Building the Mozilla Location Service

Posted on Mon 24 February 2014 in misc • Tagged with Android, FSOSS, android, fsoss

tl;dr Mozilla is building a location service and you can help by running MozStumbler on your Android device.

Map showing Northern Ontario with line from Sudbury to Ottawa

Last week I drew the blue line from Sudbury to Ottawa you see in the above map by running MozStumbler on my phone as we headed out to celebrate Winterlude. One …


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Building the Mozilla Location Service

Posted on Mon 24 February 2014 in misc • Tagged with Android, FSOSS, android, fsoss

tl;dr Mozilla is building a location service and you can help by running MozStumbler on your Android device.

Map showing Northern Ontario with line from Sudbury to Ottawa

Last week I drew the blue line from Sudbury to Ottawa you see in the above map by running MozStumbler on my phone as we headed out to celebrate Winterlude. One …


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Thoughts on making Android more free-as-in-freedom

Posted on Sun 27 June 2010 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Android, FSOSS

This conversation on identi.ca has prompted me to publish the rough notes I had prepared for a proposed discussion on making the Android operating system experience more free-as-in-freedom at the Google I/O 2010 Conference Bootcamp "unconference". Unfortunately, my proposal was not one of the top vote-getters (it missed …


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Moving from Figaro's Password Manager (FPM) to KeePassX

Posted on Fri 28 May 2010 in misc • Tagged with Android, Python

Update 2017-10-18: linked to gitlab instead of gitorious; thanks Petter Reinholdtsen!

I'm one of those people who actually keeps different passwords for every site and service I use. So far I'm up to over 400 passwords, so I'm dependent on a password manager. For a long, long time I have …


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List of free software for Android (wiki)

Posted on Sun 16 May 2010 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Android

For some reason, I keep having trouble finding this handy free-as-in-freedom list of Android applications when searching Google. So if I blog it for myself, I know I'll be able to track it down easily in the future. I'm sure there are more applications to add to that wiki, by …


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