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Why Mastodon is Better

05/11/202214/11/2022 Paul culture, free software, open source, social media, technology

With the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon, and even mainstream praising the platform as “interesting”, should you too migrate away from Twitter? (TL;DR: Yes. You can carry on with your day now).

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Software 

LibreCalc – The Free Calculator

16/01/2015 Paul 3D printing, design, linux, open source, technology

The LibreCalc is a scientific calculator that has it all: it’s open source, it runs Linux, and it’s 3D printed.

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Hardware 

Fixing the Throwaway Society

14/01/2015 Paul community, technology

A new breed of makers – the fixers, is subverting the status quo by doing something that not so long

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Software 

Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) Will Die Without Your Donation

20/12/2014 Paul donations, open source, privacy, security, software, technology

The GPG team is running a donation campaign to keep the project alive. GnuPG keeps your email and communications secure

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Free Culture Open Data Software 

JPEG is Dead… Long Live BPG!

11/12/2014 Paul open source, technology, web

Fabrice Bellard has just introduced the BPG (Better Portable Graphics) format to the world, an image format that achieves amazing

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Hardware 

A Very Open Xmas! – Part I: Hardware

25/11/2014 Paul linux, open source, technology

Yes, ’tis time to drink, dance and go shopping. To satisfy the compulsive Christmas shopper we all carry within ourselves,

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Free Culture Open Data 

CERN just Opened all its Data

21/11/2014 Paul open source, science, technology

Be it for educational purposes or for research, you can now download all the data of all the experiments carried

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Software 

WhatsApp CEO donates USD $1,000,000 to FreeBSD

18/11/2014 Paul donations, open source, software, technology

The FreeBSD Foundation, creators and maintainers of the free and open sourced FreeBSD operating system, have received a very generous

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Free Culture Software 

A Windows Videographer Tries Free Editing Apps

16/11/2014 Paul culture, linux, open source, technology

Sean Riley, one of the creators of Computerphile, a web series about Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, tried

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Software 

Microsoft Legally Contradicts Itself

13/11/2014 Paul copyright, open source, patents, software, technology

In what seems to be a new and much welcomed trend towards true openness, Microsoft announced yesterday they were opening

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