Better launcher for LightTable
Tested on multiple Desktop Environments, this is the cool version which works much better than desktop files you’ll find in most tutorials over the web:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Light Table
Icon=ltbin.png
Path=/path/to/your/LightTable
Exec=/path/to/your/LightTable/ltbin --no-sandbox --process-per-tab --allow-file-access-from-files --enable-experimental-web-platform-features --enable-css-shaders
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=Ltbin
OnlyShowIn=Unity;
X-UnityGenerated=true
Hope this’ll work for you as well.
Cheers!
Update
GIMP: export image to base64
New task at work: “Please make GIMP export file to base64”
Some googling later… Here it is, great post at dev-maziarz.blogspot.com.
Now let’s plug it into GIMP so we can automate the process… I’ve written my first plugin for GIMP! (: You can find it on GitHub as gimp-plugin-base64_file_encoder.
Hope you’ll find it useful.
WordPress is not privacy friendly anymore
WordPress nowadays isn’t as privacy friendly as I thought (connection with gravatar services, hardcoded google fonts references). It almost looks like WP devs doesn’t care anymore, business is winning over handy tool event for activists working under extremely dangerous conditions. I’ve on the other hand noticed this problem while having troubles with proper display of national letters on clean WP instance. Nevertheless: WordPress instance after clean installation shouldn’t try to connect to any server apart from its host.
How I read my email
I practically use mutt every time and everywhere, even on my smartphone and tablet. Connecting to screen session via ConnectBot. Tried many different desktop and web based clients, in the long run they all suck for me. As I do with my emacs config, if I like some function elswhere, I test it for a while and than implement it in my config.
Idea for AUR improvement
Few days ago I’ve installed Archlinux on my laptop again. One of the first changes I’ve noticed in my *.archlinux.org accounts was loosing all packages I was maintaining in AUR.
W Kontestacji o grupie OSmedia i najbliższych planach
W ubiegłą niedzielę, w raz z Borysem Musielakiem byliśmy gośćmi audycji Geek cloud poprowadzonej przez Krzysztofa Maczyńskiego. W ponad dwugodzinnej rozmowie zaprezentowaliśmy projekty w których na co dzień uczestniczymy, opowiedzieliśmy o grupie OSmedia oraz zdradziliśmy kilka planów wiążących się z najbliższą przyszłością grupy.
Geek cloud to audycja poświęcona nowym technologiom, podczas rozmowy szerzej omówiliśmy temat Diaspory, zdradziłem również jak efektywnie poprowadzić na niej profil komercyjny i jak efektywnie poruszać się w niej by odkryć bogatą społeczność serwisu kryjącą się na jego podach. Michuk rozwinął temat grupy OSmedia, zdradził czemu zdecydowaliśmy się na zamknięcie OSbloga oraz opowiedział o powstaniu i rozwoju Filmastera. Płynnie przeszliśmy do omówienia nowego projektu grupy, czyli Wolnej Kultury oraz tematu własności intelektualnej. Podczas audycji nie udało się uniknąć licznych problemów technicznych, jednak nagranie poddane montażowi przez unfę większości z nich nie zdradza. Gorąco zachęcam do wysłuchania!
Znów o ACTA w „Talking Heads”
W lutym miałem okazję wystąpić w fajnym towarzystwie Michał Gembickiego – CEO CD Projektu oraz Piotra Gnypa – redaktora naczelnego serwisu Polygamia.pl.
An interview for CNN iReport about Polish citizens vs ACTA
So few days ago I was interviewed by Chris Morrow about Poland signing ACTA on 26th of January. We’ve had many protests and demonstrations organized against our government which planned to sign ACTA without proper consultations with NGOs fighting for citizens rights.
It got into mainstream Polish media thanks to attacks on gov servers organised by crackers calling themselves Polish Anonymous or Polish Underground. It was good and bad for us (NGOs) – we’ve lost our position we’ve had to talk to our government. Crackers attacking gov websites have stolen all the focus we have been able to use to talk to our politicians.
Talking about world without an internet on national TV
So yesterday I was asked to say few words about how the world would be look/work without an internet for our national Polish TV – TVP Info. I spent 4-5 minutes talking, but in the end I was cut to 2 short sentences. I thin it was definitely worth it. (;
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As for the whole part about protests against SOPA all over the internet they’ve got few things entirely backwards but all in all it was pretty good. My two short sentences were about an internet being as big discovery as writing or printing (thanks rysiek for that thought!). Next one was about our disability to switch off the whole network, I’ve mentioned few countries that tried to do that. Next words about Telecomix, dial-ups, hacktivism and FLOSS didn’t make it. They’ve also used few other thoughts presented by me during the talk, but they were read by narrator.
Kopimism is not piracy
While reading the news about Kopimism recognized as a religion in Sweden one thing that got my attention and made me angry was defining it as a piracy in all Polish media. To get this straight I wrote few words about it in news posted on OSnews.pl:
Kopimism is not piracy. It’s data sharing, philosophy, movement and now religion. It asks you to share, copy and spread the content you’ve created or you’re allowed to spread. It’s strongly connected with DataLove which says that data is free, neutral (it isn’t good or bad) and it must flow.
It’s good to let others know that you want your content to be copied and spread by including KOPIMI logo next to it
