For anyone #teaching #programming, this is excellent.Ten quick tips for teaching programming
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol…Full citation:
Brown, Neil C. C., and Greg Wilson. “Ten Quick Tips for Teaching Programming.” PLOS Computational Biology 14, no. 4 (April 5, 2018): e1006023. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1…
From “the internet” (if you know where this comes from, please tell me so)
this is so true it hurts
Debian SnowCamp in Laveno 28 Feb / 3 Mar 2019
Just like last year, we are organizing a small DIY DebCamp in Laveno from Thursday 28 February to Sunday 3 March 2019.A DIY DebCamp is chance to meet other debianites and work together, with no preset schedule other than what the participants themselves decide to have.
There is still room to register by adding yourself to the table on the debian wiki:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/it/2019/SnowCamp
See you in Laveno!
openscore.cc is a project that wants to liberate sheet music from copyright and from paper! They invite and coordinate volunteers to transcribe public domain scans from imslp.org using musescore.org. Should be a great learning experience! 🎼
Become A Facebook-Free Business
This is an interesting initiative!
Being a Facebook-Free Business means your customers can trust that you aren’t collaborators with the Facebook machine. That when you spend your money with a Facebook-Free Business, none of that money will find its way back to Facebook’s coffers.The rules are pretty simple. Being Facebook Free means:
- We do not buy advertisement on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
- We do not use Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp to promote or represent our business or to communicate with our customers.
- We do not assist Facebook in its data collection regime through use of Facebook social Like buttons or by offering Facebook logins.
m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-fa…Thanks to @Debacle for the pointer!
I'd like to send virtual chocolate¹ to all of the distribution maintainers who deal with toxic upstreams so that the users can get the software without having to deal with the toxicity themselves.
You are doing a great and *useful* job!
¹ if you're not in the mood for chocolate it will turn magically into whatever virtual comfort food you want
P.S. this is not restricted to any episode / project you may be thinking about.
Comfy clothing
Last autumn I followed the Otari Hoodie sew along using black cotton sweatshirting as the main body and leftovers of cat print cotton jersey as the lining.
I had enough sweatshirting for a matching skirt, with applied pockets, using the circle_fraction_skirt pattern (on my git repository.
I had pockets on the hoodie and the skirt, but they aren't very big (and knits aren't great at carrying weight), so I added zippers to both seams so that I can access my pockets, so that I can have the “privilege of not lending” my scissors :D
And then today was a great day to wear it while on the couch (not pictured: warm blanket, book)
I only need to be careful not to wear this while playing munchkin steampunk in case those things count as toy cats for the mousetrap level 2 monster (“+1 for each living or toy cat you can see in the room when this card is turned up”. I wouldn't see my own clothing (riiight?), but other players would, and I suspect that they wouldn't be happy :D )
Pepper and Carrot board game
Today the post had a surprise for me!
The Pepper and Carrot #freeCulture #boardGame from kickstarter.com/projects/18989… , including most expansions.
Looking forwards to playing it!
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It has finally happened!
I've been using valentina to draft #sewingPatterns for a while, using the upstream packages inside a virtual machine, and I can recommend it to other people who want to draft their own patterns from measurements (and not just because there are afaik no other free software alternatives).
I've been planning to try and package it for debian for a long time, but ended up spending my #sewing time on sewing-in-a-hurry instead of working on the tools, so I'm quite happy that somebody else had time to do it.
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Yesterday I finally “released” version 0.2 of my veeery slowly developed collection manager lesana. Made a new package (not in a state fit for release) and installed it on my pc.
And then today I had an idea on how to implement a feature that I was having issues implementing…
(When I say “released” and 0.2 I really mean it: I've been using it for two years, and it's still not fit for human consumption)
An advent calendar with #piecepack games, on an Italian board games website.
(The direct link to the calendar is pinco11.blogspot.com/2018/11/c… )
Black friday shopping (sort of)
Yesterday afternoon I went to the city center to buy a couple of things... and then started noticing big sales signs and only then realized that black friday is now a thing also in brick-and-mortar Italy…
Anyway, I kept going towards the one remaining drogheria¹ in my town, met the new owner (YAY! it hasn't closed when the old ones retired) and bought a bit of spices, candied fruit and few grams gum arabic (YAY! I've found a place that sells it), so that I can continue my attempts at making my own dip pen ink.
And then I proceeded to ignore the big sales signs on my way back home :)
¹ that's a traditional shop that sells spices (droghe in slightely old-fashioned italian), preserved foods, household chemicals and… stuff.
