Alyssa Rosenzweig’s summer internship wrap up Planet GNU

Nov 062018
 

As you already know if you read my introductory blog post, over the summer, I interned with the Free Software Foundation tech team. A free software enthusiast, I joined the FSF in order to grow my appreciation, to work on interesting free software projects for which I normally would not have the opportunity, and to meet other free software supporters. My dreams were exceeded! For my first project of the internship, I researched single-board computers…

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7 Smart Justice Ballot Questions We’re Fighting for on Election Day American Civil Liberties Union

Nov 062018
 

Across the country, here are seven opportunities to transform the criminal justice system. So much hangs in the balance in this year’s midterm elections. Control of Congress, governorships, state houses, and district attorney and sheriff’s offices across the country are up for grabs. Many candidates up and down the ballot are debating criminal justice issues, and in many places, this election could be a turning point in the fight to end mass incarceration. Here are seven…

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Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019 The Register

Nov 062018
 

Open-source kernel release candidate adds support for two Chinese processor families… will this be the last CPU archs? The new, improved, and chilled-out Linus Torvalds emitted the first release candidate for Linux kernel 4.20 over the weekend.…

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EFF Unveils Virtual Reality Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices in Their Communities Deeplinks

Nov 062018
 

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a virtual reality (VR) experience on its website today that teaches people how to spot and understand the surveillance technologies police are increasingly using to spy on communities.“We are living in an age of surveillance, where hard-to-spot cameras capture our faces and our license plates, drones in the sky videotape our streets, and police carry mobile biometric devices to scan people’s fingerprints,” said EFF Senior Investigative Researcher Dave…

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W3C launches internet hippie manifesto: ‘We’ve lost control of our data and that data is being weaponised against us’ The Register

Nov 062018
 

Why can’t we all go back to being nice to each other, like in the Usenet and IRC days, er, wait… Comment  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is warning about the death of the web again, and urging people to come together to make the internet all nice and lovely.…

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6th Annual Aaron Swartz Day & International Hackathon at the Internet Archive – Nov. 10-11, 2018 Internet Archive Blogs

Nov 062018
 

Calling all internet hactivists! The Internet Archive is hosting a two day celebration of Aaron Swartz to provide a yearly showcase of the many projects started by Aaron before his death. Aaron Swartz’s work focused on civic awareness and activism and we will spend the weekend together keeping his prescient vision alive. Come join us for the international hackathon and programming on Saturday November 10th through Sunday November 11th, 2018.   Doors are open for the hackathon and the…

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Quick and Dirty MIDI Interface with USBASP Hackaday

Nov 052018
 

[Robson Couto] recently found himself in need of MIDI interface for a project he was working on, but didn’t want to buy one just to use it once; we’ve all been there. Being the creative fellow that he is, he decided to come up with something that not only used the parts he had on-hand but could be completed in one afternoon. Truly a hacker after our own hearts. Searching around online, he found documentation…

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The Green Imperative: Why You Should Vote Green Whenever You Can Green Papers

Nov 032018
 

By Ryan Westdock  Green Party of Virginia It is easy to pick through Democratic propaganda, a process which has happened time and time again to sadly little avail. What is a bit harder, and vastly more important, is to state strong reasons for voting Green when that choice is available. There are many such reasons, some practical and some ethical, for doing so. Perhaps the strongest reason is that our platform is the only one that…

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Great. Global internet freedoms take another dive as censorship and fake news proliferate The Register

Nov 032018
 

China is ‘remaking the world in its techno-dystopian image’ Internet freedoms have taken a nose dive for the eighth year running, according to a report warning that authoritarian countries and populist leaders are exporting harmful attitudes and ideas around the world.…

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Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too TorrentFreak

Nov 032018
 

As a staunch defender of an open Internet, ISP Bahnhof has repeatedly spoken out against pirate site blocking efforts. The company has also argued the matter in court recently, after academic publisher Elsevier applied for an order to ban a series of domain names, including Sci-Hub. Today, Bahnhof announced that it has been ordered to block the sites in question. This is the worst possible outcome for Bahnhof. TorrentFreak spoke to CEO Jon Karlung who…

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[$] SpamAssassin is back LWN.net

Nov 032018
 

The SpamAssassin 3.4.2 release was the first from that project in well over three years. At the 2018 Open Source Summit Europe, Giovanni Bechis talked about that release and those that will be coming in the near future. It would seem that, after an extended period of quiet, the SpamAssassin project is back and has rededicated itself to the task of keeping junk out of our inboxes.

