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The MathWorks outage is the perfect time to look at GNU Octave! No license servers to deal with for FLOSS! octave.org/

Even if it's not helpful right now during the outage, consider it for future work to avoid stoppage the next time the MathWorks hostage server goes down.

theregister.com/2025/05/27/mat

GNU Octave
octave.orgGNU OctaveGNU Octave is a programming language for scientific computing.
#octave#floss#gnu

And a Glorious 25th of May.

“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”

― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

(artwork via yoodi on deviantArt deviantart.com/yoodi/art/Night)

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@_valerian_ Point commun au libre : le régime de propriété défini par une licence libre dont #Gnu, #Odbl, #creativecommoms

Les #communs : sous l'Ancien Régime, droits des communautés d'habitants de ramasser du bois mort, de faire paître les animaux, etc. Subsistance dans des usages aujourd'hui, comme l'affouage dans certaines #forêts communales (exemple personnel).

Fermeture des communs = #enclosure

Réflexions dans les années 1960 et 1970 sur ces #communs, comme Eline Ostrom.

Something fascinating happens when I run sudo without having a gateway to the internet ready.
Instead of executing immediately sudo times out for nine, I repeat 9 full seconds, before it reacts

I use sudo plain without any switches and my command structure is

sudo command

I wouldn't have stumbled upon this, if for reasons which are not important now, I didn't have a permanent internet connection at this moment.

I will say that this bug that I have found has nothing to do with sudo in itself

The reason why I say that is when you look at the man page of sudo you will see that it doesn't do any networking at all, when you don't invoke switches

Besides the sudo that I use comes straight of the BSD source structure

The BSD programmers do not play when it comes down to stability of their software. Only when a program runs Rock Solid stable is it released. When a program is in beta it is clearly marked and it shall not be in a standard BSD distribution which is deemed stable.

This means that I have to hunt for something somewhere within my distribution, where there's a link put which shouldn't be there, between sudo and a live internet connection when you do not invoke any network switches.

Mind you that my lan is running and the machine is connected to the lan, via a switch, which is connected to the router, which is connected to the Gateway. The Gateway is live, the DSLAM is working but the internet connection is down

linux.die.net/man/8/sudo

Ciclo de encuentro para Recuperación y Sobrevida de Celulares Android

Puerto Pirata, viernes, 23 de mayo, 18:00 GMT-3

Ciclo de encuentro para Recuperación y Sobrevida de Celulares Android: Viernes 23/5 a las 18hs

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Encuentro-taller para aprendizaje colectivo de optimización, recuperación para sobrevida y reparación de celulares con fines de lucha contra la obsolescencia programada a partir de la instalación de custom roms o sistemas alternativos para celulares. Este ciclo de encuentros esta pensado para tener una periocidad mensual como minimo.

Traer alguna cosita para picar y compartir en grupo. No excluyente.

vagancio.partidopirata.com.ar/

#caba#gnu#Linux

Es curioso cómo apenas llevo una semana en YouTube y ya recibo comentarios transfóbicos al menos una vez al día. Si bien ya me lo esperaba, me sorprende un poco porque prácticamente nunca he sufrido de transfobia en el Fediverso (más allá de un tal sinvergüenza llamado ISF que me empezó a llamar con el pronombre incorrecto cuando vio que le gané en su argumento por XMPP), entonces comenzar a recibir comentarios así me choca un poco aunque de ninguna manera me hace sentir mal.

Definitivamente el #softwarelibre es un espacio altamente inclusivo y que celebra la diversidad, al contrario del software privativo que va en contra de esta y permite a homúnculos como este que esparcen discursos de odio.

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«#MX #Linux is the distro which brings life to that old #netbook that you have lying around. But it is not just a capable distro for reviving older #machines, it is also a damn good distro that just works. (...) It is probably the best low-resource #distro that still provides a fresh and modern experience.»
tomshardware.com/software/linu
#gnu #freesoftware #libresoftware #softwarelibre #floss #os #tech #technology #favs

Tom's Hardware · Best Linux distros for reviving an old PCInstalling the right version of Linux can breathe new life into an aging system.