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• ♺ @jzim: EU Council Presidency: Spain pushes for flawed Net policies http://ur1.ca/m632 #IPRenforcement #NetNeutrality #eu10 #
• @jwildeboer you bet! (but I won’t do that right away). #
• @gbraad WHAT? #buzz isn’t really off even when I turned it off? #
• ♺ @JMF1957: Como prometido, o meu texto de hoje: “Não, o que nos está a acontecer não é normal nem tolerável” http://is.gd/8fTgE #
• @lopo huh? #
• ♺ @blizzard: Trying to figure out how to unfuck the damage Buzz did to the google services I use. #
• Either that or I clicked the wrong link. #google #buzz #fail #
• I suspect turning #google #buzz off blocks your gtalk. *sucks*. Biggest #fail yet for me, guys. #
• And now #pidgin can’t login to #gtalk anymore (but talk works from #gmail browser window). #
• Provavelmente tais exemplos são só ingenuidade minha. Talvez… #
• @czorrinho ou o concurso para o novo Magalhães, que dá à Microsoft o poder de escolher quem será o fornecedor… credibilidade onde? #
• E isto é só no meu burgo, informática, que representa uma pequena amostra. Como não será no resto… #
• @luisfcorreia sadly, not working for me 😐 #
• @luisfcorreia not working, not even if I move the certificate away in order to force getting a new one. #
• Accepting all suggestions… #
• @luisfcorreia because of a #google problem? what sense does that make? Isn’t it like Windows? (whole restart thingie)? #
• @lfcorreia besides, the certificate that is being donwloaded is exactly the same as the previous one #
• @lfcorreia I have move along with my pidgin configs for years, from fedora to ubuntu and back. pidgin is very good, actually. #
• And now it works, misteriously. It *had* to be something on #gtalk. #
• Unlike the #empathy crapware. #

• ♺ @jwildeboer: Read this BEFORE you buzz away http://is.gd/88EIm #privacy #fail #
• ♺ @PartidoPirataPT: RT @telecomix Parliament “withholds its consent to the conclusion of the [SWIFT] Agreement” http://bit.ly/9jijk6 #
• @karsten it is indeed much cooler than a plain no 🙂 #
• ♺ @jzim: French Parliament approves Net censorship http://ur1.ca/m2ve #NetFiltering #NetNeutrality #Sarkozy (pls RT!) #
• @jwildeboer slidesnare? bah #
• @carlopiana where you fail at is that VC never let’s you keep control. Sooner or later you’ll have to do what they say. #
• @carlopiana I think that it’s so much harder to do it in a way their lawyers won’t solve than not getting any. #
• ♺@JMF1957: Atenção: parece estar em curso uma tentativa de impedir saída da edição de amanhã dO Sol. Tensão/expectativa à porta da redacção. #
• ♺ @JMF1957: Mais informação: Providência cautelar tenta impedir publicação de mais escutas no semanário “Sol” http://is.gd/89PYD #
• ♺ @slashdot: Google Rejects Australian Censorship Proposal http://bit.ly/b87cTv #
• Google suddenly finds balls. #
• ♺ @glynmoody: How Can The Music Industry Be Dead When More Music Is Being Produced And More Money Is Being Made? – http://bit.ly/dhxBsW #
• ♺ @kirschner: Valentine’s day for flower industry only? #ilovefs is for !freesoftware #
• Este ET não é o nosso amigo de infância, é mais o It ♺ @slashdot: Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly http://bit.ly/dfzMOZ #
• “Grande C” – pelas entidades que querem ganhar uma fatia dos teus rendimentos obtidos com a tua arte. #
• “Grande C” – pelas entidades que querem que vás preso por partilhares com os teus amigos a música que gostas de escutar. #
• Já imaginaste a tua criatividade exposta para o mundo inteiro, sem intermediários? Se sim, não percas tempo com o “Grande C” #
• Este é um caso onde se impõe desobediência civil ♺ @JNegocios: Pedro Silva Pereira: “Respeito as decisões da Justiça” http://xl.pt/r/aU1Eed #
• #censumanif Quem alinha numa manif contra a censura em Portugal este Sábado às 16h nas praças principais? #
• #censumanif às 16h em todo o país vamos berrar: não à censura (onde quer que estejamos) #
• ♺ @slashdot: European Credit and Debit Card Security Broken http://bit.ly/bdaY8F #
• @zach #Caprica is supposed to be a “Dallas” set in BSG universe, not BSG. #

