diff --git a/assets/css/styles.scss b/assets/css/styles.scss index 5a02a7f3c38dea149a3e868ba52a31b6b0144873..e516024e598a95ea0ba874aa9547a23a9cae44e4 100644 --- a/assets/css/styles.scss +++ b/assets/css/styles.scss @@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ a:focus > code { } .text-large { - font-size: 2em; + font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; + padding-right: 0.1em; } pre > code { diff --git a/blog/2019-04-14-Right-to-Repair.md b/blog/2019-04-14-Right-to-Repair.md index 46c71238b242bcbe069747e9d73a243c01eeba23..e3f9c925237db17d464d6660fc0f70264b1e08c1 100644 --- a/blog/2019-04-14-Right-to-Repair.md +++ b/blog/2019-04-14-Right-to-Repair.md @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ sources: tags: blog --- -I originally wrote this post as a class assignment, and while I believe the information here is accurate, I have some qualms about the ideas it presents - mainly that it focuses largely on Apple, while in actuality, Right to Repair is about a whole lot more. I plan to expand on this in a future post, covering its implications in more detail. +

I originally wrote this post as a class assignment, and while I believe the information here is accurate, I have some qualms about the ideas it presents - mainly that it focuses largely on Apple, while in actuality, Right to Repair is about a whole lot more. I plan to expand on this in a future post, covering its implications in more detail.

The consumer’s “right to repair” is becoming an increasingly relevant issue with technical products and devices in modern society. Large corporations like Apple have formed an exclusionary environment diff --git a/blog/2019-06-13-Aptoide-Play-Fair-Response.md b/blog/2019-06-13-Aptoide-Play-Fair-Response.md index 798ab48cad3240aa5c949c324ec08e39ef4e2688..aa668ce1b1642a42056a48d19d4460e9c50ec81c 100644 --- a/blog/2019-06-13-Aptoide-Play-Fair-Response.md +++ b/blog/2019-06-13-Aptoide-Play-Fair-Response.md @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ links: tags: blog --- -Aptoide seems to have taken down the webpage that this post disputes - I've updated the link to open a copy stored on archive.org. +

Aptoide seems to have taken down the webpage that this post disputes - I've updated the link to open a copy stored on archive.org.

-About a week ago, Aptoide created the website +About a week ago, Aptoide created the website ["GooglePlayFair.com"](http://web.archive.org/web/20190605045259/https://googleplayfair.com/) as part of what [several news outlets](https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/04/aptoide-a-play-store-rival-cries-antitrust-foul-over-google-hiding-its-app/) are calling a public campaign against Google's allegedly "anti-competitive behavior". Upon my initial skim through @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ the project for not being "real open source", so I am very excited to see compan party tools for Android which do not depend on Google's permission to operate. However, writing this blog has really made me question if I want to personally support Aptoide or not. -I am inevitably left hesitant to reccommend Aptoide to an end user if they cannot keep their +I am inevitably left hesitant to recommend Aptoide to an end user if they cannot keep their [long history of serving malware and piracy](https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/2u3aav/apparently_my_app_is_available_for_free_at_aptoide/) at bay. With this in mind, it makes Google's "unfair" treatment of Aptoide seem a lot more justifiable. Don't get me wrong, Aptoide was right to file an antitrust complaint against them, but I can almost emphasize with Google's @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ should do in order to remain "secure" and be able to compete with F-Droid and Go several users [seem to have had trouble](https://social.jlelse.me/objects/29950d77-8d77-4c7c-884f-45f9df2fabcd) removing their information in the past. -For users and developers, I would reccommend against using Aptoide for now, mainly because of the reasons above. A better alternative +For users and developers, I would recommend against using Aptoide for now, mainly because of the reasons above. A better alternative might be [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/), a catalogue of free ([free as in libre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre)) software in which submissions to the main repository are each manually reviewed and curated by a group of contributors. F-Droid does also allow third-party repositories to operate, but does so in the same way that any open source software can be modified and diff --git a/blog/2019-10-15-Open-Source-in-Education.md b/blog/2019-10-15-Open-Source-in-Education.md index b3dedb654d40a692d236f718226ff24b969b5df0..2034aa20767e3e0958e7b69a8c453a7835be696d 100644 --- a/blog/2019-10-15-Open-Source-in-Education.md +++ b/blog/2019-10-15-Open-Source-in-Education.md @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ sources: tags: blog --- -The free software movement is well known in +The free software movement is well known in computer science for its belief in open or visible software as a crucial right. The movement heavily opposes common practices such as Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), which place restrictions on users' ability to control the diff --git a/blog/2019-10-30-Ethical-Source.md b/blog/2019-10-30-Ethical-Source.md index 9735205313302a3d35d6f8206a588b63a8601a33..7532d94180b0714e4fe223db463043734e17dd7d 100644 --- a/blog/2019-10-30-Ethical-Source.md +++ b/blog/2019-10-30-Ethical-Source.md @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ links: tags: blog --- -Many of the criticisms I made in this post have since been addressed - see the Ethical Source Definition for updated information about the movement. +

Many of the initial concerns described in this post have since been addressed - see the Ethical Source Definition for updated information about the movement.

-The influence of ethics and moral views in +The influence of ethics and moral views in open source software has recently seen somewhat of an increase in relevance and discussion. Many people [have tried to argue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/30656) diff --git a/blog/2019-12-15-Federated-Social-Networks.md b/blog/2019-12-15-Federated-Social-Networks.md index 0ca1f5e9853595f02a6304d1016eb80637df823b..8b72f743b866a89c4123b99979682784b806cf18 100644 --- a/blog/2019-12-15-Federated-Social-Networks.md +++ b/blog/2019-12-15-Federated-Social-Networks.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ links: tags: blog --- -The Fediverse is best explained as an +The Fediverse is best explained as an interconnected web of services that communicate with each other with a shared protocol. Imagine that you had an account on one social website from which you could send, receive, and reply to posts from people that use different websites diff --git a/blog/2020-01-24-Ethics-of-AI.md b/blog/2020-01-24-Ethics-of-AI.md index 65ee93b46b2020fe3dc27e0529250ff0a7995a67..001a2026e37c1a77bf3e9aaa2bd2b715c34e6f10 100644 --- a/blog/2020-01-24-Ethics-of-AI.md +++ b/blog/2020-01-24-Ethics-of-AI.md @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ sources: tags: blog --- -The field of "artificial intelligence" is +The field of "artificial intelligence" is gaining increasingly noticeable relevance in the software industry. Frequently used in headlines and marketing, "AI" is widely regarded as an inaccurate buzzword, especially due to the many abstract and vague arguments derived from