Apple finally jumped the shark
UPDATE: thanks to Carlos Solís we now have a Spanish translation! Thank you! The following is a rant. You have been warned. Everyone that knows me is familiar with my hate-hate relationship with Apple....
View ArticleSERVICES.TXT
Hosting multiple different services on the same server and under the same domain name used to be simple. Set-up the services, optionally add MX or SRV records to the DNS zone if they are being run...
View ArticleEmbrace fragmentation
When you're in the IT business, fragmentation is bad. Whether it's your platform that gets fragmented (hullo there, Android), or you're tha admin that has to support all different versions of popular...
View ArticleSocial blogosphere
I already wrote about a Diaspora-based comment system, but here's a question that I have been pondering for some time now: why not ramp it up a notch?.. Why not make a whole blog on Diaspora or...
View ArticleBorder conditions for preserving subjectivity in the digital era
Please note: in this text I use the term "subjectivity" in the meaning of the right to be recognised as an acting subject, as opposed to beaing treated as a mere object of actions of others. Thanks to...
View ArticleFighting Black PR around OER
I have already written about the black PR campaign waged by the traditional publishers' lobby against the Polish open textbooks government programme, and I have given a talk on 29C3 on this topic. Time...
View ArticleOne year anniversary of Anti-ACTA
It's a year today since the whole Europe joined Poland in anti-ACTA protests. Since then we had Polish PM admitting his mistake, politicians calling ACTA "passé", some serious lobbying in the European...
View ArticleHOWTO: effectively argue against Internet censorship ideas
During last few years I have been involved in arguing against several attempts at introducing Internet censorship in Poland. Some of these where very local and went almost unnoticed outside Poland...
View ArticleWhy I find -ND unnecessary and harmful
'UPDATE: highlighted the harmfulness of incompatibility of "no derivatives" licenses with libre licenses (including other CC-licenses); heartfelt thanks to Carlos Solís for the Spanish translation....
View ArticleLibel Culture
While I am not a big fan of libel lawsuits (as they are often used to stifle freedom of speech or science), this one time I am very content about them. Alek Tarkowski and Igor Ostrowski are suing...
View ArticlePosts' markup is now available
Thanks to a suggestion made by Sam 'samthetechie' Carlisle it is now possible to download source markup of every single post on this brag: just add a .src to the post's address (or click the nice src...
View ArticleHow information sharing uproots conservative business models
(and why this is not necessarily a bad thing)Abstract With each day we seem to acquire new — faster, better, more convenient — ways of sharing information; and today almost anything can be information:...
View ArticleShortest Internet censorship debate ever
Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking part (via a radio interview) in the shortest Internet censorship debate ever. In the morning the Minister of Justice has apparently discovered there is porn on...
View ArticleLies, damn lies, and analytics
Full disclosure: I have finally installed some analytics on this brag. Now, now, keep your cool! No need for those pitchforks, please put them down and read on.no, I am not and will never be using...
View ArticleIt's his own fault
The scenario is always the same: a girl is raped, often in some secluded place and/or after dark; this gets media attention for one reason or another; then some politician (unsurprisingly, it's almost...
View ArticleComplaintivism
The sheer number of complaintivists — people that complain about things without doing squat about them — I interact with daily starts to get to me. Take PayPal's recent MailPile SNAFU — we've all known...
View ArticleFacebook for schools
Today I had the pleasure of attending the Safer Internet conference. Among educators, IT specialists and NGO activists galore present was also Gabriela Cseh, Facebook's Head of Public Policy for...
View ArticleLong-expected KMail2 rant
WARNING: This is a rant. You have been warned. This bragpost has been growing on me for some time now. About since the very day I had the questionable pleasure of trying out Akonadi-based KMail2. That...
View ArticleCopyreform at CopyCamp 2013
When a copyright reformist NGO organizes a conference together with (among others) one of the biggest collection societies in Poland, Google, and the Warsaw Hackerspace, you know stuff is going to...
View ArticleTEDx Warsaw Women and privacy
I was planning to attend TEDx Warsaw Women (it happens to be coming up soon), as it looks like an interesting event. Unfortunately, its Organisers decided that: 1. they don't give squat about...
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