Blonging for Freedom ? ~ ⁂ *

This is Alexandre Oliva's personal blog, that does not necessarily represent the opinions held by FSFLA, FSF, AdaCore or any other organization the author may be or may have been associated with, or even by myself, as of now or ever.

See also my home page, where I share my speeches, and follow me on the Fediverse, where I post other thoughts.

I'm also lxo in the GNU Jami P2P network and on IRC (libera.chat, oftc.net, techrights.org), and I have a Tox ID.

This blog has different entries in Portuguese, Spanish, and perhaps in other languages.

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Please do not attack ships, especially while visiting this site!

Phew! I almost couldn't make it, but here it is: this blog has a new home, on my own virtual server.

For now, it runs mainly Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre, Apache HTTPD, Ikiwiki, and snac2.

It's not like I haven't done this before, but it's quite amazing that one can set up a machine running entirely free software, and serve personal web pages, a blog, and even federated social media.

It's not looking fancy or spiffy; it's not supposed to. It's supposed to be as close to plain text as I can manage, and to display best on any browser. Someone inclined to do so could make it look fancy or spiffy. And if you do, you can adjust the client-side CSS and then it will.

That's the beauty of free software: it serves the user, not some third party who controls it.

And that's why I love free software.

Thanks to everyone who is bringing the dream of software freedom into reach.

So blong,