Ricardo Lafuente @rlafuente@post.lurk.org

In the meanwhile, we have some difficult work in front of us; while again I think RMS stepping down was completely correct, we can at least say that RMS was stubbornly principled. Right now if you look at the OSI license lists, I think you can see a lot of people trying to chip away at the principles of FOSS, maybe even unintentionally.

We need to re-examine and clearly be able to articulate the reasons we are taking these positions ourselves.

It is not exactly new story and I am not sure if this made the rounds in fediverse but a few days ago #archiveofourown won the hugo award on best related work. We have a huge #FLOSS community here but we don't talk nearly enough about this project.

#ao3 is an unique opensourced project that is not male dominated and also not started by people who were fulltime engineers but fans who decided enough is enough and we need to own our servers.

Congrats to Ao3!

#fandom #womenswork

Help us put this account on the front page of the #fediverse by boosting this toot. 😜

#lgm #lgm19 #lgm2019 #LibreGraphicsMeeting

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RT @maxbraun@twitter.com
What happens if you train a GAN on the @eBoyArts database? Infinite pixel nightmares, that's what.
https://twitter.com/maxbraun/status/1137510117631389698

Inspired by a presentation by @aiscarvalho and @rlafuente, we ask you: supposing these 3 terms describe the same thing, which one would you prefer? #lgm19

@xuv @aiscarvalho @rlafuente https://imgflip.com/i/32cm8c

Inspiring presentation from @aiscarvalho and @rlafuente about their type:bits workshop. #lgm19
http://typebits.manufacturaindependente.org/

What would AI demand if it suddenly attained sentience? To find out, I trained a neural net on 190k petition titles from Change.org https://aiweirdness.com/post/184919085542/this-neural-net-would-like-to-deliver-these

Shell script for collating/imposing a one-sheet mini zine layout from a 8-pages PDF document, using the Open Source command line tool pdfjam:

#!/bin/sh

input_pdf=$1
output_pdf="mini_zine-$input_pdf"

pdfjam --angle '180' --outfile /dev/stdout -- $input_pdf 1,8,7,6 | pdfjam --nup '4x2' --landscape --frame 'false' --outfile $output_pdf -- /dev/stdin - $input_pdf 2-5

#zines #zine #minizine #opensource #commandline

inspiring use of automation for empowering citizens through existing laws (and loopholes) - browse the thread
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RT @jbrowder1@twitter.com
Big news! You can now sue anyone (in all 50 U.S states and 3,000 counties), fight corporations and beat bureaucracy with the DoNotPay App! All 15 of the new products are completely free. (1/15) https://www.donotpay.com/app
https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1050032405568835584

wanting to get into adversarial machine learning just so i can change my job title of "computer illusionist"

me: what do you see in this picture?

computer: a river

me after changing 5 pixels: what do you see now

computer: A TIGER THAT IS MAGIC HOW DID YOU DO THAT

I'm sad to see that the institutions that force me to have a google account are schools

"Julian Assange 'further arrested' on behalf of the US after extradition request"

https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-arrested-at-the-ecuadorean-embassy-live-updates

To all who doubted the threat of extradition to the US... what are you going to do now?

#FreeAssange

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On a demandé à ma mère de donner les noms des personnages de Smash, voilà ce qu'elle a répondu