Identi.ca Updates for 2010-02-24

  • ♺ @dandart: We don’t want companies controlling our own devices! Please share and sign! http://ur1.ca/kw3t !fsf !gnu #ibad #ipay #
  • @rejon ok, no problem. I was going to suggest you, if you where available. #
  • ♺ @jmcesteves: “deeply concerned by the secrecy surrounding international negotiations”: MPs sign #ACTA motion: http://bit.ly/bt3I7J #
  • ♺ @jmcesteves: #ACTA: #EU Council partially declassifies EU draft negotiation document—but the content remains hidden http://tr.im/Pxqm #
  • ♺ @jmcesteves: ████ the EU C██████! #
  • @gbraad haha, that’s nothing. One day, I was walking around and in opposite direction came a couple. Girl closer to me. Suddenly she jumps.. #
  • @gbraad …to the other side of the boyfriend. As I was looking at them a bit startled, she begs her pardon, thought I was her ex-bf 🙂 #
  • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/serious-threat-to-web-in-italy.html #
  • @gbraad depends on how she’d jump… it *could* be interesting 😉 #
  • @stephwer young mom? congratulations! #
  • ♺ @zoobab: counter-campaign: abolish patenting altogether, denounc idea of a patent as monopolistic retrogressive absurd: http://i5.be/awp #
  • @stephwer ah, I didn’t know 🙂 ok 🙂 #
  • ♺ @leplaid: Using open source makes you an enemy of the state http://bit.ly/cQ4j0z !foss !gnu !terrorist #
  • ♺ @zoobab: FFII Founder says the fight against software patents is its 3rd round now: http://i5.be/awr #
  • ♺ @zoobab:Would y giv’up yr right t sue othrs fr patent infringement in exchange fr immunity from all patent lawsuits? 84%Y http://i5.be/awu #
  • If #Oracle intends to shutdown #Solaris, would they please free it all under the “GPLv2 or later” so the good things can be reused? #
  • Good news! ♺ @pvilela: @RuiSeabra Oracle does not intend to shutdown Solaris #
  • Oops, I mean… of course, the Open #Solaris (on both my previous messages)! #
  • @stephwer nobody would say that you’re not ‘thaaat young anymore’ from looking at you, I swear! 🙂 (don’t hit me Jan) #
  • ♺ @carlopiana: ♺ @janhusar: EuroISPA: Leaked #ACTA text shows treaty would threaten fundamental rights. http://bit.ly/aC9kAF #freedom #
  • @stephwer of course, but like my wife you look a lot younger 🙂 #
  • @jwildeboer it’s not an official statement, but he’s a s/Sun/Oracle/ friend. #
  • ♺ @jmcesteves: RT @j_zim IMPORTANT! Help the European Parliament oppose #ACTA! http://ur1.ca/ndqr Urge MEPs to sign the written declaration #
  • ♺ @jzim: @michaelgeist have you seen the European Parliament against #ACTA? http://ur1.ca/ndqr Every EU citizen can participate and help! #
  • ♺ @webmink: .Oracle has NOT annc’d EOL of OpenSolaris. Page you ref is an old page detailing lifecycles. Fully discussed on list. #
  • RT @arc @bkuhn yep, including their relationships. we’re almost living in a corporate-communist state. #
  • Downloading 7GB of English Wikipedia to tryout Evopedia on my !freerunner #
  • @rejon @vegyraupe can I present #Qi’s Ben Nanonote at SHIFT? http://2010.shift.pt/ ? Can you send me material for presentation if so? #
  • @gbraad sure! #
  • @gbraad but I’m thinking more on the line of “digital” material to present there, not a device 🙂 #
  • @tuxbrain that’s great! 🙂 can you send me anything you have (digital) that I can present? I’ll still have to propose, of course. #
  • @tuxbrain no Skype for me, that’s a tool from the devil 😉 #
  • @tuxbrain cool, there’s sources… #
  • @rejon your’s and @vegyraupe’s presentations would be really nice to have, I like the title of your talk and would reuse it #
  • @tuxbrain I’ve got ekiga but I don’t know where my mike and headphone are. Without them no talko 🙂 will have to search. #
  • Just submitted a talk proposal for #shift2010 about #Qi’s Nanonote and copyleft hardware. #
  • ♺ @zoobab: Sarkozy asked for secrecy of ACTA negotiations, was afraid of the European Parliament’s views: http://i5.be/awK #
  • ♺ @jmcesteves: RT @newsbrooke Reading: Why freedom of information means we can all be journalists: http://bit.ly/dlsIqf #
  • ♺ @blizzard: Lessig. In person or broadcast. Tomorrow. http://bit.ly/bOLXth #

