Just over a year ago, Chris Webber gave a talk at CopyleftConf about how the AGPL is incompatible with a style of computing.
If you want to read the slides, they're at: https://dustycloud.org/misc/boundaries-on-network-copyleft.pdf
Sadly there hasn't been much discussion about it since, so I'm …
I have been a long time supporter of the Free Software movement and the Free Software Foundation. I care deeply about Free Software, and it's the ideals of the movement that have been at the cornernerstone of much of what I've spent the last 20 years of my life using …
Jitsi Meet is a Free Software audio and video conferencing platform that allows for people around the world to participate in a video conference without proprietary software like Zoom or Google Meet.
Jitsi has an add-on program called Jigasi that allows for call-ins (and even call-outs). Unfortunately, while Jitsi Meet …
I was a contributor for OpenStreetMap for a long time, and I advocated for OpenStreetMap for a long time, but the project has stalled while the proprietary mapping world has continued to improve in data quality. For those of us who care about Free and Open data, this is a …
This last year has been a very difficult one for civil liberties and personal freedoms.
Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, has promised to round up and deport illegal immigrants as well as removing legal immigrants from the US. In addition, and more importantly, he's discussed creating a …
I don't write about politics much on this blog (in fact I haven't written anything in quite a while), but Free Software is something I care a great deal about, and so when I see something fishy and scandalous, I take interest, and that's exactly what's going on with the …
If you care about Free and Open Source Software, you probably think about ways to support the people who write the programs that you rely on. In this post, I'm going to tell you what I do, and what I hope others will do too. I call it the The …
A community mapping project in New York is showing how OpenStreetMap can not only show how mapping can help people navigate, it can shape how people perceive their city.
New York City contains hundreds of community gardens. These gardens represent the the hard work of thousands of New Yorkers coming …
Some feedback about my previous import post was regarding my contention that imported data is harder to maintain. This conclusion is based on years of observation. In this post, I'll explain why I believe imported data is not the same as manually mapped data in terms of maintenance.
The standard …
I'm into my fourth week of Esperanto and I thought I'd write some reflections on the process, the struggles and successes.
The Methods
My main method of learning Esperanto is the site lernu.net and its "Bildoj kaj demandoj" (Pictures and Questions) course. In addition, I've gotten some help from …