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  1. Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer timothy vollmer

    It (lots of "its") could be worse http://instagr.am/p/HJ_1PuP6Ny/ captured by @tvol cc everyone

    about 11 hours ago from web
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      maiki maiki

      Thank gawd! I had all these big data tape drives laying around, didn't know where to synergize. I hope it plugs into my…

      about 11 hours ago
  2. Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

    We Need a Free Browser, Not Just an Open Source Browser http://ur1.ca/88n2e I think meaning free-as-in #NPO more-free-to-put-users-1st

    about 16 hours ago from web
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  3. Stefano Zacchiroli Stefano Zacchiroli FOSDEM , John Sullivan

    @johnsu01: are slides of your !FOSDEM talk available anywhere yet http://ur1.ca/88k6g ?

    about 19 hours ago from Hotot at Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer FOSDEM

      @zack http://info9.net/wiki/fosdem/LegalIssuesDevRoom/Speakers/sullivan_slides.pdf

      about 16 hours ago
    • Stefano Zacchiroli Stefano Zacchiroli FOSDEM , Mike Linksvayer , John Sullivan

      thanks a bunch! I've updated http://ur1.ca/88mqz with a link to @johnsu01 slides

      about 16 hours ago
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer FOSDEM , John Sullivan , John Sullivan

      @zack you updated http://ur1.ca/88kxc ☺ also @johnsu01 migrated to @john@status.wjsullivan.net but full migration w/redirect a mere dream...

      about 16 hours ago
  4. Richard Fontana Richard Fontana Mike Linksvayer , Christopher Allan Webber

    @cwebber @mlinksva http://ur1.ca/884x6

    about a day ago from web
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    • Christopher Allan Webber Christopher Allan Webber

      @fontana Since we're playing the "link to mailman archives" game in this thread, http://ur1.ca/88o6o

      about 15 hours ago
    • Richard Fontana Richard Fontana Christopher Allan Webber

      @cwebber oh yeah? Well http://ur1.ca/88pcn

      about 13 hours ago
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    • Christopher Allan Webber Christopher Allan Webber

      Oh snap.

      about 13 hours ago
  5. Matt Lee Matt Lee GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation , LibrePlanet , Free Software Foundation

    So many speakers confirmed for LibrePlanet 2012 now... http://identi.ca/url/66762319 !gnu !fsf !lp

    about a day ago from web at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer Free Software Foundation , LibrePlanet , Bradley M. Kuhn

      @bkuhn not [m]any TLA with no name collision. enwp.org/SFM a good start. BTW, is it just me, or is "space" usually superfluous, maybe wrong?

      about 16 hours ago
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer Free Software Foundation , LibrePlanet , Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Stallman

      @bkuhn ps I don't worship any pasta deity either, but I do think some amusement could be obtained from imagery revealing the #FSM is @rms

      about 16 hours ago
    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation , LibrePlanet

      @mattl, the page is locked an appears to be using an old version of my bio. I emailed you the new bio, after one false start email. :)

      about 16 hours ago
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    Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou

    Every organization is a meritocracy. The class of skills that are rewarded with power varies, though.

    about 18 hours ago from evan.status.net at Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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    • Christopher Allan Webber Christopher Allan Webber Mike Linksvayer , X11R5

      @x11r5 #disturbicon panel needs to happen.

      about 16 hours ago
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    • X11R5 X11R5 Mike Linksvayer

      @mlinksva Can one be a good choice. Thing is perl has a big deal, it's all right

      about 15 hours ago
    • X11R5 X11R5 Christopher Allan Webber

      @cwebber Still needs to happen

      about 15 hours ago
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  7. Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

    Way to pick a google-able name, google. #golang

    Wednesday, 11-Nov-09 02:21:03 UTC from web
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    • Christopher Allan Webber Christopher Allan Webber Patrick Haverkamp

      @alphakamp thanks for all the info.. made a todo item to check it out later :)

      Wednesday, 11-Nov-09 21:45:47 UTC
    • Matt Lee Matt Lee

      @mlinksva Awesome Window Manager. #dentsfromthepast

      about a day ago
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    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer Matt Lee

      @mattl I like #dentsfromthepast. upon review, I had completely failed to detect the joke about hard to search for program names.

      about a day ago
  8. Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

    What software holds record for greatest length of time between releases? What is the record? http://ur1.ca/883qt

    about 2 days ago from web
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    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer V.Villenave

      @vvillenave I was thinking between any release at all, including a bugfix release, but between "major" releases would also be interesting

      about 2 days ago
    • V.Villenave V.Villenave

      @mlinksva WRT major releases, http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.0 comes to mind... But that's more of a symbolic 1.0 than anything else.

      about a day ago
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer V.Villenave

      @vvillenave and there wasn't a previous "major" release. But maybe wine holds different record, for time till first major release.

      about a day ago
  9. Richard Fontana Richard Fontana Bradley M. Kuhn

    Announcement: @bkuhn (and legions of interested others) shall have 6 days to copy currently nondestroyed dents. #denticideispainless

    about 2 days ago from web
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    • Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn disturbing

      @fontana, I perfectly caught #MASH reference & thought it was good, but your insistence on deleting our past communications is !disturbing

      about 20 hours ago
    • Richard Fontana Richard Fontana disturbing , Bradley M. Kuhn

