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Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App(matrix.org)
738 points by arctux 8y ago|198 comments
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Facebook Takes the Punches While Rest of Silicon Valley Ducks(nytimes.com)
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Russian meddling is only one challenge facing Facebook(economist.com)
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The economic returns to attending university(economist.com)
3 points by arctux 9y ago|1 comments
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Mycroft open personal assistant to switch to DeepSpeech for speech to text(mycroft.ai)
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The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google–and what they can do(economist.com)
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Speech Recognition for Any Linux Application via DeepSpeech, GStreamer, and IBus(blog.mikeasoft.com)
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by arctux 9y ago
You might want to check out Eraser, made by Mapzen. Eraser is a Google Maps like app that uses OpenStreetMap data and is backed solely open source software and open data. It's a little rough around the edges (especially when it comes t
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by arctux 9y ago
>I like to think I'm a proponent of open source as I try to contribute but to be honest I don't actually think it really matters for Android to be independent of Google services because as far as I can tell, most people like An
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Net neutrality rules should apply to ISPs and websites, senator says(arstechnica.com)
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by arctux 9y ago
Check out https://openaddresses.io It has ~477 million freely-licensed addresses.
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How lobbyists convinced lawmakers to kill a broadband privacy bill(arstechnica.com)
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by arctux 9y ago
Addgene is a great service. My lab has ordered a couple vectors from them. I do wish the material transfer agreements were less painful, though. It's great to see more open science. Now we just need to fix publishing, and we're go
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by arctux 9y ago
Mapzen is an awesome company. I'm excited to see what comes of OpenTraffic, a Mapzen-sponsored, open-source traffic speed data set: https://github.com/opentraffic/
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by arctux 9y ago
>Google is not giving away the source code of Android for philanthropic reasons, it's just part of the business model, i.e. the process of money making to pay the employees and the shareholders. They're also "giving away&q
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by arctux 9y ago
This is something I've been wrestling with as well. Several of my friends work for Google or Facebook. I've discussed this at length with some of them. Several seem to object strongly to, for example, Congress's block of the
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by arctux 9y ago
> Getting really sick of this story. Open Markets really comes across sleazy when you read the emails published by New America. [1] Slaughter's second statement, via Medium, is also worth reading. [2] Combined with the fact that Ope
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by arctux 9y ago
I think he's referencing >If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/sc
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by arctux 9y ago
Notably, he worked for the nominally-independent New America's Open Markets program, not for Google.
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Using Python and Processing to visualize regional transit frequency(mapzen.com)
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by arctux 9y ago
You might want to check out Eraser, made by Mapzen. Eraser is a Google Maps like app that uses OpenStreetMap data and is backed solely open source software and open data. It's a little rough around the edges (especially when it comes t