Identi.ca Updates for 2010-02-23

  • ♺ @greve: If you don’t find truth in Dilbert, you haven’t been in business long enough, me thinks… http://ur1.ca/n71o #
  • Rename, rename… ♺ @techdirt: Did The UK Gov’t Back Down On Three Strikes… Or Did It Just Change What It Called It? http://dlvr.it/2TVW #
  • @rejon that would be *so*cool* #
  • One more reason not to buy a #Amazon ‘s #Kindle (if DRM wasn’t enough): don’t pay #Microsoft Tax on Innovation #swpat http://bit.ly/cHcftv #
  • http://www.PORDATA.pt alega respeitar WAI-A WCAG 1.0 mas exige Flash para as coisas interessantes. #fail #
  • ♺ @celso: Wikimedia Portugal http://2hdt.sl.pt #
  • ♺ @lxoliva: ASL.org/BROffice.org bloqueiam venda subsidiada de drogas fatais a professores http://migre.me/l2wW http://migre.me/kPRl Valeu! #
  • @rejon want to come to Portugal by April 16th representing !CC? CAn you suggest someone? It’s a Wikimedia related event 🙂 #
  • @rejon pardon me, Russia? 😀 #
  • ♺ @blizzard: Mozilla is looking for a technical documentation Ninja! Please help by telling friends: http://bit.ly/abrcv8 #
  • ♺ @techdirt: MagicJack Tries To Silence Boing Boing; Loses And Has To Pay $50,000 http://dlvr.it/2XZf #
  • ♺ @zoobab: Conference in Starsbourg on the UPLS central patent court and software patents via the backdoor: http://i5.be/awe #

Identi.ca Updates for 2010-02-22

  • #ACTA wants to criminalize Free Software users who view DVD’s with CSS. #
  • #ACTA recomenda o corte do acesso à internet à lá “3 ofensas” francesa. #
  • Não admira que testejam a esconder o texto ou a mentir sobre ele, a disseminação pública dele incentiva a revolta dos cidadãos.. #
  • @jzim worse, that commissioner lied to the audience in the EP… #
  • @jzim sorry, not a commissioner: Verraes. Didn’t he say EU law wouldn’t be changed? #
  • ♺ @jmcesteves: Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor on the current #ACTA negotiations: http://is.gd/8VFeO #
  • ♺ @jzim: #ACTA : menace et incompatibilité avec la législation européenne confirmées http://ur1.ca/n3q4 #HADOPI #CopyrightMafia #
  • The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s “Let’s Go Fucking Mental” has a nice rythm for wor. #
  • work #
  • ♺ @jzim: European privacy protection authority condemns #ACTA http://ur1.ca/n442 A serious blow to the negotiators! #ThreeStrikes #
  • ♺ @BoingBoing: EU Data Protection czar comes out against ACTA; EU analysis of leaked ACTA chapter http://bit.ly/cyEou9 #
  • #dfd2010 Document Freedom Day is approaching! #
  • @gbraad software’s still a big issue if one doesn’t care about software freedom (it’s still immature), but we’re slowly getting there w/!SHR #
  • Humming “Happy birthday dear @gbraad, happy birthday, to you!” lowly at his workplace while a few coworkers look strangely at him. #
  • d@evan would like to know more about sysadmin gig before applying (salary, fringe and whether my wife would have to blame Canada 😉 ) #
  • @stephwer not humming that loud 🙂 #
  • @stephwer oh, just last Friday I fell down my chair intentionally to make a pun with something a collegue had just said. Was worth it! 🙂 #
  • I hate it when Deja-Vu means a couple of good friends gets apart *again*. #

