Post Overview
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Review
8 years ago+3 3 0 x 1Android 6.0 Marshmallow, thoroughly reviewed
Marshmallow brings a lot of user-requested features but still has no update solution.
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Deal
8 years ago+23 23 0Humble Indie Bundle 15! Pay what you want for DRM-free cross-platform games. Support charities as well.
Humble Indie Bundle 15 will last for two weeks before going from an indie to an outie on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 11 a.m. Pacific time. Pay what you want for Goodbye Deponia, Q.U.B.E.: Director's Cut, Sir, You Are Being Hunted, and a coupon ...
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Current Event
8 years ago+2 2 0Five years of LibreOffice
LibreOffice was launched as a fork of OpenOffice.org on September 28, 2010, by a tiny group of people representing the community in their capacity of community project leaders. At the time it was a brave - although necessary - decision, because it wa ...
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Current Event
8 years ago+1 1 0Taken Offline: New EFF Project Shines Light on Coders and Bloggers Imprisoned For Online Free Expression
Activists Targeted by Governments Need Support From Global Digital Community. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched the Offline project, a campaign devoted to digital heroes—coders, bloggers, and technologists—who have been imprison ...
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Current Event
8 years ago+2 2 0Obama administration quietly explored ways to bypass smartphone encryption
An Obama administration working group has explored four possible approaches tech companies might use that would allow law enforcement to unlock encrypted communications — access that some tech firms say their systems are not set up to provide. The g ...
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Expression
8 years ago+21 21 0The Internet’s Vanishing Point?
Technologies only become truly integrated into society when they move from requiring forethought to becoming an afterthought. It’s the progression of all innovations and it’s now happening to how we experience of the internet.
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Expression
8 years ago+22 22 0Firefox 41 integrates WebRTC messaging app as it fights for relevance
Firefox Hello works, but it's hard to see it drawing new users to Mozilla's browser.
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Expression
8 years ago+1 1 0Mozilla Firefox 42.0 to Bring GTK3 Integration for GNU/Linux, New Privacy Settings
Mozilla Firefox 42.0 has entered development, with a first Beta build released on September 23, and the first set of features to be implemented in the final version of the software have already been revealed. Among them we can mention GTK3 integratio ...
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Video/Audio
8 years ago+1 1 0Introducing GNOME 3.18
Experience what's new in GNOME's apps and development tools in this quick video preview of the GNOME 3.18 release.
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Expression
8 years ago+25 25 0Valve hits a Linux landmark—1,500 games available on Steam
A few months after Valve officially launched Steam for Linux in 2013, Gabe Newell gave his LinuxCon keynote crowd a bit of music for their ears. "It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the fut ...
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Current Event
8 years ago+1 1 0It's Software Freedom Day!
Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in busine ...
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Current Event
8 years ago+19 19 0Debian to stop producing CD ISO sets for future releases citing lack of use
We'll stop building full CD sets of all of Debian (up to 90 per architecture) for new releases, and testing. And we'll also kill the differing CD1 options for different desktops. We'll continue building DVD and BD images. DVD#1 will co ...
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Review
8 years ago+2 2 0 x 112 Raspberry Pi 2 model B cases compared and reviewed
So you’ve got your Raspberry Pi 1 B+ or Raspberry Pi 2 B model, but you haven’t got a case for it yet. Or maybe you’ve got a case, but you want to “level up” to a nicer one. But which one to get? There are so many!
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Current Event
8 years ago+22 22 0EFF Provides Evidence to Courts of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T Participation in NSA Spying
This week EFF presented evidence in two of its NSA cases confirming the participation of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T in the NSA's mass telephone records collection under the Patriot Act. This is important because, despite broad public ...
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Review
8 years ago+2 2 0Trying Out The Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Driver Rework In Linux 4.3
With the forthcoming Linux 4.3 kernel is a big rework to the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver. Here are our first tests of NVIDIA GeForce hardware under Linux 4.2 stable and then the Linux 4.3 Git code with this reworked driver.
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Expression
8 years ago+17 17 0EFF to ICANN: Privacy Must be Purposeful — Not an Afterthought
The working group at Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Number (ICANN) that has been tasked with designing a new domain registration database can’t seem to wrap its head around why privacy matters when it comes to domain registration se ...
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Expression
8 years ago+14 14 0We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets
People can fight back against planned obsolescence by fixing the tech we already own, but the consumer electronics industry isn’t making it easy.
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Expression
8 years ago+20 20 0US claim on the world’s servers at a crossroads
US wants warrant "to break down the doors of Microsoft’s Dublin facility." The Obama administration on Wednesday will argue to a US appeals court that companies operating in the US must comply with valid warrants for data—even if that data ...
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Expression
8 years ago+12 12 0The Free Software Foundation: 30 years in
Jono Bacon reflects on the 30-year anniversary of the FSF and shares excerpts from his interview of John Sullivan, the foundation's executive director.
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Download
8 years ago+1 1 0Plasma 5.4.1 Bugfix Release
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.4.1. Plasma 5.4 was released in August with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes ...