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Free software as a prerequisite to privacy

... and Random Hacks of Kindness


Hosting (of various kinds) provided by:
System Saviour Ben Sturmfels Electron Workshop

Random Hacks of Kindness

About RHoK


RHoK upcoming dates

Things to do

TPP petition

Open Letter to Netflix CEO

Government

No One Should Have To Use Proprietary Software To Communicate With Their Government

Greenpeace Leaks Big Part Of Secret TTIP Documents

Italian Military Migrating To LibreOffice

Free Culture

DuckDuckGo Is Giving Away $225,000 To Support Open Source Projects

Future of Open Source Survey

'HTML5 By Default' Chrome Setting brings Flash EOL closer

Linux Is the Largest Software Development Project On the Planet

Tech Rocket just published a new interview with Guido van Rossum (the creator of Python)

🤖 Emojigeddon 🤔

'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium ... 🍿

Security & Privacy (& Snowden)

Edward Snowden: leaking information about wrongdoing is a vital act of resistance

Snowden debate with CNN's Fareed Zakaria

Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption By 7 Years

Open Hardware

Linksys WRT Routers Won't Block Open Source Firmware, Despite FCC Rules

Raspbian Linux OS Gets Major Update

Fathom Neural Compute Stick Offers Artificial Intelligence On A USB Stick

Releases

BitKeeper Is Open-Sourced

Google Open-Sources SyntaxNet

Open365 is an open source Office 365

Mozilla Launches Test Pilot

Mozilla announced the availability of Firefox in the snap package format for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

CERN Releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Into Open Access

Open Source gym for computer programmers working on artificial intelligence

Facebook Open-Sources CTF Competition Platform

Facebook Announces 'Surround 360' Open Source VR Camera

Node.js Version 6 Released With LTS

Distros

Canonical unleashed the highly anticipated Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system

Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB

ZFS For Linux Lands In Debian Repos

Mesosphere has opted to open-source its data center management platform