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diff --git a/be_like_them.rst b/be_like_them.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a58d34e --- /dev/null +++ b/be_like_them.rst @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Be like Them +############ + +:date: 2016-03-05T09:46:14 +:category: computer +:tags: Linux, ourcloud, firefoxOS, FLOSS, blogcomment + +(Originally published as a comment_ on pump.io) + +The problem is when we want to be like them. "Give me the +free-as-beer Windows" attitude towards Linux (intentionally not +using GNU/Linux, but that's another discussion) is repeated here +with "Give me the Facebook/Twitter which doesn't bother me with +spam". There is no such thing. Yes, certainly there is that we +have to accept the limitations of our platform (no latest kewl +games on Linux, no participants on pump.io/gnu social/diaspora), +but there is a way deeper issue. + +The only defense against "Give me the free-as-beer Windows" (or +the first question being "How to run Wine on this?") is IMHO in +not caring about what other people do. I didn't care when I +started to use Linux and I don't care still whether Linux takes +over the world, or whether I am able to get laid because of using +Linux. I do care, whether while using Linux I can do things which +I want to do with computer, and whether there is sufficient +community which will maintain for me the platform in future. + +Some platforms which I hoped for and invested in, `did not +manage`_ to get over even that first step, but it seems that +CyanogenMod with F-Droid (and without Google Play store) seems to +work pretty well (with one or two sideloaded APKs). And yes, +another concession is that the only Chat where are actually +people I want to talk with is Facebook Chat. Fortunately, here at +least I can be (on my side) FLOSS-pure … pidgin talking over +XMPP with spectrum_ makes miracles. + +.. _comment: + http://pump.ceplovi.cz/mcepl/comment/ThuWFrwYSWqYlAmSH4nKyg + +.. _`did not manage`: + {filename}firefoxOS_post-mortem.rst + +.. _spectrum: + http://spectrum.im/ diff --git a/benedict_option.rst b/benedict_option.rst index 248e5a3..e560dbd 100644 --- a/benedict_option.rst +++ b/benedict_option.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ On “Benedict option” :date: 2015-09-26T16:52:00 :category: faith -:tags: cultural wars, Catholics, Benedict option, blogcomment +:tags: cultureWar, Catholics, Benedict option, blogcomment (originally started as a comment on `the article on First Things`_, but seriously extended). diff --git a/danish-cartoons.rst b/danish-cartoons.rst index 4a5cc5d..2985f33 100644 --- a/danish-cartoons.rst +++ b/danish-cartoons.rst @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Danish “offensive” cartoons ########################### :category: faith -:tags: Danish, cartoon, Muhammad, culture, islam, free speech +:tags: Danish, cartoon, Muhammad, culture, islam, freeSpeech :date: 2006-02-09T20:55:00 I did not know what to think about the Danish cartoons much. First of diff --git a/drafts/chesterton-chaucer-luther.rst b/drafts/chesterton-chaucer-luther.rst index 1a7910b..a9135e5 100644 --- a/drafts/chesterton-chaucer-luther.rst +++ b/drafts/chesterton-chaucer-luther.rst @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ On praise of Luther :date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00 :status: draft :category: faith -:tags: theology, Catholicism, Luther +:tags: theology, Catholics, Luther During the most stimulating discussion in the last “Theology on Tap” we have discussed ecclesiology among other things based on diff --git a/drafts/letter-bkuhn-moral-absolutism.rst b/drafts/letter-bkuhn-moral-absolutism.rst index 20e42fa..78c626b 100644 --- a/drafts/letter-bkuhn-moral-absolutism.rst +++ b/drafts/letter-bkuhn-moral-absolutism.rst @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Open letter to Bradley Kuhn on moral absolutism :date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00 :status: draft :category: computer -:tags: bkuhn, free, FLOSS, morality, absolutism, puritanism +:tags: bkuhn, FLOSS, morality, absolutism, puritanism (this slightly edited composition of the email thread I have sent to `Bradley Kuhn`_) diff --git a/drafts/on_humanae_vitae.rst b/drafts/on_humanae_vitae.rst index 1e1ab73..a6fa424 100644 --- a/drafts/on_humanae_vitae.rst +++ b/drafts/on_humanae_vitae.rst @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ On Humanae Vitae :date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00 :status: draft :category: faith -:tags: cultural wars, Catholics, infallibility, blogcomment +:tags: cultureWar, Catholics, infallibility, blogcomment View in discussion Discussion on First Things 35 comments diff --git a/drafts/priesthood-of-all-believers.rst b/drafts/priesthood-of-all-believers.rst index 69d6b48..2045eef 100644 --- a/drafts/priesthood-of-all-believers.rst +++ b/drafts/priesthood-of-all-believers.rst @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priesthood of all believers and confession of sins :date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00 :status: draft :category: faith -:tags: theology, priesthood, luther +:tags: theology, priesthood, Luther One of the unifying characteristics of the Protestant church (or at least most of the Protestant church) is the doctrine of “the diff --git a/firefoxOS_post-mortem.rst b/firefoxOS_post-mortem.rst index 1bbad13..30601c9 100644 --- a/firefoxOS_post-mortem.rst +++ b/firefoxOS_post-mortem.rst @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ want to or couldn’t is immaterial to me), and so every update was subject to their willing to port drivers. And that willingness was quite limited as the new models (well, only one model) appeared. Nevertheless, as there was no alternative I in -the end bought two Peaks (the first