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Submission + - Another project goes private: Amara stops being developed as Open Source

Submitted by northar on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:43AM

northar writes: Subtitling project Amara closes its repository as focus is shifting. Blog post. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.amara.org%2F2020%2F01... . We have seen a few examples of projects that were Open Source changing their license to something else than an OSI approved license. Amara was AGPL up until going private. While future improvements to the code base from PCF will not be public, a copy of the last public code base has been preserved at Gitlab, should anyone be interested in the work done up until now. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Fhanklank%2Fam... Note that no support is given from PCF for this code.

Comment Re:It was never about age... (Score 1) 314

by northar on Friday May 10, 2013 @03:59AM (#43682733) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Programmer At 40?

" I'm nearly 35, and I refuse to switch to new languages. I haven't even heard of half of the languages that you listed" I sounds like your'e tired of the coding and stuff already. Learning new stuff, relearning the old stuff you thoought you knew, new frameworks and new languages is an essential part of coding. If you don't enjoy that..

Comment Wonderful! (Score 1) 314

by northar on Friday May 10, 2013 @03:51AM (#43682701) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Programmer At 40?

If you love doing it, Your'e in for a fun ride and i wish you the best. Just continue! My story: I had never coded a single row until i was at about 28. Now I'm 40, and it's still getting more and more fun to code. Learning new stuff, reshaping your old stuff etc. Java, C, Assembler, Frontendcoding with JQuery. One note though. It takes time, practice, time and experience to become really good. But eventually, you will.

Feed Google News Sci Tech: Pakistan lifts YouTube ban for three minutes, only to find more blasphemy - The (google.com)

From feed by feedfeeder on Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:12PM

The Nation

Pakistan lifts YouTube ban for three minutes, only to find more blasphemy
The Verge
Pakistan's government lifted its three-month ban on YouTube yesterday, only to completely reinstate the block just three minutes later, according to The New York Times. The ban was first implemented in mid-September, in response to a highly controversial ...
Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban, for 3 MinutesNew York Times
Pakistan unblocks YouTube, then blocks it againSacramento Bee
Pakistan's Rehman Malik promises to unblock YouTubeBBC News
AFP-The Hindu-Pakistan Daily Times
all 148 news articles

Submission + - FreeBSD 9.1 released (freebsd.org)

Submitted by

tearmeapart

on Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:04PM

tearmeapart writes: "The teams at FreeBSD have reached another great achievement with FreeBSD 9.1, with improvements to the already fantastic zfs features, more VM improvements (helping bringing FreeBSD to the next generation of VMs), and improvements in speed to many parts of the network system.
Support FreeBSD via the FreeBSD mall or download/upgrade Freebsd from a mirror. Unforunately, the torrent server is still down due to the previous security incident."

Submission + - New documents detail FBI,bank crack down or "terrorist" group Occupy Wall Street (guardian.co.uk)

Submitted by jvillain on Sunday December 30, 2012 @02:28PM

jvillain writes: The Guardian has up a story detailing the crack down on Occupy Wall Street. (OWS). It goes on to show how the FBI, DHS. Terrorist Fusion Centers and the banks all worked together to stifle descent.
"This production [of documents], which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI's surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy movement These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America."

I guess the next question is how many Americans are now listed as part of a "terrorist group" by the government for their support of OWS?

Submission + - Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot (slashdot.org)

Submitted by

gnujoshua

on Sunday December 30, 2012 @01:44PM

gnujoshua writes: "The article title is "Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot". However, this is simply not true. We want computer manufacturers to implement Secure Boot in a way that is secure. If a user can't disable Secure Boot and they are unable to sign their own software (e.g., bootloader, OS, etc), then we call that particular implementation "Restricted Boot." We don't want computer makers to implement Restricted Boot. We want them to implement Secure Boot and to provide a way for individuals to install a fully free OS on their computers. Many computer makers *are* implementing UEFI Secure Boot in this way and we want to continue encouraging them to do so. Please add a correction/update to this article because it is very damaging to our work. Below is the complete text of our statement that we ask people to sign:

We, the undersigned, urge all computer makers implementing UEFI's so-called "Secure Boot" to do it in a way that allows free software operating systems to be installed. To respect user freedom and truly protect user security, manufacturers must either allow computer owners to disable the boot restrictions, or provide a sure-fire way for them to install and run a free software operating system of their choice. We commit that we will neither purchase nor recommend computers that strip users of this critical freedom, and we will actively urge people in our communities to avoid such jailed systems."

