Linkothèque. Carnet de bord

Download Sample Videos

30/04/2019 • desarrollo web

Sample-Videos.com is a 100% FREE service that allows programmers, testers, designers, developers to download sample videos for demo/test use. No matter what video format they use (MP4, FLV, MKV, 3GP); they will be able to test videos on any Smartphone without any hustle. This is a one stop destination for all sample video testing needs. Just search below for the relevant video formats in specific sizes, download them, and start testing.

A mobile screen resolution can be a big challenge when it comes to watching videos online or offline. By testing out videos one can be rest assured regarding the video playback in an app, without annoying the end users. Choose from four different video extensions i.e. 3GP, MKV, FLV, and MP4. The best thing is all of these are free and very easy to download. We provide you with a specific and perfect resolution in all sizes possible with just one simple click. Check out the one which suits your requirements. All you need to do is hit the DOWNLOAD button, and get started.

Multiple Select. A jQuery plugin to select multiple elements with checkboxes

28/04/2019 • desarrollo web, jQuery

Los viejos ThinkPad son tan buenos que hay gente que los destripa para ponerlos al día a lo bestia

23/04/2019 • hardware ético, hardware libre, Lenovo Thinkpad, Thinkpad X201, Thinkpad X61s

Los ThinkPad X60 y X61 son máquinas casi legendarias, reverenciadas y amadas por usuarios que las utilizaron (o las siguen usando) con pasión. Aquellos diseños acabaron abandonándose por parte del fabricante, que aun sin descuidar la familia ha preferido aprovechar otras decisiones de diseño y componentes.

Es aquí donde entran los responsables de 51nb, un grupo de usuarios en China apasionados por esos viejos ThinkPad y obsesionados por ponerlos al día. Tanto que han conseguido convertir su afición en negocio, y ahora transforman estos viejos portátiles y los rejuvenecen con mejores pantallas, procesadores, más memoria RAM que nunca y conectividad Gigabit Ethernet. Viejos por fuera, nuevecitos por dentro.

How to update a URL without reloading the page using vanilla JavaScript

18/04/2019 • desarrollo web, Javascript, pushState

The pushState() method let’s you update the URL and create a new item in the browser history without reloading the page. Because the history is updated, this new URL can be changed with the browser’s forward and backward buttons as well.

Here’s how it works.

history.pushState(state, pageTitle, url);

Compress PDF files on Linux

18/04/2019 • Ghostscript, línea de comandos, Linux, PDF, Shrinkpdf

Ghostscript is a great tool for compressing PDFs. In our tests it delivered the best compression ratio. Simply run:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=out.pdf in.pdf

-dPDFSETTINGS can be any of:
/screen : low-resolution output, lowest output size
/ebook : medium-resolution output, medium output size
/printer OR /prepress : high-resolution with maximum output size

Run the Shrinkpdf script:

./shrinkpdf in.pdf out.pdf

The script is almost same as the explicit gs command above. However, it has one advantage – it does an output file size check.

Endgame for Assange

18/04/2019 • Julian Assange

most journalists seem to have agreed that there is a mad conspiracy between Trump and Putin, with Assange as intermediary and helper. At the end of November, the Guardian claimed that Paul Manafort, head of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, had met Assange three times in London: in 2013, 2015 and 2016. Fidel Narváez, the then Ecuadorian consul in London, has formally denied this. WikiLeaks initiated legal proceedings against the Guardian and Manafort publicly and denied the meetings. His name does not appear in the Ecuadorian Embassy’s guest book and there are no images of him entering or leaving one of the world’s best-monitored buildings.

The New York Times recently reported that there had been several talks in 2017 between Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno and the now notorious Paul Manafort. Manafort had travelled to Quito to boost China’s investment in Ecuador. Allegedly, at the meeting with Moreno, there was also talk about Assange, about a deal to extradite Assange to the US in exchange for Ecuador’s debt relief. Assange jokes; wouldn’t it be ironic that the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, of all people, is now deciding on his future fate. He laughs, tormented, in the end the big money always wins. We notice that his persecution by the USA is no longer a secret, everything is open and nothing happens; It is exasperating.

