- On being harassed: a little GF history and some current events | Geek Feminism Blog
Life is alarmingly difficult for women in technology… "So, here’s our situation. We have a man (presumably; at any rate he appears to want to be identified as such) in the Australian Linux community, who targets women by sending them private abusive emails from a throwaway address and with a name that can’t readily be connected to any publicly known member of the community." (women open_source community dopost sexual_harassment )
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec
Now under the Apache licence: "The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple and supported on iPhone, iPad, most iPods, Mac and iTunes. ALAC is a data compression method which reduces the size of audio files with no loss of information. A decoded ALAC stream is bit-for-bit identical to the original uncompressed audio file." (apple audio apache dopost )
- [mySociety:public] Richard Stallman speaker visit
Richard Stallman's rider. And much more… "A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I really like, I like it without milk and sugar. With milk and sugar, any kind of tea is fine. I always bring tea bags with me, so if we use my tea bags, I will certainly like that tea without milk or sugar." (richard_stallman requirements dopost )
- the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support
Chart of OS update support for Apple and Android phones. It looks bad for Android users. Possibly. (android apple support operating_systems dopost updating mobile )
- Nobody Gives A Damn About Your Klout Score | TechCrunch
The emptiness of social media reputation systems starts to be highlighted… "Apparently a Klout algorithm change made some users’ scores drop, which had people go all “the sky is falling” in the comments section of the blog post announcing the adjustment, “My score went from 73 down to 53. 20 point drop. I’ve been working for months to increase my Klout score. Please fix this,” said Klout user Timothy Whalin." (social_media reputation klout algorithms )
- Sally Morgan’s lawyer sends me an email – slsingh’s posterous
"With the Psychic Sally Halloween Challenge less than 48 hours,
Sally’s lawyer sends me a heavy handed email. He is not a happy bunny." (psychics fraud simon_singh letter legal )
- About VortexBox » vortexbox.org
"VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick-install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy-to-use music server/jukebox. " (music linux diy dopost )
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