Copyfight How DRM has permitted Google to have an "open source" browser that is still under its exclusive control Cory Doctorow
health People with diabetes are scouring the internet for a discontinued insulin pump that can be reprogrammed as an "artificial pancreas" Cory Doctorow
law Ecuadorean authorities have unjustly arrested free software developer Ola Bini as part of their Assange dragnet Cory Doctorow
china A rapidly proliferating software license bars use by companies with poor labor practices Cory Doctorow
Business "Open source" companies are playing games with licensing to sneak in proprietary code, freeze out competitors, fight enclosure Cory Doctorow
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floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow
floss Alias: a smart-speaker "parasite" that blocks your speaker's sensors until you activate it Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse Cory Doctorow
floss Common Voice: Mozilla releases the largest dataset of voice samples for free, for all Cory Doctorow
videos Freedom EV: free/open replacement firmware for your electric vehicle — including a Tesla Cory Doctorow
events To do in Boston Mar 23/24: The Free Software Foundation's Libreplanet conference Cory Doctorow
infosec A deep dive into the technical feasibility of Bloomberg's controversial "Chinese backdoored servers" story Cory Doctorow
