feed on feeds - 2014/08/26 - items 0 to 15

Nio av tio svenska organisationer har intrång i sina system. Hos sju av tio läcks information till en tredje part. Så ser säkerhetsläget ut enligt en ny rapport, skriver Svenska Dagbladet.

Jimmie Åkesson pressades inledningsvis hårt i SVT:s partiledarutfrågning när det gällde Sverigedemokraternas förslag om a-kassan: Dels en höjning från 680 till 1 200 kronor om dagen, dels att medlemskapet ska vara avgiftsfritt.

Regeringen väntas på torsdag godkänna ett avtal som gör det möjligt för Nato att sätta in sin snabbinsatsstyrka i Sverige. Beslutet kommer mitt i Ukrainakrisen och inför Natos toppmöte nästa vecka om stärkt försvar av Europa.

Återvinningscontainrar för kläder och textilier, precis som det finns för kartonger och plast, kan bli verklighet. På torsdag ska regeringen fatta beslut om att det ska bli enklare att återvinna kläder. Regeringen ger Naturvårdsverket i uppdrag att utreda hur ett sådant insamlingssystem ska se ut. Utredningen ska vara klar den 1 december 2015.

Bob Pendleton calls his blog "The Grumpy Programmer" because he's both grumpy and a programmer. He's also over 60 years old and has been programming since he was in his teens. This pair of videos is a break from our recent spate of conference panels and corporate people. It's an old programmer sharing his career experiences with younger programmers so they (you?) can avoid making his mistakes and possibly avoid becoming as grumpy as he is -- which is kind of a joke, since Bob is not nearly as grumpy as he is light-hearted. (Transcript covers both videos. Alternate Video Link One; Alternate Video Link Two)

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Today's background image is (are?) blueberries! The summertime blues. And here's a Little Card to go with the occasion.

Why can't we live a generous sharing life 52 weeks a year, all around the globe, without burning prodigious amounts of fossil fuels to get to a remote place in the middle of the Nevada desert, one of the most empty places on the planet.

It's relatively easy to live in a cooperative way if you remove all the noise and distractions of our lives. Maybe it's time to live a different kind of life the whole year round.

Why can't we live a generous sharing life 52 weeks a year, all around the globe, without burning prodigious amounts of fossil fuels to get to a remote place in the middle of the Nevada desert, one of the most empty places on the planet.

It's relatively easy to live in a cooperative way if you remove all the noise and distractions of our lives. Maybe it's time to live a different kind of life the whole year round.

paroneayea (642895) writes "The GNU MediaGoblin folks have put out another release of their free software media hosting platform, dubbed 0.7.0: Time Traveler's Delight. The new release moves closer to federation by including a new upload API based on the Pump API, a new theme labeled "Sandy 70s Speedboat", metadata features, bulk upload, a more responsive design, and many other fixes and improvements. This is the first release since the recent crowdfunding campaign run with the FSF which was used to bring on a full time developer to focus on federation, among other things."