So, for some ongoing projects I maintain what you might call a semi-decentralized, or a weakly-centralized, git workflow.
The basic set up is this. I have three repositories on which I might work on my projects: A home desktop, a laptop, and a virtual private server.
The VPS would be …
Nadia Eghbal first came to my attention through her essay (published in May but which I probably didn't see until June)
I found it alarming, given as how there was already a long-running terminological quagmire around what distinctions, if any, were important between the …
These are some slightly-expanded hot takes regarding I'm giving up on PGP (later republished at Ars)
Several friends were discussing this last week & so I thought to pull my own comments from that discussion and extend them.
Lots of emphasis in that on private communication, instead of on verifiable communication …
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 …