Identi.ca Updates for 2010-02-21

  • @tyll that’s not what I need: there’s a dir with the svn of a project. point and shoot #
  • ♺ @glynmoody: Criminalise Exotic Pets, not File Sharing – http://bit.ly/d6E2cj exposing the Great Lie of governments #filesharing #acta #
  • @tyll remember me saying I know how to make dist? 🙂 #
  • @tyll Guess I’ll give it a try. #
  • @tyll no problem 🙂 what I wanted to know was if there was already some script to point at autotools repo’s and cut some slack. #
  • Yesterday I saw a N900. It’s so impressive it makes me a bit jealous. Too bad it’s so proprietary. Good thing is: I don’t waste money on it. #
  • @pietercolpaert indeed. I guess the real problem will be when/if my !freerunner stops working for some reason. #
  • @playya #mer (from my tries with a SmartQ7) seemed very un-ready. Probably worse than SHR for the Freerunner. #
  • @gbraad 600€ without any real incentive (too proprietary and no real need for a new phone while my !freerunner works) is too much for me 🙂 #
  • @playya Besides, the phone part, battery, graphics, etc… don’t look that open to me (quite the opposite). #
  • @playya sorry, what do you mean by milestone? #
  • @playya get me free drivers! 😀 #
  • @playya ah… didn’t know… but what I’m a bit jealous of is that the N900 is impressive and looks really nice (UI-wise). #
  • @jacerdeira: android only looks mature to java pundits. such a limited platform … #
  • Yay, found the correct set of fixes to ecore.spec.in for getting !enlightenment on !fedora 12 #
  • make distclean ; ./autogen.sh && make dist-gzip && mv *.tar.* /tmp/ && sudo su – makerpm -c — “rpmbuild -tb /tmp/esmart*tar.gz” still here. #
  • ♺ @jmcesteves: RT @BoingBoing #ACTA “internet enforcement” chapter leaks http://bit.ly/bpuq7p #
  • Dear lazyweb, I need a couple of pictures from Andalucia and Extremadura’s GNU/Linux schools. #
  • ♺ @ANSOL: New blog post: Mais evoluída do mundo, qui-ça de Portugal! http://ur1.ca/n1h0 #
  • ♺ @michaelgeist #ACTA Internet chapter leaks: reveals USTR deceptive claims on 3 strikes. It IS model policy for ISPs http://bit.ly/9krV4M #

Identi.ca Updates for 2010-02-20

  • Learning how to mock packages up so I can start buildin some e17 rpms #
  • “No to SWIFT agreement” makes news on Portuguese “SIC Notícias” tv channel. BE, PCP, PS and PSD were against it, great! Sadly PP in favour. #
  • I know how to make rpms and cause a make dist to happen, I just want to know if someone has already written a small script to offload work. #
  • Dear !fedora are there any tools to automate fetching the source from path with autotools without polluting the devel environment? #
  • Manuel Alegre diz que há liberdade de expressão em Portugal. Não leu a constituição. #fail. #
  • Há mais que antes de 1974. Certo. Mas muito menos que, por exemplo, nos EUA. #
  • rt @albanrampon: Packages on !Fedora build sytem for !ARM http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ #
  • #Pidgin is really an awesome program to concentrate IM, mu-blog anad irc on low resource machines with a bigger screen #

Identi.ca Updates for 2010-02-19

  • ♺ @zoobab: Axel Horns on the United Patent Litigation System (UPLS), or European Patent Law outsourced outside of the EU: http://i5.be/auS #
  • ♺ @luisvidigal: Num pais de carencia de valores candidaturas como a de Fernando Nobre sao messianicas #

