— Lord Byron
— Claude Bernard
“As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us.”
-Richard Stallman
…as the world changes, the importance of the ability to check what the code in your devices is doing - by someone else in case you lack the skills - becomes increasingly apparent. If we lose the ability to check what our own computers are doing, we’re boned.
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nickthejam: I may not have gone where I intended to go…
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— Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
— Edward Abbey (A Voice Crying in the Wilderness)
— Alan Rabinowitz.
Daily chart: the world’s richest people, adjusted for age. Mark Zuckerberg is already the 52nd richest person in the world—if Facebook’s recently...
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A baby bonobo kisses its mother at Jacksonville Zoo in Florida. British plumber, Graham McGeorge spent three months documenting the female dominated...
