Software vs. your rights and quality of life, revisited
I have been saying for at least twelve years that your civil rights and the quality of your life depend on how software is used AROUND you. In July 2018, I found the same concept expressed very well by somebody else.
Better Internet service for Indigenous communities? Right. Then what?
In rural, remote and northern communities across Canada, First Nations technicians are taking on Internet connectivity challenges themselves. Then what?
Stratus Sphere: a guest post about personal clouds...
..and how host and federate (=connect) them.
Hey Silicon Valley: why don't you disrupt TOILETS?
Many millions of people still have no sensible toilets. Millions of others play with 21st century smartphones, while sitting on 19th century toilets. Progress this is not.
A "complex" economy may make all journalists blind
I found a paper about concentration of certain human activities in large cities that… maybe does not give enough coverage to some among the most important of those activities.
The good and the bad in China's "Open Source on hyperspeed"
Is the new Shanzai, and China digitization in general, really “Open Source on hyperspeed”? Not really. But there IS lots to learn from it.