Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 15

I came across Kernighan’s 2017 book, Understanding the Digital World — What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security. I picked it up thanks to a random recommendation I read somewhere I don’t recall. And it’s really a great read. Of course, basically every reader that usually comes across this blog will be familiar with Kernighan. Be it because his most classic books from the 1970s, The Unix Programming Environment or The C Programming Language, or from the much more recent The Practice of Programming or The Go Programming Language, Kernighan is a world-renowned authority for...

Gregor’s post made me think… And yes! On April 15, I passed the 15-year-mark as a Debian Developer. So, today I am 15.010958904109589041 years old in the project, give or take some seconds. And, quoting my dear and admired friend, I deeply feel I belong to this community. Being part of Debian has defined the way I have shaped my career, has brought me beautiful friendships I will surely keep for many many more years, has helped me decide in which direction I should push to improve the world. I feel welcome and very recognized among people I highly value...

I love flexibility. I love when the rules of engagement are not set in stone and allow us to lead a full, happy, simple life. (Apologies to Felipe and Marianne for using their very nice sculpture for this rant. At least I am not desperately carrying a brick! ☺) I have been very, very happy after I switched to a Thinkpad X230. This is the first computer I have with an option for a cellular modem, so after thinking it a bit, I got myself one: After waiting for a couple of weeks, it arrived in a nonexciting little envelope...

I have grudgingly joined three Slack workspaces , due to me being part of proejects that use it as a communications center for their participants. Why grudgingly? Because there is very little that it adds to well-established communications standards that we have had for long years decades. On this topic, I must refer you to the talk and article presented by Megan Squire, one of the clear highlights of my participation last year at the 13th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS2017): «Considering the Use of Walled Gardens for FLOSS Project Communication». Please do have a good read of...

No, I’m not switching to Fedora or anything like that. Comments Anonymous 2018-03-05 12:11:53 Don’t wanna spoil the fun Don’t wanna spoil the fun with facts but they moved on to something called “dnf” https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF Anonymous 2018-04-09 17:36:12 Stop choosing between OS Have you heard about Qubes OS, sounds interesting :v

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I have left this blog to linger without much activity… My life has got quite a bit busy. So, I’ll try to put some life back here ☺ During the last trimester last year, I was invited as a distance professor to teach «Security in application development» in the «TUSL (Techical Universitary degree on Free Software)» short career taught by the online studies branch of Universidad Nacional del Litoral, based in Santa Fé, Argentina. The career is a three year long program that provides a facilitating, professional, terminal degree according to current Argentinian regulations (that demand people providing professional services...

I first bought a netbook shortly after the term was coined, in 2008. I got one of the original 8.9” Acer Aspire One. Around 2010, my Dell laptop was stolen, so the AAO ended up being my main computer at home — And my favorite computer for convenience, not just for when I needed to travel light. Back then, Regina used to work in a national park and had to cross her province (~6hr by a combination of buses) twice a week, so she had one as well. When she came to Mexico, she surely brought it along. Over the...

EDUSOL is back to life! The online encounter I started together with my friend Pooka twelve years ago (Encuentro en Línea de Educación y Software Libre, Online Encounter of Education and Free Software) was held annually, between 2005 and 2011 if I recall correctly. Then, it went mute on a six year hiatus. This year it came back to life. Congratulations, Pooka, Sheik and crew! Anyway, this is a multimodal online encounter — They managed to top the experience we had long time ago. As far as I can count, it now spans IRC, Telegram, Twitter, YouTube chat, plus a...

I am very, very, very happy to report this — And I cannot believe we have achieved this so fast: Back in June, I announced I’d start working on the translation of the Made with Creative Commons book into Spanish. Over the following few weeks, I worked out the most viable infrastructure, gathered input and commitments for help from a couple of friends, submitted my project for inclusion in the Hosted Weblate translations site (and got it approved!) Then, we quietly and slowly started working. Then, as it usually happens in late August, early September… The rush of the semester...