EDRi. Protecting digital freedom

17/04/2019 • derechos digitales, EDRi

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe. We defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment. You can find our members here.

Resize splits more quickly

11/04/2019 • vim

You can use the :resize command or its shortcut :res to change the height of the window. To change the height to 60 rows, use:

:resize 60

You can also change the height in increments. To change the height by increments of 5, use:

:res +5
:res -5

You can use :vertical resize to change the width of the current window. To change the width to 80 columns, use:

:vertical resize 80

You can also change the width in increments. To change the width by increments of 5, use:

:vertical resize +5
:vertical resize -5

Syntastic. Syntax checking hacks for vim

09/04/2019 • desarrollo web, programación, vim

Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin for Vim created by Martin Grenfell. It runs files through external syntax checkers and displays any resulting errors to the user. This can be done on demand, or automatically as files are saved. If syntax errors are detected, the user is notified and is happy because they didn’t have to compile their code or execute their script to find them.

Abandonware

04/04/2019 • abandonware, software propietario

Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no support is available. Although such software is usually still under copyright, the owner may not be tracking copyright violations.

In intellectual rights context, abandonware is a software (or hardware) special case of the general concept of orphan works.

La economía colaborativa y sus impactos sociales en la era del capitalismo digita

02/04/2019 • Ángel Gordo, economía colaborativa, Javier de Rivera

«La economía colaborativa (sharing economy) es un conjunto heterogéneo y rápidamente cambiante de modos de producción y consumo por el que los agentes comparten de forma innovadora activos, bienes o servicios infrautili-zados, a cambio o no de un valor monetario, valiéndose para ello de plataformas sociales digitales y, en particular, de internet»

Estas definiciones generales acogen una amplia gama de prácticas, por lo que coexisten con otras propuestas terminológicas que tratan de representar aspectos más específicos de algunos de estos modelos de negocio. Por ejemplo, peer economy o P2P economy enfatiza que las transacciones se producen entre particulares; «economía de acceso» se refiere a los modelos económicos basa-dos en el alquiler y el uso compartido; y «economía a demanda» (gig economy) define a las plataformas que canalizan el encargo de microtareas.

En esta misma línea, el informe de NESTA, Making sense of the Collabora-tive Economy (Stokes et al. 2014) colabora en la construcción teórica del concepto, profundizando en el estudio de los diferentes modelos y sistemas que consideran parte del mismo. El informe alude a la economía colaborativa como «una nueva forma de pensar acerca de los negocios, el intercambio, el valor y la comunidad» (2014: 7), de modo que reconocen implícitamente su carácter de «constructo teórico». Quizás por ello su definición del paradigma se estructura en base a una serie de condiciones: 1) implica el uso de internet, 2) conecta redes distribuidas de personas o recursos, 3) aprovecha recursos infrautilizados, 4) promueve interacciones significativas basadas en la confianza, 5) promueve la apertura, la inclusión y los comunes.

Accessibility Tip: Empty alt Attributes

02/04/2019 • accesibilidad, desarrollo web, usabilidad

Images with only visual value should have an empty alt attribute set on them. Omitting the alt attribute makes most screen readers read out the entire image URL and providing an alt attribute when the image is for visual purposes only is just as useless.

Enspiral Handbook

01/04/2019 • Enspiral, Natalia Lombardo, organización distribuida, producción colaborativa, Richard Bartlett

The book is broken up into chapters and sub-chapters. The chapters are:

Agreements are the official legislation that governs the Enspiral network. Changing these requires a formal process.
Guides explain in practical terms how we do stuff, like what communications tools to use, or how to improve things at Enspiral. Any Enspiral Contributor can change these.
Working Groups Working groups are where we do work on the network.
Enspiral Foundation – the central node in the network. The Board, Ops Team, Comms person, and Ventures all have some formal arrangement with the Foundation, which is owned by all the Enspiral Members.
Money – a lot of what makes Enspiral special is how we deal with money. Read more about those processes in this chapter.
Ventures – the companies that make up the network.

