FreedomBox Home Server Kit for Decentralizing the Internet and keeping your privacy away from the Big brother is now in stock! olimex.wordpress.com/2019/04/2…
No, it doesn't (afaik, at least it didn't last time I checked).
Friendica supports the diaspora protocol, because friendica supports *everything* :D
Olimex freedombox home server kit is available:
FreedomBox Home Server Kit for Decentralizing the Internet and keeping your privacy away from the Big brother is now in stock! olimex.wordpress.com/2019/04/2…
Cool. Stoicism is close to my heart, and expresses a lot of what I have discovered for myself.
But it definitely carries with it the danger of an interpretation where person A might tell person B that person A's actions were justified and person B's distress is entirely internal, therefore there is no reason for person A to change their behavior, B should just be better at accepting their fate.
We can do both. This is where I refer to the Serenity Prayer. It's one of the best pieces of Christianity, and it is pure Stoicism.
Grant me the wine to accept the things I cannot change,
The coffee to change the things I can,
And the shrooms to know the difference.
Mother Goose had it centuries before Reinhold Niebuhr, apparently:
> For every ailment under the sun
> There is a remedy, or there is none;
> If there be one, try to find it;
> If there be none, never mind it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity…
(and of course various Stoics and Buddhists a millennium or two before her, but her version is pretty much exactly the Serenity Prayer in content, just with different phrasing)
On Sunday, March 24th at the @fsf's annual #LibrePlanet conference, the FreedomBox Foundation announced that it has partnered with @olimex to sell Pioneer FreedomBox Home Server Kits.We chose to announce at #LibrePlanet for a reason. #BeAPioneer
SiFive updated their #HiFive1 #RISCV development board, in case you missed the first round.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1…
Now it includes onboard WiFi and Bluetooth, among other updates like support for more peripherals.
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!
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:
wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/i…
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.
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