Category: µ-blog

• ♺ former !FSFE president awarded German Cross of Merit for work on Free Software and Free Open Standards ur1.ca/xk2l congrats Sir @greve #
• ♺ @greve: All boys dream of being knights, don’t they? http://ur1.ca/xk2l !fsfe !gnu #
• Portal do Cidadão é mesmo uma maravilha. Recebo *hoje* um convite a participar na consulta pública simplex2010 que termina depois de amanhã. #
• Don’t buy from these guys! ♺ @slashdot: #Microsoft Signs #Android Patent Deal With #HTC #swpat http://bit.ly/auuu2B #
• enjoying a nice sunset yonder the rooftops from my living room with !elmdentica, #midori and my !freerunner #
• My only sadness right now is that I have to go, now, for a quick planned intervention. Sigh… need to relax. #
• Amanhã: Mão Morta. Algum dos meus subscritores também vai? Jantar antes? Onde? 🙂 #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Music industry spokesman loves child porn – http://bit.ly/9qm5u5 nice of him to be so candid about their plans for #censorship #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Why #Mobile #Patents are Such a Mess – http://bit.ly/d5JcBQ excellent summary of farcical situation (via @sjvn) #swpat #
• @gbraad: g’night! 🙂 #
• #HP buys #Palm? How about freeing the best hand recognition method *ever*? #graffiti #swpat #

• @tolf: why don’t you work with the !freesoftware #OpenBTS? It’s already capable of receiving calls, last I heard (by FOSDEM’10) #
• @tolf: then u have Request Tracker, OTRS (a plus if you do ITIL as it’s got Pink Verify and it’s about to publich CM process), and Bugzilla #
• «é pá, ó amigo!»? 🙂 frase apanhada pelos microfones da #rtp enquanto um outro jornalista também tentava fazer chegar um micro ao Cavaco. #
• @jwildeboer: 96? I guess I’m from about 96 as well! 🙂 #

• #cleanternet for a cleaner and safer Internet http://is.gd/bIPgX Drop the #ACTA now! #
• @jmcesteves fiz uma review à legendagem #
• European Comission wants to impose EU-wide internet blocking to prevent “child abuse”. We all know where that slipery slope ends… #
• http://is.gd/bIYDA Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? (from last year, and the answer is yes, but read on!) #

• ♺ @rahulsundaram You can’t expect #Fedora to hold back development and integration of Xorg releases on the basis of proprietary drivers #
• ♺ @floschie: For a better world without democracy – save the web! ♻ @greve: Nice: http://www.cleanternet.org/ #
• @gbraad can’t see, flash. However it seems similar to the “support” from the Ciber Criminal Society http://www.cybercriminalsociety.eu/ #
• @gbraad oh, looking at source it’s an #youtube video. With a plugin I found I can play the #h264 content in their #broken #html5 support #
• Dear #cleanternet people, can we have your text script and an ogg version so free people can play and localize? #EU campaigns need that! #
• Enjoying a connected life at a centuries old palace’s garden… #
• Here: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palácio_do_Marquês_de_Pombal #
• Yo, maps people, you’d already make sites for low power devices, eh? #
• AndI mean a decent one, not that basic html google maps crap #
• @pietercolpaert just way less dependent on javascript, and not the ridiculous thing google maps basic html is… #
• Testing my newly subscribed gprs connection with my !shr enabled !freerunner #

• Sonic Youth yesterday night was very good, but it was *very* hard to understand a single word due to the bass distortion. #
• What bad did Sonic Youth’s opening? They were very cool, although they were rudely and drastically cut short. Really! #
• @gbraad Last time I checked, Quim Gil’s one of those who claims it’s “fully free”, so I don’t hope anything… #
• ♺ @glynmoody: German appeal court upholds #Microsoft #FAT patent – http://bit.ly/dqFJjN what are they *thinking*? #swpats #germany #
• It seems an “intellectual property” court has been created in Portugal. Looking for real information, cautionary tale about UPLS… #

