Are privacy and service a trade off?

There is a story going around the newswires that iTunes contains spyware that sends information about your music listening to Apple. (iTunes is the software interface to iPods.) Many articles are commenting that there is a trade-off: your personal information is not personal, but you get better music suggestions from Apple. This does not have Read more »

What do I actually do?

Sometimes, when I meet other activists, they ask me what I do, and I never have a good answer. I usually say something vague about building support for things among policital groups, and assisting other campaigns that need help and that are doing things that benefit free software, but then the person asks "Yeh, but Read more »

Best text-based presentation software?

Until now I’ve been using either HTML or MagicPoint for my presentations, but neither is perfect. I like the simplicity of MagicPoint, but making the fonts nice is difficult and its word splitting and line wrapping can be unpredictable. After asking a few people, and after discussing it on LWN.net, it seems Latex-beamer is many Read more »