Identi.ca Updates for 2010-02-17

  • @gouki It’s an EFL based project, so it’s nice to be integrated with E 🙂 #
  • Não é só o Sócrates! É a conspiração anti-socialista! *grin* ♺ @JNegocios: Zapatero sob fogo cerrado da oposição http://xl.pt/r/bBWtqB #
  • Why do I bother… really… *sigh*. Dumb fucks. #
  • @pietercolpaert define regular… 🙂 #
  • ♺ @JMF1957: 🙂 🙂 Casa Pia: Absolvidos todos os jornalistas acusados de violação do segredo de justiça http://is.gd/8AVy0 #
  • @gbraad sadly, and once again (same with Android and N900) I’m not surprised… #
  • ♺ @gbraad: @linuxdotcom posted an article about #meego http://ur1.ca/ml3h Hardware Abstraction Software WTF to allow binary-only drivers. #
  • @rejon eliza? what’re you doing wih @rejon’s interface? #
  • @gbraad ha ha, you know who LF is, right? http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members #
  • @gbraad Linux Foundation is “mostly” the hw vendors, so they don’t need no stinkin’ education 😉 #
  • @gbraad and without meaning any deteriment to the persons who represent those companies, most of them aren’t really that nice. #
  • @gbraad most of those companies don’t care or oppose “open source”, but have some departments that do care and support. #
  • @gbraad a common pitfall of not caring about user freedom and just looking at all the shebang as a nice development method. #
  • Companies, I mean. The persons who participate in LF are (IMO) the public nice and willing face, but big companies have many hands. #
  • @jwildeboer Think Different? 😉 #
  • ♺ @joaomiranda: Quando chegou ao gabinete de Rui Pedro Soares a Judiciária já sabia que password usar para entrar nos computadores #
  • @gbraad loved it. set it. thanks 🙂 #
  • http://passo-a-rezar.net/ tem mp3 mas… TODOS OS DIREITOS RESERVADOS e nenhuma licença (eg. CC By-SA) com ideais católicos de partilha. #
  • Ou seja, http://passo-a-rezar.net/ tem MP3 com orações musicais MAS se partilhares com outros crentes estarás a ser um vil “pirata”! #
  • Novo artigo no meu blog: “Passo a Rezar, pouco cristã!” http://blog.1407.org/2010/02/17/passo-a-rezar-pouco-crista/ #
  • @rejon LOL of the day: cristian initiative in Portugal releases prayers in modern music format in MP3 but with ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. #
  • @rejon sent them an email suggesting to use CC-By-SA 🙂 #
  • @rejon explaining that they were prohibitting the faithfull to share (which is a most important cristian value) 🙂 #
  • @jwildeboer yes 🙂 #
  • @tonnerre can’t it use stdout ? #
  • @tonnerre but it’s Free Software right? Patch? 🙂 #
  • @tonnerre but you can propose that patch and have it as an external patch for those who agree with you to do as such if ISC doesn’t like it. #
  • @gbraad I feel your pain, rest and get well! 🙂 #
  • Raising eyebrows moment of the day: #Google buys #ON2 http://ur1.ca/lh7q #
  • @blizzard would you say not supporting #Ogg #Theora in YouTube’s #HTML5 could be related to this On2 deal? Limitation or pressure? #
  • #Qi’s #Ben #Nanonote on sale starting tomorrow thanks to our #TuxBrain spanish friends: http://www.tuxbrain.com/oscommerce/products/68 #
  • @jstone yah… and Ben Nanonote is probably the most open computer you got, right now (hw too). #

Passo a Rezar, pouco cristã!

Não sou crente, mas acho espectacular a iniciativa http://passo-a-rezar.net/ de distribuir orações encapsuladas em música contemporânea.

Contudo os MP3 não estão acompanhados de nenhum licenciamento visível, e no site apenas consta Todos os direitos reservados. Como isto proíbe a partilha entre os crentes (e a partilha é um valor cristão fortemente defendido) penso que a iniciativa encontra-se assim ferida de credibilidade.

Nesse sentido, enviei-lhes o seguinte contacto, esperando boas notícias para breve:

Boa noite,

Acho muito bem que distribuam MP3 com versões das orações em formato de música contemporânea, mas estão a distribuí-las de uma forma muito pouco cristã.

Acontece que a única informação de licenciamento dos conteúdos que existe é a que existe no vosso site: TODOS OS DIREITOS RESERVADOS.

Ou seja, se um crente partilhar a música com outros crentes, estará a cometer uma infracção à lei ao ser bom cristão.

A minha sugestão é que licenciem os MP3 sob os termos da licença Creative Commons By Attributtion and Share-Alike (conhecida como CC-By-SA e cujos termos estão aqui: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ )

Boa iniciativa, só falta torná-la verdadeiramente cristã!

Actualização: como o site está em baixo (provavelmente devido à carga derivada de todos os que tentaram lá ir na sequência do artigo na TV), este contacto não seguiu. Volto a tentar mais tarde.

Actualização 2: 🙂 já foi… «Aviso. O seu contacto foi enviado. Responderemos o mais breve possível. Obrigado.»

