I wish I had the time to write a full article regarding copyright, censorship, money laundry and artist enslaving. Since I do not, I'll just remind you that censorship is not something that happens in Chine or North Korea, it happens everywhere specially in the western countries.
It has come to my attention, today, another irrefutable example of censorship. but this time (I hope) people won't stand quiet.
Late report again. Today I'm here to talk about something serious. It may not look like, you may think it's just some kind of stupid party, but no, it's way bigger than that and it really upsets me how little attention it gets from the media.
Let's talk about Latinoware. Well, "what is it?", you might ask me. Latinoware is an Open Source Software related event/conference, promoted by Itaipu Bi-National at Foundation Itaipu Technological Park in Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brazil. Its name is Latino-Ware because the projects and discussions regard the use of free software on Latin Countries, but their applications go way beyond that. People of all countries gather in Itaipu to listen or talk about solutions and Open Source technology, with the presence of some famous ones, like Jon "Maddog" Hall.
In October 21st of his year, 2011, occurred the eighth consecutive Latinoware, but it was, actually, the first one I attended to. I must say I really enjoyed it. I got the opportunity to go "for free" - the University paid my subscription and four-star hotel fee, but I paid for the transportation -, visit Paraguay where we can buy products with low taxes, visit Itaipu itself and take a close look at the barrages and, of course, enjoy the event. There were also mini-courses on different areas like 3D modeling, musical production, smartphone apps development, etc. I attended to the 3D modeling one. We used Blender, a really nice modeling free software.
There was a problem: the software was not installed on the machines at the time of the class, so we (yes, we) had to do it by ourselves. Well, the teacher (Cícero Moraes) asked for an IT manager to solve this problem, but this manager was really stupid. He did not know the root password (to use apt-get) and neither knew which was the computers' archtecture so we could run Blender without installing it. Well, I easly ran $uname -aand told them we were on i386 machines. Everybody downloaded from the same mirror (the first one) and only I clicked on the third. Needless to say my download finished as fast as a heart attack and I had to share it with everyone. Since they could not tell me their addresses, I couldn't scp the files. So people handed me USB drives and I had to transfer the files to each one and return the drives to their owners. Damn it. After that, the class went smooth. Well, actually, sometime later they finally told us the root password.... 2011. Yes, the root password was 2011. So me and a friend installed Hedgewars, but the graphics wouldn't work. We just gave up after even trying sshing into our private server at UFPR and running the game from there.
On that day I also got the one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to talk to Maddog. Okay, he's been in every Latinoware since 2005 (not sure). But, anyway, it is always an honor to talk to an icon like himself. People are all about "omg bew gayts is such a genius, setephen blowjobs revolutionary". They just buy what is sold. Literally sold. While there are things for free that are much better. Things on which Jon Hall and Dennis Ritchie worked hard on. Maddog made a conference on the first day of this Latinoware talking about Project Cauã. He and his team are creating CPU integrated on LCD panels at low voltage. There will be no power cable. it will only use the ethernet one. The intention is to build small networks with dozens of these machines, starting in Brazil. They would all be connected via high-speed wi-fi and would be turned on day and night, spending very little ennergy. We (me and my friend) were wondering at the conferece if the processing would be enough to attend our daily professional demand. Maddog explained to us the machine will have two processors: a main one and a graphic one. The main users to this machine are actually home/end-users, but if a harcore process is needed, the main processor would ask help to the graphic one. But it will also use cloud computing. Since all computers will be connected and turned on (the idea is to have something like a network with apartments of the same building), while some of them are not being used at all, they will lend their CPU to the ones in need. While we were talking stting nicely at a bench, people gathered arund us and I noticed I wasn't the only one annoyed with that. I couldn't even say "thank you" to maddog and some homos got interrupted us to take pictures with him. He said "Fiiiiine, but I'd rather answer more questions than take pictures". That's why I didn't take a picture with him. Although I wanted to, talking to him was satisfying enough.
Picture not made by me
Oh, yes, Dennis Ritchie. He is a co-creator of the C programming language and Unix. He died a few days after Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs used C and Unix to build his empire. Bill Gates used C and Unixto build his empire. I use C to write software. "At least 75% of the web as you know it (60% Server Share, 13% client share, 93% of web servers),
is powered by the developments of Dennis Ritchie over his lifetime.