• ♺ @glynmoody: #ACTA Is Called An ‘Executive Agreement’ To Change The Law With Less Hassle Than A Treaty – http://bit.ly/dawqEx quite #
• @coolgoose you mean !ubuntu hiding the GIMP and OpenOffice.org and moving to Bing as default search has nothing to do with who they employ? #
• @coolgoose no, GIMP is not hard to use. That’s plain BS. And OO.o removal from NBR is just another way to show ubuntu NBR is less than Win7 #
• @coolgoose you totally miss the point. OO.o and GIMP are excellent showcases of the power of Free Software, and are being hidden away. #
• @coolgoose basic stuff is *NOT* hard to do on the GIMP, it’s actually quite trivial. #
• @coolgoose what is hard to do in GIMP is hard because of the nature of what is being done. #
• @coolgoose I’m not a graphics guru or anything similar, my usage is very basic. #
• ♺@doctorow: Copyfighters don’t want the right to build on earlier works b/c info wants to be free, it’s b/c that’s how all creativity starts #
• @coolgoose those are not basic usages. Sorry. #
• @coolgoose Besides, you’re confusing the scope of GIMP vs the scope of photo viewing with pre-defined (and fixed) set of manipulations. #
• @coolgoose One is complementary to the other, but one can do all, and the other quite definitely not. #
• @kimus using Mac? #fail 🙂 #
• @coolgoose select tools, copy & paste #
• @coolgoose choosing a paint tool & colour, drawing something. #
• @coolgoose a 5 y old can do that with gimp. So maybe your users are under 5 years old? #
• Waiting for a friend, for #sushi while talking about interesting stuff. #
• Malta, o @czorrinho vai com o nosso PM e o Sec. Est. Econ. e Inovação ao Conselho de Ministros da UE. Sugiro que lhe digam já: não às #swpat #
• @czorrinho Não queremos redução de empregos nas TIC, que é uma consequência natural das patentes de software. Por favor defenda isso! 🙂 #
• @czorrinho a verdadeira inovação nas TIC vem das PME, e estas são quem mais tem a perder com as #swpat #
• @czorrinho a UPLS/UPLA é fortemente defendida pelo lobby pró-#swpat porque as introduz pela porta do cavalo! #
• @czorrinho as #swpat são uma interferência governamental na livre concorrência, por favor não defenda monopólios artificiais. #
• Tomorrow: meeting at the European Council that will have some focus on “competition” and “innovation” from 2010 to 2020. #
• Ask your government to stop #swpat as it will reduce employment opportunities for innovators. #
• ♺ @webmink: Dell physically preventing use of hard disks not purchased from them on their servers: http://bit.ly/bytmUl #
• Full body scanner. Not an invasion of privacy? Well… http://www.flickr.com/photos/publius_ovidius/4346518306/ #

• ♺ @glynmoody: Is OOXML standards used in Microsoft Office unsuitable for the public sector? – http://bit.ly/c0z76g Norwegian gov. site #
• @jwildeboer just subscribed! #
• @gbraad You know if there are arduinos which react to loud sounds? #
• @support very, very likely… @osharoot is a #spammer… #
• ♺ @jwildeboer: EU parliament confirms new commission! Neelie can now push for #openstandards as promised. Yay! #
• Awesome news #
• Acho que o Ministério da Educação não leu o Art. 49º ponto 8 do Código das Compras Públicas. #
• «É proibida a fixação de especificações técnicas que façam referência a um fabricante ou uma proveniência determinados, … » #
• «marcas, patentes ou modelos e a uma dada origem ou produção,que tenha por efeito favorecer ou eliminar determinadas entidades ou … bens.» #
• Isto em relação ao novo Magalhães… #
• Código dos Contractos Públicos, isto é. #
• Ponto 12 tb. E com isto se prova que preciso dormir… 🙂 #
• E não, não existe “equivalente” ao Windows 7 (em relação ao ponto 13). #
• Datas de ficheiros também curiosas: um foi criado muito antes do concurso publicado, gravado depois. O outro foi criado *depois*. #
• Datas extraídas dos metadados dos formatos, e não dos metadados dos ficheiros. #
• Não sei se isso é legítimo ou não, mas cheira a esturro. #

