December 2011
1 post
The FreeBSD subversion port
I use git whenever I can but sometimes there are projects held in subversion that I need to access. I recently built the devel/subversion FreeBSD port. To my surprise I was unable to check out an https repo. Subversion was unhappy and said svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme for Who would have guessed that the option ‘SERF’ is critical for being able to checkout an...
Dec 5th
August 2011
1 post
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“And then let’s go ban Google Plus! They mean no good, I think: Why else...”
– https://plus.google.com/116392903945162228075/posts/gfqhESCo8Dv by @nickm_tor
Aug 4th
July 2011
1 post
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“If @foo exists, Perl takes a good guess about [bar] , and is almost always...”
– http://perldoc.perl.org/perldata.html#Scalar-value-constructors Why I avoid Perl?
Jul 12th
March 2011
2 posts
Mar 31st
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[swe] Töllborg anmäler Sverige för fördragsbrott
Efter att Töllborgs anmälan av VISA och Mastercard tidigare i år blivit avfärdade av Finansinspektionen och Konkurrensverket anmäler nu Töllborg Sverige till EU-kommissionen för fördragsbrott. Det handlar om VISAs och Mastercards vägran att vidarebefordra betalningar till WikiLeaks och Sunshine Press. Töllborg yrkar att Kommissionen ålägger Sverige att se till att Konkurrensverket och...
Mar 14th
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February 2011
2 posts
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[swe] Swedish government puts 150 MSEK into... →
There’ll be a meeting in Stockholm 2011-03-10. We should email ideas for the meeting within two weeks from now (no later than 2011-02-24).
Feb 10th
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[swe] VISA och Mastercard anmälda till FI och KV
Dennis Töllborg, professor i rättsvetenskap, anmäler VISA och Mastercard till Finansinspektionen och Konkurrensverket. I och med att de i slutet av 2010 stoppade betalningarna till WikiLeaks följer de enligt Töllborg inte lagen om insättningsgaranti. Genom missbruk av sin dominerande ställning bryter de även mot lagen om betaltjänster. Töllborg kräver att Konkurrensverket “omedelbart...
Feb 1st
January 2011
1 post
1 tag
“We are the generation that bought more shoes and we got what we deserve”
Jan 17th
December 2010
1 post
1 tag
Dec 4th
November 2010
1 post
5 tags
[swedish] Lagrådet ser inga problem med den...
Lagrådet skriver i sitt yttrande bl.a. såhär: Till bilden hör emellertid att telefonbolagen sedan länge med abon- nenternas tillstånd och med stöd i personuppgiftslagen (1998:204) och lagen om elektronisk kommunikation lagrar uppgifter i betydande mängd om telefon- och internettrafiken. Dessa uppgifter, som används av bolagen för fakturering av telefon- och...
Nov 18th
October 2010
1 post
3 tags
“Only we could pretend we did not know”
– Robert Fisk: The shaming of America - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent
Oct 24th
September 2010
3 posts
1 tag
U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet -... →
Sep 27th
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“This page is NOT suitable for children, ministers, senators, or the mass media.”
– http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/
Sep 27th
1 tag
On Writing, Funding, and Distributing Software to... →
A good short writeup by EFF on things to think about when doing stuff with censorship circumvention software, spurred by the recent Haystack debacle.
Sep 17th
June 2010
6 posts
5 tags
HTTPS Everywhere
HTTPS is HTTP with encryption. Some of you knew that. Encryption is good because it makes you less exposed to eavesdropping. Some of you knew that too. Now, when you click on a link in a web page, that link is either HTTPS or HTTP. Most often it’s the latter, giving you the next page without encryption. But with the new Firefox extension from EFF and The Tor Project this problem has a...
Jun 23rd
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“[swedish] Drottning Silvia och SVT ligger ute med osanna uppgifter”
– http://farmorgun.blogspot.com/2010/06/ett-oppet-eller-blockeratcensurerat.html
Jun 22nd
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HTTPS Everywhere →
Jun 18th
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This is war →
Jun 16th
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“In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/politics/12leak.html
Jun 15th
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How i love my Gnus, now even more
I know you know I read my email using Gnus, I just know you do. Now, every now and again you want to do something to a bunch of articles (i.e. email messages) at once. Of course, a keyboard macro (`C-x (‘) will do it for you but that’s not half as fun as marking articles “as processable” and then just do it in one big sweep. A fairly common thing to do is to mark...
Jun 12th
April 2010
2 posts
3 tags
Google buying ITA for $1bn? →
Apr 21st
2 tags
Government requests directed to Google and YouTube →
Google presents numbers on government agencies requesting removal of content from Google services in the form of a map. Related to http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/controversial-content-and-free.html
Apr 20th
March 2010
5 posts
2 tags
New Research Suggests That Governments May Fake... →
Mar 24th
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WikiLeaks under pressure →
Mar 24th
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US Army considered attack on Wikileaks -- The... →
Mar 16th
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Run a Tor node
I am running a Tor relay node and I can highly recommend it. It’s not hard at all and it gives you a good feeling, knowing that you’re helping people in countries where ordinary Internet users are prohibited from reaching the rest of the world. Here’s how you do it on a NetBSD 5.0 system. If you’re going to push anything more than a couple of hundreds of kilobytes of...
Mar 15th
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Curing WLAN dropouts in Ubuntu
Short story $ sudo apt-get install wicd # replace NetworkManager $ sudo wicd-ncurses # configure connection Long story Since I was supposed to work tonight, I had to do something else. I decided to fix that stupid WLAN dropouts that I’ve suffered from ever since I installed Ubuntu on this IBM T60. The machine is equipped with the Atheros AR5212 chipset and...
