Identi.ca Updates for 2010-06-08

  • ♺ @PauloTrezentos: ASE 2010 http://39lo.sl.pt. Paper presents new approach to better Linux dependencies solving. Work was developed w/INESC #
  • ♺ @BoingBoing: Terrorists figure out how to get America to attack itself: leave harmless, "suspicious" ba… http://bit.ly/cyVDTf #
  • ♺ @glynmoody: Zaragoza’s move to complete open source desktop going to plan – http://bit.ly/cgIqIz Spain’s Munich? #opensource #migration #
  • As usual, vendor lock-in effects are the biggest challenges. Get rid of the toxic waste! 🙂 #
  • #apple #bigbrother #facetime ♺ @carlopiana: @jwildeboer Have you read this http://bit.ly/doecD8 ? Big brotherish, innit? #
  • @stephwho use Perl 😉 (@jwildeboer can explain you the pun) 🙂 #
  • @stephwho Perl is a programming language with a tendency to «Do what I mean» because sometimes what people mean is not what they want. #
  • @jwildeboer bullshit! You can make any language be a “write-only” language. That’s a matter of following good practices or not. #
  • People who make healthcheck documents in hundreds of *powerpoint* slides should be shot without mercy. #
  • ♺ @jerezim: RT @clarinette02 RT @stoppacta: Australian senator Lundy raises #ACTA concerns http://bit.ly/aPOD1R #StopACTA #
  • ♺ @FFII European Parliament “calls for greater investment in the use of open source software in the EU” http://bit.ly/c2XbEw #
  • «European charter of users’ rights (…) this should include in particular users’ rights relating to digital content» http://bit.ly/c2XbEw #
  • With relation to last status message: be afraid… be very afraid. #
  • ♺ @caostheory The Gov of Malta issued a directive giving preference to OSS in all government projects http://bit.ly/cCEabz #
  • ♺ @carlopiana: Malta #rocks: http://ur1.ca/06722 law to prefer !freesoftware in procurement. Via @maslett #
  • @evan: please don’t make the twitter mistake as oauth is bullshit security outside of web-apps. don’t drop http auth. #
  • @jmcesteves: what? what? what? 🙂 #
  • @bob_sutor: you can’t make GPL/LGPL applications for iPays as #Apple forbids it. #
  • ♺ @mind_booster: Liked "Mozilla evangelist: #Apple #HTML5 demos harm the open Web #dirtytricks" http://ff.im/lGmiC #
  • @greve I sadly envy you from afar… the only joy I can take is how close Ponto Final is to me… #
  • @greve hehe everything is still fine, I hope, here it is… predicted date still the same? 🙂 It would be so cool if they came up same day.. #
  • @zach oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! #
  • ♺ @lxoliva: Brazilian court refuses to uphold foreign copyrights (MS, AutoDesk) for lack of reciprocity in US law ur1.ca/069sa (via @ufa) #
  • ♺ @lxoliva: juiz espanhol equipara P2P a empréstimo de livros bit.ly/9THGFI como na intro de fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/pub/p2plano-b #
  • If !fedora 13’s #firefox has pt_PT localization problems (eg, Save is C-s, quit/sair is C-s as well and bad), is that upstream or not? #
  • @ender2070 if that’s so, then I probably know who to pester until fixed 🙂 #
  • @ender2070 it’s very unnerving to find out that C-q doesn’t work anymore #