Patterns for Decentralised Organising

01/04/2019 • organización distribuida, Patterns for Decentralised Organising, producción colaborativa, Richard Bartlett

This is a book about working in groups, based on 7 years experience in community projects and startups.

I’m not so interested in what you’re working on together, I’m just going to focus on how you do it. To my way of thinking, it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to build a better electric vehicle, or develop government policy, or blockade a pipeline; whenever you work with a group of people on a shared objective, there’s some stuff you’re going to deal with, some challenges. How do we decide what we’re working on? who does what? who can join our team? what are our expectations for each other? what happens when someone doesn’t fulfil those expectations? what do we do with disagreement? how do decisions get made?

I’m convinced there is not a “one size fits all” recipe, a management structure that you can take off the shelf and install in your collective or your company. But my hypothesis is that there are patterns: common design elements you can draw on as you construct a recipe that’s right for you. Each pattern in this book names a challenge that you are likely to face, and offers tools and techniques you can try in response to that challenge.

This is a book for community organisers, leaders, managers, consultants, coaches, facilitators, founders… if you work with groups of humans, these patterns apply to you.

Minimum Viable Structure: Organisational Scaffolding to Get Out of Emergency Mode

01/04/2019 • organización distribuida, Patterns for Decentralised Organising, producción colaborativa, Richard Bartlett

For activists, startups, and NGOs: 8 lightweight interventions to get a working team to shift from sprint to marathon.

Hierarchy Is Not the Problem… It’s the Power Dynamics

01/04/2019 • jerarquía, organización distribuida, producción colaborativa, Richard Bartlett

I believe that this fascination with “hierarchy” and “non-hierarchy” is a major problem. Focussing on “hierarchy” doesn’t just miss the point, it creates cover for extremely toxic behaviour.

I’m guilty of this myself: having declared ourselves to be a “non-hierarchical” organisation, I’m unable to clearly see the un-just, un-accountable, un-inclusive, un-transparent, un-healthy dynamics that inevitably emerge in any human group. Calling ourselves “non-hierarchical” is like a free pass that gets in the way of our self-awareness.

Jo Freeman named this beautifully in The Tyranny of Structurelessness, where she argues that the informal hierarchies of a “structureless” group will always be less accountable and fair than a more formal organisation.

Freeman uses the word “structureless”, which is specific to the context of her 1960’s feminism. Today, you could swap “structureless” for “non-hierarchical” and get a very accurate diagnosis of a sickness that afflicts nearly every group that rejects hierarchical structures.

We’re coming up to the 50th anniversary of this essay, and still it seems the majority of radical organisations have missed the point.

So I repeat: I don’t care about hierarchy. It’s just a shape. I care about power dynamics.

I think words like “non-hierarchical”, “self-managing” and “horizontal” are kind of vague codes, pointing to our intention to create healthy power relations. In the past, when I said “Enspiral is a non-hierarchical organisation”, what I really meant was “Enspiral is a non-coercive organisation”. That’s the important piece, we’re trying to work without coercion.

Booklet: Patterns for Decentralised Organising

01/04/2019 • Natalia Lombardo, Patterns for Decentralised Organising, producción colaborativa, Richard Bartlett, The Hum

Practical guidance for teams to thrive without a management hierarchy.

This PDF booklet is a condensed version of some of our Patterns*, naming the most common challenges faced by self-organising teams, and practical responses you can adapt to your local context and apply immediately.

Ep. 41 Richard D. Bartlett “There Is No Enemy Team”

01/04/2019 • Douglas Rushkoff, Loomio, organización distribuida, podcast, producción colaborativa, Richard Bartlett, Team Human

Playing for Team Human today, master of human connection and consensus, Loomio co-founder Richard Bartlett. Bartett coming all the way from New Zealand, stopped by Douglas’s home studio while on a community organizing workshop tour of the US.

On today’s show, Bartlett and Rushkoff discuss the challenges of building consensus in an all too often top-down, winner-takes all society. Together we’ll learn how Loomio, inspired by the general assemblies of Occupy Wall Street, strives to amplify collaborative power and foster more participatory democratic practice. It’s a project that starts with small-scale, human-to-human connection and grows outward from there.

Solarized. Precision colors for machines and people

30/03/2019 • línea de comandos, Solarized, vim

Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions.

Glocal Camp Modena

26/03/2019 • Civicwise, GlocalCamp, Modena, Ovestlab

Glocal Camp is the periodic event that the CivicWise network organises to meet, discuss and revise its structure and methodology. The fifth edition of Glocal Camp is hold in Modena between 1-10 March.

The aim of the meeting is to exchange of knowledge and good practices gained through the projects, as well as to increase the engagement with the local communities, reactivate spaces and participatory projects in the hosting territory.

Nacionalista catalán, nacionalista español

20/03/2019 • Albert Pla, Cataluña, Nacionalismos

Igual me equivoco, porque claro, pienso en catalán, pero pienso que la lengua catalana debería ser defendida por la totalidad de los españoles, porque también es una lengua española. Además, es una lengua minoritaria, muchas veces puesta en peligro, precisamente, por muchos gobiernos españoles a lo largo de la historia. El catalán es una lengua preciosa, un tesoro que debería ser mimado y no insultado y despreciado.

Pero, tristemente, seguro que muchos españoles leen este artículo y se piensan que odio España y el castellano.

GNU Lesser General Public License

18/03/2019 • GNU Lesser General Public License, licencias

The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own (even proprietary) software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components. However, any developer who modifies an LGPL-covered component is required to make their modified version available under the same LGPL license. For proprietary software, code under the LGPL is usually used in the form of a shared library, so that there is a clear separation between the proprietary and LGPL components.

The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter allows the work to be linked with (in the case of a library, « used by ») a non-(L)GPLed program, regardless of whether it is free software or proprietary software.[1] The non-(L)GPLed program can then be distributed under any terms if it is not a derivative work. If it is a derivative work, then the program’s terms must allow for « modification for the customer’s own use and reverse engineering for debugging such modifications. » Whether a work that uses an LGPL program is a derivative work or not is a legal issue.

My Abandonware – Download Old Video Games

17/03/2019 • abandonware, juegos, My Abandonware

Get ready for a deep dive into PC retrogaming, more than 14100 games are available and waiting to be played again. Discover rare 80s games and immerse yourself into classics from the 90s. Get your dose of nostalgia and old school gaming right now!

On My abandonware you can download all the old video games from 1978 to 2018 for free! You can play Pacman, Arkanoid, Tetris, Galaxian, Alter Ego, or Blackthorne, Civilization, Sim City, Prince of Persia, Xenon 2, King’s quest, Ultima, Kyrandia, The Incredible Machine, Another World, Test drive, Flashback, Lemmings!

Ahorra papel: bórrate de la propaganda electoral

14/03/2019 • ecología

De lo que se trata es de entrar en ésta página web del Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) y solicitar la exclusión de nuestros datos personales de las copias del censo electoral que se entregan a los partidos políticos para realizar sus envíos postales de propaganda.

Pueden acceder a este servicio totalmente gratuito todas las personas inscritas en el censo electoral, siempre y cuando dispongan de la necesaria clave de identificación electrónica para las relaciones con las Administraciones Públicas. Una de las maneras más ágiles y sencillas de obtener esa identificación es mediante el sistema Cl@ve al que se puede acceder siguiendo los pasos que aparecen aquí

De este modo tan simple y en apenas un par de pasos evitaremos tener que ir echando viajes durante cada campaña electoral del buzón al contenedor azul, que es donde hay que echar la propaganda de papel.

