Stefano Zacchiroli @zacchiro@mastodon.xyz

New #halfmarathon personal best @semiparis: 1h45m51s. Amazing weather, if not for the heavy contrary wind in the last 5k... Thanks #Paris. #running

My team is hiring a senior #devops engineer to work on @SWHeritage. Challenges abound, it's for the greater good, and it's all #FOSS. Learn more at https://www.softwareheritage.org/jobs/

new paper: « Building the Universal Archive of Source Code » https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext ← our manifesto for software source code preservation at @SWHeritage . On @CACMmag with @rdicosmo & @JFAbramatic

voice in the distance: what are you doing?
me: a BFS visit on a 170 billion nodes graph
voice again: ah, ok then

"Un’#università senza ricercatori" https://jacobinitalia.it/un-universita-senza-ricercatori/

our #MSR19 article « The @swheritage graph dataset: public software development under one roof » is now available from the ACM Digital Library https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3341907 (a non paywalled preprint can be found on my homepage)

"The main purpose of intellectual property law is to encourage the creation of a wide variety of intellectual goods." they said…
#MyAss: « Public domain: Who owns Sherlock Holmes? » https://www.economist.com/prospero/2013/02/20/who-owns-sherlock-holmes via @TheEconomist

« Contro #Zeffirelli: la necessità del dissenso » https://volerelaluna.it/controcanto/2019/06/22/perche-zeffirelli-non-va-beatificato-ovvero-la-necessita-del-conflitto/

with @swheritage we just crossed the threshold of 6B unique source code files archived https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ #mindblow

Dear #lazyweb, what's the largest #cgit instance you know, in terms of hosted #git repositories?

The standing champion is http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ , but I'm confident there are larger instances out there…

"Fiscal Money Can Make or Break the Euro" by Yanis Varoufakis @ProSyn http://prosyn.org/OsIFlNq

at #SRCONF19, @MarioCampolargo pitches free/open source software as one of the key ingredients for the digital transformation of European public administrations: « think digital, think open »

at #SRCONF19, to discuss how @swheritage ties in digital transformation for European public administrations https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/events/sharing-reuse-conference-2019_en

Piracy is Ethically Acceptable To Many Harvard Lawyers https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-is-ethically-acceptable-for-many-harvard-lawyers-research-finds-190607/

Il problema immigrazione è un'illusione sostenuta da chi difende privilegi e disparità economiche. https://www.corriere.it/opinioni/19_giugno_08/immigrazione-davveroun-problema-cosi-grande-475dec3e-8a15-11e9-9b3f-2459a834d32d.shtml by Carlo Rovelli

if you're at #msr2019 and would like to chat about the largest publicly accessible source code archive in the world—that is, @swheritage—come and talk to me !

Evgeny Morozov: « Socialize the Data Centres ! » https://newleftreview.org/issues/II91/articles/evgeny-morozov-socialize-the-data-centres (an oldie that I've found only now, but which is still terribly relevant. Surprising, right?)

#RIP #VittorioZucconi, ed grazie ad Ezio Mauro per questo emozionante coccodrillo https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2019/05/26/news/addio_a_vittorio_zucconi_l_uomo_che_viveva_il_giornalismo-227207261/

It's 2019 and on an oversea @airfrance #flight: there's no power plug of any kind, I can't use my own headphones and the entertainment system has a wire-connected "remote". #rant

CDG→YUL, where we will present at #MSR2019 the first public dataset encompassing the entire @SWHeritage graph. Preprint at https://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/msr-2019-swh.pdf

« I punti più controversi dell'ultima stagione di Game of Thrones secondo @Zerocalcare » #rotfl #muoro https://www.wired.it/play/televisione/2019/05/21/game-of-thrones-punti-controversi-zerocalcare/ via @wireditalia

It's 2019 and I still find "professional" wi-fi networks that blocks outbound #SSH connections.
IOW, #Tor with this ~/.ssh/config snippet keeps making my days:

Host *.tor
ProxyCommand socat STDIO SOCKS4A:127.0.0.1:$(basename %h .tor):%p,socksport=9050