Alex explains in this article how to automatically take regular screenshots of their website.
The automation happens with a GitHub Action that uses Playwright to take the screenshots and then stores them in the Git repository.
Alex has made the repo public, thus we can have a look at how this is implemented.

I followed the steps listed in their repo and did setup my own scheduled screenshots repo.
It will now take some screenshots of my blog once per month.

A project for the future will be to leverage the Internet Archive to backfill my repo with blog screenshots of the last 22 years 😅
Thankfully Alex did some pioneering work on this already and wrote two articles which will become handy:

• How to get a list of captures from the Wayback Machine
• How to take a screenshot of a page in the Wayback Machine

Commercial tea bags release millions of microplastics when in use.

A UAB research has characterised in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus able to reach the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.

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Decided to self-host the handful of code snippets I embedded into the blogposts over time.
This will be one less dependency on an external service (GitHub Gist) for running this site :-)

I choose Opengist for hosting my code snippets.
Although I already run a GitBucket instance, I decided not to use it for hosting the code snippets of the blog.
This because in the past I had some performance issues and crashes that were triggered by Bots overloading the Docker container.

The installation of Opengist went very smooth.
It does not come with many dependencies and brings it's own SQLite database file (which should be more than enough for the code snippets in the blog).

I was positively surprised by the MFA and seamless Passkey integration it provides out of the box.
Also can it be configured to allow embedding/sharing of snippets for everyone while restricting the listing and editing to logged in users only.
And as an additional security benefit it helps to reduce the complexity of my CSP policy 🔐

If you're curious to see how the code snippets are rendered, have a look at the blogposts here or here.

It's getting closer and closer... 😊

In the GitFlops: The Dangers of Terraform Automation Platforms article Elliot Ward highlights how Terraform automation platforms can be exploited to compromise cloud environments.

In particular it looks at how to exploit the terraform plan phase to execute commands and gain access to cloud infrastructure credentials.
In combination with a classic GitOps flow, where unprivileged users can open pull-requests and terraform plan is run on these pull-requests, this creates privilege escalation vulnerabilities putting the cloud infrastructure at risk.

In terms of preventing this, the recommendation is to validate Terraform config before running terraform plan on it.
One tool mentioned in the article that can be used to for this validation is Conftest.

A month ago, Elliot also presented the topic at the BSides Bern conference.
The slides of the presentation have been made available by the conference, here is a copy.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides the Surveillance Self-Defense guide.

When talking about security it is important to known what you want to protect.
The Your Security Plan module of the guide covers this topic and is a good starting point.

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Please publish and share more from Jeff Triplett. (via)

Friends, I encourage you to publish more, indirectly meaning you should write more and then share it.

You don’t have to change the world with every post. You might publish a quick thought or two that helps encourage someone else to try something new, listen to a new song, or binge-watch a new series.

Our posts are done when you say they are. You do not have to fret about sticking to landing and having a perfect conclusion. Your posts, like this post, are done after we stop writing.

Reminds me that I should setup some POSSE mechanism for the blog.
Maybe during one of the grey and cold weekends this winter :-)

In the Delegating security remediation to employees via Slack article, Maya Kaczorowski coins the term SlackSecOps to describe automation and delegation of security tasks to employees.
The article gives a nice overview of some ideas that are more and more applied by security teams and tools.

A couple years ago such ideas were mostly custom built bots/automations at larger companies, but not shared more widely.
Nowadays there seems to be a much broader adoption of these in companies, especially the Alert and Remind categories.
The most interesting ones are Delegation and Respond, which I would claim also can have the most impact.

By delegating security remediation tasks directly to the involved persons, the handling of the task becomes more efficient as all the context is available.
And then by providing the automation to the delegee to directly perform the remediation in self-service, this critically shortens the response cycle.
With the shortened response cycle, the exposure window of a vulnerable configuration is minimized, which reduces the risk of exploitation.

Similar to the 512KB club, there exists the 250KB club. It collects web pages that focus on performance, efficiency and accessibility.
Qualifying sites must fullfil one requirement.
The website must not exceed 256KB compressed size.

256KB Club also contains very niche sites and is great to discover some new corners of the Internet.
The linked pages are often minimalistic personal pages and geeky blogs.

I submitted my blog for inclusion in the club, as it measures less than 250KB.
It was accepted a day earlier than for the 512KB club :-)
Now the blog has its own page in the club: https://250kb.club/blog-x-way-org/

Some time ago I discovered the 512KB club. It collects performance-focused websites from across the Internet.
Qualifying sites must fullfil two requirements to participate.
The site must provide a reasonable amount of content.
And the total uncompressed web resources must not exceed 512KB.

512KB Club is a nice resource to discover more niche sites on the Internet.
Often these are handcrafted personal sites and blogs with unique content.
They remind me of all the unique personal sites and blogs from before the web2.0/social-media/walled-garden time.