Awesome Selfhosted
"This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers."github.com/Kickball/awesome-se…
There are all kinds of categories, e.g. Search Engines:
- Ambar - Document Search Engine (OCR, Store & Search) (Demo, Source Code) MIT Nodejs/Python
- Gigablast - open source search engine. (Demo, Source Code) Apache-2.0 C++
- Seeks - Web search proxy and collaborative distributed tool for websearch. (Source Code) AGPL-3.0 C++
- Searx - Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine. (Demo, Source Code) AGPL-3.0 Python
- Yacy - Peer based, decentralized search engine server. (Demo, Source Code) GPL-2.0 Java
File transfer/synchronization:
- Git Annex - File synchronization between computers, servers, external drives. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 Haskell
- Kinto - Kinto is a minimalist JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities. (Source Code) Apache-2.0 Python
- Nextcloud - Access and share your files, calendars, contacts, mail and more from any device, on your terms. (Demo, Source Code) AGPL-3.0 PHP
OpenSSH/SFTP - Secure File Transfer Program. (Source Code) BSD C- ownCloud - All-in-one solution for saving, synchronizing, viewing, editing and sharing files, calendars, address books and more. (Source Code, Clients) AGPL-3.0 PHP
- Pydio - Turn any web server into a powerful file management system and an alternative to mainstream cloud storage providers. (Source Code) AGPL-3.0 PHP
- Samba - Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. It provides secure, stable and fast file and print services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol. GPL-3.0 C
- Seafile - File hosting and sharing solution primary for teams and organizations. (Demo, Source Code) GPL-2.0 C
- SparkleShare - Self hosted, instant, secure file sync. (Source Code) GPL-3.0 C#
- Syncany - Secure file sync software for arbitrary storage backends, an open-source cloud storage and filesharing application. Securely synchronize your files to any kind of storage. GPL-3.0 Java
- Syncthing - Syncthing is an open source peer-to-peer file synchronisation tool. (Source Code) MPL-2.0 Go
- Unison - Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows. GPL-3.0 OCaml
- Z-Push - Implementation of Microsoft’s ActiveSync protocol. (Source Code) AGPL-3.0 PHP
XMPP Web Clients:
- Candy - Multi user XMPP client written in Javascript. (Source Code) MIT Javascript
- Converse.js - Free and open-source XMPP chat client in your browser. (Source Code) MPL-2.0 Javascript
- JSXC - Real-time XMPP web chat application with video calls, file transfer and encrypted communication. There are also versions for Nextcloud/Owncloud and SOGo. (Source Code) MIT Javascript
- Kaiwa - Web based chat client in the style of common paid alternatives. (Source Code) MIT Nodejs
- Movim - Modern, federated social network based on XMPP, with a fully featured group-chat, subscriptions and microblogging. (Source Code) AGPL-3.0 PHP
- Salut à Toi - Multipurpose, multi frontend, libre and decentralised communication tool. AGPL-3.0 Python
- Libervia - Web frontend from Salut à Toi. (Source Code) AGPL-3.0 Python
#linux #gnu #gnulinux #selfhosted #services #hackernews #foss #security #privacy #searchengines #searx #yacy #seeks #gigablast #ambar #xmpp #candy #jsxc #kaiwa #movim #salutàtoi #libervia #gitannex #kinto #nextcloud #owncloud #pydio #samba #seafile #sparkleshare #syncany #syncthing #unison #zpush
Support for SF conservancy... renewed
Like every year, I've just renewed my support for Software Freedom Conservancy.
The victims people at Conservancy are doing the hard and/or boring work of dealing with lawyers, accountants and other undeads so that we hackers don't have to, and this alone should be enough to earn our support.
btw, there are still a few days, until january 15th, to have your donations count twice thanks to a matching donation.
Backpack done! or is it?
My new backpack!
I started this project in august (pattern and material list) / september (actual sewing) and finally, this evening, it is usable!
It wasn't the only project running (not even the only *sewing* project), but still it took enough time that I'm glad I can finally use it, even if right now it doesn't really have any real advantage over what I could have bought from any store for less money than I spent on materials (but I have many leftovers — and plans to use at least part of them)
It also was pretty challenging, both for my skills and for my home sewing machine, and there are a few things that could have been done better (and maybe they will, in the next backpack I'll make?)
But is it really done? No, that webbing in the front (and sides) is there to attach extensions, and I have at least a couple planned (one easy, that I will do soon, and another complex one that will wait until I've recovered from the project fatigue with something completely different).
I'm also still waiting for the buckles that will close the compression straps in the front (not that they are really needed now that there are no extensions to keep compressed), but they are details I can take care of later.
P.S. I took pictures and notes, and the pattern is already on git, but a full tutorial will have to wait, probably even months, as now I have a bit of sewing backlog.
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via @Fabio
Now, it's a shame that nowadays browsers have lost support for gopher, as that's required to follow some links on that page...
Tonight I dreamt of an old man, dressed in grey with a wide felt hat, who was tending a small vegetable garden like the ones typically kept by retired men.
He was using a tool that changed shape according to what he needed in that moment, but at every change it blinked a bit as if it wanted to return to its native shape of a spear.
Now I'm a bit worried for humanity's sake. :)
P.S. even more worryingly his usual associate wasn't around to be seen.
improved slatts belt
In one of the comments (near the bottom) on tacticalintelligence.net/blog/… there was a suggestion to alternate the direction of the loops to prevent the paracord from twisting badly.
This is the process and the result:
(making a full belt with 20m of paracord took about a day of picking it up, doing a couple of rows while in front of the computer and putting it down again)
Debian Day in Varese
I'm stuck home instead of being able to go to DebConf, but that doesn't mean that Debian Day will be left uncelebrated!
Since many of the locals are away for the holidays, we of @Gruppo Linux Como and @LIFO aren't going to organize a full day of celebrations, but at the very least we are meeting for a dinner in Varese, at some restaurant that will be open on that date.
Everybody is welcome: to join us please add your name (nickname or identifier of any kind, as long as it fits in the box) on dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/debday… before thursday, August 10th, so that we can
get a reservation at the restaurant.
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