PRISM exposes an Internet devolving from an open flow of human ideas into an X-ray machine with an agenda
MediaGoblin's newest release is here, 0.4.0! We've got a whole lot of cool things, most excitingly document support and an improved plugin infrastructure. Now more than ever before MediaGoblin has the tooling to become a real library of knowledge. Sounds exciting? Read on! Cory Doctorow's Little Brother being shown in MediaGoblin First of all, let'...But do I understand it right that MediaGoblin wants to use pump.io for federation?
Der BND liest mit: Nicht nur die amerikanische NSA, auch der deutsche Auslandsgeheimdienst kundschaftet internationalen Mailverkehr aus. Nun soll die Netzüberwachung sogar ausgebaut werden.
Die Regierung müsse mehr in die IT-Sicherheit "Made in Germany" investieren. "Das wird dreistellige Millionenbeträge kosten."
Die Regierung müsse mehr in die IT-Sicherheit investieren, sagt CSU-Politiker Hans-Peter Uhl. Auch Dieter Wiefelspütz (SPD) fordert angesichts des US-Datenskandals "angemessene Alternativen".
Wenn die NSA flächendeckend das Netz überwacht, dann muss man sie einfach vor Kritik in Schutz nehmen, dachte sich wohl unser Bundesüberwachungsminister Hans-Peter Friedrich und dankte zugleich für die “gute Zusammenarbeit”: Bundesinnenminister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) hat die USA im NSA-Überwachungsskandal verteidigt und vor deutscher K...
Nach der Anhörung von Experten zur Patentierbarkeit von Computerprogrammen im Bundestag gibt es seit Freitag einen ersten, fraktionsübergreifenden Antrag, der Softwarepatenten Grenzen setzen möchte.
Laut einem Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Bloomberg arbeiten zahlreiche Privat-Unternehmen mit US-Nachrichtendiensten zusammen. So soll Microsoft Daten über Sicherheitslücken bereits vorab an NSA, CIA und FBI weitergeben. Im Gegenzug sollen die Unternehmen mit vertraulichen Informationen versorgt werden.
Smartphone users are a significant and fast growing segment of Internet users, and at Google we want them to experience the full richness of the web. As part of our efforts to improve the mobile web, we published our recommendations and the most common configuration mistakes. Avoiding these mistakes helps your smartphone users engage with your site...
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 are up 69 percent on Amazon, according to a list on the website.
The book marked its 60th anniversary on June 6 amid a flurry of real-world news stories on secret government surveillance.
Amazon lists the paperback version of the sci-fi classic as the 19th biggest book on its Movers and Shakers list. The current sales rank is 110.
The list identifies the biggest gainers in sales rank compared to 24 hours ago.
Update: As of 3:22 p.m. EDT, sales of Orwell's 1984 are up 91 percent on the Amazon Movers and Shakers list.
Update II: As of 10:16 p.m. EDT, sales of Orwell's 1984 are up 126 percent on the Amazon list. The sales rank is now at 71 - up from 161.
Links are the integral part of internet. The World Wide Web exists because of hyperlinks. So, while designing our websites, it’s important to give high priority to links styling. How do we style our links? I have seen that in many websites, the links are styled with distinct colors and background other than normal text. Surely, the basic design c...
focal-point - A small set of CSS classnames to help keep images cropped on the focal point for responsive designs. Using only HTML/CSS, web authors can specify an image's focal point, which stays as the image's primary focus, while the image's available width changes on responsive webpages. Crop and re-size images depending on available width and let CSS to do all of the work, and without any JavaScript.
Reading an article entitled Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images on Design Shack.Just need to get this into my CMS somehow.
In the world of tech giants Apple and Samsung, tiny upstarts make small waves. Finland’s smartphone maker Jolla hopes to change that with security innovations in its new phone.Being able to switch the security level and applications from work phone to private phone would be really interesting.
Collegium Leoninum Bonn, up to 80 participants
This Demo Camp will be sponsored by itemis AG, Eclipse strategic member and the leading company for model-driven software development. If your company is willing to co-sponsor this event, please contac...
Opt out of PRISM, the NSA's global data surveillance program. Stop reporting your online activities to the American government with these free alternatives to proprietary software.
