You know, the organisation that worked with Snowden to reveal government overreach to the world? The one whose journalists just won a Pulitzer?

The weekly edition is delivered worldwide. The condensed format is great for catching up on what's happening beyond the boundaries of Murdouche's empire..

This kinda sounds like an advertisement, but it's really not. It's just that print news media here in Australia ranges from mediocre to outright political propaganda. The Guardian is my lifeline on sanity in this environment.

Don't get too excited. It's not like nvidia are actually opening up here:

The scope of this work is strictly limited to Tegra (although given the similarities desktop GPU support will certainly benefit from it indirectly), and we do not have any plan to work on user-space support. So do not uninstall that proprietary driver just yet. ;)

This is only about leveraging the hard work already done by nouveau hackers, in order to bring their embedded SOC product to market more quickly. There was no documentation dropped, and they're specifically refuting the idea desktop linux support.

HP Business PCs come with FreeDOS as an OS option (i.e. Windows-tax free).

Yes, their Consumer lines are garbage.

Windows 8 is designed around a touch-screen interface; one that is a struggle to operate via a keyboard and mouse.

For entertainment, a touch-screen interface is fine. But, believe it or not, people *still* do *real work* on desktop PCs. And for that use case, Windows 8 is a massive productivity downgrade.

I can't believe this comment is so far down the list!

As always, Debian will run on it

I'm sure a flash exploit (of which dozens are disclosed every year) is not going to obey some checkbox you've clicked in the settings.

This firefox addon blocks anything from 3rd party domains on any site you visit, but with a configurable whitelist for any sites you actually care about.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

I've got one of these running debian wheezy. It acts as firewall/router/wifi-hotspot/OpenVPN gateway, and even allows me to have a *real* DMZ, unlike most home routers.

on debian, there are better alternatives to rvm:

apt-get install ruby-build
rbenv install 2.0.0-dev

In addition, with rbenv, no-one is encouraged to use gemsets instead of bundler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms4NIB6xroc

I'm a big fan of RMS, but that article is possibly the stupidest thing he's ever written.

Forcing people to put their code in escrow for enforced release when copyright expires is police-state coercion. The idea that such a law could possibly be enforceable is ludicrous.

Here is the current platform. In it, copyright is limited to 15 years.

I'd encourage you to read the whole thing, and if you've got ideas to contribute, please jump on IRC or a mailing list:

http://pirateparty.org.au/irc/

http://lists.pirateparty.org.au/

Try: https://www.requestpolicy.com/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unplug/