Tag: Open source
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The Revolution May Be A Slider Away…
If Wordfence is correct, the whole Mossack Fonseca shit-show might have been caused by an outdated WordPress plugin, Slider Revolution! That’s if the data was indeed hacked, as MF asserts, and not handed over by a concerned party, as the ICIJ claimed. But it does reveal something I’ve been concerned about a lot, following Wordfence…
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Mark Hosler of Negativland on Creative Commons
Mark Hosler talking in 2006 – I didn’t know Negativland was involved in the creation of the Creative Commons sampling license. 😀 Love the comments about idealism, artistic and creative control being impossible, Marky Mark and that advertising is not free speech. And via Eric Kleptone is some documentary footage of the True/False tour, and…
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a rather geeky post but I’m rather pleased…my first Linux install
May seem a small step for the rest of the universe, but this is my first post on Ubuntu, a Linux system. I like open source, and use it where I can on this Vista machine…but previously scared of all the driver hassles and hoops you had to jump through – and those bash/bin/i/am/a/total/geek/ -rm…
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Public vs Private 2.0
Scott Loftness’s reply about Walled Gardens to Dave Winer’s Google post (which I was following every rising and falling Southern-style cadence until I got to the phrase “bright eyes of happy independent developers” and I dissolved in a fit of giggles caused by images from dog-food commercials…do these developers have a glossy coat and warm…