That's a great idea. Thanks for sharing. I find it disheartening that most philosophers appear to be Apple fanboys, clueless about the open web or digital culture broadly speaking. Oh, well.

Over on Twitter, @lucretius21c compiled a list of "living philosophers" with over 1,000 followers. I, in turn, have made that a Twitter list that you can follow (via twitter or RSS) without having to subscribe to them all: https://twitter.com/encycl/livingphilosophers

@A Philosophy Forum

Nah, I had the wrong database user :) I'll be filling out red.manolomartinez.net in the next few days!

Thanks, just joined the group. I was thinking that maybe there was a (perfectly understandable) rough patch that was not documented. I'll check permissions, though.

I made a group geared towards setting up and running Friendica and Red servers: @FriendicAdmin

Every time I have had issues installing Friendica, it always came down to permissions. I did not have the correct permissions set for some file or folder.

I have done everything I did to get a friendica instance working back in the day, but I get "Apologies but the system is unavailable at the moment".

Where should I ask questions regarding a #Red install? @Friendica Support

If you use the [Solarized](http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) colour scheme, you might be interested in [this little script](https://github.com/manolomartinez/solarizedtoggle) that toggles the theme from dark to light and vice versa. @Arch Linux

Ha muerto Agustín García Calvo :(

We live one block away from evacuation zone A, so we've decided to ask a friend to give us shelter for these two days #Sandy

Go, baby, go

Phys.Org Mobile: Voyager 1 may have left the solar system on Phys

While there's no official word from NASA on this, the buzz around the blogosphere is that Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. The evidence comes from this graph, above, which shows the number of particles, mainly protons, from the Sun hitting...

Yo soy amigo personal de Ainhoa, una de las entrevistadas, y me consta que lo que dice es verdad. Sin gilipolleces; que les metieron piedras en la mochila, y punto. #29S #25S

"Nos metieron piedras en la mochila" on Eldiario

"He seguido el 29S desde casa, por Internet, con mucha emoción", dice Gabriel, con una brecha en la cabeza...

I mean: http://xkcd.com/1110/

Today's xkcd is #a-word

Go to the Application in Science section. This is (how is it that you say around here) #a-word

Alcubierre drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on Wikipedia

The Alcubierre drive (or Alcubierre metric see: Metric tensor) is a speculative idea based on a valid solution of the Einstein field equations as proposed by Miguel Alcubierre by which a spacecraft might achieve faster-than-light travel, making trave...

It's hard to say.

Routes are much shorter than they used to be, and all have much better roads (dirt tracks and cobbles used to be normal, now riders protest about them). The Tour de France has fewer mountains than it used to, and less Time Trialling. The Vuelta has more mountain top finishes than ever, but fewer mountains in total, whereas the Giro d'Italia tends to be as hard as it ever was (except this year, which was deliberately "easy"). Of course, because it's shorter, it's also faster...and you can't just compare speeds, because a lot of it is flat, and can be accounted for by drafting.

The closest you'll get to comparing eras is to compare power outputs on the climbs, and it's best to do that for one day races (like classique des alpes - in the mountains, drafting isn't too important) where fatigue isn't a factor, weather reports are available to adjust for wind speed, and the route barely changes.

The clearest way to see why I think "everybody dopes" is to race at a high level (high being top end junior in my case, or amateur-who-gets-invited-to-pro-am-events in other cases). Almost everybody does it. They talk about drugs like we talk about Friendica; it's the one thing everybody has in common.

I think I agree: no winner for ca 10 years should do it. Are the contemporary Tours much worse than what Bahamontes or Anquetil used to climb? Much more difficult, I mean.

You mean in reference to the Armstrong case?

Charly Mottet was the last clean general classification contender.

Arguably, Miguel Indurain was clean until 1993, but the performance jump between 1992 and 1993 just isn't human. Either he was already doping and stepped it up, or that's when he started doping. And I love San Miguel enough to give him his own Friendica page @Miguel Indurain (fan)

Between then and the bio-passport, everybody who won anything major blood doped.