Aunque ojo: no será fácil librarnos definitivamente de ella, pues lo que pretenden ahora los partidos, todos sin excepción (el interés les une), es enviarnos su propaganda por Whatsapp, correo electrónico o directamente al móvil sin necesidad de pedirnos permiso.

Susty WP. Building for sustainability with WordPress

14/03/2019 • ecología, Susty WP, wordpress

Pantallazo del theme Susty WP para WordPress

Delivering WordPress in 7KB 6KB*

This website aims to act as a guide to making WordPress websites more sustainable, and to serve as a practical example of how we can tune our websites and reduce their carbon footprint. The homepage of this website is delivered to your browser with just 6KB of data transfer. This is achieved by its theme, plugins and configuration. As of 2016, the average website data transfer was 2.3MB, making it 393 times bigger than this website!

Selgascano. Página web de portfolio mínima

14/03/2019 • arquitectura, desarrollo web, ecología, Selgascano

I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible

13/03/2019 • amazon, capitalismo de plataforma

Yes, fuck, I have Amazon’s app on my phone. I’m that addicted to this company. And I’m not alone: Amazon reportedly controls 50 percent of online commerce, which means half of all purchases made online in America, which is obscene.

Launched in 2006, AWS has taken over vast swaths of the internet. My VPN winds up blocking over 23 million IP addresses controlled by Amazon, resulting in various unexpected casualties, from Motherboard and Fortune to the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s website. (Government agencies love AWS, which is likely why Amazon, soon to be a corporate Cerberus with three “headquarters,” chose Arlington, Virginia, in the D.C. suburbs, as one of them.) Many of the smartphone apps I rely on also stop working during the block.

OpenOffice vs LibreOffice?

12/03/2019 • LibreOffice, OpenOffice, software libre

Historical note: Until 2010 there was only one suite, OpenOffice.org (OOo) developed by Sun. When Oracle bought Sun and threatened the existence of the office suite, a community fork was created called LibreOffice. Most of the existing OOo developers jumped ship to LibreOffice, considering it the true continuation of OOo instead of Oracle OpenOffice, which was later donated to the Apache Foundation, becoming Apache OpenOffice.

LibreOffice can reuse code from OpenOffice, while the opposite can’t happen. This means that all improvements made in OpenOffice are available in LibreOffice but improvements made in LibreOffice are not available in OpenOffice.

LibreOffice has much more contributions than OpenOffice. LibreOffice commit log, OpenOffice commit log. LibreOffice is also developed by developers from a large number of commercial companies, such as Red Hat, Collabora, Canonical etc. (adding security to the project, because if one company stops development, others will continue support). OpenOffice has only a meager number of IBM developers (I’m not sure if they still continue contributing).

FreeHand Forum

12/03/2019 • Free Freehand, Freehand, software propietario

In September of 2009, a group of FreeHand users founded the Free FreeHand organization with the mission of saving FreeHand. The organization gathered over 6500 members, ultimately filing a lawsuit against Adobe Systems Inc. after many failed attempts to influence the company’s policy and desicion-making with regards to FreeHand. Following a long and challenging legal struggle, a settlement was reached early 2012.

While no stone was left unturned in the effort to bring FreeHand back into development and return it to market viability, in the end this proved to be an impossible goal. And so from the ashes, FreeHand Forum is born. With the new name come new direction and goals. We are pleased to share this new vision with all of our original members and those who have just discovered us.

Nace un banco de casas y tierras para frenar la despoblación en el medio rural de Castilla y León

10/03/2019 • ruralcommons

La iniciativa, bajo el lema ‘Frenemos la despoblación de nuestros pueblos’, consiste en la creación de un fichero de casas sin habitar y tierras abandonas, a través de la recogida de los datos de los propietarios que quieran cederlas, alquilarlas o venderlas.

‘;–have i been pwned?

