TPP (yet another ACTA-type thingy)
Here we go again…. But it seems there is at least one intelligent/regretful person to have realized the error of her ways from last time.
I am fearful however that we are going to have to suffer more shit like this until we eradicate the “entertainment industry” (peacefully of course, vote with your wallets people!)
Because really, would you want this to be the future?
I am not in any way, shape or form serious about the following suggestion: We could of course present the internets the way the “entertainment industry” wants it, to them at least, already today. But I do love this type of humor 
And with all these new moronic laws running rampant and frakking up the internets, this begs the question: What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? — personally I would have replaced “files” with “data” but whatever, still a worthwhile read.
Before closing the book on the subject of copyright for this time… If you’re a photographer (well, I guess, as we’ve seen with Apple/Samsung, this applies if you are a hardware designer as well): don’t take photographs which are too similar to other photographs…
Educational Games
This game was both fun and, at least to me, innovative. Just a wee bit too slow for my netbook, but a real treat if it could inspire someone to start programming
SEC — Simple Event Correlator
I don’t really remember what I was looking for when I find this, but I was almost immediately intrigued. Now, I had to read through that first paragraph on their web page a couple of times, and then still read the two excellent tutorials before I figured out what I could use it for, and I think I can express that shorter: look at logfiles, if X happens, execute command Y.
It is a little more complex than that, like if X happens, but A doesn’t happen within a specified time window following X etc.
This is an interesting initiative which seems to have it roots here and is now maintained on github.
I think the wording of the text regarding governments is a bit inflammatory and could probably be misconstrued, deliberately or otherwise, and turned into a weapon against the initiative itself.
Personally I’d have preferred either to have the wording changed, seeking instead to inspire and educate (yes I know, presumptuous of me to believe I hold the truth) our fellow citizens, or at the very least change the wording into something less misinterpretable.
We should hold those we have elected to govern us at higher standards, instead of not reacting at all, letting them off the hook as it were, whenever they err on the side of dishonesty and/or corruption.
I don’t feel I can really put my signature on that text as it currently stands, but I think I’ll remix it to something I can stand for.
If nothing else, the most interesting idea I got out of it, was the addition of “points of interests” links and IP addresses (see the github page for that). There are some services on there which further makes me unable to put my name on that document, but hoarding IP addresses, and mapping them to domain names, is interesting…
More on this later, when I have thought some more about it.
Links
- Jesus Frakking Christ — apparently, if you are one of those strange people who mind if other people look over your shoulder, you are also a terrorist…
- On a related note: The right to Anonymity is a matter of privacy
- I guess this could have a positive impact on people who don’t hear so well (or at all) and beyond that, for anyone who needs and wants to type fast. Of course, it’ll probably be harder to learn than dvorak…
- What do you do, in Vim, if you’ve just happened to undo the last half hours worth of work? You redo it
- Sigh! I still got a lot of learning to do regarding writing robust shell scripts
- I don’t think I ever groked Vim text objects until now