Apple, the World Wide Web, and iPhone probably wouldn’t even exist had
Dennis never invented C programming language and the contribution to Unix." [8]. Furthermore, C++, PHP and Java were inspired on C. Everybody cried over Steve Jobs, who just recycled ideas and didn't help at all with software development; no one cared about Ritchie, who influenced the WHOLE-- FUCKING-- WORLD . Nobody paid attention to his death for the same reason nobody pays attention to Latinoware nor FISL, while the whole Brazil talks about the shitty Campus Party. It's all about publicity and media. The broadcasting channels are paid to talk about Apple. They are paid to talk about Campus Party. Why would they care about Dennis Ritchie or Latinoware? Nobody pays them to talk about free software. So let's talk about a conference with lots of propagandas, half-naked women, concept cars that do not work, good looking computers and geek herp tha derp stuff. Then, all the bazzingers gather with their stupid hipster hardware to sit there tweet the same thing: I'm here tweetting with a lot of tweetting people around me, we are useless. With that, they think they are somehow a difference to the world, they are really confident to be up to date on technology and software development. Oh, of course, they just downloaded the new apple application for only US$2,99. They know everything about how to use it, but have know idea of how it really works. And, yet, they pay even more for a subscription to Campus Party to go there, use closed software and see commercials. Everything they could do at home. Place where they come back to without anything new to contribute to the society.
I feel kind of relieved after typing this last paragraph. As I stated before, I get really upset and even scared of how our society behaves regarding this subject. Computing is way more than little apps. As people turn their backs to the real matters, they get cuffed by the products they blindly buy.
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First day of conference
At the end of the 1st and 2nd days, there were some groups playing a nice rock and there were also free food and drinks
This guy didn't know how to operate a headphone (used for realtime-translation)
At the end, some stupid gibberish. The guy dressed in white was a total fag
Itaipu
Barrages. We walked for 20min under the hot sun, and the guides of
those busses stopped us saying they would call the guards because we
were not allowed outside the event.
Hello, fellow random reader. It's been a long time since my last post. I've been really... lazy.
So, on October 11th was "the" night. The remarkable rocking band Bad Religion was on tour in South America and I just couldn't miss that opportunity.
Their show took place in Curitiba Master Hall, where lots of different people were gathered, not just the regular rock n' roll fans. After the opening band (Abra Cadáver, I guess) stopped playing, the lights went down and there was this peculiar human being on the corner, alone, playing chess on his phone.
Picture taken by me
There were also some "kiddos wannabe adults" that had no idea of what the fucking band they were listening to and just kept drinking and messing up with the girls, trying to impress them wearing homo shirts. Other than that, yes, nice people. A lot of energy.
Picture taken by me
The group performed really well. No doubts. The Resist Stance, 21st Century, Infected, etc. I just wish they had played more/other songs from The Dissent of Man. There are some really good ones and I missed them as it should have been a tour dedicated to this new album release.
Well, if you do not know these guys yet, you are in serious trouble, since even my father does. How about you check out some of their songs read a bit about them at the same time?
Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1979. They are often credited for being involved in the revival of punk rock and inspiring several subsequent punk bands during the late 1980s, as well as influencing a large number of other punk and rock musicians throughout their career. Bad Religion is also particularly known for their use of soaring 3-part vocal harmonies, sophisticated and intellectual lyrics, and political or religious commentary. Their lyrics often relate to matters of social responsibility.
Faith in your partner, your fellow men, your friends, is very
important, because without it there's no mutual component to your
relationship, and relationships are important. So, faith plays an
important role, but faith in people you don't know, faith in religious
or political leaders or even people on stages, people who are popular in
the public eye, you shouldn't have faith in those people. You should
listen to what they have to say and use it.
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Não há muito o que dizer. Trago-lhes em primeira mão a notícia de que mais uma vez o site da Universidade Federal do Paraná foi hackeado. Estou acompanhando há algumas horas as alterações que estão sendo feitas no portal da UFPR. Entretanto está tudo muito lento; tanto o processo de alterações quanto o servidor.
Na última festa que ocorreu no site, um texto bem interessante fora publicado a respeito de Wellington.
Desta vez, um não tão engraçado. Trata-se da legalização do casamento com lolis.
Muitos tratam a alteração dos banners como "trolage", outros mais perspicazes veriam que um troll decente seria o autor do texto. "Seria" pois eu não duvido que a opinião defendida fosse realmente a dele.
O site é: http://www.ufpr.br/portal
Mais algumas horas se passaram e algumas poucas mudanças foram feitas. Trocaram alguns banners, adicionaram uma notícia e deixaram no ar por algum tempo uma mensagem referente a uma manutenção.