10/03/2019 • Ciberseguridad, privacidad

Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach

Ciberseguridad: la llave está bajo la alfombra

10/03/2019 • Ciberseguridad, privacidad

está la aproximación íntima y personal a la gestión de las claves, en contraposición a la aproximación colectiva o comunal. He visto a varios colectivos compartir la contraseña de una cuenta de correo electrónico, Facebook, o Twitter, que son del colectivo y se gestionan de forma grupal. Obviamente no es la mejor forma de gestionar y resguardar la información de nuestro colectivo, pero es valioso recordar que en grupos militantes de gran parte del sur global seguramente lo « privado » se entiende de forma diferente que en el norte, y las más de las veces cruza lo personal y llega a lo colectivo.

Si hablamos de cuentas de correo electrónico es fácil decir: pues hay que usar una lista de correos en vez. Pero se complica si hablamos de plataformas como Twitter que no están diseñadas para las colectividades, al contrario, fomentan el individualismo y el « leadership » informativo.

Otro punto interesante es que tenemos que plantearnos radicalmente cómo es que hacemos las capacitaciones. No se trata de enseñar herramientas, asumiendo demasiado rápido dónde están los problemas. Varios procesos de aprendizaje tienden a fracasar porque son como la misa cristiana: todas hacemos reconocimiento de culpa y en la euforia del momento prometemos mejorar, y luego hacemos unas claves GPG larguísimas y super buenas pero que acaban inservibles porque a los tres meses de no usarlas nos las olvidamos

Es como lo de la mooncup: no porque nos digan que es lo mejor tiene necesariamente que resultarnos fácil, ni cómodo.

Por ahora, esa idea: afirmar nuestro derecho a la intimidad, también en la red. Y de poner una llave del tamaño que queramos, aunque luego, en casa, la pongamos bajo la alfombra porque así nos viene en gana.

Art + Feminism. What is an Edit-a-thon?

09/03/2019 • edit-a-thon, wikipedia

An Edit-a-thon is a community organized event that aims to teach folks how to edit, update, and add articles on Wikipedia. These events take place year-round at museums, coffee shops, colleges, and community centers.

What is IPFS?

09/03/2019 • autonomía digital, IPFS, lógica distribuida

IPFS is a distributed system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data.

What does that mean, exactly? Let’s say you’re doing some research on Aardvarks. (Just roll with it; Aardvarks are cool! Did you know they can tunnel 3 feet in only 5 minutes?) You might start by visiting the wikipedia page on Aardvarks at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark

When you put that URL in your browser’s address bar, your computer asks one of Wikipedia’s computers, which might be somewhere on the other side of the country — or even the planet — for the Aardvark page. However, if you use IPFS to get that page from:

/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Aardvark.html

Your computer might have gotten it from someone else’s computer across town, or maybe even your neighbor’s computer across the street. When you use IPFS, you don’t only download a file from someone else, but your computer can help distribute it, too — when your friend a few blocks away needs the same Wikipedia page, they might be as likely to get it from you as your neighbor.

IPFS makes this possible for web pages, but also for any kind of file a computer might store, whether it’s an MS Word document, an e-mail, an MP3 file, or even a database record.

What is Aragon Project?

09/03/2019 • Aragon Project, democracia, descentralización, Ethereum, protocolo blockchain

DEMOCRATIZING GOVERNANCE

The first step towards a more fair, efficient world

Aragon is a project that aims to disintermediate the creation and maintenance of organizational structures by using blockchain technology. We want to empower people across the world to easily and securely manage their organizations. We provide the tools for anyone to become an entrepreneur and run their own organization, to take control of their own lives.

By making it possible for everyone in the world to organize, we are enabling a borderless, permissionless and more efficient creation of value.

IMAGINE A NATION WITHOUT LAND AND BORDERS

A digital jurisdiction

Aragon organizations can be upgraded seamlessly using our aragonOS architecture. They can solve disputes between two parties by using the decentralized court system, a digital jurisdiction that operates only online and utilizes your peers to resolve issues.

