From: Leandro Lucarella Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 22:39:39 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Add a bunch of new blog posts X-Git-Url: https://git.llucax.com/personal/website.git/commitdiff_plain/9b37f8c2d51d7b8bec5a36b8872d5a5a7be05572?ds=sidebyside;hp=273cce37d51f8d174d8a0626b5bed1c3ff806b97 Add a bunch of new blog posts --- diff --git a/source/blog/posts/2013/11/16-first-flattr.rst b/source/blog/posts/2013/11/16-first-flattr.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0836e5a --- /dev/null +++ b/source/blog/posts/2013/11/16-first-flattr.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Title: First Flattr +Tags: en, flattr, cc, flattr, free culture + +9 months ago I decided to try Flattr__. I created an account, put some money on +it, started flattring and `made myself flattrable`__. But nothing happened. Also +sometimes you don't know if the people you are flattring will even reclaim your +flattrs (in services that automatically provides flattr links). + +__ https://flattr.com/ +__ http://www.llucax.com.ar/blog/blog/post/-235be78e + +Conclusion, I got quite disappointed. But today I see the light again, as +I received my `first and only flattr`__ (for eventxx__). Thanks whoever you are, +anonymous hero, you brought hope again to humanity :P + +__ https://flattr.com/thing/1141699/eventxx +__ http://www.llucax.com.ar/proj/eventxx/ + +Anyway, I'll try to give it a shot again, and try to keep the wheel moving. + +You should do that too. + +.. vim: set et sw=3 sts=3 tw=80 fo+=lt1n: diff --git a/source/blog/posts/2013/12/17-oscar.rst b/source/blog/posts/2013/12/17-oscar.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31b3e0c --- /dev/null +++ b/source/blog/posts/2013/12/17-oscar.rst @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Title: Oscar +Tags: oscar, en, video, marlon brando, sacheen littlefeather, politics, protest, youtube + +.. youtube:: 2QUacU0I4yU + +.. vim: set et sw=3 sts=3 tw=80 fo+=lt1n: diff --git a/source/blog/posts/2014/02/10-the-day-we-fight-back.rst b/source/blog/posts/2014/02/10-the-day-we-fight-back.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6f4ffd --- /dev/null +++ b/source/blog/posts/2014/02/10-the-day-we-fight-back.rst @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Title: The Day We Fight Back +Tags: en, nsa, politics, activism, the day we fight back, surveillance + +On Anniversary of Aaron Swartz's Tragic Passing, Leading Internet Groups and +Online Platforms Announce Day of Activism Against NSA Surveillance. + +Participants including Access, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier +Foundation, Fight for the Future, Free Press, BoingBoing, Reddit, Mozilla, +ThoughtWorks, and more to come, will join potentially millions of Internet users +to pressure lawmakers to end mass surveillance -- of both Americans and the +citizens of the whole world. + +https://thedaywefightback.org/ + +.. vim: set et sw=3 sts=3 tw=80 fo+=lt1n: diff --git a/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys---turn-incompressible.rst b/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys---turn-incompressible.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6be91e --- /dev/null +++ b/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys---turn-incompressible.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Title: The Black Keys - Turn incompressible +Tags: en, music, album, 2014, the black keys, black keys, turn blue, compression, jpg, png + +Maybe you heard about the new album from The Black Keys. Maybe you didn't. In +any case, I don't want to talk about the album (which is good BTW), I want to +talk about the album cover: + +.. image:: ##POST_URL##/07-the-black-keys-turn-blue.jpg + :align: center + :alt: The Black Keys - Turn Blue album cover + :target: ##POST_URL##/07-the-black-keys-turn-blue-big.jpg + +See how bad it looks? Now click on the image and see how good it looks (in terms +of quality, the album cover is pretty ugly anyway :P). The thing is, this stupid +pattern is very hard to compress, so even using a JPG quality of 90%, you get +a quite big file size and a pretty crappy image quality (126KB for a 500x500 +image is quite a lot, 294KB for PNG using compression 9). If you look at the big +image, even the colors are different, so the image makes resizing algorithms +also go nuts, the image looks darker (or is this just an ilusion because of the +changed relationship between both colors?). + +Try it yourself, download the image, resize it, save it with different formats +and qualities. + +Coincidence? I guess not. + +.. vim: set et sw=3 sts=3 tw=80 fo+=lt1n: diff --git a/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys-turn-blue-big.jpg b/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys-turn-blue-big.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94460a5 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys-turn-blue-big.jpg differ diff --git a/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys-turn-blue.jpg b/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys-turn-blue.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b18bfac Binary files /dev/null and b/source/blog/posts/2014/05/07-the-black-keys-turn-blue.jpg differ diff --git a/source/blog/posts/current b/source/blog/posts/current index 33aa17c..9a194bc 120000 --- a/source/blog/posts/current +++ b/source/blog/posts/current @@ -1 +1 @@ -2013/07 \ No newline at end of file +2014/05 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/source/blog/posts/db b/source/blog/posts/db index 6362642..8051fbb 100644 --- a/source/blog/posts/db +++ b/source/blog/posts/db @@ -421,3 +421,7 @@ 2013/04/13-radiohead-nude-via-zx80-printer-scanner-hdd.rst, 1365886382.0, 1365886382.0 2013/07/better-call-dominguez.rst, 1374513557.0, 1374513557.0 2013/07/23-obvio.rst, 1374598450.0, 1374598450.0 +2013/11/16-first-flattr.rst, 1384561443.0, 1384561443.0 +2013/12/17-oscar.rst, 1387311963.0, 1387311963.0 +2014/02/10-the-day-we-fight-back.rst, 1392058765.0, 1392058765.0 +2014/05/07-the-black-keys---turn-incompressible.rst, 1399415596.0, 1399415596.0