Funny dream
Tonight I've dreamt I was in some kind of computer store and somebody told me that I should always save a copy of my work, as a backup.
I looked at him thinking "you really want to talk about this subject", by SO looked at me as if thinking "oh, no! she's starting!" and then I went into full vcs-home evangelist mode.
I may have just a bit of a problem :)
Free Software - We Have the Capacity
When discussing the principles of Free Software, it is all too easy to make the mistake of emphasising one interpretation of Free Software idealism over another. You can frame it two unique ways: "Microsoft is bad" vs "Free Software is great."One way of interpreting Free Software is in its inherent denouncement of proprietary code and the collective communities attitudes towards proprietary vendors such as Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe. "Proprietary software is bad, and so are the companies that make it," it could be said.
Photo Credit: Defective By Design
But there's a far greater message to be had, and I think it needs to be emphasized to the fullest.
"We have the capacity."
It's easy to focus on the negativity of an opposing ideal first. If nothing, the Free Software community is a fairly passionate one, and although internally it doesn't always agree on everything, overall it's a welcoming enough space that can encourage new people to become a part of it. A good experience of making things together is kind of what keeps a community going. This includes making decisions and assisting newcomers.
I think a better mindset for Free Software is "we have the capacity" because it focuses on all of the things one can do with it, rather than all of the things its opponents cannot do. It is an important distinction because it is foundational to the very tone and tenor of what Free Software is actually about: having the capacity to make things however you want to; you can study new ideas from existing code, and use that to learn how to do something new.
There are communities filled with volunteers that code together because they love it and care about their projects enough to keep working on them. There is code that can be used for free that anyone can install. You can make 3D printers, robots, desktop and web applications. You can use tools to build other tools, and make programs that create other things, such as art, music, and films.
In the end, Free Software is not just about being an alternative to the status quo. It is about giving empowerment to people, and levelling the economic playing field by offering every bit of it for free. By providing the tools and the knowledge to a person, you can give them the power to help themselves.
git rebase
TetsuyO> io vorrei capire (seriamente eh) l'utilità di rebase se non "usalo *solo* quando la roba è locale e non l'ha *mai* vista nessuno"
TetsuyO> dato che appena c'è un push di mezzo, si scatena L'IRDIDDIO
valhalla> TetsuyO: ma in locale è comodo
TetsuyO> valhalla: appunto, in locale. Ma appena si pusha mi sembra DHFA (Distributed Headaches For All) e basta
enrico> TetsuyO: :) si, infatti
enrico> TetsuyO: è come il sadomaso, dà le sue soddisfazioni, ma solo tra le persone consenzienti
Ottima spiegazione di quando è il caso di usare rebase e quando no.
I know it has probably existed for ages, and I've probably already read about it, but I've just rediscovered git-annex repair, which can also be run in a plain git repository and is able to retrieve any corrupted object from a remote where it is available, which is something I needed a few weeks ago.
questa si che e' una tastiera.... :)
Andfrnd Uploader Beta
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Reducing useless noise from irssi
Yesterday I missed a query from a friend (with the answer to a question *I* had asked in the first place) because it ended up in window 30-something and my statusbar was full of dim numbers from channels where people had just joined/left.
This morning I've setactivity_hide_level = JOINS PARTS QUITS
and my world is a much neater place :)
(I may have to add NICKS and possibly MODES, but they are rare enough and I'm still not sure I don't care about them, especially the latter.)
Rules For Living in a Simulation
Now if we, like those characters in recent movies, discovered specific clues in the world around us suggesting that we do in fact live in a simulation, we would of course consider those clues carefully to see what they say about how we should live our lives. --Robin Hanson Listen.
Also as podcast:
Now if we, like those characters in recent movies, discovered specific clues in the world around us suggesting that we do in fact live in a simulation, we would of course consider those clues carefully to see what they say about how we should live our lives.
Stampante 3D alla fiera dell'elettronica
Stampanti 3D
Se siete passati giovedì scorso in sede o sabato in fiera avrete notato una struttura in movimento circondata da piccoli oggetti di plastica colorata: una stampante 3D.
Mediagoblin donation
I've eventually decided to donate to the current MediaGoblin crowdfunding campaign
I do hope that they will make it to the next unlock level (Aveyah), or at least that they get close enough (with the matching grant this looks feasible) that they decide to work on most of the features.
Getting outraged at Facebook is a bit silly. Facebook is a crapshoot of groanworthy business models. It's like the slightly embarrassing uncle of social networks and it's a creepy NSA guy's wet dream. And continuing the relationship analogy there are just lots of other fish in the sea now. You don't have to be stuck in Stasiland. Facebook's only remaining asset is that there are still some folks on it.http://blog.eat24hours.com/breakup-letter-to-facebook-from-eat24/
Who's our next bad guy
Everywhere (and for "everywhere" I mean "on hacker news") I read news about the new Mozilla CEO, how he is evil, how bad he is and everything he touch, because once he spent his money to support California’s Proposition 8 (a ballot initiative against same-sex mariages) some years ago.
Some sites (starting with dating site OkCupid) showed a message to Firefox users asking them to change their browser because this.
And more and more I'm reading posts about "how I switched to chrome because of new Mozilla CEO".
Now, read this slowly:Google is still into NSA mess. Chrome is Google's product.
(reread as needed)
I think all this noise is also bad for LGBT community: fight hate with hate? You're on the right way, sure...