My blog is also very lightweight (currently clocking 39.48kB on the Cloudflare URL Scanner), thus I submitted it for inclusion in the list.
It was accepted recently and is now listed as part of the Green Team (sites smaller than 100KB).

In his Writing one sentence per line article, Derek Sivers explains the benefits of writing one sentence per line.
The approach leverages that whitespace in HTML source code is collapsed when being rendered in the browser.
Thus we can have a much more writer-friendly text formatting when editing the text, while still providing a nicely rendered output to whoever views the resulting page in a browser.

The main advantages outlined in the article are:
It helps you judge each sentence on its own.
It helps you vary sentence length.
It helps you move sentences.
It helps you see first and last words.

I really like this approach and will apply it in my future writing on the blog.
The indenting of text (not explicitly mentioned in the article but visible in the source) is also something I will try to adopt.

Here is how the above two paragraphs look in the source text:

<p>
	The main advantages outlined in the article are:<br>
	It helps you judge each sentence on its own.<br>
	It helps you vary sentence length.<br>
	It helps you move sentences.<br>
	It helps you see first and last words.
</p>
<p>
	I really like this approach and will apply it in my future writing on the blog.<br>
	The indenting of text (not explicitly mentioned in the article but visible in the source) is also something I will try to adopt.
</p>

Turns out that the procedure for enabling Visual Voicemail with Galaxus Mobile is the same as for TalkTalk.

In my case their database entry was somehow stuck and I first needed to send a VVM OFF to 935 before starting the procedure.

When you switch to TalkTalk as your mobile phone provider, by default Visual Voicemail for your iPhone is not enabled.
And you're stuck with the 90s voiceprompt of the 'Talkbox'.

The following steps will activate Visual Voicemail for your iPhone:

1. Send a SMS text message with VVM ON to the number 935.
2. Shortly after you should get a text message confirming that Visual Voicemail has been enabled for you.
3. Now on the iPhone, open the phone app and go to the voicemail tab. There you will either see a button asking you to setup the voicemail or a button taking you to the 90s voiceprompt.
4. Do click on this button and setup the six-digit PIN code for your voicemail (this can be done either via a call/voiceprompt or via the guided iPhone button/dialog).
5. Once you have setup the PIN for your voicemail, close the phone app on your iPhone.
6. Then open the phone app again and go to the voicemail tab, where it should show the usual Visual Voicemail list of missed calls and no longer the button to call the 90s voiceprompt.
   In my case it took a couple minutes for this to work, thus some patience might be needed.
7. Congratulations, you have now a working Visual Voicemail on your iPhone with TalkTalk :-)

Building up on the changes from the canonical hints, I simplified the structure of the archive links.

Now it's /year/month/ everywhere.
Which of course brings another round of redirects to support in the nginx config to map the /archive/archive-year-month.html links to /year/month/ 🙈

In theory all previous link schemes should still work, but if you find a broken link, please let me know :-)

Finally took the time to create a /now page and add it to the blog: /now 🎉

Still need to figure out if it will eventually replace the about page or not.
For now the about page links to the now page.

Proton Mail can sign (and encrypt) emails when it knows the PGP key of the correspondent. For this is provides PGP keys to its users.
Unfortunately most of them are not searchable via the traditional PGP keyservers. With the following command you can download the public PGP key of a Proton Mail user:

curl -s 'https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=user@protonmail.com'

Also, just discovered that GPG Keychain on Mac detects if the clipboard contains a PGP key and asks if it should import it. Very nice feature which saves a couple clicks :-)

Added the /reading page to the blog to keep a list of various books I'm currently reading.

It is very bare-bones currently, I expect over time it will grow (both in number of books and also in amount of content, such as ratings, links and commentary).
Might take a while, stay tuned 🤓

Instead of using AI tools to tear people down, what if we used them to uplift others? Introducing Praise my GitHub profile:

https://praise-me.fly.dev/

Xe Iaso made this cool tool, which creates happiness ❤️

Useful trick posted by Volker Weber: enable the Orientation Lock by default and use Automation Shortcuts to toggle it when Apps such as Photos or YouTube are opened/closed.
This allows to view pictures/videos in landscape mode while other Apps remain in portrait mode, all without having to manually toggle the Orientation Lock.

There are some new blog directory sites popping up again. Nice way to discover niche personal sites outside of the big platforms.

• ooh.directory
• personalsit.es
• blogroll.org

As seen all over the place, adding udm=14 to the URL of a Google search makes the result display less crappy (no ads, no AI suggestions to eat rocks or put glue on pizza, …).
The search results themselves of course are not really getting better with this, but at least the search experience is less annoying.