• @bugabundo bah, a Megan Fox é um elemento absorvente nessa relação. qqCoisa + Megan Fox = SEXY 😉 #
• ♺ @jwildeboer: A HOWTO on SWPAT to circumvent Bilski. At least they are open about this. http://is.gd/7WfoB #
• @pietercolpaert I recommend against reading every message, just do so to a select few, rest consider like you just met them in the street. #
• stuck just outside my house door. didn’t take my kets to #fosdem and wife’s not home yet. gotta train the cats to open it. #
• s/kets/keys/ #
• lucky me I have my olpc and the net is strong here. #
• @zach oh just checked my dms. thanks man 🙂 #
• @pietercolpaert meeting people IRl is loads of fun #
• @kimus o processo de nuremberga teve bem mais testemunhas que isso, envolvia harmonizacao de leis de 5 paises. 1.5 anos? #

• @pietercolpaert not hang over, chocolate shopping lest I’m killed as I get home #
• @gbraad cool, ,thanks #
• @gbraad lol you really messed up with my name there 😉 #
• @greve at this hour @webmink might still be sleeping #

• #fosdem evil on the internet, sponsored by Microsoft software 😉 #
• #fosdem civicrm starting #
• @floschi great talk #
• @evan at what time are you calling a cab? is there room for one more ? I can and would also share … #
• at the #identi.ca meetup, having #somebeer with very cool people. #
• @bugabundo wanna send a msg to @evan? I’m like at <1m from him 😉 #
• @bugabundo hug given, but evidence will have to wait for larger bandwidth #
• going off line, battery life #

• @jwildeboer ended up talking with @kanarip up until 4am so I’m a bit wasted. You only introduce me to such great guys 🙂 #
• @carlopiana I hope to finally meet you. Will you be at the fosdem event, fsfe ,meeting, both? 🙂 #
• @carlopiana I’ll be with @karsten, mostly, today/night #
• @carlopiana OFE as well? peachy! 🙂 #
• @luisfcorreia you should have come too 🙂 #
• @luisfcorreia depends on how long I can last today, was with @kanarip until 4am bxl time… >:) #
• @zach ping? what’s up? #
• of course it is, though, but of little usefullness #
• @schestowitz is it Free Software when you can’t install and run it on the devices it was made to run on? #
• (considering DRM and local laws forbidding modificatons and unlocking of phones which where made locked) #
• “No you won’t be able to reprogram your phone.” from FAQ of “free software” symbian. #
• @smaffulli no, check the FAQ 🙂 #
• rt @lessig: Australia gets ISP rights right: http://ping.fm/agGgx #
• So first it was the GIMP, and now it is OpenOffice… #
• So first it was the GIMP, and now it is OpenOffice… !ubuntu what are you doing? http://ur1.ca/ljpz death wish? #
• I think it’s time people start subscribing http://www.petitiononline.com/botgimp/petition.html no? !ubuntu #
• @sbillaudelle yes, my sister in law uses it everyday. #
• @bugabundo yes. current netbooks are more powerful than other computers Iused openoffice.org on, don’t drink kool-ais #
• kool-aid #
• @smaffulli @sbillaudelle show me the numbers that back you up #
• @sbillaudelle @bugabundo you miss the point, new comers come with windows habits, they won’t thinkk/know of that. #
• @sbillaudelle @smaffulli in all winxp on netbooks I see people using MS Office. #
• you guys are simply throwing the pearls under the rug orto pigs. #
• ran #
• @sbillaudelle not pointing the gun to your own foot takes less time and less work and is smarter #
• besides, I run OO.o whn I had a laptop with 512MB of ram, don’t give me bullshit 🙂 #
• @bugabundo you’re just parroting bullshit, grow your own brain. #
• @smaffulli I’m not talking about good choices, I’m talking that users want light laptops that can do all their work. #
• so your’re arguments are just plain bullshit #
• netbooks are now much more powerful than the computers they used a few years ago. #
• 2GB ram, 160GB disk is common now, on the shops #
• grow a pair of balls #
• 🙂 #
• @sbillaudelle more than enough. not for compiling, though, but desktop usage/ come on… #
• CPU is way beyond our needs for a few years #
• @sbillaudelle so you only do what others designed you to do? *disappointment* #
• @sbillaudelle not really, you’ll miss over 95% of the users an the sample would be deviated/ #
• @ssweeny will you stop parroting BS and think about it with your own brains andlooking at what people actually do? #
• @bugabundo you know Ubuntu is actually making it harder to make derivatives, right? #
• @bugabundo yeah, right. #
• @bugabundo quem tem batalhado com isso a se’rioeem ambiente empresarial nao sou eu. #
• You guys need to wake up, I’m the one who has an UMPC with 256MB of ram !olpc OOo is hell in *here* noton netbooks #
• @sbillaudelle no1 reason for winxp on netbooks is running ms office, not windows #
• people want netbooks because they’repowerful enough they’re light enough, and battery last more than traditional laptops #
• @bugabundo actually, it only gives you the basement #
• @sbillaudelle not when there was windows and GNU/Linux. now because it’s impossibleto getwithout windows #
• @x11r5 actually, I use various GNU/Linuxes and OpenBSD. But just Linux, not really. #
• rt @larusalka: @jamestait Interesting? Have you read Google Docs Additional Terms of Service? http://tr.im/LGBR Wrong move, IMHO. !Ubuntu NE #
• @ssweeny sure you did #
• @ssweeny !Ubuntu is making stupid decisions that hide the power of Free Software. Corruption from the insie, I wonder? #
• And the worse is that you guys are just drinking kool-aid at a rate reminiscent of Apple fanboys. #
• @mcielen so afraid of criticism you want to drive people away from !ubuntu? #
• @ssweeny oh really? show me the numbers, please. otherwise, it’sjust kool-aid #
• @mcielen yes, you’re whining about my criticism. #
• @ssweeny you got the right to feel that way. each its own. But I suggest to look outside your window. #
• @jwildeboer if I didn’t know better, I’d call you a weakling! c ya tomorrow. we’re waitig for @zoobab #
• @webmink @carlopiana easier to speak by hear #

