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Fully Free GNU/Linux Presentation

13-Feb-10

As planned, I did my talk about the thriving fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement at yesterday’s FSFE Berlin Fellowship meeting. I started with the basics of the Free Software ideal, moved on to the problematic issues concerning mainstream GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian and then discussed the solutions to these problems. I also [...]

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Fully Free GNU/Linux Presentation Next Week

05-Feb-10

I will be giving a talk about the fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement in the Free Software Foundation Europe’s Berlin meeting on Thursday, February 11th, next week. The talk will start at 19:30 in the Newthinking Store, Tucholskystraße 48. Hopefully, we will have a chance to continue discussing the topic over a few beers right [...]

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Self-fulfilling Breakage

21-Dec-09

I have just got this message in Pidgin from a friend over the MSN Messenger Service:
“dude, my internet connection is fucked up. i’m getting disconnected every time i open msn.”
Predictably, he was offline when i saw the message.

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A pleasant day

11-Dec-09

I had an interesting day yesterday. I attended my first Fellowship meeting in less than 24 hours after finally joining the Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe. The Berlin group of the Fellowship turned out to be full of interesting people not all of whom are technogeeks. After Hugo Roy’s presentation about the alarming features [...]

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Philosomatika!

01-Apr-09

I have just received this cool philosomatika t-shirt in the mail. And they were kind enough to leave a friendly note on the bill!

Philosomatika is an online radio station streaming uninterrupted goa & psychedelic trance. Although I’m no aficionado of trance music, I mostly use this station as a background music while I do other [...]

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not lsd but ls -aR

17-Mar-09

My favorite pastime activity for the last couple of weeks have been entering

ls -aR /

into a full screen terminal emulator and watching virtually everything in my file system ls‘ed. It’s hypnotizing if you stare at the screen long enough.

Of course, how long it is going to take to complete depends on how many files and [...]

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