For the Desktop edition of Firefox you will need to use the udm14 extension to add the udm=14 parameter by default to your search bar.
For other browsers it should be enough to modify the settings of the search URL used and add the parameter (something like https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14).
Or even better, do use an alternative search engine :-)

Building a Geocities website in 1998

Brings back some faint memories of young me playing around with FrontPage (wondering why the preview rendering of an animated fullscreen background of a burning fire is making the computer go slow…)

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In his 20 year anniversary post, Terence Eden explains how he uses the "On This Day" feature of his blog every morning to look back on what he was writing on this day in previous years.

Finding this very inspiring, I decided to add a similar feature to my blog.
As my blog is built with Jekyll as static pages, some plain old JavaScript was needed to surface the posts of this day without having to rebuild the page daily.

And here we have now the On this day page :-)

"If you don't fit... Maybe you haven't found the right puzzle." — Admiral Wonderboat (via)

Tiny Fragments is a fun little puzzle game made by Daniel Moreno (via)

100 more things you can do with your personal website — a follow-up to the popular post from last month :-)

Dog Poo Golf, a Wii Sports Golf-style browser game (with the music!) where you fling dog poop bags into a garbage can. 🐶💩⛳ (via kottke.org)

100 things you can do on your personal website — lots of ideas/inspirations also for this blog :-)

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Please Blog — a plea for less Big Web and more Small Web and an encouraging article to write your own blog. It also touches on the part about writing on your own domain (so to keep your content yours and not be at risk of a third-party commercial 'social' service going away).

Don’t wait for the Pulitzer piece. Tell me about your ride to work, about your food, what flavor ice cream you like. Let me be part of happiness and sadness. Show me, that there is a human being out there that, agree or not, I can relate to. Because without it, we are just actors in a sea of actors, marketing, proselytizing, advocating, and threatening towards each other in an always vicious circle of striving for a relevance that only buys us more marketing, more proselytizing, more advocating, and more threats.

(discovered via Thomas Gigold)

It's time again to do some cleanup of my blogroll before the links start to turn into 404 errors :-)

Removed:

• Veni, Vidi, VISA
• gru.gq
• BrewDog
• mdlayher.com
• Inliniac
• To Linux and beyond!
• The Lone Sysadmin
• eklitzke.org

Following in the trend of replacing tables, I've revived the old statistics page.
Now using less markup as it is built with <div> and CSS only (the display: inline-block; property was particularly helpful).

(the Jekyll/Liquid templating to generate the data for it looks quite horrific though…)

As mentioned before, I'm a supporter of the Cool URIs don't change approach.
Thus I try to keep all the URLs of this blog working (or at least make them redirect to the new place where the content is located).
Not always an easy task with old domains and multiple blogging engines accumulated over the years.

To help me with that (and ensure I don't break anything when updating a 10+ year old mod_rewrite config) I created a short Bash script to test the redirect behavior.
It contains a list of URLs and their expected redirect target, goes through them with curl and checks that the correct Location: header is returned.

As it might be useful for others in similar situations, the script can be found here.

I miss human curation — Where are my internet friends? And where are their weird blogs? (via)

Seems that after donating to Wikipedia there is a redirect to this page, which sets a cookie to no longer show the donation banners.

Resonating article from Mike Grindle about personal blogging and how it fits into todays Internet: Why Personal Blogging Still Rules

Before the social media craze or publishing platforms, and long before ‘content creator’ was a job title, blogs served as one of the primary forms of online expression and communication.

Everything on your blog was made to look and feel the way you wanted. If it didn’t, you rolled your sleeves up and coded that stuff in like the webmaster you were. And if the masses didn’t like it, who cared? They had no obligations to you, and you had none to them.

Hiding beneath the drivel that is Google’s search results, and all the trackers, cookies, ads and curated feeds that come with them, personal blogs and sites of all shapes and sizes are still there. They’re thriving even in a kind of interconnected web beneath the web.

The blogs on this small or “indie” web come in many shapes and sizes. […] But at their core, they all have one characteristic in common: they’re there because their owners wanted to carve out their space on the internet.

Your blog doesn’t have to be big and fancy. It doesn’t have to outrank everyone on Google, make money or “convert leads” to be important. It can be something that exists for its own sake, as your place to express yourself in whatever manner you please.

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Sydney New Year's Eve midgnight fireworks

As usual, Sydney is a bit ahead of us. Great memories, long time ago :-)

While closing an old account I had to communicate using the infamous NATO/ICAO phonetic alphabet (US banks like to exchange the 20+ character long IBANs via poor-quality call-center phonelines).

