The recent outburst from Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth have put the poor state of Linux news coverage into sharp focus. The media’s attention to the cult of personalities damages the Linux community.

We’ll discuss what pressures push this trend forward, despite the need of a balanced dialog in an open community.

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• Thanks to the Antergos devs for reaching out.

• Big con of the Synology DiskStation DS412+ is the PSU.

• \”If you don\’t like it, don\’t use it.\”

• Why is nobody mentioning Debian and its rolling model?

• Linux Unpluged Episode 10: Ubuntus Rolling issue

  • Gary points out devs:

Prod machines should be locked down that are inside the firewall. A dev machine should be close to a prod environment and testing a staging machines should be identical to prod. When updates occur, libraries change (including the runtime) and when a library changes that your app uses, full regression testing should be done.

• SteamOS shows lack of faith in Ubuntu?

• SteamOS

• Founder Syndrome

The Bankrupt Linux News

• The free software media and cults of personality

I\’m talking about the cults of personality that often dominate the free software community
such cults are contrary to community values. Worse, they can do untold damage, imposing commercial values at the cost of community ones, or dividing the community as those at the center of such cults decide to air their personal grudges in public. They can cause people to discard their own judgment and choose software on the basis of who endorses what, and even to compromise themselves morally by choosing sides in a flame war when they should be condemning everyone involved.

The problem is that journalism as it is practiced today finds cults of personality convenient. Being able to mention celebrities in the headlines increases page views,
As for writers, mentioning someone famous is a quick way of validating a point. Even if the celebrity fails to make a logical argument or offer a scrap of insight, readers are more likely to be swayed to a viewpoint by learning that a celebrity supports it.

However, even when a writer is not stooping to such tactics, not feeding a cult of personality can be difficult. Readers want to hear about what the famous are doing or thinking. They are far less interested in ordinary people, which is why stories about people behind the scenes, while well-meaning, rarely keep people reading unless the writer can quickly establish an interesting angle.

In fact, just as a side-effect of free software has been to create de-centralized means of collaboration, those of us who are free software journalists can try to create our own standards for a story — one that doesn\’t depend on celebrities, but on skilled writing.

That\’s a lofty goal, but it\’s one at which I\’m determined to aim.

• aseigo: ending the cults of personality in free software

• Mark declairs the OSS Tea Party

• Aaron Seigo – Google+ – +Mark Shuttleworth, You write in the blog linked below: …

• Mark Shuttleworth Lennart completely misses the point.

• Linus Torvalds Smashes the Fedora Project, Calls Them Stupid

• Did the Tea Party design the Obamacare website?

• Q&A: Clement Lefebvre: The man behind Linux Mint – Network World

• Tuxmachines.org for sale | tuxmachines.org

• phoronix.com for sale
• The H is closing down

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• Ubuntu fan migrating to Arch

• Mir debate

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The best of Bitcoin podcasting join forces to discuss how Bitcoin could potentially disrupt the big media monopolies and fund a new generation of independent honest content, controlled by its audience.

Plus more challenges facing Mt. Gox, fixing Bitcoin’s infrastructure problem, and the quiet little Litecoin hack no one is talking about.

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That means bitcoin exchanges like Tradehill would have to register as a money transmitter with the federal government. That is the easy part, says Kenna, requiring little more than a single page form. The hard part is getting the relevant licence in each US state. They all have different rules, and some (sources single out New York and California) are particularly difficult.

Time (at least a little of it) is on Tradehill\’s side, however. Even though the FinCEN guidance came into immediate effect, it only applies to businesses 180 days after they begin trading in bitcoin. This gives it until mid-September to get its paperwork in order.

• Don\’t trust anonymous e-currencies like Bitcoin

In the real world, if you lose your credit card, checkbook, or even bank account log-on password, your money isn\’t gone. In fact there are lots of services and laws to protect you and your money. Not so in the e-currency world — check out a statement posted on a Bitcoin Wiki Faq regarding the potential loss of Bitcoins: \”Consider it a donation to all other bitcoin users.\”

Ultimately, most e-currencies possess the security of whatever your email address and password is. If hackers break into your computer, learn your password — or even break in and steal all your money at the bank — it will be replaced fairly quickly. This is absolutely not true of e-currency sites.

I\’m not saying that e-currency schemes are evil. And I\’m not saying fiat money is perfectly trusted or protected — the runaway inflation that led to wheelbarrows of money being exchanged in Weimar Germany come to mind. I\’m just saying that by comparison, over the long run, there is no comparison. The trust equation isn\’t even close.

• Bitcoin – the next global reserve currency?

“That committee has chosen to grow its balance sheet by $85 billion per month, to well above $3 trillion in total, by monetizing US Treasury and Agency debt. Accordingly, the long term outlook for the value of the USD will be subject not only to the supply of new money, but also bubbles caused by synthetic support for state-favored asset classes, and record high national debt.”

“In a world of increasing global communication and trade, a nation-agnostic currency would solve many of the problems we’ve seen repeated throughout history and potentially ease the associated international tensions. An asset for which the value is determined solely by international demand, immune to influence from central planners, is a necessary step forward towards a free market.”

• Litecoin Pool Exploit

“Suspected fake miners were clocking at up to150MH/s for 3-4 days. We suspect more cheaters were involved over the past 3-4 days which could have been at least partially to blame for the pools bad luck.”

“During deployment of the fix, we logged changes in valid hash rates. The biggest detected confirmed cheater was Cryptopower who went from 30MH/s to 1MH/s”

• Another Gox funding option eliminated

“After some deliberation and discussion with Technocash, an Australian service for Mt. Gox customer account funding and withdrawals, it has been decided that our customers in Australia will no longer be able to deposit and withdraw funds in AUD using Technocash starting June 15th, 2013.”

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Angela and Chris share their tips, tricks, and thoughts on blogging. Plus WordPres vs. SquareSpace and other services. And a few great blogs to check out!

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

A blog is a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries (\”posts\”) typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first.

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

Video blogging, sometimes shortened to vlogging is a form of blogging for which the medium is video,[7] and is a form of Web television. Entries often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts.

filterfree.me

www.watchthefishers.com

www.momvault.com

5 Best iPhone Apps for Bloggers:https://www.callingallgeeks.org/5-best-iphone-apps-bloggers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CallingAllGeeks+%28CallingAllGeeks%3A+iPhone+|+Gadgets+|+Technology%29

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21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic: https://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic-2012

Every Star Trek Ever: https://everystartrekever.com/2012/05/13/to-boldly-go/

Livejournal https://scalingdynasty.livejournal.com/

VeryShortStory: https://www.facebook.com/veryshortstory or https://twitter.com/veryshortstory

Single Topic Blogs: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/single-topic-blogs

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Thank you for all the fun we have and keep up the good work.
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Hey just wanted to let you know that iTunes stopped updating your videos on April 25th. Did you guys stop uploading to iTunes? I am subscribed to JB podcast and up until then it was working great.
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