Alexandre Oliva

Free Software, GNU, FSFLA, 0G, Linux-libre, GCC, glibc, Libre-SOC, AdaCore

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2024-08-01 18:06:24

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hey, maybe it's the same company that left the markings in the FSF office?

2024-06-06 11:39:02

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oh, yeah, the *main* things in C:
Argh, C!
and
Argh, V ;-)

2024-04-17 06:53:17

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingless_bee
why would these honey-making bees native to the Americas not qualify as honey bees?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingless_bee

2024-04-02 16:06:05

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congratulations
for the april 1st post
you had me going for a moment ;-)

2024-03-02 00:15:45

look ma, I'm going to speak at LibrePlanet this year!
https://libreplanet.org/2024/speakers/#6621
Software enshittification or freedom? It's not a hard choice!
When: Sunday 14:00 - 14:45 EDT (18:00 UTC)
Room: Jupiter -- in-person
See you there?
https://libreplanet.org/2024/speakers/#6621

2024-01-01 06:34:55

.oO Happy GNU Year! ¡Feliz año GNUevo! Feliz ano GNUovo!
https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2023-12-31-happy-gnu-year
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2023-12-31-happy-gnu-year

2023-10-09 22:57:34

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you're certainly on to something with that intuition, that I've long shared. but it's also a lot more complicated than that IMHO. one the one hand, it's more likely multiple rather than two; on the other, they're probably so intricately intertwined that one may easily perceive them as one. it's not at all unusual for control systems to have opposite forces balancing each other towards a desired equilibrium. lots of dimensions for impulse vs suppression. consider a hungry animal watching another larger animal eating, trying to find the right moment in which going for the remnants won't turn itself into food right away. consider the conflict between the impulse to breath while underwater, vs the awareness and other perceptions that you are underwater and breathing there is not such a great idea, and then the further overrider on top of that out of the awareness and understanding that, despite feeling under water, seeing water all around, it's still safe to breathe because you know there's a air supply. layers and layers and layers of impulse and suppression piled on and on over billions of years of evolution got us this. I can't seriously consider the notion that this only came up a couple of million years ago.

2023-10-09 22:34:47

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it still strikes me as extraordinary that any such major thing as a "subconscious mind" would arise fully formed in any evolutionary path. it would take extraordinary evidence to support such a theory, and one of the building blocks would be showing that neighboring species don't carry that trait. I guess that would be enough to disprove it, because once we start looking for that (I mean you and I, not science in general, that must have been looking into that for a long time), we'll surely find plenty of evidence of incremental evolution of this trait, just like of pretty much every other trait we observe in humans.

2023-10-09 21:54:42

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other primates can acquire language. so can other non-primates. we're not that special. even some brainless creatures have shown the ability to learn and override so-called instinctive behaviors

2023-10-01 01:48:55

.oO huh, I'd failed to update the gnu30 logo to gnu40 on my home page!
a bit late, but I've done it. hopefully it won't stay there for 10 years
as in, I hope I update it to gnu50 before the anniversary ;-)

2023-09-27 12:20:10

.oO the bank I sued for demanding me to install malware lost
https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota.en.html
they told the judge they were in compliance with the court order to stop requiring malware, while admitting to still requiring it
today, in celebration of GNU 40th, my lawyer is initiating the procedures for the bank to pay the fines imposed by the judge so far, denouncing the bank’s contradiction. I hope it doesn’t take another 40y for me to get internet banking in freedom
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota.en.html

2023-09-25 17:24:28

.oO woohoo! i've updated both of my laptops to gnuboot 0.1-rc1, to celebrate GNU's 40th anniversary. I'm hacking more happily now :-)

2023-09-21 22:11:49

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that sounds like prejudice to me. to me, regulating economy heavily so as to prevent monopolies, economic abuse and overthrow of democracies, while enabling people to live their lives as they see fit (without abusing others) is not only a perfectly reasonable position, it's *the* most reasonable position. so your chart comes across as discriminatory and attempting to create a blind spot to hide the existence of this reasonable position.
and then, chopping one quadrant of a square and combining two points that should otherwise be quite distant is not clarifying, it's a severe distortion of the picture.

2023-09-21 02:05:54

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why would this model be considered better than the by now already traditional bi-dimensional spectrum, with different axes for economic (collectivist vs individualist) and social (libertarian vs authoritarian) issues? to me, it comes across as a failure to realize that it's two separate and independent dimensions, in that it sort of has two axes, but limits how far one can go in the combinations to force the choices into a triangle rather than e.g. a square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Compass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Compass

2023-08-21 18:21:46

it's follow back monday :-)

2023-08-20 22:52:46

.oO new blog post
https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2023-08-20-stochastic-parrots-vs-intelligence.en.html
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2023-08-20-stochastic-parrots-vs-intelligence.en.html

2023-06-28 05:53:14

.oO hoje caminhei um pouco sob o sol.
30°C e eu me senti inadequado trajando blusa e calça comprida.
pensei num melô pro inverno 2023:
🎜 é como sol de verão queimando no peito 🎝

2023-05-24 05:33:42

Free Software is back in the Brazilian federal government!
https://web.archive.org/web/20230524030744/https://midianinja.org/uirapora/o-software-livre-voltou/ (in Portuguese)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230524030744/https://midianinja.org/uirapora/o-software-livre-voltou/

2023-05-18 00:31:39

[pt] Governos vêm e vão, mas a opressão dos softwares impostos para impostos continua.
https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-05-IRPF-Livre-2023.pt
[es] Gobiernos vienen y van pero la opresión de los softwares impuestos para impuestos sigue.
https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-05-IRPF-Livre-2023.es
[en] Governments come and go, but the oppression of imposed taxing software for taxation remains.
https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-05-IRPF-Livre-2023.en
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/anuncio/2023-05-IRPF-Livre-2023.pt
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/anuncio/2023-05-IRPF-Livre-2023.es
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/anuncio/2023-05-IRPF-Livre-2023.en

2023-05-01 23:10:59

FSFLA has published the article "Suitable Online Bank(rupt)ing" as part of the newly-expanded campaign against Imposed Taxing Software (AKA Softwares Impostos)
https://www.fsfla.org/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota
https://www.fsfla.org/texto/bancarrota
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/anuncio/2023-04-bancarrota
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/texto/bancarrota

2023-04-24 20:30:05

New interview about #GNU #Linux-libre, published at https://nixsanctuary.com/an-interview-with-alexandre-oliva-lead-developer-of-linux-libre-at-fsfla/ and https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2023-04-24-linux-libre-interview-nixsanctuary
https://nixsanctuary.com/an-interview-with-alexandre-oliva-lead-developer-of-linux-libre-at-fsfla/
https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2023-04-24-linux-libre-interview-nixsanctuary