As it has been a while since I last used it, I created a handy table to quickly lookup the code words: nato.sigint.ch

Special feature: when queried by curl (eg. without a text/html Accept header) it returns the table as plaintext :-)

# curl nato.sigint.ch
A Alpha      S Sierra
B Bravo      T Tango
C Charlie    U Uniform
D Delta      V Victor
E Echo       W Whiskey
F Foxtrot    X X-ray
G Golf       Y Yankee
H Hotel      Z Zulu
I India      0 Zero
J Juliett    1 One
K Kilo       2 Two
L Lima       3 Three
M Mike       4 Four
N November   5 Five
O Oscar      6 Six
P Papa       7 Seven
Q Quebec     8 Eight
R Romeo      9 Niner

nitter provides a free and open source alternative front-end to Twitter. It talks with the API and does not show any JavaScript or ads (thus no 'forced-login' overlay after reading 5 tweets or similar nastiness).
The source code for it is available on GitHub.

It does a direct mapping of the profile URLs, thus https://twitter.com/sheeshee becomes https://nitter.net/sheeshee

On June 2nd 2002 I published the first (test) entry in this weblog. The first entry has disappeared since (thus making the second entry the first one in the archive of June 2002).

Compared to 20 years ago, the about page no longer needs to explain what a weblog is.
Interesting though that the linked definition of a weblog from back then already did foresee the rise and fall in popularity of weblogs which happend during the last two decades.
To me it seems in the last 1-2 years there has been an increase again in activity around personal weblogs; curious to see if this revival trend continues.

Also the weblog here has changed quite a bit. Initially its content was more on the pure web-logging side (commenting on interesting links I encountered during my daily Internet surfing) mixed with some kind of a journal/commentary of my day-to-day life. Later on it moved more towards a 'knowledge dump' on technical topics mixed with some music discoveries and random personal post from festivals and travels. And lately it has been rather sparse again with posts, still mostly on technical topics around coding, networking, security mixed with some personal posts commenting on the current world situation.
The frequency of posts also followed the changes in content where early on there sometimes were multiple posts per day, nowadays there can be multiple months without any post and there were even entire years where nothing new was posted; let's see how this goes in the future :-)

From the list of linked Blogs in 2002, only deep-resonance aka mk is still active, special shout-out to Markus for the continuous persistence.
To the next twenty years :-)

Today I went to Bern to the rally for peace.
My motivation was to show support for the people suffering in this war and to send a signal to our swiss government that the population wants clear participation in sanctions (while remaining neutral, the two in my view are not exclusive!).

Swiss media reported that this was the largest rally for peace in Switzerland since the rallies against the war in Iraq in 2003. That I can link to my own blog entry regarding the rally for peace from 19 years ago, makes me sad.
Clearly we as human species did not progress enough on this topic :-(

Besides showing up to the rally, I also did donate to the ICRC to provide humanitarian aid and I do encourage you to do the same.

Wordle seems to be the trending topic these days.
It's a word game similar to the french Motus game show (resp. the american Lingo game show).

Wordle 200 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

TrueWealth hat's nicht so mit Prozentrechnen:

This Page is Designed to Last — a manifesto from Jeff Huang for preserving content on the web, where he advocates to keep content on the web available and pledges to keep his site available for the next 10 years.

Having my content in this weblog online since 2002, I can very much relate to this initiative and additionally would like to point to the efforts of archive.org (aka. The Internet Archive).
The wayback machine of archive.org allows to see old versions of websites, even when the website itself is no longer available.

For me personally this became critically useful when the database of my weblog vanished with no current backup and I then used the archived versions from archive.org to restore the missing content.

Thus I would like to encourage everyone to support the efforts of archive.org with a donation.

As some links on my blogroll start to turn into 404 errors it's time to do some cleanup and also to bring in some fresh blood :-)

Removed:

• mezzoblue
• Dave Shea
• Pepilog
• e.loge
• EDV
• sid.rstack.org/blog
• Code Candies
• thePacketGeek
• lovfoood

Added:

• charity.wtf

Added another interesting blog to the Links: benjojo.co.uk

Ben builds and writes about a lot of funny small projects:

• Storing files in DNS caches
• Encoding data in dubstep music
• Building an IPv6-to-Tor gateway
• Switching SSH port based on a time-based token

Added the following blogs to the Links:

• Thoughts on programming
• eklitzke.org
• rachelbythebay.com

Seems like the blog/RSS thing is getting traction again: It's Time for an RSS Revival (via)

fsociety00.dat

So true...

"Obey the cloud!" by Johannes Kretzschmar, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Run #9 around Centennial Park. Two rounds again, this time during noon with some nice sun and a whopping 30°C :-)

Centennial Midday Run 2x

Run #8 around Centennial Park. Two rounds again, and with some rain :-(

Centennial Morning Run 2x

Run #7 around Centennial Park. Only one round, but the fastest one so far.

Centennial Morning Run

Run #6 around Centennial Park. Two rounds this time, with a slower pace though.

Centennial Morning Run 2x

Run #5 around Centennial Park. Didn't have the patience to wait for the GPS to lock onto the signal, thus the late start.

