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Talking at CRSL (GUGLER), Vieja Usina, Paraná
Presenting my talk via videoconference at Conferencia Regional de Software Libre, set up by GUGLER, in Paraná, Argentina, November 7, 2013
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On how tech enthusiasts become tech detractors
As often is the case, the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic (http://smbc-comics.com/ gets it right. And I cannot help but share today's comic.The picture explains it much better than what I...
View ArticleWhat defines an identity?
I must echo John Sullivan's post: GPG keysigning and government identification.John states some very important reasons for people everywhere to verify the identities of those parties they sign GPG keys...
View ArticleForms of communication
I stared at Noodles' Emptiness, where I found a short rant on the currently most used forms of communication. No, into the most socially-useful forms of communication. No, into what works best for him....
View ArticleWhen Open Access meets the Napster anniversary
Two causally unrelated events which fit in together in the greater scheme of things ;-)In some areas, the world is better aligning to what we have been seeking for many years. In some, of course, it is...
View ArticleCollective pain
The following text is not mine. I'm copy-translating a text a dear friend of mine just wrote in Spanish, in Facebook. He writes far better than I do (much better than most people I have known). I am...
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (also known as #10print )
The line of BASIC code that appears as the subject for this post is the title for a book I just finished reading — And enjoyed thoroughly. The book is available online for download under a CC-BY-NC-SA...
View ArticleOn rogue states disrupting foreign networks
Much ink has been spilled lately (well, more likely, lots of electrons have changed their paths lately — as most of these communications have surely been electronic) on the effects, blame, assurance...
View ArticleMore on Debian as a social, quasi-familiar project
I have long wanted to echo Gregor's beautiful Debian Advent Calendar posts. Gregor is a dear project member and a dear friend to many of us Debianers, who has shown an amount of stamina and care for...
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Crowdfunding call: "Natura" short film
My good friend Felipe Esquivel is driving a crowdfunded project: the first part of the "Natura" short film. I urge every reader of my blog to support Felipe's work!Felipe, the director for this...
View ArticleOn evolving communities and changing social practices
I will join Lars and Tincho in stating this, and presenting a version contrary to what Norbert portraits.I am very glad and very proud that the community I am most involved in, the Debian project, has...
View ArticleWTF @omarfayad — Should *all* computer activity be illegal now? #LeyFayad
Last week, Senator Omar Fayad presented one of the prime examples of a poorly redacted law that, if enacted, will make basically any way of computer use illegal. And yes, even if he states this is...
View ArticleScientific resarch and a moral stand should go hand in hand
During the last few days, I found several references to a beautiful just-published paper, which I hope everybody reads: The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work, by Phillip Rogaway; Cryptology ePrint...
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Starting a project on private and anonymous network usage
I am starting a work with the students of LIDSOL (Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo de Software Libre, Free Software Research and Development Laboratory) of the Engineering Faculty of UNAM: We...
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