MarkTraceur

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FSF membership drive--final day
4 points by MarkTraceur 15y ago|0 comments
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Luckily, my illegal activities will never be discovered--I only use Diaspora, identi.ca, and GNU Social.
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
I suppose I jumped into an example I didn't fully understand--sorry about that :)
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Well, the Google privacy policies have been consolidated, which means less piecewise freedom for people who use one or two Google products. I, for example, use Mail and (barely) use Search. I don't need to agree to things about Google+! And
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After Sopa: What Now?(blog.marktraceur.info)
2 points by MarkTraceur 15y ago|0 comments
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
I love this article for its irony, intentional or no. The author cites perfect examples of why the software industry is exactly like Hollywood with its products. Word? Need a license key. Can't open or save ODT files without annoying popu
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
I go to the University of Redlands. In the past two years, they decided to remove my major (Computer Science) completely from the curriculum for new students (so current sophomores are unable to join the department except to minor), they cu
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Plus, I learned something new about SVGs today: They can contain mouseover text and animations!
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Git-loc: Graph your lines of code in Git(brokestream.com)
1 points by MarkTraceur 15y ago|1 comments
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Protip: ClamAV [0] is a software that doesn't need to rely on code secrecy, and it's completely free (as in beer and, more importantly, freedom). [0] http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
How can you in one post extoll a free/open internet, and after it post links to nonfree sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+? Start walking the walk.
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
> Forbes > Average Joe ???
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
* Actors can act in non-Hollywood movies and TV shows. In fact, they can act in Creative Commons-licensed stuff, too. Why is that a problem? * Progress? Hulu and Vevo place the same digital content we were once able to own and manipulate in
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Also, rather than supporting the MPAA/RIAA industry, try checking out the Blender Foundation, Jamendo, and similar sites that stream or support free content that is licensed under Creative Commons licenses. And of course, since software i
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Yesterday was a huge victory for the Internet. We fought valiantly to stop an unjust legislation that should never have even been written. But we haven't done enough. Head to the link above (or to https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freed
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Here's another way of looking at it: We can get Congress to vote down SOPA/PIPA, or alternatively get the next Congress to repeal it, but there's a fundamental flaw in the way that we , the consumers, do business. Yes, our Congress is taki
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
I saw this in the paper yesterday, but I was immediately disappointed to see that their primary forms of switching away from cable not only required cable Internet connection (because let's face it, DSL and others have no way to stream that
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Is there a link to the minesweeper spreadsheet that I don't see?
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
When I click an 'up' arrow, it disappears and doesn't seem to do anything. Why?
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
https://qrustom.com was a big project for me, https://gitorious.org/stattr was another, and http://test.mine.bz was something I contributed to. I also did https://gitorious.org/mmake , though I don't feel like I really finished it.
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
But that argument is also flawed--free software in web applications is possible through other forms of revenue generation. Advertisements, services related to the product, in-app purchases....none of those options are precluded simply becau
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
The point of the vulnerability was, it wasn't even designed to be malevolent. The application simply had a hole that every application had, under certain circumstances, and he was demonstrating it. I imagine that he was as interested in fix
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
> The main thing to take away from all of this is that iOS apps aren't as secure as we once thought Really? Because the main thing I took away from it was that Apple and Microsoft both have this power, to essentially tell people that
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Way ahead of you! We test it server-side to check if it scans, and if it doesn't, we alert the user. If the user doesn't care about the successful scan, then they can go right ahead and use it anyway.
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
How I read this headline: "Creativity doesn't need a mouse...." Result: http://i.imgur.com/XGSNx.png
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by MarkTraceur 15y ago
Good points--but it looks from my limited knowledge of web frameworks like most people aren't even using AJAX, much less to its full potential. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like Flask/web2py and other MVC frameworks are more interested in