Centennial Morning Run

Run #4 around Centennial Park, this time a bit later and thus with more sun:

Centennial Morning Run

Another run around Centennial Park, this time counterclockwise:

Centennial Morning Run

Next run around the beautiful Centennial Park:

Centennial Morning Run

The nice thing of being in Sydney during December is that you can go running during christmas time and it is 22°C :-)

Centennial Morning Run

Spot-on representation of every IKEA store's layout:

SEASONS of NORWAY - A Time-Lapse Adventure

SEASONS of NORWAY - A Time-Lapse Adventure from Rustad Media on Vimeo. (via)

Today I did some cleanup of my legacy infrastructure. The repositories formerly located at cvs.x-way.org and svn.x-way.org have been converted to Git and are now available at git.x-way.org.

Also is git.x-way.org now no longer served by the old gitweb.cgi but by the fantastic GitBucket (a lightweight, self-contained GitHub clone written in Scala).

12 years ago I started this weblog with a link to www.2advanced.com.
It's now 555 posts later and I think what is most unexpected (besides that this weblog is still existing 12 years later), is that this first link from my first post is still valid (and still pointing to some Flash-only website...).

So far this weblog has survived 2 different domains, 3 different servers, multiple versions of a self-made blogging-engine, about 6 different layout designs, a database-crash, recovery via archive.org and a migration to Jekyll.

No guarantee that it will last another 12 years, but for the meantime: Cheers, and enjoy the ride!

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Yesterday after work we had some beers at The Local Taphouse (including some fine porter from BrewDog to increase my shareholder value) and then we went on to go out in some clubs, in shorts and flip-flops.
Astonishingly we had no problems getting inside, anywhere else in the world this would not be possible!

This morning then up again for some early surfing at Bondi before all the tourists arrive.
And now chilling in my Kammok under the trees in the frontyard :-)

This morning I started to prepare the bagagges for my trip to 28C3 and for the two months in Sydney.
While stowing away all my stuff in boxes so I can sublet my room I found old boxes with stuff, which I did stow away over a year ago when I went to Sydney the last time and I've never even thought about since!

As I did not have time to open them today I don't even know what is in those boxes. Probably I should just throw them away when I come back from Sydney, there can't be anything important in there :-)

c't: iPhone-Sperre nahezu nutzlos

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The database which previously powered this weblog vanished without a trace two years ago and people only got some PHP/XML error when surfing this site since then. Unfortunately the last backup of the database was more than four years old...

To restore the content of this weblog the Webarchive from Archive.org was parsed with the help of some scripts in order to extract the missing posts. The resulting data was cross-checked with the last database backup and the generated static RSS feed files.
Then all the posts with their meta information were converted and stored in the appropriate format for the new system. Finally the layout was migrated to the new system and some glue files were created in order to provide backwards compatibility for the old link format.

After two months of restore/migration/polishing work the weblog is now online again, powered by jekyll and currently hosted with GitHub Pages.

This comment on the Gmail problems made my day:

They're testing their new offline feature :)

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The trial against The Pirate Bay that started today in Stockholm, Sweden are one of the most important issues of our time. Our adversaries basically wants to close down internets and remodel it into something similar of a sodamachine serving entertainment. During the trial, the prosecutor together with a coterie of representatives for a disabled business model will put up a tacky theater by telling stories designed to convince the court that The Pirate Bay infact is a menace to society.

What differs this trial from most earlier trials is that everything in and surrounding it will whirl round and round in diverse channels of communication; to be discussed, reinterpreted, copied and critizised. Every crack in their appeal will be penetrated by the gaze of thousands upon thousands of eyes on the internets, in all the channels covering the trial. Old cliches from the antipiracy lobby wont stick. You won’t be able to say stuff like, ”you can’t compete with free” or ”filesharing is theft” without a thousand voices making fun of you.

We will create numerous scenes where quite different plays will take place. In local channels like spectrial.bloggy.se where the immediate physical surroundings of the court are being discussed. ”Which cafés nearby will give us connection?” ”How can we get electricity to the bus?” But also in international channels like Twitter, where right now the torrent of information is being translated into fifteen different languages. Translations and coverage being made by ordinary users of internets. Volunteers sign up to make trial-tourist guides to the surroundings, drive the bus or hook up audio. People fly in from far away countries to cover the trial and tell the world their video story of the Sweden they see.

Here all participants are potential actors in the Spectrial. Our channels form a meltingpot of reporting and engagement.

Our communication around the spectacle aims in no way towards an objective report on an external chain of events. Rather, the trial is a hub around which a whole new network of actors is instigated. Neither is the spectacle a question of old media against digital, social medias. Our social medias include a paper fanzine and a 32 year old bus, connecting us and others physically.

It’s not about the protocols nor the technology. It’s about using these to create new congregations, where anyone is invited and anyone can find their role, build new scenes and make their own performances.