Mar 10th
January 2010
6 posts
3 tags
Ironfox - Sandboxed firefox wrapper for MacOSX →
Protect yourself against bugs in Firefox by running it in a sandbox. It’s protection without the usual pain. Security fetishists at (Romab AB)[http://romab.com/] have spent some time reverse engineering some OSX stuff that Apple refuses to reveal any details on. Good thing!
Jan 31st
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Dr. Dobb's | Parallel Algorithm Leads to Crypto... →
This beast does 280 billion 56-bit DES decryptions per second.
Jan 29th
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“In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created...”
– U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google - CNN.com
Jan 24th
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GoogleSharing :: A Special Kind Of Proxy →
Brilliant tool, by moxie marlinspike, that lets you use (some of) Googles services without giving out all your surfing habits. You use Firefox for browsing the web. You download and install a plugin. You restart Firefox. The plugin redirects Google traffic to a proxy (after cleaning up your data some). The proxy sends your query to the real Google service using a random identity and relays...
Jan 20th
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“For every hardware or software product, there are enthusiasts: wild, untamed,...”
– What I want from my Common Lisp vendor and the Common Lisp community - Naggum cll archive
Jan 15th
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“It is appropriate that a government-owned spider would be the most unsubtle in...”
– Hello, government! · DragonFly BSD Digest
Jan 14th
November 2009
8 posts
1 tag
Quantum computing for everyone →
This article explains quantum computing in about 2000 words. No, it doesn’t. But it gives you an idea of why it’s so hard to grasp the idea using ordinary computer science methods. It’s all about changing lots of things with little effort. I still don’t have a clue on how to solve any problems with it though. It links to Feynman’s “QED: The Strange Theory...
Nov 28th
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[swedish] Stockholm inför Creative Commons →
Det här kom som en glad överraskning för mig. Jag har inte hängt med riktigt. Bra! Stockolms gömda samlingar ska bli mer tillgängliga för invånarna. Därför beslutar kulturnämnden idag att införa Creative Commons som licenssystem för Stadsarkivets och Stadsmuseets bilder. Detta blir början på ett arbete med en policy för användningen av digitala bilder från Stockholms stads samlingar.
Nov 21st
1 tag
The Pirate Bay - The world's most resilient... →
TPB drops the tracker. Apparently, DHT works well enough for TPB to start relying on this distributed “super tracker” for all its torrent distribution. Here’s another article on DHT.
Nov 17th
1 tag
Tea Partiers Punked, Prankster Leads Chant... →
“Columbus go home” is quite a catchy phrase, I must say. Nice prank!
Nov 17th
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“If I have to write one more polyglot bash / awk / python script to gather data...”
– [FoRK] Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger
Nov 16th
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French and Irish fall out over ‘box’ incident «... →
This made my day. Hilarious.
Nov 13th
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News from Google: A 2x Faster Web →
I read that Google makes a new HTTP, the protocol spoken by web browsers and servers. The other day they I learned that they’ve announced The Go Programming Language. There’s this Google Wave thing too, possibly changing the way we’ll look on sharing documents, possibly killing the killer app email. Google probably knows more about our search and reading habits than any other...
Nov 12th
Recursively nested parens →
Humour for nerds. Lovely!
Nov 7th
October 2009
7 posts
“I now act the way I acted when I was eleven years old. I follow my gut, and...”
– defmacro - Taming Doubt Sound like a plan. I’ll try doing the same.
Oct 26th
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“since we all agreed that Lauren’s legal analysis didn’t pass the...”
– Corporate bullying on the net must be resisted | Technology | guardian.co.uk Cory Doctorow, editor of Boing Boing and author of amongst other Little Brother (go read!) reads a legal threat letter from Ralph Lauren regarding Boing Boing publishing one of their photoshopped pictures, deciding it...
Oct 21st
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[swedish] Ibland är det nödvändigt att manipulera... →
Ann Heberlein på Expressen har också förstått Om du fortfarande inte har bestämt dig för om Anna Odell borde spärras in eller inte så kan du läsa den här artikeln av en journalist som nu reviderar sin ståndpunkt. Om du redan har bestämt dig så kan du ignorera det här. Min största invändning var tidigare den som Odell i artikeln kommenterar på följande vis: Också sedan bakgrunden till...
Oct 21st
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Security boss calls for end to net anonymity →
The owner of the largest anti-virus company in the eastern hemisphere thinks that “[e]veryone should and must have an identification, or internet passport” and that he’d “[…] like to change the design of the internet by introducing regulation - internet passports, internet police and international agreement - about following internet standards”’. Given...
Oct 19th
1 tag
Google Wave presence announcement
Ok, so everybody and their cat have announced their Google Wave presence lately. I’ve been mostly irritated. Are they bragging about being such hot players that they actually got an invite this early or what? Now I’m about to do the same. I’m on Google Wave! I’m linusnordberg@googlewave.com . The reason for this is that I don’t know any other way of finding...
Oct 16th
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The fun theory -- rolighetsteorin.se →
Fun changes behaviour.
Oct 13th
2 tags
WatchWatch
Citizens for decent literature Inc presents “Perversion For Profit”! That should teach you!
Oct 9th
September 2009
3 posts
4 tags
“The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit...”
– Joe Armstrong in Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Sep 16th
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[swedish] LISP 50 år -- farbröder pratar gamla... →
Anders Haraldsson pratar LISP och dess historia hos LYSATOR i Linköping med bl.a. Erik Sandewall i publiken. Inspelat i tisdags (2009-09-08).
Sep 10th