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Tripling Down Against USA Conference Hosting
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Living on the Edge – Story of an Iranian Student in US
Story of an Iranian Student in US
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Time to Take a Stand
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable. In...
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Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikipedia
Grant supports development of more advanced tools for volunteers and staff to reduce harassing behavior on Wikipedia and block harassers from the site.
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Hardcore History 59 The Destroyer of Worlds
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EFF Asks Mass. High Court to Require Clear Limits for Searches of Devices
Along with several other advocacy groups, EFF signed on to an amicus brief this week in the case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. James Keown, in support of requiring courts to set pre-search limits on the method of digital searches by law enforcement pursuant to judicially authorized...
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Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality
Professor Walter Scheidel examines the history of peace and economic inequality over the past 10,000 years.
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Dutch secret service tries to recruit Tor-admin
Recently a Dutch man with an MSc (Master of Science) at the Delft University of Technology and admin of Tor-exit nodes was approached by two agents of the Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD. They wanted to recruit the man as an informant or undercover agent, who would also infiltrate foreign hacker communities. The…
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First they came for the Iranians
Action Item: If you’re an American academic, please sign the petition against the Immigration Executive Order. (There are already more than eighteen thousand signatories, including Nobel Laur…
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The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
Very few think the world is making progress. In this article, we look at the history of global living conditions and show that the world has made immense progress in important aspects.
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War and Peace
How common are armed conflict and peace between and within countries? How is this changing over time? Explore research and data on war and peace.
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Init Freedom
Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.
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The NHS Budget And How It Has Changed
What is the NHS budget and how is it funded? Find out in our nutshell.
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Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars
Many new technologies have unexpected impacts on the physical or social world in which we live.
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Supreme Court Should Block Printer Company’s Ploy to Undermine Consumer Rights
San Francisco - When you buy a printer cartridge, is it yours? Or can the company control what you do with it, even after you pay your bill and take it home? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Supreme Court today to protect consumers’ property rights in a court case centering...
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Why we should all have a basic income
Imagine everyone getting a basic income just because they are a citizen. Read on to know how this basic income will change things in society.
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I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
After my trip in Hamburg, Germany, for the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress, I left Germany for t
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The internet does to the world what radio did to the world
The internet does to the world what radio did to the world January 21, 2017 Ideas, Misc Over the holidays, I finally found the time to read Marshall McLuhan’s book “Understanding media” (I might have spent time with it during my studies but definitely didn’t pay too much attention back…
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EFF's 100-Day Plan
The Trump presidency starts Friday. Here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's agenda. In a matter of days, the United States will enter a new era. On Friday, President Elect Donald J. Trump will swear the oath of office, pledging to uphold the Constitution. But as EFF has learned in the course...
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Staying with the US Digital Service
A few months ago, I took a leave of absence from Google to do a stint with the US Digital Service. A lot of people know about the US Digital Service because they helped rescue the healthcare.gov we…
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Mozilla launches a new identity
We’re working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it.
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In Colorado, self-harm is leading cause of death in new mothers
Read the latest news stories from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Discover breakthroughs, events, and campus updates.
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An Inferno on the Head of a Pin
Today’s processors contain billions of heat-generating transistors in an ever shrinking space. The power budget might go from: * 1000 watts on a specialized server * 100 watts on desktops * 30 watts on laptops * 5 watts on tablets * 1 or 2 watts on a phone * 100 milliwatts on an embedded
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Trying to Keep the Internet Safe from Warrantless NSA Surveillance
Next month, President-elect Trump will be handed the keys to the NSA’s vast spying apparatus. As a candidate, he supported mass surveillance of Americans’ phone calls, called for expanded spying on American Muslims, and even invited Russia to hack the emails of his political opponent. With these threats to privacy and…