Author: Jani
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Last.fm cripples player due to pressure from a record label
A recent update of the until-then-excellent Last.fm player was a downgrade in features. I had assumed this was either by a mistake or just due to my laziness for not searching vigorously enough where those features had been moved to.
I just found out those features have simply been stripped from the player. Yup, gone.
And guess who’s behind it?
We were asked by a major record label to remove these features and it was a choice between removing the features or not receiving their music any more, as well as being sued.
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How NSA access was built into Windows
A [careless] mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows.
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light on dark
light on dark attempts to showcase well designed & coded web sites with light text on a dark background, and serves as a portal to promote the techniques used in the development of those web sites.
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Unveiling the Picodore 64 – a Commodore PDA!
I had an old PSOne LCD screen lying around and I thought I’d make a C64 laptop. Actually, it’s more like a C64 PDA! It measures 6.5 x 6 x 1.5 inches (15.5 x 16.5 x 4 cm) when closed. It can run from an AC wall adapter or 6 NiMH AA batteries.
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Ruotsalaiset rakastavat Isoa Veljeä
Lähes 80 prosenttia ruotsalaisista kaipaa lisää valvontaa, ja 87 prosenttia antaisi poliisille oikeuden puhelinkuunteluun ja sähköpostien lukemiseen.
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Satu Hassi ajaa läpinäkyvyyttä lobbaukseen esimerkillä
Vihreiden europarlamentaarikko Satu Hassi haluaa tehdä EU-parlamentin ympärillä pyörivän lobbauksen entistä läpinäkyvämmäksi. Hassi lupasi perjantaina […] julkistavansa vastedes netissä jokaisen aterian, jonka syö jonkun toisen laskuun.
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