Tag Archives: freedom
How Ning made me a chump and how you can avoid it
The problem with Software as a Service is you don’t own it. You get it for free, but you don’t have a stake and you don’t have negotiating power. Instead, try to work with services that give you an exit plan or that have the safety stamp of an aGPL license.1 Who cares? Let me [...]
Posted in Pals, User Experience Also tagged antichump, bitrot, long, my.own.cloud, ning, ownership, property, SAAS, tl;dr 7 Comments
How to Migrate from WordPress.com to WordPress.org
ordpress.com is great. They’ve got a great freemium model that allows anyone to get hooked up with a blog with the swiftness. I’m a huge fan, but of course there are limits in what you can do when you don’t have your own hosting. They have limitations on plugins and themes and so on. I [...]
How to get around a proxy system
This sounds complicated but it is really simple. That it is so simple is why the internet is amazing and awesome. Proxies are used by people in positions of authority who want to control what you view on the internet. Such groups include the governments of Turkey and China. Also, the internet security team of [...]
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