So, I have been half-heartedly version tracking the contents of
/etc/pam.d.
After having applied updates a while back, I've started working again recently in that directory to enable additional access controls.
So, I see several files have been added or changed since last I made a commit, including …
I missed the attainment of the victory condition. Linus won.
I guess I wasn't paying that much attention.
Exhibit A: "If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won." -- Linus Torvalds, according to Needle, David (1998-10-01).
(Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux. CNN.com. as retrieved from …
I started writing about my git workflow and it turned into a general description of my digital work habits, so I thought I'd break this out into its own thing.
I tend to use a trio of systems for most of my work: A laptop, a desktop system, and a …
So, I have two FOSS "origin" stories, if you will, sort of my counterparts to the (in)famous frustrations with a printer driver about which you may have heard. It's how I remember coming into this FOSS world.
In the first, I went to go use this suite …
I tend to think of $PUBLIC_FIGURE as a radical and an extremist. These terms usually carry a perjorative connotation. Similar terms include "fundamentalist" or "absolutist" and might also be defensible here.
To draw some of the personal sharpness out of it, one might argue less that they are these things …
Just a note on nomenclature: I recognize that some people have very specific recommendations about what language to use when talking about software freedom. I appreciate the analysis behind these recommendations and largely agree with them (despite my other concerns about these folk edit dja 20211113).
Even so, I find …
Ah, summer: The time we look forward to as the time to work on all those odds-and-ends projects we just can't concentrate on during the semester.
So, here it is, late July, and I'm only now getting around to some things I've been meaning to commit to text about last …
We're coming up on year since the first big air trip in a long time which I really looked forward to as a trip itself. I've driven to a few conferences over the last several years and that has been fun, but driving, and on a schedule, has a sense …
I used to love to travel. Usually didn't matter where or how. When I was very young, this meant car trips between relative's houses, of varying length depending on who was living where when. When the distances got great enough, it meant the rare, and exciting, airplane trip. I still …
If you’re an app, how do you keep people hooked? Turn yourself into a slot machine.