Saying that the install process is intentionally bad so you don't get poorly written bug reports from non-technical users is a terrible excuse. Free software needs to be accessible and usable by all.
After nearly three years of adventures, my laptop is heading back to Lenovo for some repairs. Come back in one piece please!
Over the weekend I migrated legoktm.com and associated services over to a new server. It's powered by Debian Jessie instead of the slowly aging Ubuntu Trusty. Most services were migrated with no downtime by rsync'ing content over and the updating DNS. Only git.legoktm.com had some downtime due to needing to…
Software Freedom Conservancy is a pretty awesome non-profit that does some great stuff. They currently have a fundraising match going on, that was recently extended for another week. If you're able to, I think it's worthwhile to support their organization and mission. I just renewed my membership.
My Fedora stickers came in the mail today ^.^ Finally covered up that ugly Windows key with a beautiful "f". Thanks Unix Stickers!
I now literally have freedom in my wallet. Thanks FSF for the copy of GNU/Linux!
My career exists entirely because I could read, share, and improve free software. Thanks for everything. #ilovefs
Day 2! I hopped around quite a bit, so I'll just talk about the talks I particuarly enjoyed. First was a talk about site reliability at Pinterest. The main things I thought that were interesting was how they have also created their own deployment tool, and that they've made it…
Today was day 1 of the linux.conf.au conference in Geelong. The first two days are organized as "MiniConfs", where rooms have a general topic and presentations are scheduled by the MiniConf organizer instead of the LCA programme committee. In the morning I primarily attended the documentation/technical writing MiniConf. I was…
Getting ready for LCA2016 :D
Running a tor relay! https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/7B190463E733CC292AA4010D194D1798CD8EB9A0
Thank you Robert Kaye (@MayhemBCN) and MusicBrainz for the new laptop stickers:D
I upgraded to Fedora 23 last night, and it went pretty smoothly. I started with sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23, which started with a fun dowload of 2.5G of package upgrades (still better than Xcode!). I ran into the documented upgrade issue with the vagrant package, but the workaround of…
Today I spent two hours setting up an SSL certificate with Lets Encrypt for the wikiconferenceusa.org website. It. Was. Easy. It was relatively straightforward, and I felt comfortable with all the steps I went through. First, I cloned the git repository, and ran the letsencrypt-auto script, which installed the necessary…
At Internet Archive!