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“Remember that everything you consider solid  is a side effect of the decisions of people who aren’t…” Hack the Planet in Exile

Nov 022018
 

“Remember that everything you consider solid  is a side effect of the decisions of people who aren’t substantially smarter than you are, and those decisions didn’t occur very long ago.” – Rococo Modem Basilisk(I don’t endorse the specific content of this article and I apologize for the paywall link.)

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Will voters lead on electoral reform? What’s New – Fairvote

Nov 012018
 

Amid all the divisive ugliness inside the Beltway, here is some good news: 2018 may well be the best year in a half century for election reform. Today’s narrative laments a crumbling democracy, alienated voters, and a political culture spiraling ever downward. While true, that narrative is incomplete. It misses the remarkable energy building across many states to confront these problems, shore up our democracy, and rebuild our political culture. Nowhere is that energy more…

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A Billionaire-Backed Democrat is Facing Off Against a Democratic Socialist in Berkeley. And It’s Getting Rough. The Intercept

Oct 312018
 

The battles within the Democratic Party have played out in high-profile races this year, largely featuring well-heeled establishment figures with years of elected experience challenged by left-wing outsiders running with the support of a national grassroots movement. Amidst this fight, there has been a strenuous effort from party centrists to drain the question of any ideological content. Party leaders are not pushing any particular agenda, goes the argument, but are merely pragmatists maximizing the chances…

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No Mr. President, You Can’t Change the Constitution by Executive Order American Civil Liberties Union

Oct 312018
 

The 14th Amendment’s citizenship guarantee is one of the bedrocks of America. President Trump said this week that he is preparing an executive order to try to take away the citizenship guarantee in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which says that people born in the United States are United States citizens. On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham announced that he would introduce legislation with the same aim. But the president cannot repeal part of the Constitution by…

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Kepler Closes Eyes After a Decade of Discovery Hackaday

Oct 312018
 

Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with an incredible amount of data about exoplanets within our galaxy, proving these worlds are more varied and numerous than we could ever have imagined. Before its launch we simply didn’t know how common planets such as ours were, but today we know the Milky Way contains billions of them. Some of these worlds are so hot they have seas of molten…

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IBM acquiring Red Hat LWN.net

Oct 282018
 

Bloomberg is reporting that IBM has agreed to acquire Red Hat for over $33 billion. “International Business Machines Corp. will pay $190 a share in cash for Raleigh, North Carolina-based Red Hat, according to a statement from the companies Sunday, confirming an earlier Bloomberg News report. That’s a 63 percent premium over Red Hat’s closing price of $116.68 per share on Friday.”

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New Exemptions to DMCA Section 1201 Are Welcome, But Don’t Go Far Enough Deeplinks

Oct 262018
 

We’re pleased to announce that the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office have expanded the exemptions to Section 1201 of the DMCA, a dangerous law that inhibits speech, harms competition, and threatens digital security. But the exemptions are still too narrow and too complex for most technology users. Section 1201 makes it illegal to “circumvent” digital locks that control access to copyrighted works, and to make and sell devices that break digital locks. Every…

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Decades of music celebrating Audiovisual Heritage Internet Archive Blogs

Oct 262018
 

In honor of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (October 27) we’d like to take you on a brief tour through seven decades of digitized music and audio recordings from 1900 through 1970.  We’ve been working to digitize 78rpm discs for the Great 78 Project to preserve the heritage of the first half of the 20th century, and now we’re turning our eyes toward vinyl LPs that have fallen out of print in the Unlocked Recordings collection. 1905 –…

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Editorial board support for ranked choice voting in 2018 What’s New – Fairvote

Oct 262018
 

In 2018, there has been a significant increase in editorial board support for ranked choice voting. Some highlights: Editorials Give ranked voting a shot. Our democracy would benefit. The Editorial Board on June 14, 2018 … Montgomery County and other localities should consider a reform that empowers the majority by allowing voters to rank their choices. Ranked-choice voting, also known as instant-runoff voting, has been used successfully in other countries as well as a growing…

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