Notices by Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se), page 7

harmlessgryphon (harmlessgryphon@sealion.club)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2017 23:31:36 UTC harmlessgryphon
- somercet
- Enlightening the Endarkenment
@somercet @nonservator The only reason an unlisted number cost more was because the phone company knew they could charge you for the service, and depending on your carrier, there was differing levels of unlisted (and cost,) from "not in the white pages" to "not available from directory service either." There's no technical reason that it should cost more beyond a single removal fee that tells the computer billing systems that this number isn't to be released to printing or assistance. It's like the charges GPS manufacturers used to add on to their units for local traffic service. It was already there, but they sold you a "subscription" because they could. Literally - Ma Bell has been using computers to bill and track phone service probably longer than anyone currently on this board.

Don't think that the phone book isn't full of gamed ads and SEO tricks. I can call my business AAAAAAA Best Plumbing, and I'll be at the front of the book, before your AAA Best Plumbing business, and both of us will be behind the promoted ad that ZZZZZ Worst Plumbing paid to have inserted at the beginning of the Plumbers list. Remember that the phone book and directories aren't to tell you about businesses, they are to sell ads - can't count how many calls my employer gets from YP companies wanting to sell us adspace.

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Pietro Gagliardi (andlabs@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2017 08:53:57 UTC Pietro Gagliardi
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@lnxw48a1 @vsatayamas @clacke using other people's software
I have http://circulosmeos.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/google-drive-direct-download-of-big-files apparently
there's a few; the ones I found are written in Go despite me not specifically looking in that direction (as I am a Go developer)
disclaimer: I'm on OS X now, but these should still work on Linux
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  Google Drive direct download of big files
  
  By circulosmeos from circulos meos
  Files hosted at Google Drive service can be shared publicly. Nevertheless, if they’re too big, Google pages advice that “Google Drive can’t scan this file for viruses” and ask the user for confirmation in order to proceed with the download.
  
  If for any reason you’re trying to do an unattended download of the file or downloading it on a resource-limited environment, this will prevent direct use of the link.
  
  It seems that google exposes a confirmation key with the advice page, that must match a value returned with the next request. So the process transits within four main urls, starting from the (supossed) direct public link of the file:
  
  https:// docs.google.com/open?id=…
  
  https:// docs.google.com/uc?id=…&export=download&revid=…
  
  https:// docs.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=SqLb&id=…&revid=…/…
  
  https:// doc-0s-ak-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/…
  
  The first url redirects after various steps to a page in which the next url of the process can be catch with:
  
  /href=”(\/uc\?export=download[^”]+)/
  
  This will be the second url of the process: this is the one which will ends up setting a “confirm” random value inside this final step’s url. This value seems to have a corresponding and different one on the response url inside the page: this value inside the page must be captured in order to form a new url similar to the 3 step: this time the cookie (previously set by google) returned will match the url value and it’ll eventually (after some redirections) end on an url like that of the 4 step, which is finally the one which will directly download the file.
  
  Too much hassle for a single clean command line…
  
  So, I’ve written a perl script that does all the work. With the help of wget, of course, which can follow “302” HTTP redirections, and load and store cookies. Neat tool!
  
  Here it is also as git repository.
  
  Certificates can pose a problem on your system, because Google uses https all the time:
  
  ERROR: Certificate verification error for drive.google.com: unable to get local issuer certificate
  To connect to drive.google.com insecurely, use `–no-check-certificate’.
  Unable to establish SSL connection.
  
  If this is the case, install the “ca-certificates” package on your system, or replace “wget” in one line at the end of the script for “wget –no-check-certificate”.
  
  The script runs on *nix… But a simple change of the $TMP variable to ‘.’ and the use of the above indicated “wget –no-check-certificate” change, should make it runnable on a windows with Perl and wget in the PATH.
  
  I’d like to have posted the code here, but wordpress templates are a complete mess… I’d prefer plain text. Really.
zatty (zatnosk@manowar.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Mar-2017 13:42:42 UTC zatty
- Danyl Strype
@strypey nah, it's very unlikely to be a user error - such things never happens! ;P
They really should just have a giant red button labeled GITHUB at the top, to appease my arbitrary requirements.

