Notices by karl (karl@soykaf.com), page 2
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karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jul-2016 08:06:19 UTC 
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@clacke @sapientech Is pump.io federated? -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Jul-2016 19:18:41 UTC
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@sim @wakarimasen Well. That didn't take long. https://soykaf.com/attachment/38900
I set social.guhnoo.org as my profile homepage, tweeted about gnu.io/social, and retweeted @rw 's video explaining the federation. Then boom. Account locked. I'm not sure which of those actions triggered the lock. -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Jul-2016 17:31:19 UTC
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Day 2 review of Acer CB3-131 with Linux courtesy of GalliumOS.
The good:
Utterly flawless driver support, absolutely everything worked out-of-the-box. No futzing around with modprobe or extra downloads required. Installation took some careful reading, but the instructions were accurate.
Since it's a modern Baytrail x86 CPU with 4GB RAM, it's pretty damn fast for non-gaming purposes. And since it's plain x86 Xubuntu 16.04 LTS under the hood, installing anything is just an apt-get away, no weird out-of-date custom repos in sight.
Hardware video acceleration seems to work fine. VLC barely sips CPU time while playing 1080p video.
802.11ac wifi makes wireless rsyncs damn fast.
Quick boot time.
Great power management support. Suspend/resume works every time.
The bad:
Only 16GB storage built-in. Luckily the SD card slot is designed in a way that SD cards are fully embedded in the body when inserted. But the cost of a high capacity SD card is an extra expense to be aware of.
No full coreboot ROM is possible on this model at this time.
The ugly:
The keyboard layout takes some getting used to. The touchpad doesn't have right-click functionality, so opening context menus can be interesting. External mice work as expected.
The TN screen is reasonably detailed (1366x768 on 12" is acceptable) and I love that it's matte. Colours aren't nearly as accurate as IPS. But it also doesn't do that weird colour-shift at large viewing angles. All in all, it's TN, but it's probably one of the better TN panels I've used.
Overall:
Very happy. Proper full-scale Linux with perfect drivers on a cheap, reasonably powerful, reasonably compact and lightweight machine.
So... anyone wanna buy an Asus T100TA with Windows 10 preinstalled? It's going for cheap! -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jul-2016 18:31:09 UTC
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@chopperdave @pennyfortheguy @twilotspankle Perhaps the RCMP contract model would work for the US, if Americans are worried about a Stasi-type situation.
The RCMP isn't technically a national police service. Provinces (for areas outside municipalities) and municipalities offer them contracts to provide policing services, and those provinces and cities maintain oversight authority. If a province or city doesn't like the way services are provided, they can simply not renew the contract, and run their own services. (Canada is even more decentralized than the US in a lot of ways; provincial governments have enormous powers in many areas that typically go far beyond what US states have.) -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jul-2016 18:01:47 UTC
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@pennyfortheguy @chopperdave @twilotspankle The whole idea of "local" law enforcement in general scares me. There's greater incentive for local cops to issue tickets to fill their own coffers, there's no real background checks, training, screening, or oversight. And there's huge potential for corruption since the same people are in the same place for decades on end.
National services in the western world don't generally have those problems, because there's standards of training and fitness, proper pre-hire screening, civilian oversight, and regular assignment rotations. -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jul-2016 01:21:30 UTC
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@moonman @maiyannah Isn't that the point of his character, that he's really more of a softie than he lets on? He's not enough of an asshole to be a successful businessman among his own kind. He can barely scrape by among aliens. He was a softie from the start. -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jul-2016 01:03:24 UTC
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S88nF__qhwA Also, best music. -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2016 02:31:30 UTC
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@moonman @rjohnlennon I've never been convinced of the utility of PMs in microblogging platforms. If someone wants to reach me privately, they can just chat me on XMPP/OTR or send PGP'd email. Microblogging PMs are one hack away from becoming public knowledge. -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jun-2016 14:08:11 UTC
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https://soykaf.com/url/28436
In case you needed a reminder of how truly fucking evil Paypal is. -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Tuesday, 31-May-2016 18:41:27 UTC
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This is really not my computing day. My backup portable is acting insane now. :( https://soykaf.com/attachment/22183 -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2016 21:21:28 UTC
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@wakarimasen @maiyannah @normandy I literally laughed out loud. https://soykaf.com/attachment/21076 -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 27-May-2016 21:00:28 UTC
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https://soykaf.com/attachment/21068 :D -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 20-May-2016 20:59:39 UTC
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https://soykaf.com/url/18559 Dear Trump supporters: This sort of anti-free-speech gag order is exactly what Trump wants to bring to the US.
Are you *really* sure you want this guy in a position of political power? -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Monday, 16-May-2016 19:48:51 UTC
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@hector Just try not to think of graceful feminine elvish figures bathing in a cool woodland stream, innocently naked, yet somehow sensually vulnerable. -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2016 21:11:51 UTC
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https://owncloud.org/blog/owncloud-server-9-0-comes-next-week-help-tell-everybody-about-it/ Owncloud 9 coming soon. Very much looking forward to this. I love Owncloud. -
karl (karl@soykaf.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Mar-2016 16:38:50 UTC
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/classic-cars-to-electric-1.3471705
So cool. Full conversions of outdated and inefficient combustion engines to modern, reliable AC induction motors and electric drivetrains. Electric is the future, man...
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