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Year: 2015

My Accidental Radio.

December 11, 2015

Wow. I had no idea this could happen! (Rest of this post is by Michael Albaugh, except for the parts

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Please Stop Locking Out Users After 3 Failed Login Attempts.

December 3, 2015

Update 2015-12-03: I just found out from a response tweet from @jacobian that the user flogging is apparently a requirement

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The Software Freedom Conservancy: Why I Donated

December 1, 2015

Update 2015-12-01: How could I have forgotten to mention that there’s a donor match going on right now? If you

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The one 18-minute video you have to see this year: Nina Paley’s “Copyright Is Brain Damage”.

November 25, 2015

I’ll keep this short, because the very best thing you can do right now is go watch this 18-minute video

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Grammar As Proxy: The Experian Data Breach

November 15, 2015

I got a treeware letter recently from Experian explaining how one of their servers had been hacked and how my

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Privacy is an ecological concept, not a transactional one.

October 5, 2015

On a private mailing list, a friend recently asked this: Playing devil’s advocate here: what privacy are you trying to

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Twitter “Verified” Account… Not So Much.

September 13, 2015

Update Nov 2015: Many thanks to Twitter engineer Eitan Adler for grabbing this one by the horns and steering it

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Freedom of conscience applies to Kenyan immigrants too.

July 9, 2015

I’ve run across yet another reference to President Obama’s supposedly Muslim father, this time in a magazine that I subscribe

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Nice web design, but poor logic: Why OccupyGPL is wrong.

February 11, 2015

Update 2015-02-12, ~12 p.m. CT: Eric Schultz just told me that the OccupyGPL site has suddenly started redirecting to choosealicense.com, within

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Noel Taylor: A Scholar and a Gentleman.

January 15, 2015

I gave my friend Noel Taylor (yes, the noted William Howard Taft scholar) a book as a New Year’s gift.

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