Category: #lookingforsolutions
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xkcd: Enlightenment
via xkcd: Enlightenment. #lookingforsolutions #xkcd
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Get started with Etherpad (Manual)
Flossmanuals released (already sometime ago) a manual to get started with Etherpad. It is handy for both people who want to run their own installation, or the users of an etherpad installation. Etherpad is a real time collaborative editor. Etherpad can and has been used for the following: Taking minutes for online or offline meetings, […]
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How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
The last-mile problem, it turns out, isn’t just technical or economic: It’s political and even cultural. To repurpose the famous A.J. Liebling statement, internet freedom is guaranteed only to those who own a connection. “And right now, you and me don’t own the internet—we just rent the capacity to access it from the companies that […]
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Bye bye Google
#google #iquit #lookingforsolutions
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A recent article by Bruce Sterling explains why, thanks to Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft talking about the Internet stopped making sense in 2012. The article caused the following comment an Italian mailing list: unfortunately, this isn’t news at all… What would be news would be to find alternatives. I answered that comment as […]
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Bitcoin – The Libertarian Introduction
Bitcoin shackles a government and forces it to subsist only on what it can tax openly and legitimately borrow, but unlike a gold standard, Bitcoin doesn’t require any official status to become a standard. The market can arrive at the standard sans government approval, again because it works elegantly both for storage and transfer and […]
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Project Byzantium
For the moment, we’ve won the battle against normal workaday life and fixed the final bug preventing us from publishing the latest release of Byzantium Linux, which we codenamed Beach Cat after our time in New York City late last year. v0.3a is now available via BitTorrent and direct download on our distribution page. Please […]
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unCloud
unCloud is an application that enables anyone with a laptop to create an open wireless network and distribute their own information. Once it is launched, a passerby using a mobile internet device can connect to this open wireless network. The person running the application can decide what information is shown in any web address. Users […]
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Conversation with Eleanor Saitta
On this week’s show James Butler is joined by Eleanor Saita (@Dymaxion) as they discuss networks, technology, undead institutions, the state-form and the ‘coming crisis’. Listen on Soundcloud #dymaxion #lawandpolitics #lookingforsolutions #networkpolitics
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RSS – Selfhosted
So. In case you missed it. Google Reader is Dead. Time to fullfill an old lived dream: having my self-hosted RSS reader. At first glance there seems to be only one viable option: FeedaFever: it is the only other service that will sync with my beloved Reeder. But it costs $30,-. Looks promising tough. But […]