The future is built by us. Us who participate in conversations. The future is built by us who explore how information and performativity is coming together. To refuse a debate and still expect to be able to charge consumers is since long a closed door. To also try and outlaw certain types of conversations is downright disgraceful.

The coverage of the trial is not unique in these qualities. More and more areas see the creation of conversations on and the exploration of new stances on culture and cultural economy. A gigantic collective exploration has set sails. Every route differs from the other. But they have one thing in common: The industry interests that the state is representing are never present in these conversations. This is why they wont be part in building the future.

maintain hardline kopimi

The Bureau for Piracy and The Pirate Bay
via the internets

this article was translated by proud peers of The Pirate Bay trial.thepiratebay.org

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As EPFL is migrating all its E-Mail services to Exchange, lets use the Exchange functionalities of the iPhone/iPod touch.
Here's the configuration to make it work:

• E-Mail: firstname.lastname@epfl.ch
• Server: ewa.epfl.ch
• Username: studentsusername
• Password: ********************

Right after two nights with 4 hours of sleep in total (Sat Rocks On The Second Floor!), I stumble over this article: Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor. :-)

CHALLENGE

Don't ask.

Pancake Man

Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

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I passed the California driving test this afternoon, now the streets are no longer safe :-)
The interim driver license looks really shabby, it's just this text printed on cheap copier paper:

                        INTERIM DRIVER LICENSE 

                  DXXXXXXX        CLASS C 


            ISSUED:07-25-07   XXX   XX/XX   EXPIRES:09-22-07

ANDREAS RENE JAGGI                       SEX:M   HAIR:BRN   EYES:HZL
900 ISLAND DR STE 101                    HT:5-11   WT:187   DOB:01-22-84
REDWOOD CITY   CA  94065


  THIS LICENSE IS ISSUED AS A LICENSE TO DRIVE A MOTOR VEHICLE;
     IT DOES NOT ESTABLISH ELIGIBILITY FOR EMPLOYMENT, VOTER
                REGISTRATION, OR PUBLIC BENEFITS.

Also the driving test itself was more like a joke than a real test. I just had to drive around for about 10 minutes. No highway driving, no complicated intersections, no 'advanced' maneuvers, no real parallel parking. In fact the "parallel parking" part was to pull over to the curb and drive backwards 3 meters (w/o any other car around of course). And the most complicated maneuvers were to change lanes and to make a left turn at an intersection.

This afternoon some asshole has stolen my bicycle.
I left it locked to the bike rack at the Hillsdale Caltrain station for 5 hours while I went shopping in SF. And now it's gone :-(

Of course I called the police, but even the deputy sheriff of San Mateo county said that I will probably never see my bike again.
So if you happen to find or see a bicycle with the following characteristics, please tell me (650.888.0140) or report to the police.

Robert will zum Wochenende noch ein paar Fakten sehen:

1. Ich hasse Arbeiten Schreiben, Lernen, etc. aber trotzdem sitze ich seit 15½ Jahren hinter der Schulbank (und bin damit noch immer nicht fertig).
2. Im nächsten Semester gehe ich endlich mal nicht zur Schule sondern mache Ferien in Kalifornien programmiere bei Novawave Technologies an Embedded Linux Geräten herum.
3. Je mehr ich neben dem Studium mache, desto besser werden meine Noten.
4. Vor langer Zeit habe ich einmal Schlagzeug gespielt.
5. Vor noch längerer Zeit sogar Blockflöte.
6. Zwei mal pro Woche fahre ich über eine der schönsten Bahnstrecken und dabei schlafe ich oder starre in meinen Laptop.
7. Ich interessiere mich für Eventtechnik und nicht zu wenig (Satellite, Balélec, Challenge 06, Artiphys, Vivapoly, ClosedAir 06, Polybeach, PIP).

Mal schauen ob Andreas oder Gordon was über sich erzählen wollen.

A Vufflens-la-Ville (10 min. en voiture de l'EPFL, 45 min. en train), à louer du 10 mars au 15 septembre 2007 une chambre meublée indépendante de 32 m² avec coin cuisine et ADSL, située dans une ancienne ferme habitée par une famille (salle d'eau en commun, possibilité d'utiliser le jardin), pour 530 francs par mois, charges comprises.
Tél. de préférence le soir au 021'701'14'61 ou au 078'645'56'83.

Heute wurde meine mit Scuttle funktionierende Linksammlung von einem Spammer heimgesucht.
Resultat: rund 10'000 Spamlinks und etwa dreimal soviele Spamtags.

