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laconica on linuxoutlaws.net

Well, you may notice I’ve added a feed over on the right there of tweets (as in twitter). I’ve avoided sites like twitter for a few reasons:

  1. I feel like I can handle my own social networking, thank you very much. This is why I have my own blog, where I aggregate what I do at other sites (like the music I listen to and articles I digg) all on my own.
  2. Sites like Twitter and Facebook run proprietary software. No one is able to see, modify, or redistribute the code for these sites.
  3. Said sites also maintain licenses that can restrict what you post, and call into question the ownership rights of anything posted to them.

My friends over at Linux Outlaws have solved this problem for me. They’ve installed a service called Laconica, which functions much the same way as other micro-blogging software, like Twitter. The difference, however, between this and other services is that it is open-source software, and it is being run by some fellas I consider friends, which means that I am indeed, handling my own social networking. On top of that, I don’t feel like I should ever have to worry about doing something like aggregating my own posts over to this site and wondering if I really have a right to re-distribute my own content. One more neat part? You can subscribe to others’ tweets, even if they’re not on the same Laconica server.

If you’re interested, head over to Linux Outlaws’ Laconica site, and sign up. Also, if you have any interest in computers or Linux or you just hate microsoft, you should really head over to their podcast website and listen. To it all. Dan and Fab kick ass.

Ok, back to implementing a (yes, really) four-function calculator for fractions, in C++.

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One Response to “laconica on linuxoutlaws.net”

  1. Dan Says:
    September 27th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Hey Nate,

    Thanks for the kind mention, we appreciate and it’s great to know people are enjoying using Linuxoutlaws.net it’s the reason we set it up. Well, I say “we” set it up but to be honest I hand very little to do with it, it was all Fab’s hard work so credit where it’s due on that.

    Thanks again for writing about it, I’ll see you over there ;) Take it easy

    Dan

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