Text based comments are easier to deal with and will also help boost the site’s search engine rankings. The video based ones consume a lot of extra bandwidth and may actually hurt search engine rankings. Please keep up writing.
I will take some text to the gym today and try to get it done. I need to run some experiments and code all morning. Hard to find time, we need to decentralise more and more.
Needs Sunlight Reply: July 9th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
What about switching from WordPress to some other forum software more amenable to making and tracking comments? WordPress seems kind of oriented towards centralized, top-down way of working.
Gemini is turning 4 this month (on the 20th, according to the founder) and I thought I’d do a spontaneous video about how I use Gemini, why it's so good, and why it’s still growing (Stéphane Bortzmeyer fixed the broken cron job — or equivalent of it — a day or two after I had mentioned the issue)
The tax crimes of Sirius ‘Open Source’ were reported to HMRC two weeks ago; HMRC did not bother getting back to the reporters (victims of the crime) and it’s worth noting that the reporters worked on UK government systems for many years, so maybe there’s a hidden incentive to bury this under the rug
So our IRC community turns 15 today (sort of) and I’ve decided to do a video reflecting on the fact that some of the same people are still there after 15 years
In the month of May we had zero downtime (no updates to the system or outages in the network), which means Lupa did not detect any errors such as timeouts and we’re on top of the list (the page was fixed a day or so after we wrote about it); Gemini continues to grow (chart by Botond) as we’re approaching the 4th anniversary of the protocol
It seems like EPO staff is starting to have doubts about the safety of EPO pensions after Benoît Battistelli sent money to reckless gambling (EPOTIF) — a plot that’s 100% supported by António Campinos and his enablers in the Council, not to mention the European Union
Work is becoming a lot worse (not even compliant with the law!) and promises are constantly being broken, so staff is starting to chase management for answers and assurances pertaining to finances
It’s good that the FSF prepares an event to celebrate GNU’s 40th anniversary, but readers told us that the speakers list is unsavoury, especially the first one (a key participant in the relentless campaign of defamation against the person who started both GNU and the FSF; the "FSFE" isn't even permitted to use that name)
A quick look at or a roundup of what we've been up to, what we plan to publish in the future, what topics we shall focus on very soon, and progress moving to Alpine Linux
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Needs Sunlight said,
July 9, 2011 at 3:10 am
Text based comments are easier to deal with and will also help boost the site’s search engine rankings. The video based ones consume a lot of extra bandwidth and may actually hurt search engine rankings. Please keep up writing.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
July 9th, 2011 at 4:06 am
I will take some text to the gym today and try to get it done. I need to run some experiments and code all morning. Hard to find time, we need to decentralise more and more.
Needs Sunlight Reply:
July 9th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
What about switching from WordPress to some other forum software more amenable to making and tracking comments? WordPress seems kind of oriented towards centralized, top-down way of working.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
July 9th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
We’ve been through the difficulties associated with this.
TemporalBeing Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Agreed as some of us read from places where video is not conducive.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
July 12th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I’ll probably stop these.