Stories by zdw

The Simplest way to explain NoSQL database management systems

Twitter's descent into the extractive

The problem with SELinux (still)

Explaining an RPM oddity

Businesses are liable for financial losses due to bank fraud

Learning Is About Competing With Yourself

Ted Ts'o is a rape apologist and why this matters

The Permissive License Proprietization Curse

RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi released

Always “hover” before you click? Wrong.

Motif (X11 library) relicensed to LGPL

Jailbreaking a set top box with the remote

Statistical analysis of Kickstarter projects

GNU grep - A Cautionary Tale About GPLv3

Defining "Operations"

The anatomy of a performance problem with our mail spool

Interfacing a PC graphics card (Radeon HD 2400) with a STM32 microcontroller

Technological Indoctrination

Merlin Mann: Speaking for Yourself

Data breach at IEEE.org: 100k plaintext passwords leaked