I went to startup vim just now because I wanted to see the charity
solicitation message that runs when it starts up. Turns out I don't have vim
proper installed.
$ vim
Command 'vim' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install vim
sudo apt install vim-gtk3
sudo apt …The bot in the #git channel on freenode holds links to recommended reading.
A couple of these were invoked in the last week or so not long before I
wandered into the channel (via Esc A in irssi) so I was able to notice them.
One of them is a …
(Karen and Bradley's talk about using proprietary software is a starting point for this.)
I repeatedly go through phases where I think I'm just on the cusp of sitting down and writing a definitive apologia for my approach to using free software and, in particular, how that approach handles the …
(This is in response to a long-standing GitHub issue for the RIT@FOSS program)
The FOSS@RIT community is a multifaceted manifestation of the larger, also multifaceted, global community of free and open source software users and developers.
There is no single, one true path for joining this community.
There …
OK, so I'm going to take these out of order from how I presented them in the initial short version of my reading list
I'm going further into these two first because they are probably the ones most likely to raise eyebrows or objections. They have nothing quite so directly …
I'm on another try to use cloud calendar synchronization, across my desktop, laptop, and at least one (to start) handheld mobile device.
The cloud side is a community-run Nextcloud instance.
On the laptop and desktop, I'm trying to use Thunderbird, but it was silently failing to sync.
I had to …
The subject of reading lists came up recently, both what one is reading now but also what might be good to recommend to a FOSS newcomer.
I've got 6 things in mind, which I'll just list here and then maybe follow up later.
So, I finally have hit upon a keybinding conflict that bugs me.
Before I mention exactly what it is, I should probably say first that I am not much of one to customize my command line tools. Or, at least, I should say that I'm resistant to doing so. You …
(I wrote this when the particular leadership controversy in question, the details of which are mostly mentioned in passing rather than described, was current. Bigger leadership controversies in FOSS have come to the fore since, but these questions remain.)
The title for this file is intentionally ambiguous, meant to evoke …
In this case, "-ux" isn't meant to refer to these dmesg(1) options
-u, --userspace
Print userspace messages.
-x, --decode
Decode facility and level (priority) numbers to human-readable
prefixes.
but rather to a recent User eXperience
epiphany I had using dmesg.
Most of the time using dmesg, my concerns are …