Submission + - Linux on Microsoft Surface: What are the odds? (paritynews.com) 3

Submitted by hypnosec on Sunday December 30, 2012 @05:02AM

hypnosec writes: With Linux enthusiasts and distro publishers eagerly waiting for a solution to Microsoft’s UEFI SecureBoot, there are those who have already looked at the viability of Linux on Microsoft Surface tablet. Matthew Garrett, a.k.a. UEFI-guru, has revealed that those who are keeping their fingers crossed and hoping to find run Linux on Microsoft’s tablet are on an uphill walk and it doesn’t seem to be an easy one. So why is this? The answer is in the manner in which Microsoft has restricted the Surface from loading non-signed software / binaries by implementing UEFI SecureBoot. Microsoft has loaded its private key instead of the "Microsoft Windows UEFI Driver Publisher" key on the ARM based tablet, which is needed to sign non-Microsoft software like Linux distributions or loaders. So, no publisher key = no signed non-Microsoft binary = no Linux.

Journal Journal: Windows 8 falls behind Vista adoption pace at month 2 1

Journal by symbolset on Sunday December 30, 2012 @04:10AM

Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports that based on NetApplications current adoption statistics for Windows 8, the operating system is not achieving market share as fast as Windows Vista. At the 2 month point Vista was at 2.2% of all Windows devices. 2 months past Launch Windows 8 has achieved a share of only 1.6%. In a related note, Fujitsu President Masami Y

Comment Could Sony then please let us install (Score 1) 146

by northar on Saturday December 29, 2012 @10:24AM (#42419333) Attached to: In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run

...whatever we want to on it. There's Linux and homebrew stuff, that can run on this old hardware, but the newer ( just a couple of years:)) firmwares won't allow it without modchips.

Comment Then, don't forget NetBSD (Score 2) 113

by northar on Saturday December 29, 2012 @10:21AM (#42419321) Attached to: Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money

Good, also don't forget to help NetBSD if you can, they haven't reached anywhere near expectations.http://www.netbsd.org/donations/

Submission + - The Free Software Foundation Campaigning to Stop UEFI SecureBoot (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec on Saturday December 29, 2012 @06:44AM

hypnosec writes: The Free Software Foundation is on an offensive against restricted boot systems and is busy appealing for donations and pledge in the form of signatures in a bid to stop systems such as the UEFI SecureBoot from being adopted on a large-scale basis and becoming a norm in the future. The FSF, through an appeal on its website, is requesting users to sign a pledge titled "Stand up for your freedom to install free software" that they won’t be purchasing or recommending for purchase any such system that is SecureBoot enabled or some other form of restricted boot techniques. The FSF has managed to receive, as of this writing, over 41,000 signatures. Organizations like the Debian, Edoceo, Zando, Wreathe and many others have also showed their support for the campaign.

Comment Actually, a cool thing (Score 1) 145

by northar on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @03:02PM (#42396823) Attached to: Debian m68k Port Resurrected

I have a stash of retrocomputers and consoles, and for everyone of them that i can get to run *nix it's always cool. Amiga now has DebianM68k and NetBSD in new versions, PS2 has the kernelloader live cd, My old Mac PPC has Linux Minut, and my Sam460 has Debian too. As for the Speccy - well at least it got esxdos:)

Comment Beats that Win8 crap anyday (Score 1) 202

by northar on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @02:59PM (#42396805) Attached to: Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013

While many of you are busy writing angry comments about one of the zillion distros, because you don't seem to know that it's deadeasy to change windowmanagers/desktop to whatever you want, i'll load up Steam on Ubuntu and play some good games. Or maybe Spotify. On my Ubuntu 12.10. At least i can do these things on Linux! in 2012, nothings impossible. Cheer up. Even we nerds doesn't want the "compile Gentoo" stuff all the time. Thank Mark for helping bringing Linux to the masses. Do what you wan't with your money and vision, and don't let the forumgnabbers get to you.:)

Comment Re:Whose perception? (Score 1) 202

by northar on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @02:47PM (#42396689) Attached to: Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013

it's the one without arguments that starts yelling ...) Q1:" Fedora, Suse, Mageia and PCLOS are all way better than Ubuntu" List some reasons why? Q2: "...way better than Ubuntu. To be fair, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu are also better. It is only Ubuntu that is rotten."" In what ways do you mean that Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu arn't Ubuntu? Why is Ubuntu rotten?

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