kodkod kodkod@microca.st
Hagenberg, Austria
I'm a defensive security engineer with a passion for Free Software and DevOps. As such, I'm very interested in combining FLOSS tools and DevOps principles to solve problems like Patch Management, Log Management, Security Event Management or Vulnerabilty Assessment. I strongly believe that a good security posture requires tight integration of strategic & tactical security management with security operations to develop appropriate policies, implement effective actions and measure their success meaningfully. I strongly believe in Software Freedom and copyleft as a tool to improve Software Freedom overall. This is why in my free time I volunteer for the Free Software Foundation Europe by coordinating the local group Linz also for the FH Linux Users Group (fhLUG) by organizing and giving talks and workshops, including talks on Open Standards, Software Freedom and FLOSS Licensing.
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Free Software Foundation at 2015-07-30T08:12:10Z via AndStatus To: Public
Skip #Windows10! Try #GNU/#Linux!
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Reflecting on "Goodbye, OpenStack"
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-07-19T09:19:08Z via AndStatus To: Public
I just read "Goodbye, OpenStack" (thanks for the link @David Thompson) and it has me thinking about a number of things:
- Those I know who work on OpenStack complain about its insane complexity; there's even a comic about it. OpenStack seems like a lot of things at this point. A good number of them seem like things I want to succeed: an API for on-the-fly-provisioning seems important, with a free software backing. That seems great. So does the storage system Swift... we even have support for that in MediaGoblin.
- I've been long jealous of projects with tons of funding. MediaGoblin and most of the projects I actually care about are desperately resource-constrained. It's hard not to look at the sea of VC money out there and not feel like I'm hurting the project by not trying to tap into it, but then I think of all the compromises I'd have to make, and how much doing such things seems to affect real communities. But wouldn't it be worth it to be able to pay more people to make the dream come true? But looking above, OpenStack is pretty much the dream machine of money in the free software world. Having a ton of money pouring into it doesn't seem to help its coherence maybe?
- OpenStack's decision to use permissive licensing is frequently lauded as one of the reasons it's so well funded. That post seems to indicate that pretty much everywhere is running a proprietary fork, which makes OpenStack sound eerily similar to Android.
Maybe there's some value left in my stubborn, community-over-money, pro-copyleft direction. Then again, being a resource strapped outlier isn't always much better than the above. (And I'm still jealous of all that project money.)
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@cwebber@identi.ca I believe that projects like MediaGoblin and people like you with a "stubborn, community-over-money, pro-copyleft direction" do a much bigger service to Software Freedom than any VC funded permissively licensed megaproject ever will. And after reading your post I'm doing what I should have been doing a long time ago: Setting up a monthly donation to MediaGoblin!kodkod at 2015-07-19T09:24:36Z
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@kodkod Aw thanks, and monthly donations are greeeeeeeatly appreciated!
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-07-19T13:46:56Z
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https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-videos/presentation/openstack-is-doomed-and-i... is hilarious and sad.
"[There are people who like the implementation. People with Stockholm syndrome, and consultants.]"
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-07-22T21:46:14Z
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"Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around"
Laura Arjona at 2015-07-13T15:25:05Z via AndStatus To: Public
"#Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around" http://dustri.org/b/firefox-youre-supposed-to-be-in-my-pocket-not-the-other-way-around.html /v @jrobb #freesoftware #nonfreesoftware #privacy
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There is a Linux version of Pale Moon. Unfortunately, I have not seen it in any distro repos.
I have not yet seen the more idiotic Firefox changes arrive in Seamonkey yet.
Cool, i will check it out.
Yeah i have seamonkey installed, but it seems to be based on a pretty old version of firefox. plus it is the whole bundle which is kind of some bloat. supposedly community managed, so maybe all this kinds of dumb stuff won't make it in.
IceCat ?
@lnxwalt@microca.st : it's in the arch repo :-)
community/palemoon-bin 25.5.0-1Open source web browser based on Firefox focusing on efficiency.lnxwalt@microca.st likes this.
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april.org at 2015-07-09T14:25:03Z via AndStatus To: Public
French Government IT directorate stands its ground : #ODF supported, #OOXML rejected http://apr1.org/Cul30bravo , kodkod , Jure Repinc (JLP) like this.
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Woooohooo!!! \o/
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2015-06-18T14:23:31Z via AndStatus To: Public
#CharityRun at Hagenberg, Austria today. Get healthy and make the world a better place all in one day!Charles ☕ Stanhope likes this.
Go go go!
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Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?
Bradley M. Kuhn at 2015-06-16T19:38:49Z via AndStatus To: Public
URL: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/06/15/apple-is-not-our-friend.html
Apple announced last week that its Swift programming language — a currently fully proprietary software successor to Objective C — will probably be partially released under an OSI-approved license eventually. Apple explicitly stated though that such released software will not be copylefted. (Apple's pathological hatred of copyleft is reasonably well documented.) Apple's announcement remained completely silent on patents, and we should expect the chosen non-copyleft license will not contain a patent grant. (I've explained at great length in the past why software patents are a particularly dangerous threat to programming language infrastructure.)
