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by ch215 12y ago
I think the article is actually quite readable. However, the fact that javascript is required to render any text does irk me a little. Edit: I may have jumped the gun: the site now seems to be loading fine without js.
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by ch215 12y ago
Bookmarked. Thanks, I'm sure I've used your archive in the past to grab the odd missing episode. If you get chance and haven't already seen it, Andy's “satirist for hire” stand-up show is superb.
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by ch215 12y ago
Agreed. My favourite's got to be episode 152. The world is indebted to John Oliver for the term "fuckeulogy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVb84n-FFx4
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by ch215 12y ago
Anyone who likes Last Week Tonight should also check out the Bugle podcast Oliver hosts with Andy Zaltzman. Satire at its best: http://www.thebuglepodcast.com/
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Christopher "moot" Poole: The case for anonymity online(ted.com)
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UK government 'most transparent' in the world(bbc.co.uk)
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Project Gutenberg bans anonymisers, proxies, VPNs and Tor(pastebin.com)
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Oliver Burkeman: 'You’ll be dead soon. Isn’t that great?' (2012)(wired.co.uk)
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by ch215 13y ago
You get a standard SSL certificate free for a year with domain names at Gandi.net. I think I'm also right in saying transfers are included. Can't really vouch for their security but from what I have read the company's "n
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by ch215 13y ago
It's hard not to expect this sort of appalling behaviour from the Daily Mail but they really have pushed the boat out this time. As much as I disagree with the Daily Mail, speaking objectively, I think you have to say Paul Dacre has ac
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Tails launches a logo contest(tails.boum.org)
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Tomb: The Crypto Undertaker(dyne.org)
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Software that sucks less(suckless.org)
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by ch215 13y ago
The developer, Anselm Garbe, gave a talk about Stali (among other things) at last year's Suckless conference... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu9Qm9bNMUU I'm not qualified to comment on Stali itself but, more gen
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by ch215 13y ago
For me, Gimp, Scribus and InkScape cover just about anything I would want to do but, then again, I'm not a professional designer. They take a bit of learning that's all. Scribus reminds me of QuarkXPress which I always preferred t
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The NSA Puts Journalists Under a Cloud of Suspicion(cpj.org)
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by ch215 13y ago
I don't think PowerTop's been mentioned. Maybe because it's more useful for a laptop than a server. Once calibrated, it can output a HTML report on a machine's consumption, which includes a handy list of tunable power sa
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by ch215 13y ago
For me, the book that instantly jumps to mind is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Nothing else I've read – let alone this year – comes anywhere even close to having had such an impact on me. Yet, the more I think about specifically “how
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by ch215 13y ago
You're not the only one. Switched a few months back after using Arch for years. It was one hell of a time sink to begin with but I find it to be unfathomably stable for a rolling release distro. I'll be sticking with it, at least
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Where Freedom of the Press Is Muffled(nytimes.com)
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by ch215 13y ago
Agreed. The calamity of politics never ceases to beggar belief. As concerned as I am about the surveillance revelations, I'm positively perplexed by how a 29-year-old contractor for a foreign government was allowed access to British se
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by ch215 13y ago
For me, the most worrying part of the whole Snowden affair is the absence of anything even close to resembling a debate in parliament. The silence almost speaks for itself. First, Julian Smith secured a 30-minute Westminster Hall tirade on
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by ch215 13y ago
I'm not saying it's above refutation, quite the contrary. What I'm saying is the article is opinion--not fact--and it's presented as such.
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by ch215 13y ago
Defending the Press is almost universally unpopular. However, I think there's a important distinction to be made here. Namely that Martha Gill's piece is comment and not news. Hence it's filed under 'blogs'. Opinion
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by ch215 13y ago
From my experience, I can only agree. Aged 24, I was given responsibly for a near 150-year-old weekly newspaper which is read by more than 30,000 people a week. Needless to say, I ended up working a quite ridiculous amount of unpaid overtim