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Zurker - Making Pyramids Appear Flat
Today I heard about Zurker, it's a social networking site that aims to be better because.. Because that's what Nick Oba told Wired:
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Why I hate Ubuntu: Reason #8
Lately there's been a lot of noise on Secure Boot, AKA Restricted Boot. The short version is that with "Secure Bo...
Read more.. . ..One of the Reasons Why I Don't Have a Mobile
Since years I had waited and hoped to get a decent computer phone, yet since they have been made widely available I have not obtained one. Actually I have stopped using mobile phones entirely 2 years ago.
There are many reasons for which I did this, one simply being the...
Read more.. . ..Louis CK - Cutting Out the Middle Man Again !
Last year Louis CK bypassed a lot of crap to deliver his show directly to his fans for a 5$ a download, without DRM, istore or any of those useless obstacles. It was a success and now
Read more.. . ..Granniverse @ The Kidney Bay
Film-makers and musicians have been largely against the peer to peer file sharing networks.. . All ? No, some are even getting The Pirate Bay bump to help them promote their projects. This is known as The Promo Bay.
Read more.. . ..Day Against DRM - 2012
Tomorrow, May 4th 2012, will be Day Against DRM. Take a moment to reflect on the devices you perhaps use that may infringe on your digital Freedoms.
The short version is, many digital devices and software are designed to restrict the usage you can ...
Read more.. . ..Implementing Gravatar Properly
The other day a good friend of mine suggested I implement
Gravatar on my website. So I started checking how it works and
found it was incredibly easy. All I'd have to do use put an img
element with a link to an md5 hash of the commenter's email. Like
this: <img src="http://www.gravata...
Privacy Defending ISP - Calyx
Many ISPs or other Internet services in these current days will often voluntarily co-operate with the authorities without requiring warrants and such. Some will be even
Read more.. . ..UK's Plan to Monitor Emails and Other Communications
The UK would like to implement a new system (originally brought up by the Labour party) that would oblige Internet access providers to monitor all electronic communications. The ISPs would have to store logs of all communications, though they say the actual content of emails wouldn't be recorded ...
Read more.. . ..Why I hate Ubuntu: Reason #43
Ubuntu requires visitors to create an account and log in to view certain threads. I've read this thread (not blocked yet) and now I understand their reasoning: Anything they may have archived is to be considered old and...
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