• At ASP1E1, for the Digital Rights in Europe Capacity Building event. Portuguese helpers are trying to get power plugs for everyone. Not easy #
• Fortunately I brought a 3 way cord extension 🙂 #
• Starting! #
• For those who don’t know, ASP1E1 is at the European Parliament. #
• RT @glynmoody Wikileaks finds cash to continue – http://bit.ly/dqMn6x – hurrah – now let’s not take them for granted, eh? #wikileaks #
• I donated 50 EUR to #wikileaks did you donate anything? #
• @glynmoody the council work is all done with instructions from national governments. so “you” id, actually. “Me” too. #
• @glynmoody tell your COREPER firstly! #
• @zoobab Ijust suggested to a couple MEPs to demand from EC the information about ACTA they should be freely given in 1st place. #
• I voteed for #vote140 in the form! #
• @zoobab I followed 1 MEP as she left the room for a train to suggest ECJ referral of the matter #
• yay!@pietercolpaert: A friend spontaneously asked me about copyleft and creative commons because he saw «RIP: A remix manifesto» on TV !cc #
• @carlopiana yes. in an OLPC it’s very hard to use #firefox. Using #midori right now. A bit better (but not much). #
• rt @bugabundo: aha ♺ @heldertsantos: A definição de Rock dos responsáveis pelo rock in rio lisboa é muito diferente da minha #
• Laurence Vandewalle is awesome, as usual 🙂 #
• http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf sell leemotes in EU! #
• @bugabundo don’t be a wuss! #
• @support so @bugabundo won’t be a wuss and leave, could the char limit be a user config? I #vote140 by default #
• @bugabundo lol #
• @rhk for identica: type twitter, host identi.ca, url /api and use “faster” rather than secure unless you have curl with ssl working #
• @rhk I will change that part to a list of supported sites #
• @rhk rm -rf ~/.elmdentica/db* #
• @jwildeboer expecting to be too tired for #havebeer with the cool people? #
• @jwildeboer we’re waiting for you 🙂 #
• @tonnerre @jwildeboer bru is ok as well, I see it all over town… #
• @jwildeboer same time I did, sucks and one’s tired. see you tomorrow then 🙂 #
• rd @glynmoody: #ACTA absurdity continues, may only get worse http://bit.ly/dCmNvZ (Washington Post) we need more such “mainstream” articles #
• @jzim hi from across the room, behind an OLPC 🙂 #
• @rhk url for twitter is simply / #
• @rhk if you don’t want to erase, use sqlite to change your login data #
• @jwildeboer it wouldn’t be polite to impose, and if you get delayed… I don’t know Max so he probably wouldn’t join a stranger 🙂 #
• @rhk are you using !elmdentica from shr-u? I have and it works… #
• pidgin is rocking for me, 1 app for identi.ca, xmpp,msn and irc (good for a low spec machine such as o=this olpc xo-1) #
• rt @bugabundo: more pics of #IPad http://htxt.it/ThD6 #itampon #
• @rhk good, but you may have hit a bug there, before. #
• Good news on the SWIFT agreement, it appears to have been voted down in LIBRE (but it doesn’t stop there). #
• @robbychen touchbook looks really nice, what about the graphics card? is it proprietary driven? !GNU !Linux #
• Promising device, the touchbook. Much more than all this year’s CES crap #
• Here’s the URL: https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/ #
• rt @arstechnica: IE6 users to be evicted from Gmail, Google Calendar – http://arst.ch/ds9 #
• Twitter people: I’m only on identi.ca only until monday so I won’t see your messages. #
• @davide89y: good as in crappy fb, or fully accelerated 2d? !GNU !Linux #
• @davide89y I’m looking to a replacement for my broken SmartQ7 but with it I can play movies in accelerated form #
