• I Forgot My Phone

    This short YouTube movie illustrates in a nice way what I wrote about in my recent post about smartphones.

  • 20 years of Debian

    Debian has celebrated its 20th anniversary last week. IIRC, I’ve installed Debian in 1995 for the first time, version 0.93R5. My very first GNU/Linux distribution was SLS (who knows today what it was?). I switched to Slackware soon and after some time I decided it might be a good idea to try something else once […]

  • Schneier on surveillance partnership

    I strongly recommend reading the excellent essay on surveillance partnership of government and private sectors by Bruce Schneier. I’d just add that I don’t believe changes in formal policies are enough to solve the problem (although they are very important). We also need to technically break the inherent surveillance grounds. We users can do it, […]

  • Freedom on Android devices

    If you care about freedom and you use Android based devices, please consider donating to FSF’s fundraising program for Replicant. Replicant is free (“free” as in “freedom”) replacement for Android; software freedom is very important on mobile devices. See the fundraising announcement for more information.

  • Slaves of smartphones

    I’ve been recently present in company of my colleagues for a week. My colleagues are all equipped with smartphones. Whenever and wherever we were doing something, it always ended up by half the people staring into their phones. Typically playing with them in some way as children like to do. Well, we’re an IT company […]