05-07T00:56:24Z
I'd expect that you'd all sign an agreement that sets the stated values of each person's non-financial contributions and the percentage of ownership each person gets. But I've never been in that situation myself.X11R5 likes this.
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-05-06T21:03:20Z
mudsync server shut down for a bit while I get some new features in... and hopefully more live-hacking ones :) #lispgamejam #mudsync
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