Notices by louis (louis@gnusocial.club)
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louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 08:58:53 UTC 
louis
Well if it was "perfected" 21 years ago, then maybe you should upgrade to the version from 2015. http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ -- where it clearly says it is a symlink farm manager, and not a package manager.
When teaching people about free software, it is good to give them clarity and not create additional confusion.
When author of GNU Stow have remedied that fact, you should remedy it as well.
We live in the world where we make mutual group agreements, and I hold it valid for you that you can call it as you wish, you can call it cow manager in your world, yet in the common world, we share the reality, and being stubborn does not make white to be black and vice versa. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2017 17:24:37 UTC
louis
I am not sure if you use "platonic" in the right sense. GNU Stow is system to organize files on computer, while Guix is a package manager, quite different purposes. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2017 06:11:49 UTC
louis
It looks like a malachite kingfisher. You are bird watcher? https://gnusocial.club/attachment/41574 -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2017 19:24:59 UTC
louis
Nice bird on balcony https://gnusocial.club/attachment/41414 -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2016 21:38:06 UTC
louis
If you can get children, and children can get children with that "other" race, than it is not a race. In Europe we did not learn in school there are "races", that was before II world war. That is taught in American schools. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2016 19:41:30 UTC
louis
Congratulation for using a truly free operating system. I do not use distributions. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 19:18:25 UTC
louis
I see !Mastodon is also Affero General Public Licensed, very good. Just like Linux kernel is GPL2 licensed. Very good. Linus used Bitkeeper, the proprietary software and forced other developers to use it. When a Samba guy wanted to reverse engineer Bitkeeper, Linus got pissed because of disagreement with the proprietary software vendor. Then Linus started making git, now you have git. But then again, Linus forgot to apply AGPL and probably never will, he is not really a "free software" activist in his heart, regardless if he is maintaining one of most important pieces of it. If RMS was not there in Finland, Linus would not hear him, and Linux would be proprietary.
Now back to Mastodon. While Github offers nice alternatives, Github is pretty much proprietary. Why simply not host on Gnusocial Gitlab? Gitlab is free software. Github is not free software.
When teaching users about free software, you should tell them what means AGPL, what you are doing. But then again, you are forcing them to use non-free software on Github.
I guess that you would be MORE than welcome here: https://git.gnu.io and even if you just clone your old elephant, you would gain more exposure at the right place and more installations: https://git.gnu.io/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=mastodon&groupid=&projectid=&repository_ref= -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 18:22:25 UTC
louis
Cloning Mastodon to Tanzania where it seem more logical to be! mastodon - extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth
I will study it to see how I can make it in Lisp. No guarantees.
Because I have found here real GNUUU -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 16:48:22 UTC
louis
I have problem in changing computers, installing new system on new computers. There is no Internet, so I use USB or Memory Stick. Installing the system is easy, after cfdisk, I simply use the installation command known was cp. Imagine. I don't think nothing more but copy. And all the sources are there as well. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 16:42:48 UTC
louis
The point of /package is not to create manual work, you download software package (not related to /package) and the software shall be ready, so you just unpack it, it is installed.
/package system is not related to package managers, it is related to file system hierarchy.
Do you know that sysutils have some binaries that collide with the SysV binaries? There is conflict. But maybe I do want to use SysV binaries, instead of Sysutils. With GNU Stow having all packages in /package I can choose which one to use in /usr/bin for example. In fact, I am going to see how to get rid of the /usr/bin as it is totally not necessary, all the /usr stuff and all. That is from history. GNU is Not Unix. I am not forgetting it.
Maybe here more philosophy: http://code.dogmap.org/spf/ -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 16:39:29 UTC
louis
I guess Guix is just as xkcd as others. Even more. How many useless megabytes did I download through Guix? Absolutely not necessary, but yes, if you wish "reproducible", then please, get back to version X, upgrade to Y, to get Z, I mean, it is interesting, but is boring and expensive. I am on mobile connection in Africa. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 12:52:41 UTC
louis
Sorry for mixing in, I don't know what is it about, but... I have stopped using nasty package managers. After more than 16 years, I am never going to use them again in my life. The tremendous control I am getting by doing it myself, is not replaceable.
I am now using slashpackage system by D. J. Bernstein: http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html which has similar adoption in GNU Guix system as /gnu simply, where all packages reside.
And on top of /package/prog/GIMP system, I am using GNU Stow.https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
So those 2 systems, help me to keep ANY kind of software on my system, I can compile it myself and get the features I wish and want. Full control. Overall I know my system WAY BETTER than when I was using rpm, dpkg and aptitude. Nothing gets broken when I am doing upgrades, and the stability is best ever. If anything gets broken by installing new package, I can still revert back with the GNU stow in few seconds. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 08:54:49 UTC
louis
OK I will donate $50 when you make it -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 07:42:24 UTC
louis
The language you know the best is best for you. I just don't like writing too much. Lisp and Scheme gives me possibility to lessen the writing efforts, and to get it very readable and extensible. It is just pleasure. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 06:59:24 UTC
louis
Sounds like a torture. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2016 06:33:50 UTC
louis
I remember testing first messages with Mastodon. Good that it uses PostgreSQL, but Ruby?? Why not Lisp, Scheme? -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2016 15:36:07 UTC
louis
Meet Mr. Joe https://gnusocial.club/attachment/27128 -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Saturday, 19-Nov-2016 17:04:44 UTC
louis
Must reboot, the battery power is getting low. Too little sun today in Tanzania. And government just turned on the real electricity. -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-May-2016 12:17:27 UTC
louis
Richard Stallman singing with nice voice in Cuba:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utjo8qAalck https://gnusocial.club/attachment/7991 -
louis (louis@gnusocial.club)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2016 14:54:23 UTC
louis
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