Internet of things, who's right? UK or Denmark?

It’s always fun, and useful, when two or more news, that somehow go against each other, are published in the same day. Last Friday we had:

What almost nobody is telling you about the ApplevsFBI case

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Screenshot source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKggZezZf2M

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FBI says that Apple must help them, because nobody else can do it, to unlock the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter. The complete story is quite more complex than this one-sentence summary, but there is **one **part of it that, as far as I can see has received almost **zero **attention so far (*):

The Really Smart Home vs the Internet of Stupid Things

Internet of Things. Smart homes. Smart appliances. Smart everything. How smart is the result?

Bit Prepared, 12 years later? On Scouts and Free Software, again

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The logo of the ScoutLinux distribution

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Almost twelve years ago, I pointed out some links between Scouting and Free as in Freedom Software, like, for example, those between B-P’s call to

Star Trek creator was clueless about computers

“Star Trek creator didn’t have a clue of how computer actually work, and how to preserve digital documents, and the curators of his estate weren’t much better”: this should be the appropriate title for the story titled “How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks”. (but see the important update below!)

The day the mobile phone took a wrong, dumb turn

A long time ago, we had really smart mobile phones: