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Get smrt.
2016-06-27T16:24:19Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Delving into smartcard programming again for an upcoming article. If anyone has a GPG-compatible smartcard garthering dust that they'd be willing to donate to the cause, I'd appreciate it. The equipment budget is limited.
Not that there'a whole lot of models on the market, that is. Which is a whole other problem unto itself.... -
2016-06-21T20:35:24Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
True or False: 2009 counts as "not that long ago."
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It depends on the scale, so... Schroedinger's cat.
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Depends on whether we're talking about when the last cup of coffee was had or when an asteroid almost destroyed earth.
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I got married in 2009, and it simultaneously feels like yesterday and like it's always been true, so...
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-06-22T17:28:45Z
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T&C
2016-06-21T16:09:49Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Let's be blunt: the three lines in this footer from the Fedora wiki are in direct opposition to one another.
Why would anyone contribute to a wiki where a commercial company claims copyright and "all rights reserved" over that person's contribution?[email protected] likes this.
that footer makes no sense
sadly it is seems that identi.ca poor UX doesn't allow to read the actual screenshot because it insist on overlaying the post content.... One doesn't simply duplicate shitty UI from the competition....
>> Hubert Figuière:
“[...] seems that identi.ca poor UX doesn't allow to read the actual screenshot because it insist on overlaying the post content....”
Thankfully we have other clients =)
I've read it perfectly fine.
In any case, if you're bound to the webUI for some reason, any browser will give you a "View image" opton when right-clicking said image, to see it by itself.
One would think that pump.io would be web first...
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Never read the comments
2016-06-21T16:05:45Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
So BoingBoing picked up our latest LWN piece on the W3C EME (DRM) specification fight, which I can tell you from the site backend resulted in a lot of additional page views. But the story still only garnered 1 comment, while our look at the Snappy release has close to 60.
One of these days, when I'm retired and sitting on a beach somewhere, I'm not going to miss commercial-Linux-distro-infighting one single, solitary little bit.Kete Foy , Christopher Allan Webber like this.
let's talk about the lord saviour Unity.
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2016-06-20T22:35:59Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Current mood: fighting the urge to start this article on grammar-checking utilities for Emacs with the words "Grammar be hard."Christopher Allan Webber , Charles ☕ Stanhope , Douglas Perkins like this.
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2016-06-08T20:54:35Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Ditching MythTV frontend for Kodi today; quickly found out that I set aside waaaaaaaay too much time for the task. #shouldvedonethisyearsagoDouglas Perkins likes this.
first time I read of Kodi
It's what used to be XBMC, if that's unclear. Been around quite some time now.
it is the only way i ever use the tv. take a raspberri pi, put kodi on it -> win.
KODI is very nice
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2016-06-06T16:31:15Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Man do I own a lot of unused USB cables.Alex Jordan , Douglas Perkins , Charles ☕ Stanhope like this.
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2016-06-03T17:16:50Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Zigbee, Z-Wave, & INSTEON all sound like characters from a Japanese kids show dubbed into English in the late 80s/early 90s. #DomoticsTeamGoCharles ☕ Stanhope likes this.
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2016-06-01T21:38:31Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Playing with freedombox 0.9....
Really want to buy a tiny little dedicated ARM box for it and put lots of blinky LEDs on to show status messages....mray likes this.
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A quick look at how we got our trefoil hazard signs
2016-05-31T18:18:34Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
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This is background info; next week's part-two will be the interesting one: hazard signs thought up by amateurs for sci-fi and specualtive dangers.
I like the part where the US Army was tired of having multiple chemical symbols and so decided to create another chemical symbol to solve that problem. -
2016-05-30T01:14:33Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I'm probably gonna have to split this 4000-and-counting-word blog post up into more than one part.... -
2016-05-24T18:27:22Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Apparently, I miss out by not approaching social media first as a battleground on which to wage constant war. -
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2016-05-16T15:15:57Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
How many decades will it be before we can get people to stop writing "apt-get" in their installation instructions? #ItsAptNowMomSheesh
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They never got to write"aptitude" instead of "apt-get", so... never? =)
I type apt-get on Fedora....
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2016-05-11T21:29:20Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
So, no DebConf for me this year, apparently. :(
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Ten measley hours left on the TXLF call for papers
2016-05-10T19:23:59Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
What are you doing looking down here?? Go submit a session proposal, and book your ticket to Austin!
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#4dw
2016-05-10T16:13:14Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Four damn words saying what your project is/does, every time you write a post or announcement about it. Seriously. It's. Not. Hard.
Note that in my pumpstream, this happens to appear coincidentally right after @cwebber's re-share of Lars's announcement about Qvarn. And said announcement is a great example of doing it right. -
2016-05-09T15:20:17Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
One of the Tor project's GSoC mentors is "anonymous". Which is great except that nowI kind of wish they all were. -
Texas Linux Fest 2016 CFP
2016-04-28T22:20:13Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Hello, intrepid pump.io reader!
For those of you who don't know, my name is Nate Willis; amongst other pastimes,
I'm one of the organizers of Texas Linux Fest, which is the leading community
Linux-and-FOSS conference for Texas and the surrounding region.
Our event is July 8th and 9th this year, in downtown Austin, TX. We'd
really love it if folks from YOUR project community can be there—be
they local or from out of town.
I especially wanted to draw your attention to our call for
participation. We're intent on attracting a wide variety of speakers
representing open source and free software, both users and developers,
from all corners. The details are here:
http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/call-for-papers
and the deadline is approaching.
Please consider submitting a talk proposal, and we would love it if
you could help us spread the word by sharing the CFP with your community,
whether that's developers, users who care about software freedom, or random
people you just know through the federated internet!
If you have any questions, or if you want to know more about Texas
Linux Fest in general, please get in touch!
Thanks, on behalf of the entire TXLF 2016 team,
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FTR, I tried to keep the language of this announcement rather generic, so if anybody feels like reposting it, forwarding it to a mailing list or cutting-and-pasting it into a web forum, you can straight up do so. Permission granted! Don't be shy!
...or take it to the tattoo parlor of your choice.Nathan Willis at 2016-04-28T22:37:20Z
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Yes I have no principles
2016-04-28T16:12:28Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Recently I've been researching blurb-to-full-text-feed RSS solutions. Those being code / sites / services that take the ever-annoying "snippet-only, click here to go to the site" RSS or Atom feeds and turn them into feeds that include the entire article content.
Why? Because blurb-only feeds are a hateful boil on the Internet and they deserve to to be mercilessly destroyed and the site owners who deploy them should be eaten alive by pandas.
Back to the point: the majority of these blurb-to-full-text services are web services, though most are free to use (some even take donations). Which is a little disappointing; I really wanted to find a free-software solution, to self-host. There appears to be only one that I've found that *is* nominally free software: fullcontentrss.com
But they're scamming you with that AGPLv3 license claim. The site they run is *not* running an AGPL program, it's running a proprietary program with no source available. Click on the license info and they'll *sell* you the AGPL source for $20.
_Presumably_ that source is the same as what they run, they just don't run the "AGPL version" for the public. If they are the sole copyright holders, after all, they can offer it under two distinct licenses: AGPL and "not for sale"/proprietary.
So I've been scouring the Internets looking for somebody who's paid that ransom and will provide the source for free, to fork it and publicize it and shame the original authors. So far I've found nothing. And I refuse to play their game by paying the $20.
Is that anti-freedom of me? Don't they have the right to charge money for free software? Aren't I just being a cheapskate/freetard/some-other-offensive-insult by demanding the code for free?
I don't think so. Because I don't think the site owners are actually running a free-software service. They're running a proprietary service and touting it as free. If the service at the site was really AGPL, and they believed in the fundamental principles, then the users of fullcontentrss.com would be able to download the source directly. This is more like the scare-tactic licensing that Oracle enages in, where they use AGPL as a threat to scare away "competitors" (which is to say, in real human-being terms, "collaborators") and keep people bound to the proprietary version.
Agree/disagree?
I hate blurb-only feeds, too. Would pandas actually eat people; would it take a lot of bamboo?
This freeware might be a real controversy.
Meanwhile...
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