Identi.ca Updates for 2010-02-16

  • @stephwer everyone is entitled their minuses, mbp is yours, that’s excellent! #
  • rt @stephwer: @ruiseabra You’re right! Nobody should be perfect… =) #
  • @jwildeboer you could try to dual boot her mbp with fedroa! *grin* #
  • @jwildeboer are you feelingbetter, btw? #
  • #meego discourages L/GPL v3 #fail http://meego.com/about/licensing-policy #
  • amolther #meego #fail besides discouraging gpl3 is aiming to be proprietary-friendly #
  • I mean another. !olpc keyboard is not so easy to type into. #
  • so the linnux foundation chose #swpat and #drm support. has to be. only real reason to discourage gpl 3 is that. #
  • @pietercolpaert almost same thing but giving them the power to make arbitrary exceptions. #
  • @pietercolpaert read #meego licensing policy and it becomes clear it’s oriented toward non-free support. #
  • @pietercolpaert #meego developers will be gratis employees of proprietary platforms. #
  • @pietercolpaert I don’t care about what control operators want to have over me. #android and #meego want to help them have it. #
  • @pietercolpaert #meego will never run on the !freerunner. because it’s oriented towards non-free graphics cards and formats. #
  • @pietercolpaert yes, but understand what their mission is: less freedom, not more… #
  • @jwildeboer #FSO allows that, too bad one needs good hardware to go with it. #
  • @pietercolpaert will be as free as #android or #n900, aka, non-free in practice for 99.9% of the cases #
  • @gbraad you’re probably in breach of contract with your operator 🙂 #
  • @openuniverse #FSO but more developers are needed, as well as a good hardware platform #
  • @openuniverse visit http://freesmartphone.org/ #
  • @pietercolpaert have you read their po #
  • @pietercolpaert have you read #meego ‘s licnsing policy? because it’s quite clear what they want. #
  • @pietercolpaert you understand you’re placing your hope in Intel and Nokia, right? #
  • @pietercolpaert while #swpat exist yes, it’s very hard for us to gain momentum. they are a barrier to entry. so don’t support #swpat friends #
  • that’s what I do #
  • @pietercolpaert there are no dumb phones anymore, only software makes them dumb or not 🙂 #
  • @pietercolpaert even that one 🙂 ok, not so powerfull, but dumbness is sw ! #
  • @kimus hoje e’ feriado para os trabalhadores bancarios. #
  • @kimus feriado #
  • joe biden at work… rt @arstechnica: New IP task force brings “stronger and stricter enforcement” – http://arst.ch/eeq #
  • @jwildeboer @evan @zach it would be nice if it could be done without js 🙂 also less js for embbed devices #
  • ♺ @techdirt: Viacom To Record Labels: If You Want More Money For Music In Video Games, We’ll Find Other Music http://dlvr.it/20Jy #
  • @jwildeboer what’s the gist of it? #
  • @jwildeboer @rejon if it’s at least as open as the OpenMoko phones it’s already a big win (want one to use #FSO) #
  • @rejon minimum I desire is what we currently have on normal computers, the ability to run Free Software with the machine whole usefulness. #
  • @rejon but the more free the hardware is, the better. so even if the hardware is semi-hidden, if it can run on Free Software drivers… #
  • @rejon … then it’s way better than 99.9% of the mobile phone devices all around 🙂 #
  • Neat, 1st external patch for !elmdentica! 🙂 #
  • New svn !elmdentica home at: http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/elmdentica/ #
  • Next in queue, !elmdentica issues and wiki. #
  • !elmdentica is moving away from #google’s geographical restrictions to Free Software developers. #
  • @gbraad that’swhat I’m hoping for 🙂 #
  • blod sausage… #
  • At an excellent dinner with bood sausagesand other fumed meat and lots of good cheese and excellent Douro wine! #
  • @jwildeboer envy doesn’t suit you well 😉 #
  • @jwildeboer it’s not exactly blood sausage, it’s more like chorizo, but I don;t know the english word #
  • yum… this sheep cheese from Serra da Estrela really rocks… 😀 #
  • And after a delicious home made chocolate mousse, port wine! #
  • About to have cofee and pasteis de nata (“portuguese *breakfast*” at some weird place) #
  • @pietercolpaert very similar to portuguese SuperBock #
  • @schestowitz @glynmoody I believe cell phones provide a real risk, if you talk inhumanly too much. #
  • @rejon I’m surely tuned! #