Category: #software
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Quantifying yourself without giving it all away
One new project just cropped up in my mind: I’d like to quantify myself more. You know, keep track of my sleeping and moving patters so I can learn and improve them. But all the stuff I find online, by Nike or by Fitbit, requires you to register online and compare results and blah blah […]
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Privacy Policy
Just installed Piwik and wanted to let you know that. #foundprivacy #optout #software
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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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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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Libre Projects
Find all kinds of Open Source alternatives and cool project on this website! Libre Projects. #software
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The mud puddle test
The mud puddle testYou don’t have to dig through Apple’s ToS to determine how they store their encryption keys. There’s a much simpler approach that I call the ‘mud puddle test’: First, drop your devices in a mud puddle. Next, slip in said puddle and crack yourself on the head. When you regain consciousness you’ll […]
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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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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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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 […]
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How Facebook could get you arrested
While Facebook might be more effective than police in predicting crime, it cannot be allowed to take on these policing functions without also adhering to the same rules and regulations that spell out what police can and cannot do in a democracy. We cannot circumvent legal procedures and subvert democratic norms in the name of […]