Pomos, não mantemos, nem tiramos.

É muito fixe colocar parques infantis num jardim, mas já agora um mínimo de manutenção é necessário ou então mais valia retirar.

Há coisas que neste momento estão atrozes do ponto de vista da segurança da criançada que brinca neste parque nos jardins em Belém, mas como é evidente não é um cartaz a dizer que a Câmara Municipal de Lisboa não se responsabiliza que impede seja quem for de correr riscos desnecessários.

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My favorite quote from Frankenweenie, applied to software

Frankenweenie is a very cool movie by Tim Burton, get it, watch it. My favorite quote from it is when the science teacher, Mr. Rzykruski, refutes the scaremongering against science that is launched by the mayor, who was very angry since his boy fell down a roof in a very unwise science project he and his friend were doing.

Ladies, gentleman.
I think the confusion here is that you are all very ignorant.
Is that right word, ignorant? I mean stupid, primitive , unenlightened.
You do not understand science so you are afraid of it, like a dog is afraid of thunder or balloons.
To you science is magic and witchcraft because, because you have small minds.
I cannot make your heads bigger, but your children’s is. I can take them and crack them open.
This is what I try to do. To get at their brains!
Ah, thank you.

This quote always reminds me of how so many people treat computers (well, the software) as some kind of magical thunder or witchcraft balloons and then proceed to make all sorts of bad decisions.

These go from colleagues and bosses to politicians and statesmen (in a generic form, not trying to tie out these roles to anyone in particular, mind you) and often the unwise decisions stemming from this ignorance have very, very bad results like wasting money of bad software solutions just because they have “support” (often so bad that it’s much worse than non SLA bases community support we’re used to on healthy Free Software projects) or stupid, primitive, unenlightened law proposals, some of which haven’t been stopped in time, some of which return in attempt after attempt like zombies from a B movie.

How can we fix this? Sigh.

Identi.ca Updates for 2013-05-02

  • Ó malta do Debian PT, não querem fazer uma festa para o Wheezy? Vá lá, a ANSOL ajuda se for preciso 🙂 #
  • Ou melhor, no que é que a ANSOL pode ajudar o Debian PT para fazer uma vez para o Wheezy? Go, go go! #
  • “DECO estuda réplica do leilão de electricidade em sectores públicos essenciais” pois, meio milhão q perdeu direito de os criticar não chega #
  • RT @carlopiana Sabam, asks money for nothing, wants levied charged on Belgian ISP (what?!??) sues them (WUUUUT?) http://ur1.ca/dna0b h h … #

Molly Crabapple’s SHELL GAME, free and CC


Robbo sez, “Molly Crabapple’s first major solo show, SHELL GAME, closed last Tuesday. Yesterday she released hi-res versions of the works under Creative Commons Share-Alike Non-Commercial. In her words:

“Without the support of hundreds of people online, Shell Game would never have happened. The internet believed in me, believed in the promise of my art, and showed that in concrete ways.

The internet gave me Shell Game.

I want to give them something back.

Today is May Day. The day of workers, immigrants, beautiful young girls, and rebellion. I’m releasing all the art from SHELL GAME on Creative Commons. Share. Remix. Make art. Wheatpaste the world.”

Shell Game: CreativeCommons release (Thanks, Robbo)

    

Molly Crabapple's SHELL GAME, free and CC


Robbo sez, “Molly Crabapple’s first major solo show, SHELL GAME, closed last Tuesday. Yesterday she released hi-res versions of the works under Creative Commons Share-Alike Non-Commercial. In her words:

“Without the support of hundreds of people online, Shell Game would never have happened. The internet believed in me, believed in the promise of my art, and showed that in concrete ways.

The internet gave me Shell Game.

I want to give them something back.

Today is May Day. The day of workers, immigrants, beautiful young girls, and rebellion. I’m releasing all the art from SHELL GAME on Creative Commons. Share. Remix. Make art. Wheatpaste the world.”

Shell Game: CreativeCommons release (Thanks, Robbo)

    

4 (out of 5) ssh security tips

There are some security tips for your sshd_config at http://www.debian-tutorials.com/5-steps-to-secure-your-ssh-server however the third one, Change the SSH Port on the server, is a lot of hot air.

“By changing the default port you will make SSH server more secure. By changing the default port you will reduce the amount of brute force attacks.”

Only the second phrase of this statement is truthful, but still, not by a wide margin…

Security by obscurity never works, it’s better to follow the other 4 advices and use fail2ban or something similar.

Spain’s Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source

jrepin writes “The government of Spain’s autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region’s CIO Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year. Extremadura in 2012 completed the inventory of all the software applications and computers used by its civil servants. It also tailored a Linux distribution, Sysgobex, to meet the majority of requirements of government tasks. It has already migrated to open source some 150 PCs at several ministries, including those for Development, Culture and Employment.”

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