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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

  • Join DIASPORA* today

    an invitation to join the open and cool network Diaspora: DIASPORA*. #diaspora #easyaspie #lookingforsolutions #nofacebook #software

  • Quick Guide to Email encryption

    This chapter will introduce you to some basic concepts behind mail encryption. It is important to read to get some feeling of how mail encryption actually works and what its caveats and limitations are. PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is the protocol we shall use for e-mail encryption. This protocol allows us to digitally sign and […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Discussion with @ICTRecht and @photomatt on Privacy and Jetpack

    I like how twitter enables you to communicate with people you would normally never have a conversation with. Here is a screenshot of a dialogue I had with @ICTRecht en @photomatt (Matt Mullenweg: the founder of WordPress) “@photomatt: WP 3.4 and Jetpack Comments: wp.me/p4oB3-aAo” @ictrecht does jetpack violate the new cookie-law? #nicefeature #2ndthoughts — dosch […]

  • Twitter embed testing in WordPress 3.4

    As of version 3.4 WordPress supports the embedding of twitter messages. Although it they showcase it with https in the screenshot, it only works when omitting the s and only use http. Here is an example: http://twitter.com/dosch/status/213155903015358464 #embed #lookingforsolutions #software #twitter

  • My rant against the new Facebook plugin on WordPress.org

    You’re serious?! You are using Open Source and free software only to hand over all of your data in the blink of an eye to Facebook?! Somehow people need to understand that the monolith of Facebook needs to be stopped; they are literary in the smallest veins of the internet, surveilling and controlling it’s pulse. […]

  • Some fun security software from @moxie

    Click this link #diy #foundprivacy #lookingforsolutions #security #software

  • Password Meter

    Test de sterkte van je wachtwoorden via dosch.it/pass Password Meter – A visual assessment of password strengths and weaknesses. #diy #security #software