Donald Trump is attacking Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This is a really bad move. He doesn’t understand it at all, and unfortunately, neither do many Republicans who’ve become vocal about this lately. This will likely make things worse for conservatives (and everyone) on the internet, not better. […]
Technology
219 posts
A prayer table in a classroom is like a Chief Digital Officer at a record label — a nice way to pretend that you care when you’re really just shoving something off into a corner. Legacy organizations sometimes hire someone who gets technology, and maybe even give them a fancy […]
I spent a few hours troubleshooting a problem with Thin when I upgraded from Redmine 2.5 to Redmine 3.0 on a Debian Wheezy server. I found a solution that’s worked for me. I’m not confident enough with Ruby and this setup to make a HowTo on the Redmine wiki, but […]
I got into a public fight with IceWeasel/Firefox 30 and the Mozilla sync service on pump.io last month, and was meaning to publish my “fix”… but it was so hacky, I don’t know which part of it actually worked. But, since it’s somewhat time-sensitive during this sync service transition, I […]
As an avid reader of both David Weinberger and Pope Francis, it was very interesting to see those two worlds collide in Weinberger’s cross-tradition interpretation of Pope Francis’ message for World Communications Day. First, Weinberger looks at Pope Francis’ initial characterization of the Internet: The internet, in particular, offers immense […]
After some strange behaviour in gPodder 2.20.3 yesterday on my N900 (not responding to episode actions), I quit gPodder and tried to start it up again, but it would crash during startup everytime with an error about “database disk image malformed” from line 316 of dbsqlite.py on the query: “SELECT […]
This post is part of a series in which I am detailing my move away from centralized, proprietary network services. Previous posts in this series: email, feed reader, search. Finding a replacement for Google Calendar has been one of the most difficult steps so far in my degooglification process, but […]
When I moved to Maemo in 2010, I was using Google Calendar. I setup a sync via Exchange and eventually Erminig, which allowed me to sync my wife’s Google calendar too. But, when I started degooglifying and moving to free network services, I left Google Calendar for Funambol, using SyncEvolution […]
I’ve always had mixed feelings about Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu GNU/Linux. While they’ve made great contributions to free software, they’ve also been very inconsistent in their commitment to software freedom. Mark Shuttleworth’s response to the privacy concerns in Ubuntu 12.10 has fundamentally shattered my trust. An Uneasy History From […]