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.
On a private mailing list, a friend recently asked this: Playing devil’s advocate here: what privacy are you trying to
Continue readingTwitter “Verified” Account… Not So Much.
Update Nov 2015: Many thanks to Twitter engineer Eitan Adler for grabbing this one by the horns and steering it
Continue readingFreedom of conscience applies to Kenyan immigrants too.
I’ve run across yet another reference to President Obama’s supposedly Muslim father, this time in a magazine that I subscribe
Continue readingNice web design, but poor logic: Why OccupyGPL is wrong.
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
Continue readingNoel Taylor: A Scholar and a Gentleman.
I gave my friend Noel Taylor (yes, the noted William Howard Taft scholar) a book as a New Year’s gift.
Continue readingNew York State Senate bill offers tax credit for open source development expenses.
An interesting bill was just introduced in the New York State Senate: open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S161-2015 AN ACT to amend the tax law,
Continue readingHow hard is open source winning? This hard…
How hard is open source winning? So hard that apparently it can be taken for granted now in contexts where
Continue readingFix for WordPress 4.1 front page “Not Found” error (from Stealth Publish plugin).
This is a public service announcement for anyone else who runs WordPress straight from SVN trunk and found their site
Continue readingDisabling the GNOME Workspace Switcher Popup (in GNOME 3.14 on Debian GNU/Linux).
This post is a public service announcement for all those using GNOME 3.14 or higher (in my case on Debian
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