• @davide89y framebuffer is usually very slow and frequent artifacts… #
• @rhk regarding your issue, you quickly do what you want by disabling the undesired accounts per message before sending. #
• @rhk without editing the account, just uncheck the enable/disable account check #
• perhaps too late but good news: rd @reality: Nokia open-sourcing symbian: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8496263.stm !gnu #
• wrt nokia, the OS isn’t everything, what about the apps ? and drivers? again, too little to late 🙂 #
• rt @glynmoody: From Open Source to Open Government – http://bit.ly/cXZj73 how companies can prepare for the open data deluge #ogov #opendata #
• rt @adolflow: Alternativa libre a #iPad: #iFreeTablet: 160 GB, 3 USB y Card Reader, con !Debian !GNU/!Linux http://ur1.ca/lgqn !fsf !fsfe #
• Justlearned that “journalists hardly ever” request documents to european comission. wonder why… #
• funny but with food for thought rt @jwildeboer: New blog post: WRT FOSDEM Beer Event http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/02/wrt-fosdem-beer-event/ #
• rt @glynmoody: MPs’ expenses: who claimed what? The full list – http://bit.ly/aOvR9C *sortable* columns in Web page – v. impressive #
• algo muito `a frente do que temos em Portugal… #
• @webmink the news is that finally it’s coming out 🙂 #
• rt @glynmoody: EU Official Caught in the #ACTA – http://bit.ly/blGI8j why it is still worth asking the questions they don’t want to answer #
• @jzim if u haven’t yet, read this from @glynmoody: http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/eu-official-caught-in-acta.html #
• @glynmoody the fucking scary part (pardon the jargon) is that ISPs technically initiate or modify many connections! #ACTA #
• @glynmoody just think of (transparent) proxies, which are frequently used to optimize web traffic #
• @glynmoody anyone considering that scenery a fantasy should study the effects of “as such” in the EU #swpat war #
• @glynmoody *honoured* (and blushing) #
• fantastic day thanks to EDRi, but I #needbeer 🙂 #
• @rhk pidgin can actually do all but gps !freerunner but pidgin UI is not made for small screen #
• @schestowitz I have pity of the one whohasto keep up withy our rhythm 🙂 good job! #
• @rhk either through jabber bots or (what I’m using here) with purple-microblog #
• @jwildeboer \o/ U arrived… C ya tmrw! #
• @pietercolpaert weakling, I think the weaather is great 🙂 #
• and I come from a mildly hot country #
• @jwildeboer not yet, but if you’re up to it… #
• @pietercolpaert pfff I love this kind of cold, if it where raining it wouldbe much, much worse #
• even if a bit less colder. #
• @jwildeboer kidding, I have to be at europarl before 9 #
• @jwildeboer you’ll still take about an hour to get ready #
• *sigh* after the current orval, off to bed… no longer #needbeer #
• @jwildeboer just learned sachiko’s getting married tmrw #
• @jwildeboer depending on the time, me neither. [robably will be with the !fsfe guys #
• @jwildeboer that was quick #
• @jwildeboer I think I’ll have to join you for a toast to sachiko, wouldn’t you say? #
• @jwildeboer don’t know where they’ll be #
• @jwildeboer tempted to, but I want to be at edri’s event for as much as I can, loving it so much #
• @jwildeboer not hard to say no to bad ber, though #
• over and out #
• @jwildeboer meet you at the lobby or bar #

• Looks like it’s going to be a boy! #
• ♺ @gijs: http://www.osor.eu/news/two-thousand-open-source-applications-for-the-public-sector #
• @albertovski @luisfcorreia @pedrorq @lrocha obrigado 🙂 #