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Open Whisper Systems
By Jon Dron 20 November 2016 @ 1:08pm Comments (2)whispersystems.org - The Signal protocol is designed for secure, private, encrypted messaging and real-time calling. The protocol, designed by Open Whisper Systems, is used in an increasingly large range of tools (including by Facebook and Google), but their own app is...Why so many questions?
By Jon Dron May 28, 2015 - 9:59pm Comments (6)At Athabasca University, our proposed multi-million dollar investment in a student relationship management system, perhaps ironically dubbed the 'student success centre' (SSC), is causing quite a stir among faculty and tutors at the moment. Though...Warning about "trigger warnings" used to censor university curriculum
Started by Mark A. McCutcheon in the group Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA) March 7, 2014 - 9:19am Replies (10) Last reply by Mark A. McCutcheon May 29, 2014 - 4:28pmPosted to group: Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA)CAUT has alerted Canadian university faculty associations to an emerging concern about the use of "trigger warnings" in university curriculum, use with serious implications for quality of teaching and academic freedom: "Trigger warnings," are...Super-private social network launched to take on Facebook with support of Anonymous
By Jon Dron 18 June 2015 @ 11:10am Comments (2)www.independent.co.uk - The first question that emerges for a free, encrypted, ad-free, unsurveilled, intentionally private, celebrating anonymity, social networking site and mobile app like this is 'How does it make enough money to support itself'? The answer appears to...Humpback whale in English Bay
By Jon Dron April 10, 2016 - 10:37am Comments (4)Damn it, I didn't bring my big camera. The camera in my phone does not do this justice... There is something genuinely awesome - in the original sense of the word - about being out on the water in a boat that is smaller than the creature swimming...
Interview with Kinshuk (part II) in AUSU's Voice Magazine
By Jon Dron 26 July 2015 @ 12:37pmwww.voicemagazine.org - The second part of AUSU's Voice Magazine's interview with Kinshuk (first part here) in which he talks about some of his rich ideas around smart learning, the interplay between digital technologies and pedagogies, fine-grained accreditation, and the...PCjs: The Original IBM PC in Your Browser
By Jon Dron 23 November 2015 @ 4:02pm Comments (2)Posted to group: COMP 266http://www.pcjs.org/ - This is one of the most remarkable uses of in-browser JavaScript I have ever seen. It is an IBM PC emulator, and it really works. Actually, I think it is a fair bit faster than my first (mid-80s) PC and it certainly looks a lot better on my modern...Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India
By Colin Elliott 30 March 2015 @ 3:35pm Comments (1)Posted to group: Open Source Softwaredeity.gov.in - "The Indian government announced a policy yesterday that makes it mandatory to use open-source software in building apps and services, in an effort to 'ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs.'" ...
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