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? Someone from the new merged StatusNet/GNU social? Or is it a campaign for pump.io? Whoever you are you are genious.Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation – and what happens next#prism #whistleblow
Ich gebe zu, für mein Alter bin ich schon ziemlich lang online. Meine erste Verbindung, damals noch unter dem Begriff DFÜ, führte mich 1991 in die wunderbare Welt der Mailboxen, ihrer ANSI-Grafiken auf schwarzem Hintergrund, und modernen Protokollen wi...
Die Wikipedia Deutschland kennt Netzneutralität seit dem 2. Juni 2006. Kurz vor dem deutschen Sommermärchen legte der Nutzer Gibro den etwas mageren Artikel mit dem folgenden Wortlaut an: Unter Netzneutralität wird eine in den USA geführte Diskussion verstanden, bei der es um einen Gesetzesentwurf zur Nutzung der Bandbreiten für Internetanwe...#netzneutralität #drosselkom
Im Linux-Magazin 10/2012 beschrieb der Autor Sven Anders seine Erlebnisse mit dem Netgear-Switch GS108E, einem relativ preisgünstigen Modell des Herstellers. Das Gerät bietet aber die Möglichkeit, VLANs zu verwenden oder auch einen Port zu spiegeln. Da...
The open source web application for project planning, monitoring and control
The automatic audio post production webservice, using signal processing and machine learning techniques.
On June 8th, 2013 the developers of GNU social are pleased to announce a merger with both the Free Social project and the StatusNet project. Free Social developer and founder, Mikael Nordfeldth and GNU social founder, Matt Lee will co-manage the project. StatusNet founder and Federated Web pioneer Evan Prodromou, will remain active on the project a...Funny logo of GNU social, btw.
the triumphs and travails of a shift-key-challenged KDE hacker The biggest thing that I dislike about "app stores" (when did they stop being applications by the way?) is that it changes me from being an end user to a customer. It's really more of an overall philosophy. So rather than focus on quality, a focus on getting money from the customer is a...
the triumphs and travails of a shift-key-challenged KDE hacker You are not the only one eagerly waiting. Me too! BTW, with the start of the FairPhone i would like to know, how "fair" the Vivaldi hardware is. Have you plans on this? It would be great, if after a while, it would be as fair as the software allready is. Does it go into desktop mode whe...
PHP runs over 75% of all websites whose technologies are known (source: w3techs), which makes for a really REALLY long tail of users who once installed wordpress, phpmyadmin, or some other open source project that helped their business needs at the time. What they don't do is upgrade. PHP's current usage statistics look like this (source and raw nu...
Seriously.js - A real-time, node-based video effects compositor for the web built with HTML5, Javascript and WebGL
Welcome to our next Hacker Challenge! Each week, we issue a new challenge. You get until Sunday to prepare your submission and send it to us. That gives you a few days to think about it and a whole weekend to work it up. Our editors pick the best submissions and our favorite will win a copy of the Lifehacker book!
GENEVA (4 June 2013) – “Freedom of expression cannot be ensured without respect to privacy in communications,” United Nations Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue said today, calling for more global attention to the widespread use of surveillance technologies by States in violation of the human rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
A vulnerability in all versions of Windows can be exploited by ordinary users to obtain system privileges. The vulnerability was discovered by Google's Tavis Ormandy, who posted his discovery online without first informing Microsoft
Rangy not supported in your browser. Reason: Neither Range nor TextRange are implementedWelcome to the new open web, now I will even never get to know why the move from identi.ca to pump.io was postponed.
Babies are supposed to like high-contrast mobiles, but I didn’t like any of the high modernist alternatives out there, so I made my own. Carbon fiber band, lots of black and white animals, and of course Tux the GNU/Linux penguin ...
Ein Jahr nach dem ESC in Baku ist Aserbaidschan autoritärer geworden, sagt Emin Milli. Mit Meydan TV informiert der Blogger als unabhängige Stimme - aus einem Keller in Berlin.
Linuxtag 2013 Einige Hard- und Softwarehersteller betreiben enormen Aufwand, um Funktionen auf ihren Geräten einzuschränken. MIT-Forscher Benjamin Mako Hill bezeichnet diese als "Antifeatures" -
moments as possible so that we fall off guard 
[1]much-too-hot or [2]cold&rainy
I prefer [1]anyway