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424 Blog articles in total, showing 371 to 380
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Video: Richard Stallman — A Free Digital Society
Richard Stallman is something of a legend. He singlehandedly launched the Free Software movement, and the GNU project and has been campaigning for software freedom for almost as long as there have been usable home computers. I jumped at the opportunity to see him talk at the Institution of Engineer …
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March 2011 Reading
Let me first just mention that prepending the word post to any body of thought – post-anthropology, say – doesn't magically result in a rejuvination of that thought as some theorists are wont to believe. Howe …
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Review — Thatchers Somerset Vintage Cider
I should note as prominently as is possible that buying stuff from M&S is ethically extremely questionable given their well documented support for the Israeli state. Acquiring stuff in other ways may be an opt …
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Tip: Hassle Free Passwordless Remote SSH Login
There is plenty of other documentation of how to set up remote passwordless ssh logins elsewhere on the web. But it often takes some faffing to make it work as you'd like. Now, I often do this, so I thought I’d write up the easiest way that I’ve found to do so. It only has two steps. How …
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Review — Aspalls Draught Suffolk Cyder
Photo by Bill McIntyreused under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence. Of course this isn’t the first time I’ve reviewed Aspalls’, my previous Aspalls Premier Cru review was a bit bourgeois, a …
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February 2011 Reading
Turing's 1936 paper on Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem is something of a geek classic, introducing important concepts like the Universal Turing Machine. I’m no mathemetician even though I r …
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January 2011 Reading
This is a frankly awesome critique of the (mid-90s) left’s ’master’ narritive of totalised global capitalism. The books central insights are gleaned …
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5 Best Firefox/Iceweasel Privacy Plugins
Activists and other people are frequently targetted for surveillance by power in its various forms - governments, police, media and corporate power. Increasingly this surveillance takes place on line. And so it makes sense to set up your firefox browser to be as resistent as possible to such surve …
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My Drupal Life Aggregator
I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with RSS. Its just simple enough that you can make something in an evening. But just complex enough that the thing could potentially be a bit interesting. So, I set out to learn a bit more about Drupal, especially about theming it. I wan …
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Oxford Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre Website
OSARCC are a fantastic collective of women committed to supporting survivors of sexual abuse, rape, domestic abuse, and harassment. I helped them to get their website transitioned away from flat html to a simple CMS, Sky Blue Canvas. Their main requirement was that whatever system they ende …
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