• @glynmoody however, the way it’s framed is to support Apple’s PoV for not using Ogg/Theora. #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Once-hidden #EU report reveals damage from #biodiesel – http://bit.ly/9uFU9Q not a cover-up EU insists; right… #
• @fosspatents can you please frame your articles about #swpat in media formats in a way that doesn’t look like you “hate” !Ogg as Apple does? #
• @lucrocha got it! #
• Poça, não se pode mencionar uma banda sem ter contas “oficiais” a seguir? Os @maomorta ainda vá que vá, mas @umusicpt vai #spamreport #
• In 2 hours, Sonic Youth! #

• @quodvolat: I am very glad !ubuntu made the choice to use more free software drivers. wished they where more careful with #swpat though… #
• ♺ @jerezim: ⬛ ACTA: Partial transparency isn’t legitimacy http://ur1.ca/w74l #ACTA #PolicyLaundering @laquadrature #
• “Couterfeiting” clearly just a “fool ya” term. Drop the #ACTA NOW! ♺ @hugoroy: Seen in #ACTA : “anti-hacking” (p. 27) !fsfe !gnu !fsf #
• Since “drop the act” means “stop pretending, I think “Drop the #ACTA now! is a nice pun for an anti-ACTA demo #
• ♺ @hugoroy: #ACTA : threats to Free Software http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2010/04/acta-threats-to-free-software/ !fsfe !gnu !fsf !april #
• obrigação de utilizar open software em todos os serviços do Estado, poupando (…) 40.000.000€ (…) estima o PSD http://is.gd/bCfmF #
• Não sei o que é “open software” mas presumo que se estejam a referir a “software aberto” vulgo “opensource” vulgo “Software Livre” #
• Biggest portuguese opposition party proposes to mandate usasge of “open software” for saving about 40 million € http://bit.ly/czv935 #
• mandatory use of open software in all State services, saving (…) 40.000.000€ (…) estimates PSD http://is.gd/bCfmF (in portuguese) #
• «the proposed savings are bigger than the return of the tax raise proposed in the Growth and Stability Plan the Government proposed» #
• Oh great, crashes due to #evas borking my development of !elmdentica and I’m still not zbr enough to tackle them on efficiently 🙁 #
• At least that’s what gdb tells to me 😐 #
• For !GNU !Linux as well… ♺ @glynmoody: ‘Gossips’ say #Apple will acquire #ARM – http://bit.ly/aErlc0 would be v. tricky for #Android #

• ♺ @rsandu: NL: !Open !source desktops manage shared !office space ministries !ubuntu http://bit.ly/aPmONe #
• ♺ @olpc: “New Solomons study puts hard evidence of OLPC’s positive impact” http://ur1.ca/vzf5 !olpc #
• ♺ @lxoliva: on Google, for a change: resistance to censorship has gotten them blocked in 25 countries. http://bit.ly/aRxibU #
• Ashamed of Portugal (it’s a dailything, sadly): only today Lisbon airport got beds for stranded travellers… #
• @jwildeboer: you know the movie 😉 #
• @moosaico ok, já não temos amigos no DIUM? Quanta memória é necessária para o Moosaico? #
• @moosaico há backup da BD? #
• @jwildeboer: OMG, ROTFL tell me that was an old joke from 2001 and not some really delusioned father! 🙂 #
• @jwildeboer: oh, it is indeed a joke site… ok 🙂 #

