Software Cooperative News

I’ve not written about this for a while, but I’ve just started seeing Apple’s Greenwash adverts, so I went and found the latest Greenpeace electronics report which says:
“Apple’s score increases slightly to 4.3 points, but the company drops to 14th position. Apple scores well for putting products on the market whose key components are free [...]

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There have been glowing tributes in the news today following the death of Oliver Postgate, creator of Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Nog and co-creator of the Clangers.
But it’s surprised me how few of the mainstream news sites have linked to Oliver Postgate’s personal website. I knew where it was because it’s [...]

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The Internet Watch Foundation has objected to the cover of a 1976 Scorpions album (which is, as far as I know, still legally on sale here, with that cover) and their collaborator ISPs have blocked access to Wikipedia. They claim that it covers 95% of British Residential ISPs but I could get through. Can [...]

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If you’ve set up an online shop, are your product photos saying more about you than you intended?
“there’s a huge amount of potentially privacy-sensitive metadata in your typical JPEG as generated by your camera (including camera type, settings, date/time, maybe even GPS coordinates of your location, etc).”
Source: jhead – List and modify EXIF fields in [...]

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I’m working away from the office today because the office window is being replaced (an end to leaky draughty windows – yay! – but it does mean it’s about 3 degrees in there while it’s happening). For some reason, some things aren’t working over the wifi (the least of my network problems recently – [...]

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