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How would one move beyond the reach of NSLs?
Re:GPL enforcement is a social good on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @11:16AM (#10778517)
If you find yourself with the opportunity to see Bradley Kuhn speak I'd highly recommend it. I met Bradley at the Linux Fest North West event this year in April and it was one of my favourite and most formative moments of the year. I'm proud to be a financial supporter of the Conservancy with all the work that they do to protect and promote Free Software.
Noisetor (sub-project of the Noisebridge hackerspace in SF) received an identical subpoena, and had the same results. We contacted our legal counsel and subsequently the FBI to explain the whole "we can't provide this information because tor" at which point they dropped our requirement to testify.
Re:Cory Doctorow Rejoins EFF to Eradicate DRM Everywhere on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @08:53PM (#8921019)
I'd recommend Cory's latest book: "Information doesn't want to be free" where he addresses the problems presented by DRM and other copyright issues. It's a short read but hugely valuable for folks creating digital content. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R4ZJTMO?btkr=1
Re:Secure Secure Shell on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @10:11AM (#8844632)
djb gave a good overview of general ECC curves as part of his and Tanja's talk at 31C3: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6369_-_en_-_... I'd highly recommend watching it, it was very educational.
Re:WRTnode Opened for $25 on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @12:33PM (#8198252)
Scrolling on this site w/ a mac is incredibly frustrating. It keeps resetting to the top of the page.
Re:HOPE X Streaming Live on Saturday July 19, 2014 @03:42PM (#8058482)
Is anyone else having issues with this stopping every 30 seconds or so? I can't get a continual stream going at all w/ VLC. The site flash players load nothing for me either.
Re:The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS on Monday February 24, 2014 @06:29PM (#7294114)
I feel the same about Google Voice at the moment. It's killer feature for me right now is the ability to text and call people from my Google Voice account from OS X. I use GrowlVoice[1] extensively. It's easily one of my favourite menubar applications.

If TextSecure could replace this functionality it'd cause me to seriously reconsider GV

[1] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/growlvoice-google-voice-clie...

Re:CircleCI raises $6m Series A on Thursday February 06, 2014 @04:40PM (#7193130)
Super excited to see this news and what the CircleCI team have planned. Can't overstate how much I love CircleCI or how much easier it makes my life. Definitely one of the best services I use day to day.

Congrats to the team! It's well deserved.

This is worrying as my Mum's iPhone just bit the dust and we replaced it with an Android phone. I'm hoping that she doesn't experience the same issues with her friends and family (many of whom use iPhones).
Re:We're Shutting Down and I'm Scared on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @07:33PM (#7140920)
Take some time to decompress. The winding down period is stressful and it seems you're already feeling the effects.

As many have mentioned you've only enriched your resume with this experience. Use it to find yourself work, your incubator network should be full of people looking to hire.

I've gone through this and it's stressful as all hell but you'll make it through. With your nose right up against it the problems seem much more formidable than they are in reality. Employees come first in terms of settling debts. Deal with vendors after that.

One point I'd really stress is that you should talk to people about it. Feel free to reach out ([email protected])

Re:The microhydro plant on Thursday December 12, 2013 @10:32PM (#6898928)
You could also sell back to the grid. I've known people to do this if they live near streams / rivers in WA
Re:Flamingo for Mac: A Modern Messaging App on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @03:49PM (#6636978)
Installed it and while it looks very nice it's been beachballing almost constantly with only 2 accounts connected (facebook and hangout)

Search is very slow and causes ~500ms input lag.

Needs a lot of polish still.

Re:The genius and folly of MongoDB on Sunday October 20, 2013 @02:13PM (#6580818)
I'm unsure why you say there are no other alternatives. Surely the choice of database should preference your data and what you want to do with it over the language you'll use? There are node libraries for any database I've ever wanted to use (SQL and NoSQL alike)
Re:Hosted server status pages for startups on Friday September 27, 2013 @12:35PM (#6457842)
That domain isn't active and is in the process of being auctioned. Typo perhaps?
Re:The Data Behind H-1B Visas on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @02:45PM (#6362263)
Unsurprising to find that such a small percentage of applications were for musicians / singers. Is that not what the artist category in the O visa was designed for?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa

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