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2026 13

  1. The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP
  2. Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
  3. The tragedy of right-wing privacy phones in the USA
  4. Why I reluctantly bought a Google Pixel in my struggle against surveillance capitalism and planned obsolescence
  5. Mi presentación de “El Niño Godzilla en Bolivia: ¿Estamos Preparados? Riesgos, impactos y acciones para fortalecer la resiliencia climática”
  6. Traffic fatalities by state show that automobiles are the overwhelming threat to public safety, not e-bikes
  7. How Aptera ranks among EV brands on social media
  8. Why the Aptera solar car represents a paradigm shift for the auto industry
  9. The response of 120 New Jersey legislators to my 35 page report on their new e-bike law
  10. Should we be worried about companies like Wired and Magician that overcharge on shipping and skirt e-bike laws?
  11. Updated my report critiquing of New Jersey’s strict regulation of e-bikes
  12. New Jersey’s strict regulation of e-bikes is poorly conceived and not justified by the data
  13. How long until Rust overtakes C and C++?

2025 7

  1. How much does Microsoft’s Github care about free/open source software?
  2. The LineageOS installation statistics with data for all the builds
  3. LineageOS build and installation statistics
  4. The travails of dual booting with Linux and Windows
  5. Charla: Los metales críticos de Bolivia en la transición energética
  6. How to replace a section of PVC pipe without moving the pipe
  7. Software libre para enfrentar la obsolescencia programada y la vigilancia digital

2024 3

  1. Which budget long-tail cargo e-bike to buy?
  2. Understanding the growth of e-bikes around the world
  3. Why we shouldn’t rely on space mining to solve mineral shortages

2023 6

  1. Why hydrogen won’t be the fuel of the future, but it will be a vital chemical input
  2. Why net zero GHG emissions by mid-century is an achievable goal and we shouldn’t give up
  3. Installing PureOS in the Purism Librem 5 and Mobian in the PinePhone
  4. Charla “La necesidad de una transición energética en Bolivia” en el Congreso Nacional Crisis Climática
  5. Tracking the rise of the Chinese offshore wind industry
  6. My frustration with the misinformation in the right-wing echo chamber

2022 8

  1. Should Americans be worried that their offshore wind will be controlled by European companies?
  2. Why the Tesla Semi will transform the trucking industry in North America
  3. Charla en Rurrenabaque: Riesgos de deforestación y cambio climático
  4. Cambio climático y los compromisos de Bolivia rumbo a la COP27 ¿Cuales son los hechos?
  5. Presentación de cambio climático en Bolivia
  6. Observaciones acerca del traductor de quechua, aymara y guaraní de Google Translate
  7. Comparando celulares de Linux (y como ellos pueden enfrentar los problemas de la industria móvil)
  8. American imperialism in Ukraine should be condemned just like Russian imperialism

2021 9

  1. Amount of code developed by Purism for the Librem 5 phone
  2. Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta
  3. Tutorial to get started using Github
  4. What can be learned by taking apart a Huawei smartphone
  5. Reflections about rebranded and unbranded electronics
  6. El precio de vivir en Bolivia como un extranjero
  7. Questions about how to add a new language to GNOME
  8. Propuesta para traducir Firefox en quechua y aymara
  9. Unboxing the Librem 5 USA

2020 16

  1. Corporate Dems are not the same as Republicans when it comes to the environment
  2. Using LibreOffice’s Draw to edit a PDF ballot to vote by email
  3. The questions that mobile phone reviewers never ask
  4. What the MAS victory means for Bolivia
  5. Wondering if my vote for president should be the lesser evil or a pointless protest
  6. Comparing specs of Linux phones
  7. The strategic advantages of Phosh for mobile Linux
  8. The tragic history of mobile Linux
  9. El núcleo de Linux y los navigadores de web tienen miles de desarrolladores, pero otro software tiene muy pocos
  10. Recognizing the growing risk of rocket emissions for global warming and ozone depletion
  11. An advertising man tries to justify Capitalism
  12. Herd immunity may be the least worst option, but we won’t consider it
  13. Bolivia’s total quarantine makes me question what is the long-term plan
  14. Questions raised by a study finding that math isn’t important in learning to code
  15. The bitter lot of the establishment Dems
  16. Whether you believe Bernie or Warren, this dispute harms the progressive cause

2019 29

  1. Trump displays his utter ignorance about wind energy
  2. Which search engine is the ethical choice?
  3. Reddit now forces people to view lots of worthless junk
  4. How the comment systems on YouTube and Facebook help propagate misinformation.
  5. America at a fork between two diverging paths where the status quo won’t hold
  6. Trying to decide between the PinePhone and the Librem 5
  7. China is taking over the global smartphone market
  8. Problemas serios en el informe preliminar de la OEA acerca de la elección boliviana
  9. Why we don’t own our mobile phones
  10. Bolivians are divided in opinion, which will only complicate the painful path forward
  11. Reflections about buying a new mobile phone
  12. Conservatives have only themselves to blame for the Green New Deal
  13. Lo que yo hago para resistir el capitalismo de la vigilancia
  14. Adding kill switches to protect your privacy is not as simple as you might think
  15. Adventures in home maintenance in Bolivia
  16. Responding to a critic of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
  17. La importancia del Purism Librem 5
  18. Aventuras en la actualización al Debian 10 (buster)
  19. Why IBM buying Red Hat doesn’t matter
  20. Responding to a climate change denier on Youtube
  21. Trump’s counterproductive ban of Huawei
  22. Apple bans users from their forum who post that data recovery on Apple devices is possible
  23. We should be grateful that Mueller just made Trump unimpeachable
  24. Presentación en la USFA cerca de las causas y soluciones del cambio climático en Bolivia
  25. Tesla has moats that other automakers cannot easily copy (i.e., why most shorts are idiots)
  26. Ranking the Democratic candidates for the US presidency
  27. Debunking the myths about Elon Musk’s companies
  28. Debemos apoyar al Purism Librem 5, que es una bandera proclamando nuestros derechos digitales
  29. What will be the response of the incumbent in the competition between ULA and SpaceX?

2018 14

  1. Review of the Camp Thunderbolt folding bike
  2. Why calling Bernie Sanders a “sellout” is missing the point
  3. Cómo la industria de PCs dificulta el uso de otros sistemas operativos
  4. A short summary of the facts why a boycott of Israel is necessary
  5. The response to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
  6. The consolidation of the offshore wind turbine manufacturers
  7. Jordan Peterson ignores the importance of social policy in addressing societal problems
  8. Presentación
  9. Review of David Talbot’s Devils Chessboard
  10. Should we rely on the wisdom of crowds when choosing technology?
  11. Reflections on learning Rust and violating copyright law
  12. How “open” is open source business software?
  13. Questioning the benefits of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general
  14. Arguing with the climate change deniers over the 97% consensus

2017 33

  1. Overreaction to sexist blog posts destroys the Justice Democrats
  2. Why the melting of the Arctic sea ice matters
  3. Whither American Democracy: FDR-style reform, revolution or slide into populist dictatorship?
  4. Can the US become a democracy that governs in the public interest?
  5. Choosing the perfect laptop for programming
  6. Being willing to evaluate information which contradicts our world view
  7. Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?
  8. Am I willing to pay the price to support ethical hardware?
  9. Questions about how to reform the electronics industry
  10. The wonder of the free market of smartphones
  11. The planned obsolescence of smartphones
  12. Reflections on building my own solar panels
  13. The ecological challenges of Tesla’s Gigafactory and the Model 3
  14. Bolivia invierte menos en energía renovable que otros países sudamericanos
  15. The global production of electronic devices over the last decade
  16. The short-sighted missteps of the server companies
  17. Add a custom spam filter to phpBB3
  18. The challenge of 100% renewable energy in Portland
  19. Obama’s mediocre record on the environment
  20. Questioning the rosy predictions about the transition to autonomous electric vehicles
  21. My struggle for an adequate ideology
  22. Questioning the moral authority of the Catholic church
  23. The rise of the Debian distro family of Linux over time
  24. La problemática de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en Bolivia
  25. How the cut in YouTube ad revenue is effecting online news channels
  26. The growing trend toward compiled languages
  27. The problem of installing the Rust compiler
  28. A preliminary review of the Rust programming language
  29. Dirty shipping: Low sulfur standards in marine fuels
  30. What’s to be learned from the 2016 US presidential election
  31. Questioning the evidence that Russia meddled in the US presidential election
  32. The Mexican gasolinazo prefigures the future of Bolivia
  33. Sam Harris’s specious argument that intentions matter when killing civilians

2016 21

  1. Americans are getting a taste of their own medicine
  2. How the Democrats enable war
  3. Global Production of Electronic Devices, 2006-2015
  4. Recent media coverage of Fidel Castro’s death is decontextualized and not helpful to the Cuban people
  5. A dark view of technology
  6. Examining Bill Clinton’s paid speeches when Hillary was Secretary of State
  7. Comparing LibreOffice to MS Office and WordPerfect Office
  8. My criticisms of hardware based on planned obsolescence
  9. A list of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches and donations to the Clinton Foundation
  10. Is it necessary to know math to be a good programmer?
  11. Installing Debian Linux on the Thinkpad T450s
  12. Installing CyanogenMod 13 on a Moto X Pure Edition smartphone
  13. Obama’s renewable electricity targets are nothing to celebrate
  14. My experiences attending to the “community” in an open source company
  15. Don’t get too excited about turning CO2 into stone
  16. The importance of Bernie Sanders saying the dreaded words “carbon tax”
  17. What an election between Clinton and Trump portends
  18. The inspiring struggle for digital liberation in Steven Levy’s Crypto
  19. Bernie Sanders can still win
  20. Responding to a climate change denier who attacks the science of Hansen et al.
  21. Hillary Clinton “won” the Iowa Caucuses due to coin tosses

2015 24

  1. The bias of the mainstream media against Bernie Sanders
  2. Why Black Lives Matter frustrates me
  3. Debian Day en la UMSA
  4. Predicciones de Cambio Climático en Bolivia
  5. Legalized bribery in the US presidential race
  6. Thoughts on the first Republican US presidential debate
  7. Una canción de Micheal Jackson en quechua
  8. Bernie Sanders has a good shot at winning
  9. Claim that recent Arctic ice growth debunks climate change
  10. Challenges for Bernie Sanders
  11. Zirkle Phallus of Death
  12. Claims that global warming has stopped
  13. Obama’s eulogy for the 9 slain in Charleston
  14. The failure of China’s development model
  15. Review of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si”
  16. La deuda climática de Bolivia es una distración de los problemas reales
  17. Letter to US representative against the elimination of subsidies for wind energy
  18. Debunking global cooling
  19. Why buy a business-grade laptop?
  20. Los HCFCs en las espumas de carnaval
  21. La comida no saludable en Bolivia
  22. Espumas carnavaleras contribuyen a cambio climático
  23. Developing countries produce 44% more greenhouse gases emissions than developed countries
  24. The poor science of the movie Interstellar

2014 11

  1. El desafio de unir la escritura de aymara
  2. Declaración contra la fractura hidráulica (fracking) en Bolivia
  3. James Hansen’s proposals to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  4. Review of Brian Staveley’s The Emperor’s Blades
  5. Presentación acerca del peligro de los incendios durante el San Juan
  6. 96 años más hasta el fin de la humanidad
  7. Quechua words in the English language
  8. Why LibreOffice/OpenOffice is so frustrating
  9. Drupal sucks!
  10. Mastering Computing Magic: My quest for the right to know
  11. The Challenges of Republishing Native Language Dictionaries online

2013 7

  1. La digitalización del Vocabulario Políglota Incaico y lo que falta los diccionarios electrónicos
  2. Reflections on the failures of Sioux resistance
  3. Why activists should worry about NSA spying
  4. A review of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
  5. Why the Xsane interface needs improvement
  6. My frustration with GNOME 3
  7. Buying an Android phone

2012 4

  1. Intellectual property laws make free/libre/open source software hard to use
  2. Flipping off nVidia has strategic purpose
  3. Why we should refuse the full body scanners at the airport
  4. Why we should support Mozilla Firefox instead of Google Chrome

2011 6

  1. HP’s cost cutting
  2. The Environmental Missteps of AMD
  3. Review of Mathew Williams’ Source
  4. Pondering the environmental impact of VPS hosting
  5. On Freedom’s Path: The hope of Linux gaining market share
  6. Los Beneficios del Software Libre para Bolivia

2010 1

  1. Three visions of how to save our planet

2009 13

  1. When the alternative press is your news filter
  2. An update about my life in Bolivia
  3. Critique of the changes in Python 3
  4. Las diferencias entre gOS y Google Chrome OS y el futuro de netbooks
  5. Leery of the corporate control of free software
  6. Problems in Christopher Kelty’s Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
  7. Repartimos CDs de lenguas orginarias en la primera Feria Municipal de Tecnologías en La Paz
  8. Presentación: Problematica de la Computación en el Medio Ambiente
  9. ¿OpenOffice.org en riesgo?
  10. Netbooks aren’t any better for the environment
  11. Una politica en instituciones para minimizar el daño de computadoras al medio ambiente
  12. Actualizando CD/DVDs de GNU/Linux con Jigdo
  13. Review of Keith Curtis’ After the Software Wars

2008 20

  1. Review of the Lenovo Thinkpad SL300 Laptop
  2. Choosing your Linux or UNIX distribution
  3. Talk: Using technology to change social attitudes toward indigenous languages
  4. Recommendations for a “change the world” group
  5. Depressed calculating all the global warming my laptop causes
  6. Why I finally created a Facebook account
  7. Why you shouldn’t buy an Apple iphone
  8. What company most controls the destiny of GNU/Linux? SUN.
  9. AbiWord en un laptop que cuesta $98. ¿Cómo podemos ayudar?
  10. Politics and the working class
  11. Video acerca de tecnologia y la cultura quechua
  12. Como cambiar el idioma en GNU/Linux o UNIX
  13. How to change the language in GNU/Linux or UNIX
  14. Proposed talk for STILLA: “Using software to promote and teach indigenous languages”
  15. Porcentaje descargando Firefox 3.0
  16. Linux supports more hardware devices than any other OS
  17. Choosing your development toolkit for desktop application programming
  18. Biofuels and World Hunger
  19. The implication of Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine for Bolivia
  20. Experiencing Bolivian Carnival

2007 14

  1. Answering criticisms of free and open source software
  2. Manual para instalar redes de clientes livianos
  3. Manual to install thin client networks
  4. Review of Andrew Krause’s Foundations of GTK+ Development
  5. Presentación: Beneficios de Software Libre para Bolivia
  6. Cómo traducir FireFox en una lengua indígena
  7. The SIL screws up the ISO language codes for Aymara
  8. La nueva ortografía de los Congresos Mundiales de Quechua
  9. The massive environmental challenge we face
  10. Articulos en la prensa acerca de AbiWord en Aymara
  11. Por que tradujimos AbiWord en aymara en la Unidad Nacional de Antropología
  12. Distribuciones de GNU/Linux en América Latina y Caribe
  13. Grupos de software libre en América Latina y el Caribe
  14. Comparando modelos de desarrollo de tecnología

2006 9

  1. Update from Abancay, Peru
  2. The Left has been left out of the press
  3. Canción de software libre en quechua
  4. Why is GNU/Linux such an inconvenience on my laptop?
  5. My life in Abancay, Peru
  6. Anuncio para Tukuy Runakunapaq Qespisqa Software
  7. Software libre puede representar una diversidad de ideologías
  8. An activist guide to reform the computer industry
  9. Flame wars make great software

2005 1

  1. Plastic Peril: What You Should Know about Plastics

2002 1

  1. ¿Cómo funciona la computadora?