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harmlessgryphon (harmlessgryphon@sealion.club)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2017 13:36:54 UTC harmlessgryphon
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- Steve Biggs
@thestevebiggs It's a term we've all come to know and love here on sealion.

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Steve Biggs (thestevebiggs@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2017 13:23:58 UTC Steve Biggs
- harmlessgryphon
@harmlessgryphon Wow! Hadn't heard of D-K before but just read about it on wikipedia. Interesting! LOL

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Mike Linksvayer (mlinksva@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jul-2016 19:41:02 UTC Mike Linksvayer

https://lwn.net/Articles/695014/

> Any early successes of troll-like behavior is thus short-lived and evaporates as soon as new Linux adopters learn to adapt quickly with compliant behaviors.

(Claims bkuhn.)

Great. Let's encourage "trolling". Successes of principled behavior haven't led to such quick adaptation.

No surprise. I think of copyleft as regulation, and many regulations need steep fines for non-compliance to encourage proactive compliance. Copyleft doubly so, since it is a private mechanism that has no publicly funded regulators whose job it is to enforce.

I know Conservancy can't explicitly encourage trolling. But I'm hopeful talking about principled enforcement increases awareness that trolling is a possibility, and many copy McHardy.
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Mike Linksvayer (mlinksva@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2016 19:41:21 UTC Mike Linksvayer

Apparently FirefoxOS is transitioning to a community project, better name (I always liked Boot2Gecko) and people are still working on it https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/b2g-os-participation
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1. B2G OS
  
  from Mozilla Discourse
  
  Discussions related to the transition from Firefox OS to the B2G OS Community Project
  Weekly meetings happen on Tuesday at 16:00 UTC.
chen (chen@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2017 04:37:01 UTC chen
in reply to
- 御園はくい
@hakui

No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?

If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

Thanks for listening.

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御園はくい (hakui@freezepeach.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2017 04:35:54 UTC 御園はくい

ok now mention me with something long, maybe the first 20% of the navy seal copypasta or something

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David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2015 19:31:06 UTC David Benfell
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- lnxw48 (Linux Walt)
@deavmi @lnxw48 Agreed. It's true I went through hell getting my instance actually talking to the world …
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backuptheru (backuptheru@sn.theru.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2015 18:00:37 UTC backuptheru

prosody is an easy xmpp server to configure and if it's in the repo of the distro you use to install

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Falk Duebbert (der@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2015 18:24:33 UTC Falk Duebbert
- backuptheru
@theru @deavmi prosody+ kaiwa = AWESOME! (We use it as enterprise social network)

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lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48@fresh.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2015 18:29:58 UTC lnxw48 (Linux Walt)

@deavmi I've never tried to run an #IRC server, but #Prosody is a drop dead easy !xmpp server. Install from your package manager, then visit prosody dot im for configuration info.

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RDN's Lucifer (nerthos@rainbowdash.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2016 02:38:06 UTC RDN's Lucifer
- KrombobulusMichael
@doze49 Seize the memes of production

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Goddess of Desire (dtluna@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2017 09:09:23 UTC Goddess of Desire
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- Goddess of Desire
We need to promote https://liberapay.com
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Goddess of Desire (dtluna@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2017 08:44:24 UTC Goddess of Desire

Digibro After Dark: Patreon Needs Competition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf3eRyu9jyI

You don't say Digi!
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shp (shpuld@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 11-Sep-2016 17:00:15 UTC shp

life is like anime tbh except 3d and p badly written #anime #lifehack #mindblown

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Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2017 06:13:03 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
@hannes2peer @mmn @pettter @gargron Yeah, that's a problem.

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Hannes (hannes2peer@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2017 15:01:32 UTC Hannes
@mmn @pettter @takeshitakenji @gargron e.g. i think gs doesn't store the reply-to uri if the notice replied to doesn't exist locally (yet)

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Hannes (hannes2peer@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2017 15:04:31 UTC Hannes
@mmn @pettter @takeshitakenji @gargron imo conversation_id in gnusocial is only a good idea if it speeds up db-stuff locally

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