Category: #lookingforsolutions
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Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva — Kickstarter
Parallella: A Supercomputer For Everyone by Adapteva — Kickstarter. Making parallel computing easy to use has been described as “a problem as hard as any that computer science has faced”. With such a big challenge ahead, we need to make sure that every programmer has access to cheap and open parallel hardware and development tools. […]
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The crypto dream
We’re living in a world where it’s possible to visit Tokyo without ever leaving your bed, and where governments go to war with software rather than tanks. Yet in some ways the real future is more Stephen King than William Gibson. The plane landed; nobody was on board.[…]There are a few amazingly bright spots in […]
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PREAMBLE I recognize technology as a product of human effort, a product serving no other purpose than to benefit man in general, not merely some men; man in the totality of his humanity, encompassing all his manifold interests and needs, not merely some one particular concem of his. Humanistically viewed, technology is not an end […]
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Tent.is the new twitter?
Ten.is is a new distributed social network. A diaspora-ish idea, but more focused on simplicity and on the protocol then trying to be al full-featured app. Find me at https://dosch.tent.is #lookingforsolutions #software
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Apple, meet GPG, GPG, meet Apple. | I Am Security
The guys at GPGTools are doing some fantastic work in bringing a comprehensive GPG implementation into Mac OS X, and Apple seem to not only ignore the need for such an important tool, but consistently screw things up with Mail such that every new OS X update the GPGMail plugin is rendered useless. Apple, meet […]
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Hacken voor het vrije woord | Sargasso
Een groepje Nederlandse hackers helpt activisten en journalisten online aanvallen te weerstaan. Hacken voor het vrije woord | Sargasso. #diy #greenhost #hackaton #lawandpolitics #lookingforsolutions #saragasso #security
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Join DIASPORA* today
an invitation to join the open and cool network Diaspora: DIASPORA*. #diaspora #easyaspie #lookingforsolutions #nofacebook #software
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Apple’s Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms
Apple’s recent products, especially their mobile iOS devices, are like beautiful crystal prisons, with a wide range of restrictions imposed by the OS, the hardware, and Apple’s contracts with carriers as well as contracts with developers. Only users who can hack or “jailbreak” their devices can escape these limitations. link to the article on the […]
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Commotion: Let’s get Meshy!
WHAT’S COMMOTIONCommotion, is an open source “device-as-infrastructure” communication platform that integrates users’ existing cell phones, Wi-Fi enabled computers, and other wireless-capable devices to create community- and metro-scale, peer-to-peer communications networks. HOW IT WORKSCommotion is organized and maintained by community members to fit their needs. It can act as a backbone for last-mile infrastructure, a local […]