Glücklicherweise lässt sich das mit nur drei SQL Befehlen entfernen:

1. spammer-uId ausfindig machen und entsprechenden User löschen

   DELET FROM sc_users WHERE uID = spammer-uId

2. Spamtags löschen

   DELETE FROM sc_tags WHERE bId IN (SELECT bId FROM sc_bookmarks WHERE uId = spammer-uId)

3. Spamlinks löschen

   DELETE FROM sc_bookmarks WHERE uId = spammer-uId

Vu ces résultats, le Bachelor of Science BSc en informatique lui est décerné.
In consideration of these results the candidate is awarded the "Bachelor of Science BSc in Computer Science"

Gestern wurde mir mitgeteilt, dass mein trackback.php Script den Server zum Absturz gebracht hat!
Das erstaunt mich nicht besonders, da ich hier in letzter Zeit immer stärker mit Trackback-Spam bombardiert werde und der schützende Bayesian Spam-Filter nicht gerade sehr ressourcenschonend arbeitet.

Also gibt's ab jetzt hier keine Trackback-Unterstützung mehr. Aufrufe von trackback.php werden mit 410 oder 403 beantwortet!

Eigentlich sollte ich ja für die Prüfungen lernen und nicht vor dem Computer sitzen. Aber wenn die Motivation nicht da ist kann man nichts machen ;-)
Und dann wirft mir Markus auch noch ein Stöckchen zu. Danke, noch eine Ausrede mehr um mich vom Lernen abzuhalten :-)

Wie man sieht bin ich als Student noch nicht so viel in der Welt rumgekommen.
Das Stöckchen gebe ich an Robert, Gordon und Marc weiter.
Die Karten kann man sich bei world66.com generieren lassen.
Voilà!

Via EDV.

Nachdem ich es letzte Woche verpennt habe, gibt’s hier nun die beantworteten Fragen dieser Woche:

1. Schneiden wir mal ein heikles Thema an. Wie vertreibst Du Dir die Zeit auf dem Thron? Gibt’s Toilettenliteratur, die Tageszeitung, Musik?

   Meistens hängen meine Gedanken bei irgendeiner Arbeit die ich gerade mache und so nutze ich die Zeit um neue Ideen zu sammeln.

2. Wenn Du jetzt aus dem nächstgelegenen Fenster schaust. Was stört Dich am ehesten?

   Hm, weil’s Nacht ist sehe ich nicht sehr viel und von dem was ich sehe stört mich momentan eigentlich nichts.

3. Jetzt wird’s intim. Hast Du einen Fernseher im Schlafzimmer? Und warum hast Du dort (k)einen?

   Ich habe gar keinen Fernseher.

4. In jedem dritten Weblog kann man über Moleskines lesen. Jene neckischen Notizbücher, die es in diverstesten Formen gibt. Wie organisierst Du Dich? Machst Du schriftliche Notizen, oder reizt Du den naturgegebenen Speicher voll aus. Wie vewaltest Du Deine Telefonnummern und Kontakte?

   Meistens versuche ich alles im Kopf zu behalten, was auch ziemlich gut klappt. Telefonnummern sind im Handy gespeichert und E-Mail Adressen im Adressbuch vom E-Mail Programm. Postadressen hingegen nirgends, da ich sie nie brauche.

5. Has(s)t Du Stofftiere?

   Ich habe ein Stofftier und zwar dieses hier.

Markus stellt fünf weihnachtliche Fragen:

1. Und? Schon alle Geschenke gekauft? Auch schon verpackt?
2. Hand auf’s Herz. Ist das Geschenkekaufen ein Pflichtprogramm oder gibst Du Dir Mühe was “passendes” zu finden?
3. Weihnachten das Familienfest. Verbringst Du Weihnachten mit der Familie? Aus Tradition? Weil man sich sonst nie sieht? Wird’s Zoff geben? Oder ist Dir das alles zu spießig?
4. Hast Du überhaupt Lust auf Weihnachten? Oder versinkst Du lieber in eine Winterdepression oder ergibst Du Dich an den ruhigen Tagen Deinem Weltschmerz?
5. Urlaub? Na, zwischen den Feiertagen Urlaub genommen? Oder bist Du froh, wenn Du Dich fern der Familie bei der Knechterei verstecken kannst?

Und hier meine Antworten:

1. Ich habe alle Geschenke schon gekauft, aber nur die für Gestern sind schon verpackt.
2. Geschenke versuche ich immer passende zu finden, was sich allerdings nicht immer als leicht herausstellt.
3. Weihnachten verbringe ich mit der Familie; aus Tradition und auch weil ich sie in letzter Zeit nicht sehr viel gesehen habe.
4. Lust auf Weihnachten? k.A.
5. Ich habe zwei Wochen unterrichtsfreie Zeit, habe aber soviel Arbeit mitbekommen, dass ich nicht wirklich ausspannen kann.

There is it, the best blonde joke ever.

Blick aus meinem Fenster, heute um 11:28 Uhr.
Danach gings ab auf die Piste :-)

Markus bewirft mich wegen den Französischkenntnissen mit Stöckchen!