The Aragon Network Token, ANT, puts the power into the hands of the people participating in the operation of the Network. Every single aspect of the Network will be governed by those willing to make an effort for a better future.

documentation.js. a documentation system so good, you’ll actually write documentation

08/03/2019 • documentación, documentation.js

documentation.js has pluggable output formats: you can get raw documentation as JSON, beautiful, customizable HTML, or Markdown that fits perfectly into an API.md or README.md file in a Github repository

How Can You Decide Which VPN To Trust?

04/03/2019 • China, privacidad, VPN

A January investigation by the site Top10VPN found that more than half of the top 20 free VPN apps on the iOS and Android app stores either have Chinese ownership or are based in China. That’s all the more suspicious given that China officially banned VPNs last year. The concern: If China is allowing them to continue operating, it could be because they’re sharing data on their users with the Chinese government. When you use a VPN, you’re trusting that VPN with the same deep level of access to your online activity that you’d normally give your ISP. In other words, now they can see what you’re up to whenever you’re using the internet. VPNs may be more privacy-focused than big, corporate ISPs, but they’re also smaller, more opaque, and less publicly accountable.

Netiqueta de e-mail para colectivos virtuales

27/02/2019 • comunidades digitales, correo electrónico, netiqueta

Intenta que tus intervenciones sean breves. Los e-mails largos dan la impresión de que eres la autoridad y envían una señal de que te apropias del tema. También generan largas cadenas de e-mails que hacen aún más difícil que otras puedan ponerse al día.

Si ya has intervenido no vuelves a hacerlo a menos que simplemente estés aclarado tu propia opinión, hasta que otras hayan tenido una oportunidad de intervenir.

Ten en cuenta el género. Es un hecho muy triste que tanto hombres como mujeres (incluso feministas) perciban las voces masculinas como más autorizadas que las de las mujeres.

Date cuenta de cómo la comunicación reproduce relaciones de poder en el grupo.

Recuerda que tener más experiencia (o pensar que la tienes) no te confiere automáticamente más autoridad.

En el e-mail la gente que “llega tarde a la fiesta” a menudo siente que el consenso ya ha sido alcanzado o que se han perdido la parte de la discusión en la que podían realizar intervenciones útiles.

« Nuestros bienes comunes no son productos que nos ofrece el Estado, son nuestras conquistas »

25/02/2019 • capitalismo, Marina Garcés, procomún

Las ‘Humanidades ZERO’ son aquellas que, debido a la banalización del ocio cultural, endulzan un poco la vida pero ni alimentan ni transforman nada.

El tiempo de trabajo se funde con el tiempo de consumo y de ocio, en mundos que producen valor capitalista constantemente, como las redes sociales.

Eso es lo realmente relevante, el poder convertir nuestras herramientas culturales en herramientas de vida y de transformación.

Estamos en un proyecto de vida para generar el siguiente y el siguiente y el siguiente. Vivimos como en una especie de fuga sin fin que muchas veces lo que hace es que perdamos el sentido de lo que estamos haciendo.

una especie de autorreferencialidad muy engañosa que en el mundo de la política ya está teniendo resultados: uno tiende a pensar que el resto piensan como él y el disenso se convierte en un escándalo o en una agresión personal. Una fuente de enemistad radical. Mientras que en el mundo de los activismos o de la creación artística facilita la creación de burbujas que se miran a sí mismas y se autocomplacen.

No sabemos cómo convertir nuestros saberes en procesos de emancipación y de transformación colectiva.

Absolutely Proprietary

23/02/2019 • Richard Stallman, software libre, Stallman Freedom Index

Proprietary package detector for arch-based distros. Compares your installed packages against Parabola’s package blacklist and then prints your Stallman Freedom Index (free/total).

site-deaths by IndieWeb Camp

23/02/2019 • autonomía tecnológica, cementerio de páginas web, IndieWeb

Site deaths are when sites go offline, taking content and permalinks with them, and breaking the web accordingly. Site deaths are one of the big reasons why you should own your own identity and content on the web.