Pretty much anybody who follows cycling (on the grounds that most cycling fans are cyclists first, and fans of the professional sport second) has known since 1999 Armstrong doped, but that's not the important part of this. The important part is the corruption heading all the way up to the top of the UCI. He should have had his title's stripped, but as with Riis, those years should list no winner.

Nobody else had early warning of drug tests. They weren't allowed to go for a shower before giving samples. They didn't make "donations" to the UCI following news breaking of positive drugs tests. Twice. They didn't have Pat McQuaid lying for them in public statements. The worst bit is, we don't even know which the lies are - we just know Pat McQuaid isn't consistent with his own statements.

It's unfortunate that things ended like they did - we've got nothing to celebrate until the UCI is either disbanded or entirely replaced...but on the other hand, Armstrong deserves everything he gets. Look at what he did to Lemonde (made the abuse he suffered as a child public, and got his sponsorship deals cancelled), Simeoni (spat on - literally - for talking about drugs), Bassons (harassed out of the sport for being clean), and so on.

Bump to @Pro Cycling.

I come to Friendica looking for @Thomas Willingham opinions on Beloki, Ulrich and the zombie Tours of the early '00s.

Does anybody know of an apartment in #Munich that me and my family could rent starting December 2012?

Or, does anyone have suggestions and pointers on how to grok the very daunting Munich rental system?

Judging from arch-dev-public, @Arch Linux 's move to systemd is imminent.

Syslinux...

Actually, the move to grub2's been quite meh.

But yes, I guess there is some inherent tension between rolling distro-ing and KISS: you want an up-to-date system, but that means changing things that work...

I am almost ready to quit after the damn lib --> usr/lib nightmare. I'm still in the middle of cleaning it up, and am rather disappointed at arch. so unnecessary, don't break something that's working! I might just go back to Debian.

Migrating to GRUB2 looks a bit daunting :/ @Arch Linux

I was out.
But that looks good to me.

De nada.

Thanks! That's what I thought, but an internet search didn't return many hits, so I thought it was a españolada.

At the risk of abusing your generosity.

@tony baldwin How do we say "A riesgo de abusar de tu generosidad" in English?

I'm more of a libertarian than I used to be, apparently. Too much mingling with Friendica's anarcho-geeks, I guess :P

This man will go down in history as an incompetent puppet in a key role, at a key moment for the country. It's really sad.

No kidding, and a 3% IVA hike -- ufff.

The speed at which the welfare state is being dismantled in #Spain is really dizzying :(

forum then ... I'd really love to help but I know shit about these things :(

My point exactly :)

I always do :) But I'm still unclear on this one.

Dallas is gonna get cancelled pretty quick. Just watch.

Sorry, the 80's called & they want their TV series back. lol

and... wath about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOZBnIhRF9Y LOL

C'mon now, get it right -- Dynasty (TV series)

Dynasty Catfight Montage by phi1w on YouTube

BTW, is that what Spanish soccer's really like? lol *kidding*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(TV_series)

LOL

try arch wiki or arch forum (if it's not in the wiki)

Everyone is talking of the Spanish #soccer team as a "dynasty". I don't get the metaphor. It's the same players all along, where's the dynasty?

@Arch Linux @Linux-Group Someone that knows what she is talking about care explain the incompatibilities/synergies between the #bfs scheduler, #ulatencyd and #verynice?

♲ Giaco Pastorius



♲ mbjunior



!fsf whitepaper with recommendations for free operating system distributions considering Secure Boot http://ur1.ca/9lesr (via @schestowitz)







This is probably worth reading closely. If someone else plans to read it, we could maybe set up a reading group. @Linux-Group @Arch Linux

elinks is pretty cool indeed, and surfraw is not bad either :) Btw, you can search yubnub from elinks in the same way:

[code]!yubnub whatever[code]

wow that's cool ... like http://yubnub.org for the command line :)