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Hello, hackers! Have a link: https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom?referrer=10428 TL;DR: The Free Software Foundation could use your help meeting a fundraising goal, and the…

Luckily, my illegal activities will never be discovered--I only use Diaspora, identi.ca, and GNU Social.

I suppose I jumped into an example I didn't fully understand--sorry about that :)

Well, the Google privacy policies have been consolidated, which means less piecewise freedom for people who use one or two Google products. I, for example, use Mail and (barely) us…

I love this article for its irony, intentional or no. The author cites perfect examples of why the software industry is exactly like Hollywood with its products. Word? Need a licen…

I go to the University of Redlands. In the past two years, they decided to remove my major (Computer Science) completely from the curriculum for new students (so current sophomores…

Plus, I learned something new about SVGs today: They can contain mouseover text and animations!

Protip: ClamAV [0] is a software that doesn't need to rely on code secrecy, and it's completely free (as in beer and, more importantly, freedom). [0] http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/…

How can you in one post extoll a free/open internet, and after it post links to nonfree sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+? Start walking the walk.

> Forbes > Average Joe ???

* Actors can act in non-Hollywood movies and TV shows. In fact, they can act in Creative Commons-licensed stuff, too. Why is that a problem? * Progress? Hulu and Vevo place the sam…

Also, rather than supporting the MPAA/RIAA industry, try checking out the Blender Foundation, Jamendo, and similar sites that stream or support free content that is licensed under …

Yesterday was a huge victory for the Internet. We fought valiantly to stop an unjust legislation that should never have even been written. But we haven't done enough. Head to the l…

Here's another way of looking at it: We can get Congress to vote down SOPA/PIPA, or alternatively get the next Congress to repeal it, but there's a fundamental flaw in the way that…

I saw this in the paper yesterday, but I was immediately disappointed to see that their primary forms of switching away from cable not only required cable Internet connection (beca…

Is there a link to the minesweeper spreadsheet that I don't see?

When I click an 'up' arrow, it disappears and doesn't seem to do anything. Why?

https://qrustom.com was a big project for me, https://gitorious.org/stattr was another, and http://test.mine.bz was something I contributed to. I also did https://gitorious.org/mma…

But that argument is also flawed--free software in web applications is possible through other forms of revenue generation. Advertisements, services related to the product, in-app p…

The point of the vulnerability was, it wasn't even designed to be malevolent. The application simply had a hole that every application had, under certain circumstances, and he was …

> The main thing to take away from all of this is that iOS apps aren't as secure as we once thought Really? Because the main thing I took away from it was that Apple and Microsoft …

Way ahead of you! We test it server-side to check if it scans, and if it doesn't, we alert the user. If the user doesn't care about the successful scan, then they can go right ahea…