This is a chronology of content hosting sites that have died, removing millions (billions?) of permalinks from the web. This is specifically for content hosting sites which permitted end-user posting. Not random sites nor pure « app » sites where there’s no loss of user data. If a game site goes down and takes down play history/scores, or if Gmail went away those would both represent loss of user data (though no public permalinks).

La ciudad mermada que soñó con llegar a 300.000 habitantes

21/02/2019 • Talavera de la Reina

« ¡Si al menos fuéramos una ciudad dormitorio de verdad! », exclama sarcástico Javier Moreno. « Eso fue lo que nos vendieron, y nos lo creímos ». Él y Miguel Méndez-Cabeza recuerdan un boletín industrial de 1973 que sostenía que Talavera llegaría a los 300.000 habitantes en el año 2000. Eso sí, aquella visión futurista que quedó en agua de borrajas requería un tren rápido para enlazar la ciudad con Madrid por Móstoles.

Bootstrap 4 WordPress Starter Theme

19/02/2019 • bootstrap, theme, wordpress

them.es Starter is a WordPress Starter Theme built with Bootstrap.

Baking Pi – Operating Systems Development

18/02/2019 • raspberry pi

This website is here to guide you through the process of developing very basic operating systems on the Raspberry Pi!

UTM parameters

14/02/2019 • email, parámetros UTM, Urchin Tracking Module

Urchin Tracking Module (UTM) parameters are five variants of URL parameters used by marketers to track the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns across traffic sources and publishing media. They were introduced by Google Analytics’ predecessor Urchin and, consequently, are supported out-of-the-box by Google Analytics. The UTM parameters in a URL identify the campaign that refers traffic to a specific website, and attributes it to the browser’s website session and the sessions after that until the campaign attribution window expires. The parameters can be parsed by analytics tools and used to populate reports. Example URL, UTM parameters highlighted, after the question mark (?):

https://www.example.com/page?utm_content=buffercf3b2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Listen to the radio at the Linux terminal

11/02/2019 • ffmpeg, línea de comandos, mplayer, radio

MPlayer is an extremely versatile open source media player that can be surprisingly useful at the Linux command line.

MPlayer has a slew of command-line options to set depending on your situation. I wanted to listen to the local college radio station here in Raleigh (88.1 WKNC, they’re pretty good!), and so after grabbing the streaming URL from their website, all that took to get my radio up and running, no GUI or web player needed, was:

$ mplayer -nocache -afm ffmpeg http://wknc.sma.ncsu.edu:8000/wknchd1.mp3

ODROID. A series of powerful ARM-based single-board computers

11/02/2019 • arquitectura ARM, Hardkernel, Odroid

The ODROID is a series of single-board computers and tablet computers created by Hardkernel Co., Ltd., located in South Korea. Even though the name ODROID is a portmanteau of open + Android, the hardware is not actually open because some parts of the design are retained by the company. Many ODROID systems are capable of running not only Android, but also regular Linux distributions.

Volumio. The Open audiophile music player

11/02/2019 • raspberry pi, servidor música, Volumio

Volumio is a Free and Open Source Linux Distribution, designed and fine-tuned exclusively for music playback.
It runs on a variety of devices, typically small and cheap computers like Raspberry PI, but also on low power PCs, Notebooks or Multimedia PCs.

By flashing (installing) Volumio on any of this platforms, it will then become a headless Audiophile Music Player. Headless means that the only way to control it will be with another device, such as a Smartphone, Tablet, PC or anything that has a browser.

This is made possible by Volumio’s UI: a web applications that runs on any device with a browser, and that allows an easy and intuitive control of your playback sessions. All communications between the Web App and Volumio will happen through your home network.

Web Open Drone Map

07/02/2019 • drones

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing. Generate georeferenced maps, point clouds, elevation models and textured 3D models from aerial images. It uses ODM for processing.