1. Allez dans vos archives.
2. Retrouvez la 23e note ou celle proche de ce chiffre.
3. Retrouvez la 5e phrase.
4. Affichez le texte de la phrase ainsi que ces instructions.
5. Demandez à 5 personnes que vous aimez lire d’en faire autant.

Voilà, der fünfte Satz aus dem dreiundzwanzigsten Eintrag:

Yeehaw!

Das Stöckchen an fünf Personen weiterreichen, welche ich gerne lese?
Mal schauen was die Linkliste so hergibt:

• Andreas
• Pepino
• dee
• Gordon
• Flo

Um 20.30h fängt der Film an. Wenn du den Zug nimmst, der in zehn Minuten fährt, reichts noch!
Und so habe ich mir am Freitag vor zwei Wochen noch schnell Mr. & Mrs. Smith angeschaut. Als ich nach dem Kinobesuch wieder Zuhause angekommen war, musste ich mich beeilen um noch meine Sachen zu packen damit wir um vier Uhr morgens in Richtung Frankreich losfahren konnten. Wir verbrachten unsere Ferien nocheinmal im Derpartement des Landes in Moustey. Da ich auch meine Digitalkamera mitgenommen hatte, gibts diesmal sogar ein paar Bilder.

Blick zur Tür hinaus

Les Landes ist voller Pinien

Pomme de pin

Ein Glühwürmchen photographiert mit Infrarot

und mit Blitzlicht

Mond, Belichtungszeit 30 Sekunden

Mond, Belichtungszeit 10 Sekunden

Mond, Belichtungszeit 30 Sekunden

Eine Eidechse

Zwei Eidechsen

Spezieller Grashüpfer

Auf dem Rückweg überquerten wir den Viaduc de Millau

Viaduc de Millau

Viaduc de Millau

Brücke von Les Vignes

Felsformation bei Les Vignes

Ferienlektüre

Die ersten 5 Dinge, die ich tue, wenn ich mich an den Computer setze:

1. Einloggen
2. startx
3. Sylpheed-Claws, Firefox und XMMS starten
4. Warten bis die E-Mails abgerufen sind
5. E-Mails lesen

Die ersten 5 Websites, die ich besuche:

1. x-log
2. symlink.ch
3. heise.de
4. der Rest hängt davon ab, was ich eigentlich am Computer machen wollte
5. …

Via cyrus.ruhr.de, Pocket-Blog, LostFocus, Late Night Blog.

Motivated by Joel’s Advice for Computer Science College Students i beginn now to blog also in english. The target is to improve my written english skills.
I hope that this experiment doesn’t result like the french one, which is dying poorly since i daily speak french and don’t write in it anymore.

Seit neustem habe auch ich so einen Gmail-Account und habe nun einige Einladungen zu verschenken.
Wer Interesse daran hat, soll sich melden.

Wie ich vorhin gerade bemerkt habe, habe ich in den letzten 12 Tagen 800 Spam-Mails erhalten. Glücklicherweise hat mein Spam-Filter 780 davon erkannt :-)

• Kommentarvorschau
• On-the-fly Sprachwechsel der Navigationselemente (Deutsch/Französisch)

Markus Kniebes hat ein Skript geschrieben, welches mittels einer MySQL-Datenbank eine Übersicht über die abgespielten Musikstücke erstellt. Erinnert mich ein bisschen an die Playlists in iTunes. Meine Playlist findet man hier :-)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

In symbols, the average acceleration a, over a time interval Δt = t₂ - t₁ during which the velocity changes by Δv = v₂ - v₁, is defined as
a = (v₂ - v₁)/(t₂ - t₁) = Δv/Δt.

Douglas C. Giancoli - Physics for Scientists & Engineers

Via Dunkle Zeiten.

"Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen. Wissen ist begrenzt, Phantasie aber umfaßt die ganze Welt."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Mehr dazu bei heise

"Am liebsten erinnere ich mich an die Zukunft."

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), span. surrealist. Maler

Wie schon angekündigt, habe ich während den Semesterferien die PHP-Scripts, welche hier im Hintergrund ihre Arbeit tun, neu geschrieben. Bisher sind noch nicht alle Funktionen der alten Version implementiert. Es werden jedoch laufend neue Funktionen hinzugefügt.
Mit dem alten Script verschwinden auch die alten Layouts, da hier nun ein neues Template-System werkelt. Aber keine Angst es werden neue Layouts kommen, denn dieser graue Kasten gefällt mir schon jetzt nicht mehr.

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Chronik eines angekündigten Krieges

PACE

WANTED

Weitere PDFs zur Weltpolitik findet man hier und hier.

telnet blinkenlights.nl

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Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers- Fehler '8007000e'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Nicht genügend Arbeitsspeicher.

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