OpenStreetMap celebrated its 10th birthday last month. It’s a great project with great achievements, like Wikimedia projects. It’s another success of user collaboration and freedom.
Android tablets are useful portable devices. Unfortunately Android makes them less useful than they could be. There are several problems with Android, one of them being lack of applications. While there are free Android applications for many common tasks, they are typically not suitable for serious work and many applications are completely missing, most notably […]
Some interesting starting points: https://lwn.net/Articles/602521/ https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/liberate.en.html
Enough is enough. I don’t like how the stock Android installation treats its users and I finally decided to replace it on my Google Nexus 10 with something else. The reasonable choices were CyanogenMod, AOKP and OmniROM. I decided to install AOKP. Installation instructions looked like installing an alternative ROM on Nexus is a completely […]
A week after the International Day Against DRM, Mozilla has announced that it accepts the W3C DRM proposal and will actively support DRM on the Web. So we’ve lost another battle against DRM. All major Web browsers now officially accept DRM on the Web. I find the following Mozilla explanation scary: “Every other major browser […]
I managed to read apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium by Pope Francis. Very interesting and useful reading.
Today is the eighth International Day Against DRM. I consider DRM unethical, dangerous, threatening our freedom and serving no useful purpose. A lot could be said on the topic, but I’ll try to give just an illustrative example instead. When I looked for works of George Orwell in Czech e-shops I found that they were […]
My country, Czech Republic, has joined the European Union 10 years ago. It was great event and it’s clear that the EU has been helping us a lot to return from the Soviet empire to civilized world. What did we give to the EU? I’m not sure. Our government has made some serious troubles but […]
So Brendan Eich has resigned and has left Mozilla. It was apparently the only reasonable option he had which is a very bad news. (If you don’t know what it is about, look for Brendan Eich Mozilla CEO in your favorite search engine.) The hatred and bigotry demonstrated in this case is scaring. AFAIK Brendan […]
The FreeBSD Journal looks interesting and I might subscribe to it even though I don’t use FreeBSD. There is just one, but important, problem: It can be read only on Android and iOS devices using a DRM equipped proprietary application available from the official Kindle, iOS and Google Android stores. What’s the message? For first, […]