Apparently, Starbucks in China doesn’t want you to save a copy of the wi-fi Terms of Service you agree to — it’s
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The default category for posts on this site; the equivalent of “Uncategorized” in a fresh WordPress installation :-).
Commenting on ITAPS’s comments on the Federal Source Code Policy.
My response to ITAPS’s comments on the Federal Source Code Policy is posted here.
Continue readingDissecting The Myth That Open Source Software Is Not Commercial
My article Dissecting The Myth That Open Source Software Is Not Commercial is now up at the IEEE Software Blog.
Continue readingSOLVED: Error on ‘git clone’ for Redis GitHub repository
If you encountered this error when trying to clone the Redis repository from GitHub recently, there is a solution. The
Continue readingMy Accidental Radio.
Wow. I had no idea this could happen! (Rest of this post is by Michael Albaugh, except for the parts
Continue readingPlease Stop Locking Out Users After 3 Failed Login Attempts.
Update 2015-12-03: I just found out from a response tweet from @jacobian that the user flogging is apparently a requirement
Continue readingThe Software Freedom Conservancy: Why I Donated
Update 2015-12-01: How could I have forgotten to mention that there’s a donor match going on right now? If you
Continue readingThe one 18-minute video you have to see this year: Nina Paley’s “Copyright Is Brain Damage”.
I’ll keep this short, because the very best thing you can do right now is go watch this 18-minute video
Continue readingGrammar As Proxy: The Experian Data Breach
I got a treeware letter recently from Experian explaining how one of their servers had been hacked and how my
Continue readingPrivacy 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
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