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I hope the people who are avoiding tax are donating their avoided taxes to their local schools and hospitals.

The continuation of StatusNet, which was the codebase behind identi.ca until the owner wrote pump.io in nodejs and migrated to that.

programmernews3on Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms?

I would guess that these companies never had actual "goodwill" towards GPL software and the Free Software community. Instead their motivation was simple profit and they weren't interested in anything that might interfere with that, such as freedom for their users, which GPLv3 enhances (specifically via the anti-Tivoisation provisions).

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programmernews3on Transphobic maintainer should be removed from project – Issue #941

What I see here is a software project using a community-centric development model not willing to do anything about a core dev publicly acting in such a way to act alienating to the community. I don't think he should necessarily be removed from the project, but to act like it's not of concern to the project at all is a bad way to handle it.

programmernews3on Linguistic Anonymity on the Internet

https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth

programmernews3on British spies 'moved after Snowden files read'

I expect Snowden actually advocates people use something like diceware passphrases and the journalist misunderstood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware

programmernews3on Software engineering blogs

Another one:

http://yakking.branchable.com/

programmernews3on Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

I wonder why people don't use archive.is and archive.org to archive things more.

programmernews3on This website extracts GPS data from EXIF and locates a photo on map

Here is a tool one can use for that and other metadata removal:

https://mat.boum.org/

programmernews3on This website extracts GPS data from EXIF and locates a photo on map

This is why you should remove EXIF data before sharing photos to protect your privacy

programmernews3on CISA is a surveillance bill

One of the best practices for SSH is to never use passwords, always use keys.

http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/ssh/

programmernews3on Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but...

CS fundamentals like BSTs are definitely not used to teach programming--things like video game projects are--they're used to teach algorithm design and analysis. CS is an academic science, it's not a technology trade.

programmernews3on Seldon Release Open Source General Prediction Endpoint

I perform no micromanagement of third-party websites, it was a one-time setting of my web browser preferences.

programmernews3on Student actually changes his surname to avoid £220 Ryanair admin fee

I siiiiighed when I read the word false in your comment. All identity is a human invention, there is no such thing as a "true" identity, only many individual ones, such as what the government knows you by, what your family called you at birth etc. There are probably even people without a name in 2015. You're falling for some of the same traps as FB and Ryanair.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

programmernews3on Seldon Release Open Source General Prediction Endpoint

Interesting way to interpret my comment. Personally, I am in control of my computer and I find it sad when I found out other people aren't in control of theirs. Sorry if I implied it was your fault.

programmernews3on Free unlimited private repos from Microsoft

I think they mean this instead "Hey doodz, give us your source code and we'll steal^wproductise^whost it for you!".

programmernews3on A 3D live map of the London Underground

Use WIFI in tunnels.

programmernews3on Seldon Release Open Source General Prediction Endpoint

Why do you let his website set that colour on your screen?

programmernews3on Wikicoding, the wikipedia of code

This is like Wikipedia meets GitHub

programmernews3on Show HN: Diff.io

First part already done:

http://archive.is/

programmernews3on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)