Apple's dogged pursuit for non-copyleft replacements for copylefted software is far from new. For example, Apple has worked to create replacements for Samba so they need not ship Samba in OSX. But, their anti-copyleft witch hunt goes back much further. It began when Richard Stallman himself famously led the world's first GPL enforcement effort against NeXT, and Objective-C was liberated. For a time, NeXT and Apple worked upstream with GCC to make Objective-C better for the community. But, that whole time, Apple was carefully plotting its escape from the copyleft world. Fortuitously, Apple eventually discovered a technically brilliant (but sadly non-copylefted) research programming language and compiler system called LLVM. Since then, Apple has sunk millions of dollars into making LLVM better. On the surface, that seems like a win for software freedom, until you look at the bigger picture: their goal is to end copyleft compilers. Their goal is to pick and choose when and how programming language software is liberated. Swift is not a shining example of Apple joining us in software freedom; rather, it's a recent example of Apple's long-term strategy to manipulate open source — giving our community occasional software freedom on Apple's own terms. Apple gives us no bread but says let them eat cake instead.
Apple's got PR talent. They understand that merely announcing the possibility of liberating proprietary software gets press. They know that few people will follow through and determine how it went. Meanwhile, the standing story becomes: Wait, didn't Apple open source Swift anyway?. Already, that false soundbite's grip strengthens, even though the answer remains a resoundingly No!. However, I suspect that Apple will probably meet most of their public pledges. We'll likely see pieces of Swift 2.0 thrown over the wall. But the best stuff will be kept proprietary. That's already happening with LLVM, anyway; Apple already ships a no-source-available fork of LLVM.
Thus, Apple's announcement incident hasn't happened in a void. Apple didn't just discover open source after years of neutrality on the topic. Apple's move is calculated, which led various industry pundits like O'Grady and Weinberg to ask hard questions (some of which are similar to mine). Yet, Apple's hype is so good, that it did convince one trade association leader.
To me, Apple's not-yet-executed move to liberate some of the Swift 2.0 code seems a tactical stunt to win over developers who currently prefer the relatively more open nature of the Android/Linux platform. While nearly all the Android userspace applications are proprietary, and GPL violations on Android devices abound, at least the copyleft license of Linux itself provides the opportunity to keep the core operating system of Android liberated. No matter how much Swift code is released, such will never be true with Apple.
I'm often pointing out in my recent talks how complex and treacherous the Open Source and Free Software political climate became in the last decade. Here's a great example: Apple is a wily opponent, able to Open Source (the cooption of Free Software) to manipulate the press and hoodwink the would-be spokespeople for Linux to support them. Many of us software freedom advocates have predicted for years that Free Software unfriendly companies like Apple would liberate more and more code under non-copyleft licenses in an effort to create walled gardens of seeming software freedom. I don't revel in my past accuracy of such predictions; rather, I feel simply the hefty weight of Cassandra's curse.
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History, @mlinksva@identi.ca .
jasonriedy@fmrl.me at 2015-06-16T21:25:46Z
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identi.ca link in ebb.org article broken.
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-06-17T02:12:51Z
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> it's a recent example of Apple's long-term strategy to manipulate *open source*
Please don't say "open source".
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Free Software Foundation Europe at 2015-06-16T19:38:32Z via AndStatus To: Public
FSFE welcomes adoption of copyright report in EP's JURI committee =
In an important step towards modernising the EU's copyright laws, the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament on Tuesday adopted a report on the Copyright Directive by MEP Julia Reda. Support FSFE, join the Fellowship: https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php Make a one time donation: http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html
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lazy on a sunday afternoon
2015-06-14T12:19:25Z via AndStatus To: Public
Lazy on a Sunday afternoon - in the summertime. #bbq
food!
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2015-06-12T15:57:45Z via AndStatus To: Public
Kulturmesse at Pfarrplatz Linz - Music and Food from Austria and Eastern Europe #onerace #toleranceArcee likes this.
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2015-06-12T15:40:37Z via AndStatus To: Public
And also, apparently andStatus doesn't let you set titles for notes or edit them after posting.
Yeah, only the desktop clients support the full range of operations in the protocol.
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-06-12T19:44:43Z
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no comic book shops in Linz
2015-06-12T15:38:59Z via AndStatus To: Public
Apparently, there is still no way to buy comic books anywhere in Linz.
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Hello, IO!
2015-06-11T20:47:23Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
So, as it appears I'm now giving this pump.io a try in an effort to be more public about my supporting #freesoftware. Let's see where this takes us.mray , gnubrunswick , Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) , debexpert and 9 others like this.
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Hello and welcome!
Si hablas al publico apareces aquí > http://pump.mamalibre.com.ar/
Bienvenido.
Fabián Bonetti at 2015-06-11T22:28:34Z
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Always welcome new people!
Unfortunately, I don't speak Spanish. But thanks for the nice welcome everyone :)
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