      @bkuhn strangely I didn't think of connection between "denticide" and "dentist" till after making that #MASH reference

      about 20 hours ago
    • Richard Fontana Richard Fontana Bradley M. Kuhn

      Announcement: @bkuhn (and legions of interested others) shall have 5 days to copy currently nondestroyed dents. #denticideispainless

      about 13 hours ago
  10. V.Villenave V.Villenave The GNU General Public License

    Guess what: when the numbers aren't from #BlackDuck, !GPL use is actually increasing http://identi.ca/url/66725977 #liesdamnlies

    about 2 days ago from web
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    • Brett Smith Brett Smith Mike Linksvayer

      I think "only" is meant in the "merely" sense there (if I correctly understand your concern).

      about a day ago
    • V.Villenave V.Villenave GNU's Not Unix , Mike Linksvayer

      @mlinksva Certainly is an annoying website. Plus, reading a !GNU/Linux-related article interleaved with #MSFT ads is pretty frustrating.

      about a day ago
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer Brett Smith

      @brettcsmith ah, yes, my brain erroneously saw "the" before "only" and jerked. oops.

      about a day ago
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    John Sullivan John Sullivan GNU's Not Unix , Free Software Foundation , Richard Stallman

    3,000 people attend @rms speech in India: http://fsftn.org/content/report-richard-stallmans-visit-chennai !fsf !gnu

    about 2 days ago from status.wjsullivan.net at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    • Nizar Kerkeni and noahfx repeated this.
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer Free Software Foundation

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Movement_of_India interesting

      about 2 days ago
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    John Sullivan John Sullivan

    Wired ought to be pretty embarrassed by this Cloudera puff piece: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/cloudera-and-apache/all/1

    about 2 days ago from status.wjsullivan.net at Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

      "license model". another embarrassing, superfluous, anti-reader use of #model

      about 2 days ago
  13. Richard Fontana Richard Fontana

    Trying to remember why or how someone from #PWC gave me business card at #FOSDEM

    about 2 days ago from web
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

      @fontana that person/#PWC doing some kind of consulting on https://joinup.ec.europa.eu

      about 2 days ago
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    maiki maiki

    I am sure this has been expressed more elegantly elsewhere, but it just popped in my head in this way: copyright was es…

    about 2 days ago from status.interi.org
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

      @maiki yes but s/value/rent/ cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent

      about 2 days ago
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

      @maiki ... and 2nd "value" probably "cost", 3rd might actually be "value". but then I'm probably being silly.

      about 2 days ago
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    maiki maiki

    In Cryptonomicon there is a character working to create inexpensive, modular weapon systems that can be deployed to com…

    about 2 days ago from status.interi.org
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

      @maiki http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2012/02/printing-drones-by-the-sheet.html

      about 2 days ago
  16. Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer Defective By Design

    proof-based "DRM": possible? desirable? blog.ezyang.com/2012/02/how-to-build-drm-you-can-trust/ http://redd.it/prapt !dbd (or not; read 1st)

    about 2 days ago from web
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      maiki maiki

      I think using DRM in this instance is odd, but that is because I normally use it to refer to the implementations used …

      about 2 days ago
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer maiki

      @maiki yeah, that's exactly why I put DRM in quotes. agree with all your >140chars :-)

      about 2 days ago
  17. Lydia Pintscher Lydia Pintscher

    I'm looking for an apartment in Berlin. Any leads to a nice place, internetz? http://ur1.ca/87mj0

    about 3 days ago from Choqok at Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • Evan Prodromou Evan Prodromou

      I thought housing in Berlin was cheap and plentiful. Am I living in a fantasy world?

      about 3 days ago
    • Lydia Pintscher Lydia Pintscher Evan Prodromou

      @evan heh no but living quite a bit away makes this slightly more difficult

      about 3 days ago
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer Evan Prodromou

      @evan the past is a fantasy world (but everything is relative)

      about 3 days ago
  18. Parker Higgins Parker Higgins

    New blog post for EFF: A decade of Open Access (and the challenges ahead) - https://eff.org/r.S7F

    about 3 days ago from Ping.fm at San Francisco, California, United States
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  19. Greg Grossmeier Greg Grossmeier twitter

    NewNewNewNewTwitter causes Fx13.0a1 to use 100% cpu. thanks, @twitter

    about 3 days ago from web at Houston, Texas, United States
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    • Greg Grossmeier Greg Grossmeier Mike Linksvayer

      @mlinksva well, my scientific instrument was closing tabs and looking at sys monitor. It may have been another tab, but unlikely.

      about 3 days ago
    • Greg Grossmeier Greg Grossmeier

      @mlinksva happened again. npviewer.bin was the culprit, but it was killed when I closed the #NewNewNewNewTwitter tab. Confirmed with top ;)

      about 3 days ago
    • Mike Linksvayer Mike Linksvayer

      @greg never heard of npviewer.bin but wow search results not charitable. I don't have Flash installed, probably explains difference.

      about 3 days ago
  20. Glyn Moody Glyn Moody

    About #Patents. Again - http://bit.ly/zxyxc7 great post; key point is we live in age of inventive abundance - patents designed for scarcity

    about 3 days ago from web at London, England, United Kingdom
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