12 month ago
deusx : The Javascript Trap - "You may be running non-free programs on your computer every day without realizing it—through your web browser.Many sites still use Javascript that way, but some use it for major programs that do large jobs. For instance, Google Docs downloads into
jcgregorio : The Javascript Trap - Seriously? How is this different from the copyrighted, non-free HTML that contains the Javascript? Just because it's executable
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deusx : Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid - Ars Technica - "Stallman's dismissal of cloud computing and call for the categorical rejection of web services is puzzling in light of the potential opportunities created by web technologies and the innovative work that is being done by software freedom advoca
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18 month ago
deusx : Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk - "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You'r
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26 month ago
nelson : GNU lonelyhearts - sort of sweet, looks to be authentic personal from rms
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Some important news from Wikipedia - As Jimmy announces, the Wikimedia Foundation Board has agreed with a proposal made by the Free Software Foundation that will permit Wikipedia (and other such wikis) to relicense under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
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29 month ago
wearehugh : "There is a 3 member community for using GNU Emacs as a video editor" - i am not one of them
deusx : GNU Emacs video mode supporters are welcome - "There is a 3 member community for using GNU Emacs as a video editor"
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Launch of GNU GPLv3 - On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3.
factoryjoe : Launch of GNU GPLv3 - On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please join us in celebration as we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment, in revision of the wor
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36 month ago
deusx : Blog for fzort - More GNU and FSF News - "After much laughing at this xkcd comic, a friend and I had the silly idea of sending rms a katana (via Amazon, to the FSF office address). Amazingly, not only did rms let us know it was received, but someone at FSF even posted pictures!"
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36 month ago
nelson : Linus on GPLv3 - A reasonable take on licensing and FSF politics
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39 month ago
43folders : living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP - App-based method for Mac + AMP is easy to start and stop and has baked-in goodness like phpMyAdmin. Great for local development or secret laptop sites.
philgyford : Living-e AG: MAMP - Mac - Apache - MySQL - PHP - One-click install of Apache, MySQL, PHP for running sites locally on your Mac without all the httpd.conf etc malarkey.
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wearehugh : gNewSense Official Website | Main / gNewSense
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41 month ago
wearehugh : nicolas rougier | Artwork / Gnu browse - cute little propaganda penguins!
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46 month ago
deusx : Wired News: GNU Radio Opens an Unseen World - "Building a general radio that can receive and transmit, and attaching it to a software system that can fill in the gaps of what we normally think of as radio, is kind of like the Enterprise's deflector dish"
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46 month ago
wearehugh : Linux.com | GNU grep's new features - harvesting email addresses has never been easier! ;-)
deusx : Linux.com | GNU grep's new features - "If you haven't been paying attention to GNU grep recently, you should be happily surprised by some of the new features and options that have come about with the 2.5 series."
Nelson Minar : grep -o - Print only the matching capture; I wrote my own version of this way back when, nice to have a real one
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58 month ago
deusx : Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 released | MacMegasite - "With all of the news focusing on Apple's Intel announcement, another major story has been downplayed: after 3 years, a new stable Debian Linux release is out for PPC as well as X86 and several other platforms."
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