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Today I saw something interesting. An advertisement in the London Underground.

This is what is says:

You Don't Know Me

You don't know anything about me. You don't know
...

This image reveals something about the motivations.

Apple has revised their App Store terms, now these apps cannot contain any links, like to send users to a web page to then make a purchase outside the i-app. All sales from within the i-app mean 30% to Apple.

Companies like Kobo and the Wall Street Journal have refused to accept the new...

Last night I received a "google+ link", something about a conversation etc etc.. I was assuming that even though I don't have a google account I could probably read and maybe even participate in the conversation. Not. I was obnoxiously invited to create a gaccount.

This morning I follo...

Recently Microsoft bought Skype and then Skype started to break down and have many little issues here and there. Of course the expected result has been confirmed in the FSF's latest mail.

Spain has arrested 3 guys who they believe were part of the PlayStation network outage. Hackers aren't supposed to be in prison, they should be in front of a computer playing with code and publishing papers and stuff. Participating in making the collective brain smarter... . Of course most humans...

Microsoft has purchased Skype. Now I'm wondering what is going to happen to this software. I know its never been Free Software, however in it's early days it was directly available for GNU/Linux at a time where most other software vendors would not consider platforms other than windows and macos...

Lately Sony's Playstation network has been totally compromised and has been down for I don't even know how long and seems wont be back up until next summer or something.

The reason for the outage has changed since it all started, first it was hacked by Anonymous, then it was down becaus...

Humble Bundle is back and it's cooler than ever (because it's frozen). The idea is:

• Pay what you want
• Support charity
• DRM free

The really cool part is that it will run on the operating system that reasonable people prefer, GNU/Linux. The gam...

We [should] all know that trusting third party SSL roots is bad, but if you are still not convinced then read how Comodo's SSL service was compromised. In short a reseller account was broken into and from th...

Today I found a copy of Metro in the tube and actually picked it up. of course the main news, like everywhere else this Monday morning, was about the earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis around Japan. What disturbed me a bit ...

I've heard from a few sources that people who have previously signed up to Jobsike.co.uk have been receiving massive amounts of Spam starting just today. This leads me to believe that Jobsite.co.uk's database has been stolen and now many members are being spammed from what appears to be job offer...

The Playstation is a console that people spend money to buy, the company then uses part of the big profits to attack those who try to understand how it works and find other ways of using the device. Of course some people would only buy the console in the first place if they could actually do some...

Some banks have complexified their online security measures, to me this seems more like a way of making the consumers think it's secure rather than actually being secure. Here is the logon process of one of the banks I am talking about (there are many that use the same type of system so no need ...

There is something called the The Humble Indie Bundle #2 where you can buy a few video games for whatever price you want. These games work on MacOS, GNU/Linux and Windows, and do not have DRM though they are not Free.

Interestingly the sales st...

If you live in the U.S. (I guess) you may wish to put your efforts into keeping the Internet as neutral as possible.. go sign the petition to put some weight on the correct side of the balance.

Pidgin users with MSN accounts may have been experiencing problems connecting. It seems they have changed their certificate. The solution seems to be to manually delete the certificate, either by going to "Menu -> Tools -> Certificates" or by doing something like:

If you are in the petition signing mood today OR you just do not feel very comfortable with the idea with the government reading every email (the ones they actually can read of course) as well as all facebook transmissions (for those still using it) and other online communications (where possible...

Lately I've been finding it quite difficult to actually get good results from most search engines, hence after a while I'd often end up back on "do some evil" Google search engine page. After experimenting with other search engines like Ixquick (very good on priv...

My obsession for finding a way to be social (yeah I know, "me, social ? WTF") and not to go too far against my principals. Anyway, you may have heard of some projects lately, some don't work, some somewhat work IF you can spare a complete server and have the latest browser on th...

You know those messages they put on cigarette packs nowadays, the thing that says "smoking is dangerous", well seems like they have started to do the same with mortgages... .

A while ago I ranted about Turnitin pirating copyrighted content, meaning (IMHO) they copy content of peoples websites or student's work and store it in a database for an unlimited time. They then use that content as a means ...