Luca Saiu's blog trivialblog http://ageinghacker.net/blog Mon, 20 May 2013 09:15:00 +0200 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:15:00 +0200 positron@gnu.org (Luca Saiu) Thanks to a kind offer by Sylvestre Ledru (<http://sylvestre.ledru.info/>) from IRILL (<http://www.irill.org>) we have a venue for this year’s GNU Hackers Meeting: we will be in Paris, France, for the second time at IRILL after the very successful 2011 edition. Since I live near Paris and I also happen to work at IRILL once or twice a week I’ve decided to do something to help organize the event, along with Sylvestre and Dodji Seketeli (<http://dodji.seketeli.com/>) who graciously volunteered as well. The meeting will take place in late August 2013: right now we’re deciding whether to have talks on Friday 23 ... <a href="http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/12">[Read more]</> http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/12 http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/12 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:39:00 +0200 english ghm gnu hacking paris positron@gnu.org (Luca Saiu) Please call the Members of the European Parliament right now, asking them to support amendments 74 and 76 on the Unitary Patent directive. <http://call.unitary-patent.eu/campaign/call2/unitary-patent-plenary-12-2012?setlang=en> • Amendment 74 restates that software is not patentable, as already expressed by the European Parliament in 2003 and 2005; • amendment 76 makes explicit the legislator’s control, in particular the European Parliament’s. Without this amendment the European Patent Office would not be accountable to enforce any limit on patentability, thus opening the door to unlimited US-style patenting of abstract ideas including pure software. All amendments, including 74 and 76: <http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+AMD+A7-2012-0001+071-078+DOC+PDF+V0//EN> The plenary vote will take ... <a href="http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/10">[Read more]</> http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/10 http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/10 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:17:00 +0100 english europe gnu politics software-patents positron@gnu.org (Luca Saiu) This little diary of mine needed some love. A good excuse to motivate myself to write more often comes from the idea of syndication in the GNU Planet (<http://planet.gnu.org>); to make that possible without adding off-topic stuff to the GNU site I’ve recently improved trivalblog to also support per-tag RSS and Atom feeds — the idea being, of course, to have only posts explicitly tagged as “gnu” linked from the planet. My little blog system is described in The trivialblog software (<http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/2>). It’s just a quick unpolished hack with no documentation built upon bash and Texinfo, but I find it ... <a href="http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/9">[Read more]</> http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/9 http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/9 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:33:00 +0200 english epsilon gnu hacking meta positron@gnu.org (Luca Saiu) I’ve written the software running this blog myself, in Bash; in fact it’s mostly a simple combination of GNU command-line utilities, producing completely static HTML. Texinfo renders the post source text into HTML; my scripts generate indices, links and other minor things. I will probably add a PDF export feature later. I’ve put together the software very quickly, for myself; the source is crude and there’s no documentation, but since I guess somebody might want a copy anyway I’m publicly releasing it. trivialblog is free software, released under the GNU GPL version 3 or later. Most icons were not drawn ... <a href="http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/2">[Read more]</> http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/2 http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/2 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:45:00 +0200 english gnu hacking meta software-by-myself