one got broken and useless -glass). +the end bought two Peaks (the first one got broken gladd which +made it useless). .. _`never really freed`: http://coldnew.github.io/blog/2015/06/10_gp_revolution3_en.html @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Firefox OS I know about: `Podcasts by Mozilla`_ and Foxcasts_ promise to do it eventually, but currently the only reliable podcatching setup is bashpodder_ on a desktop computer and rsync over USB MassStorage connection. It kind of works, but given that -even Music Player is not `very reliable`_ the experience is +even Music Player is not `very reliable`_, the experience is horrible (not mentioning, that normals are not expected to use rsync). @@ -147,8 +147,6 @@ I haven’t expected an equivalent of OSMAnd to be available interesting for countries with unrealiable Internet connection). If I am not mistaken then nobody even started to rewrite huge navigation libraries like GraphHopper_ in the pure JavaScript. -Just noting that, that it doesn’t make possible users of -Firefox OS much persuaded. (I currently haven’t finished installing comment application to my blog server, please, direct any comments to Twitter_). diff --git a/living-in-the-avalanche.rst b/living-in-the-avalanche.rst index 79d30e2..6079b5e 100644 --- a/living-in-the-avalanche.rst +++ b/living-in-the-avalanche.rst @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Living in the avalanche … or unexpected results of one bit ########################################################## :category: computer -:tags: bugTriage, fedora +:tags: bugTriage, Fedora :date: 2010-11-08T10:32:00 While fighting with my bugs couple of months ago (around a F14 Beta, diff --git a/mirror-mercurial-repository-to-git.rst b/mirror-mercurial-repository-to-git.rst index 5c2cb97..4b3ee19 100644 --- a/mirror-mercurial-repository-to-git.rst +++ b/mirror-mercurial-repository-to-git.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Mirror Mercurial repository to git? :date: 2011-02-12T17:01:00 :category: computer -:tags: lazyweb, git, mercurial, github, gitorious, hg +:tags: lazyweb, git, mercurial, github, gitorious I am a big fan of `Gajim, XMPP client`_ and for years I have followed its latest development versions with `my packages`_. Unfortunately, diff --git a/us-constitutional-amendments.rst b/us-constitutional-amendments.rst index c1b1def..2c76282 100644 --- a/us-constitutional-amendments.rst +++ b/us-constitutional-amendments.rst @@ -3,35 +3,40 @@ Government of men and not of laws :date: 2016-02-19T08:14:51 :categories: faith -:tags: blogcomment, us, constitution +:tags: blogcomment, UnitedStates, constitution -And after the yesterday’s comment yet another opportunity to -say what I for long wanted to have here recorded. The following -comment_ touches on another article_ on First Things: +And after the yesterday’s comment_ yet another opportunity to +say what I for long wanted to have here recorded. This one_ +touches on another article_ on First Things: .. _comment: + {filename}no-one-cares-about-ISIS.rst + +.. _one: https://disqus.com/home/discussion/firstthingsmag/getting_it_right_with_the_constitution_pete_spiliakos_first_things/#comment-2522288373 .. _article: http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/02/getting-it-right-with-the-constitution -“In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative -department shall never exercise the executive and judicial -powers, or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the -legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: The judicial -shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or -either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not -of men.” (Yes, I know it is not about whole United States, just -about Massachusetts, but I always believed that the principle was -meant to apply to whole nation.) + “In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative + department shall never exercise the executive and judicial + powers, or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the + legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: The judicial + shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or + either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not + of men.” [#]_ + +Which is to say, that on the one hand I completely agree with +`the previous comment`_, on the other hand, I am afraid that +horses of constitutionalism are for a long time away from the +barn. All talking about Constitutionalism seems to me to be +passé. Long long time ago American citizens (of which I am not a +one) decided through their representatives to ignore their +Constitution and the rule of law and embraced firmly the rule of +men. -Which is to say, that on the one hand I completely agree, on the -other hand, I am afraid that horses of constitutionalism are for -a long time away from the barn. All talking about -Constitutionalism seems to me to be passé. Long long time ago -American citizens (of which I am not a one) decided through their -representatives to ignore their Constitution and the rule of law -and embraced firmly the rule of men. +.. _`the previous comment`: + https://disqus.com/home/discussion/firstthingsmag/getting_it_right_with_the_constitution_pete_spiliakos_first_things/#comment-2521170850 One obvious example out of many: when was the last time when the national discussion about some issue lead to the only @@ -63,3 +68,7 @@ women) of the Supreme Court, and in the last years even this contempt of the legislative power was not enough and now laws are just promulgated by the fiat of one man, the President of United States, who has no business to make laws whatsoever. + +.. [#] Yes, I know it is not about whole United States, just + about Massachusetts, but I always believed that the principle + was meant to apply to whole nation. |