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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...How open source delivers for government
By Viorel Tabara 3 October 2016 @ 6:14pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwareinfo.crunchydata.com - Note that in their view, proprietary solutions are "legacy". A simple example of how the move toward OSS can improve IT architecture is by thinking about database backups. In the legacy regime of licensed closed source software, each license of...Scraping Google Scholar to write your PhD literature chapter
By Jon Dron 13 October 2016 @ 4:50pm Comments (2)mystudentvoices.com - This looks really excellent - it scrapes Google Scholar, starting with a search that reveals work you already know about and that you think is significant. From those search results it generates an exportable Gephi map of authors,...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...White elephants and other e-readers
By Jon Dron July 23, 2016 - 11:27am Comments (5)When I get new devices I tend to make notes about them: it's part of my tinkering approach to research, a way to explore the edges of the adjacent possible.The LMS of the future is yours! | Michael Goudzwaard
By Jon Dron 6 March 2016 @ 11:37am Comments (2)mgoudz.com - I think this is, from a quick skim through, the beginnings of a very good idea. An LMS that does almost nothing. Quoting directly: "What would this LMS look like? In my view, it would have three things: 1) a course roster with stellar SIS...When 300 Million Active Users Isn't Enough | Library Babel Fish
By Jon Dron 23 February 2016 @ 10:49amwww.insidehighered.com - Interesting reflections from librarian Barbara Fister on Twitter's precarious position, turning a 'mere' $191m profit on 300m users and not growing fast enough to assure survival. Turning away from the customer-as-product model, she instead makes a...Open Source Initiative Extends Affiliate Program to Higher Education
Posted to group: Open Source SoftwareJust about half a year ago OSI expanded their community Affiliate Memberships to colleges and universities.Juniper's products are still insecure; more evidence that the company was complicit / Boing...
By Jon Dron 10 January 2016 @ 11:51am Comments (1)Posted to group: Open Source Softwareboingboing.net - So it looks like the backdoor into Juniper firewalls that lets anyone invisibly observe encrypted traffic persists, and it looks more and more like it was an intentional policy. It is hard to fathom why anyone would trust a closed-source product...
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