O problema é que essa mensagem foi muito falha sem qualquer intuito de fisgar alguém, ficando simplesmente ridículo. O chefe do departamento é o Bona e o coordenador é o Todt e lá só se utiliza Linux. A existência desse Nabokov é fictícia e nada convincente. Segundo as minhas fontes, nessa altura do campeonato, já não se tratava mais do hacker original, mas sim de uma galerinha de bad à qual o invasor forneceu a conta.
Como tudo é passageiro, registro aqui este acontecimento e preservo imagens da situação.
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O texto a seguir foi copiado do post As 10 Cidades Mais Resilientes do Planeta porque eu perdi a vontade de escrever tudo o que tinha em mente. Quem sabe mais tarde eu o faça.
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A atual edição da revista canadense Corporate Knights, que traz sempre artigos com um enfoque original sobre sustentabilidade corporativa, traz um artigo sobre as dez cidades mais resilientes do mundo.
Entenda-se por cidade resiliente aquela empenhada em retornar a seu
estado de equilíbrio ecológico após passar por intenso processo de
urbanização.
Neste ranking, a cidade de Curitiba foi a única brasileira a aparecer. Pesou na escolha do empresário e escritor Boyd Cohen o fato dos governantes da cidade
terem dado os primeiros passos na direção de uma urbanização verde há
cerca de 40 anos.
Em Curitiba foi implementado o primeiro sistema de ônibus de transporte rápido do mundo,
com ônibus biarticulados que circulam por corredores exclusivos e param
em estações fixas, e os ligeirinhos, que também param apenas em pontos
determinados.
Por ser antigo, porém, o sistema já começa a pedir
uma atualização. Os biarticulados trafegam superlotados nos horários de
pico, como em qualquer cidade. Os ligeirinhos utilizam as mesmas vias
que os carros – ou seja, com o aumento de automóveis nas ruas, este tipo
de transporte se torna mais lento. Ainda assim, o modelo curitibano
serve de inspiração para cidades brasileiras que oferecem aos cidadãos
somente o tradicional “busão”.
Para elencar as dez cidades mais resilientes do mundo, Cohen
considerou aquelas com mais de 600 mil habitantes e adotou uma série de filtros:
comprometimento político, densidade populacional, trânsito, uso de
energias renováveis, emissões de CO², mitigação de efeitos climáticos,
planos de adaptação e extensão territorial de parques. Abaixo, as
campeãs:
1 – Copenhague, Dinamarca - 40% dos cidadãos vão
para o trabalho de bicicleta. Foi a única cidade a obter a pontuação
máxima no quesito “comprometimento político”. Juntamente com Curitiba, é
a cidade com a menor emissão de CO² [Nota do Jamatei: Oxigênio ao quadrado, isso realmente merece destaque] per capita. 2 – Curitiba, Brasil - Além dos atributos já
mencionados, foi considerado também o plano de prevenção contra
enchentes implementado na cidade na década de 70, por meio da criação de
parques ao longo dos rios e canais do município. 3 – Barcelona, Espanha – Um percentual pequeno de
energia renovável abastece a cidade, mas chama a atenção seu empenho em
difundir o uso de energia solar. A administração municipal estabeleceu
que todas as novas residências ou reformas devem incluir algum sistema
de aquecimento solar – geralmente, para a água.
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Aqui, parte do comentário publicado a respeito de Curitiba no artigo:
Curitiba is tied with Copenhagen for the lowest
emissions per capita. Curitiba also comes second with its renewable energy contribution.
Despite being the highest elevation
city in this ranking it has the
longest running adaptation program of any city in the study. In the
1970’s, Curitiba implemented a flood prevention plan from its nearby
rivers by creating a win-win solution-creating 5,000+ acres of parks
alongside their waterways.
Tudo bem que Jaime Lerner fez um ótimo projeto em sua época. Mas nas décadas que se seguiram, a resiliência da cidade foi decaindo. Hoje, está indo no mesmo rumo que São Paulo. Logo não haverá como transitar de carro na cidade e ninguém quer meter a mão no fogo para começar o projeto de metrô. Até o ano passado eu nem sabia que Lerner era tão famoso mundo a fora por seus projetos.
Researches about the light are old, really old. Centuries old, I mean, altough they just got significantly developed on the second half of the XVIII century with new findings regarding electromgnetism. The first names to pop out were Maxwell, Lorentz and Poincaré. Great names that got the deserved attention at the time, but were forgotten for decades.
