Day two of the HAIP festival was mostly lectures. Kiberpipa is putting together a video archive of all the lectures from the festival, so you can watch them for yourselves there, there’s also text explanations from the HAIP program here. The first talk was by a woman named Eleonora Oreggia. She has an idea for […]
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HAIP Day 2
November 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Free software, Hacker culture, Photos, Slovenia, Tech-art
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Ubuntu makes the NYT
January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Free software, Sweden
So I’m alive. I felt a little bit better for a couple days, but now I’m back to feeling awful again. My throat hurts like crazy and it’s preventing me from sleeping and eating. Tomorrow I’m going to try to go see a doctor. All things considered, I guess I should be happy I got […]
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Swedish government gives money to Young Pirates
January 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Free software, Sweden
One cool thing about Sweden is that it has relatively strong legal protections for freedom of speech and online privacy, especially by European standards. As a result, it’s something of a hotspot for peer-to-peer file sharing and copyright infringement. The other day, I slept in the same basement as one of the Pirate Bay admins. […]
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The DDR, Surveilance, and Informational Self-Determination
February 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Free software, Germany, Photos, Travel
On Saturday, I went to see the DDR Museum in Berlin (a terrible example of an historical abbreviation striking mental miscues). I had originally been planning on seeing the Deutsches Technikmuseum instead, but it occurred to me that I’ve seen a couple other technical museums on this trip (most notably in Zagreb). While the one […]
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New Continent, New Look
March 25th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Argentina, Coding, Free software, Shameless link-bait
Don’t worry, you’re (probably) not a victim of DNS spoofing. As you may have noticed, the site looks a bit different. To celebrate my arrival on a brand-new continent, I’m relaunching this blog with a brand-new, custom, WordPress theme. All of the design work, and the lion’s share of the PHP/CSS work, are courtesy of […]
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