Author: Rui Seabra

Professional sysadmin during the day; Free Software advocate, former president of https://ANSOL.org/, father and other adventurous stuff by night with a strong interest in civil rights, namely in the (broadly ignored) digital scene.
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Identi.ca Updates for 2010-01-20

  • ♺ @jwildeboer: Some (german) conservatives still try to remove Kroes from Open Standards. Guess who is loving that? #
  • Já repararam que a Microsoft tem o poder de escolher quem é a empresa que ganha o concurso para o “Magalhães 2” ? #
  • Quando o concurso público obriga a instalação do Microsoft Windows e do Microsoft Office, a MS pode dizer que a JP Sá Couto vende-os a 1¢! #
  • Meus senhores, isto não é, sei lá… ilegal, pergunto eu? #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2010-01-17

  • Watched Human Target’s first episode. Warning: it lacks 90% of the comic book value. #
  • Similar things so far: main character’s name, and that he saves people. But no perfect masks, no identity crisis, just a super bodyguard. #
  • Concurso para o novo Magalhães obriga Microsoft Windows e Microsoft Office? Isto não é, erms… ILEGAL? http://is.gd/6rNKl #
  • ♺ @tolf: @sdanna Please consider an internship in !FSFE: http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.en.html !gnu !fsf #
  • Wohoo! Sansa e200v2 seems to now be supported by #Rockbox I love you guys! 🙂 #
  • http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaE200v2 #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2010-01-10

  • ♺ @PauloQuerido: petition @presidencia to Promulgue o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo http://act.ly/1lj RT to sign #cpms #
  • @remixtures na realidade não saltou do PS para a PT, já estava na PT quando foi para o Plano Tecnológico, depois voltou e saltou para a MS. #
  • @pietercolpaert Parliament approved same sex marriage in Portugal, now the portuguese need to prevent the President from vetting it 🙂 #
  • @dos !elmdentica ‘s latest current trunk (r215) should be quite usable #
  • Watched “The Road” tonight. Excellent post-apocalypse film, go watch. http://au.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009460-the_road/ (+ Nick Cave music) #
  • Also interesting, “great” (not my word, not for all certainly) movies for 2010: http://au.rottentomatoes.com/guides/2010_movie_preview/ #
  • @hub it does, if you use ftp install 🙂 #
  • Neve em Braga ( http://moby.to/azhkbh ) e Viseu ( http://twitpic.com/xiaqt ) #
  • O caso @rgrilo é nitidamente um caso Jorge Coelho. #
  • Ou Armando Vara, ou tantos outros que nos seus papeis “isentos” no Estado beneficiaram interesses e foram recompensados. #
  • @PauloQuerido não esquecer que não estão em causa competências na área, apenas ligações muito pouco saudáveis #
  • E que explicam muita coisa. #
  • Flisght to fosdem booked, now arranging for the hosting. #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2010-01-09

  • @pedrorq be strong, my friend, specially after today. #speechless #moment #
  • Há milhares de km de fibra óptica pública sem uso em Portugal. O mau é o investimento feito e não usado. A tragédia é não corrigir o erro. #
  • Estamos a falar de 200 Milhões de Euros de fibra óptica! #
  • ♺ @slashdot: Samsung Develops a Transparent OLED Laptop Screen http://bit.ly/7V5ZFT #
  • Vamos fazer um exercício de matemática sobre ligações pouco saudáveis entre empresas e governos? Pista: não é só na construção civil… #
  • 2. JP Sá Couto faz uns favor à Microsoft com o caso OOXML #
  • 3. JP Sá Couto súbitamente cresce (parceria com Microsoft em centro de desenvolvimento, Magalhães, etc…) #
  • 4. O ex-Chefe de Gabinete do Plano Tecnológico, @rgrilo , muda-se para a Microsoft como Education Lead em Portugal http://is.gd/5Yej6 #
  • Tudo o que relatei são factos… a matemática é com vocês… #
  • ♺ @jwildeboer: #nexus speech recognition is done on google servers, not on the phone itself. Scary. #privacy #echelon #
  • http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ feeding the #swpat minefield ♺ @slashdot Google Seeking Patent On Ads For Street View http://bit.ly/68A8l1 #
  • After another Government greatly beneffitting it in Portugal, @rgrilo is now Microsoft’s Education Lead http://is.gd/5Yej6 #portugal #fail #
  • @pietercolpaert I prefer to use the recycle unicode character for all that. More elegant, 1 character, tech agnostic 🙂 #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2010-01-08

  • Going to bed, very… very upset with !fedora 12 on my laptop #radeon #rs690 #fail #notepicfailbutstill… will check replies in the morning #
  • Já se sabia que era com GNU/Linux, agora sabe-se qual: ♺ @jwildeboer: #Avatar – powered by Red Hat. http://is.gd/5TQT5 #
  • HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA #epic #fail ♺ @slashdot: Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws http://bit.ly/7PMs6H #
  • @lopo O que necessitas para fazer isso? !ubuntupt !ansol !softwarelivre #
  • ♺ @gollo: @rms on selling exceptions to the !gnu #GPL http://ur1.ca/j9vt A very good read IMHO !fs #
  • ♺ @glynmoody: Help Stop EU Software Patents – Again – http://bit.ly/57qSul EU people: please sign new petition and pass on #swpats #
  • Another reason the 3 strikes laws are useless. 1TB SD cards coming real soon http://is.gd/5UmyI #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2010-01-06

  • O concurso público para o novo “magalhães” não foi publicado, foi só o seu anúncio: http://is.gd/5OLBI para saber os termos paguem 500€ #
  • Alguém conseguirá fazer-me chegar o caderno de encargos que tão habilmente é escondido em http://is.gd/5OLBI ? #magalhães2 #
  • ♺ @jwildeboer: RD @‎​robmyers: Giving a Flash webcast about community is like singing an obscene song about modesty. Doesn’t work. #fail #
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Identi.ca Updates for 2010-01-05

  • @carlopiana I know of the SFLC position, but I see other problems which imply that in this case the GPL *alone* is not the answer. #swpat #
  • @webmink I think that the fact that Oracle doesn’t seem interested in proposing a solution to the EC raises real questions. #
  • @webmink If Oracle is not interested in MySQL, they could propose to find another owner. If they are, they should reply with their plans. #
  • @webmink this duality of choices comes only from the PoV that the deal is at stake on these terms. Silence (to the EU) is *not* green light. #
  • Nikola Tesla was awesome: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html #
  • @carlopiana I don’t see that the GPL is portrayed as the problem, but less copyleft is indeed one solution (not what I desire, for sure!) #
  • @carlopiana I see that the GPL is portrayed as not being enough in the case of a big competitor buying out it’s greatest concern. #
  • @jargon control-z just after it transformed it into a link. #
  • @carlopiana My sister in law had #ubuntu NBR on her eepc, but realizing the mistake of going back to #Windows she reinstalled it herself. #
  • @carlopiana her background is of “international relations”, so nothing technical at all 🙂 #