Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-04-11 Thread pancake
You can use twitter from api. Bitlbee have a irc gateway for twitter too. And there's ttytter. Which is a cmdline client. Web sucks, and its not the only way to access it. It offers several stuff the irc doesnt like indexing contents, clear timelines (not noisy irc channels) and bulk dumps. So

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-04-09 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Seriously, do these sites provide anything that IRC doesn't? And no, groups have no use, and thus don't count. IRC is more distributed than StatusNet twitter-clones, and has way more implementations. Most of them are terrible backdoors that are best kept locked away, but some are almost usable. Rea

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-04-02 Thread Andrei
It's written by Montrealers/Canadians, whaddya expect? -- A On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis > wrote: > > I generally find it easy to avoid the bullshit on big sites, but even if > it > > isn't, isn't the software power

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-31 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > I generally find it easy to avoid the bullshit on big sites, but even if it > isn't, isn't the software powering identi.ca free? It's called statusnet and it's a horrible php monstrosity. Implementing the API in C might be a fun weeken

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-31 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 30 Mar 2011, at 1:36 pm, v4hn wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:36:00PM -0400, Josh Rickmar wrote: identi.ca (free and distributed) works reasonably well, It's a working alternative to twitter. but is unfortunately overloaded with gnu freetards. If you think that's true, change that b

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Guys, everything sucks. It's a matter of something sucks less ;) Anyway, let's stop this nonsense here. Best regards, Anselm

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread mjm
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:57 AM, wrote: >> Your opinions are destructive. > > that sentence is in the same class as "colorless green ideas sleep > furiously" > > > ...but it doesn't change the fact that Arch sucks. > > -- > # Kurt H Maier > mediocre mental capacity and understanding the Englis

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:57 AM, wrote: > Your opinions are destructive. that sentence is in the same class as "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" ...but it doesn't change the fact that Arch sucks. -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread Jacob Todd
> Your opinions are destructive. > It's creative destruction.

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread mjm
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: >> Arch sucks. >> >> /troll > > s/oll/uth/ > > -- > # Kurt H Maier > Your opinions are destructive.

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-30 Thread v4hn
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:36:00PM -0400, Josh Rickmar wrote: > identi.ca (free and distributed) works reasonably well, It's a working alternative to twitter. > but is unfortunately overloaded with gnu freetards. If you think that's true, change that by using it. v4hn pgpKGRhFSStCh.pgp Descr

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread Josh Rickmar
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 07:26:24PM +0200, pancake wrote: > About twitter i think i the best news platform atm. And email is > probably the worst one. I use them a lot. But definitively twitter > sucks much less than email. The only sad thing is that twitter is > not free and not distributted. iden

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: > Arch sucks. > > /troll s/oll/uth/ -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread Jacob Todd
Arch sucks. /troll

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread pancake
My apologies for sending shortlinks and html mail. It was just the fastest way to do it.. Just wanted to discuss on the contents of the link. About twitter i think i the best news platform atm. And email is probably the worst one. I use them a lot. But definitively twitter sucks much less than

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 06:35:05PM +0200, pancake wrote: > [brl_normal]Bruce Leidl (@bleidl) > 26/03/11 19:41 > Dude patiently tries to explain to #Archlinux why no authentication for > packages is a huge problem. Ban hammer. bit.ly/hSZUR3 > http://www.toofishes.net/blog/real-story-behind-arch-l

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:35:05 +0200, pancake wrote: BRUCE LEIDL () 26/03/11 19:41 [1] Dude patiently tries to explain to #Archlinux [2] why no authentication for packages is a huge problem. Ban hammer. bit.ly/hSZUR3 [3] http://www.toofishes.net/blog/real-story-behind-arch-linux-package-signing/

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Sean Howard wrote: > > since this is information that the *nix community should know disagree -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread Sean Howard
On 29 March 2011 12:47, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Hello, > > pancake wrote: >> >> *Bruce Leidl (@bleidl )* >> 26/03/11 19:41 >> Dude patiently tries to explain to #Archlinux >>

Re: [dev] @bleidl, 26/03/11 19:41

2011-03-29 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Hello, pancake wrote: *Bruce Leidl (@bleidl )* 26/03/11 19:41 Dude patiently tries to explain to #Archlinux why no authentication for packages is a huge problem. Ban