• There’s always a mixture between fear and pride when one logs into a machine and sees: up 1397 days, 58 min #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Open Source Drug Discovery – http://bit.ly/9lpDhw #India shows how pharma should be done: in the open, collaboratively #drugs #
• Lembra-me o Imposto Microsoft: “there’s a term for requiring that a customer buy one product in order to be allowed to buy another: tying” #
• ♺ @jwildeboer: Remember SUNs ODF Plugin for MSFT Office? Used to be free? Guess what. ORCL thinks different. http://is.gd/bzlkj 90US$ now #
• #Oracle, you *so* don’t understand this business: charging 65€ for 100 #ODF Plugin for MSFT Office is a shot to the foot. http://is.gd/bzlkj #
• @glynmoody: that is so wrong. the only thing that happened is that a few solutions are now part of a governmental catalogue. #
• @glynmoody: unfortunately those news are nothing interesting, quite the opposite. Now they create the image that the problem is solved. #
• @glynmoody it is now made worse, because it seems like the problem is solved, but in fact not only it isn’t, it raises the bar for entrance. #
• @glynmoody: you know the expression “worse than insecurity is the illusion of security”? It’s the same thing. #
• @glynmoody: It has always been available and approved (never forbidden nor approval required) but now it seems like suddenly it is. #
• @glynmoody: In my point of view it is a sham now made worse. #
• @glynmoody: quite the opposite of progress if now the message is “it’s approved if it comes by the official channel”. It’s so much worse. #
• @glynmoody: only difference is that a few select companies are in the catalogue. really! but the message is “problem solved for PA in PT”. #
• @glynmoody: they’re not, I’m convince they will only get better when we go bankrupt like Iceland (Smari’s blog, now offline, sadly) #
• Smari’s site about how Microsoft Skull Fucked Iceland is gone http://is.gd/bzpEs can anyone publish a personal copy of this article plz?thx #
• It’s not on http://www.archive.org (already tried there). #
• Found a mirror of Smari’s article here (good read, IMHO, Portugal needs bankrupcy to get it’s IT fixed): http://is.gd/bzq1d #
• @glynmoody: When the current government doesn’t even bother to reply to meeting requests about an illegal public procurement for kid laptops #
• My brother’s second video is quite cool. Thank you gecko-mplayer for making my life easy for saving web clips. http://www.vimeo.com/8454096 #
• ♺ @sflc: New documentary, “Patent Absurdity: how software broke the system”: http://patentabsurdity.com/ #
• Please seed PatentAbsurdity.com videos! #
• Do it like me! I’m seeding the HD version and I’ve my upload ratio to be infinite http://is.gd/bzFX3 #PatentAbsurdity #swpat #
• I prefer Ogg/Theora but am tired of not viewing YouTube videos because #Google half implemented feature request 1.Solved: http://is.gd/bzHmU #
• George Orwell must be rolling in his grave… http://is.gd/bzJ37 oh the #irony #1984 #surveylance #society #now #
• Wonderful Spartacus: Blood and Sand ending. Can’t wait for the prequel, and best wishes for a fast recovery for Andy Whitfield. #
• A cara obscura da Microsoft http://is.gd/bzMq7 #slave #labour #

• ♺ @jwildeboer: Airlines like KLM, Lufthansa question the grounfing. Their testflights shpw no problem. Its all based on computer simulation. #
• @floschie: I see no #conspiracy in #ashcloud. To me it’s a new situation the planes weren’t tested for adequacy. #
• @floschie: But of course, as George Orwell taught us, some animals are more equal than the others 😉 #
• Muita propaganda à TV3D na SIC mas omitem os sistemas incompatíveis entre si e mentem quanto à qualidade da imagem, muito pior que no cinema #
• @rejon: Here in “russia” 😉 we have a very good helper for sore feet… Port Wine. Get well soon! #
• @jwildeboer: woah… is that a joke about the #ashcloud or is it so dense it did dirty your neat Prius? #
• @jwildeboer: oh you nasty evil dutch! 😉 #
• @lxoliva: Android is FLOSS, but it’s a perfect example of how bad non-copyleft FLOSS can get WRT user rights & freedoms. #
• @lxoliva: ok, you’re right about the non-Free kernel Linux, but I’m going beyond those tiny percentage of bytes. #
• @lxoliva: Indeed. Sadly those who hate copyleft don’t care about the freedom of other users, to say the least. #