Only we could pretend we did not know
— Robert Fisk: The shaming of America - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent
stuff, just stuff
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2010-10-25
Source: independent.co.uk
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2010-09-27
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This page is NOT suitable for children, ministers, senators, or the mass media.
Source: 2600.com
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2010-09-17
On Writing, Funding, and Distributing Software to Activists Against Authoritarian Regimes | Electronic Frontier Foundation
A good short writeup by EFF on things to think about when doing stuff with censorship circumvention software, spurred by the recent Haystack debacle.
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2010-06-24
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 solution called HTTPS Everywhere.
For this to work, the site you are visiting has to support HTTPS, that’s nothing you can change with a browser. But luckily enough most of them do. HTTPS Everywhere works by rewriting links that you click and makes your browser ask for the HTTPS equivalent of the HTTP link.
The version I’m using (0.1.1) has rulesets for the following sites:
- Scroogle
- Tor Project
- GoogleServices
- Noisebridge
- NYTimes
- Mozilla
- Wikipedia
- PayPal
- Google Search
- WashingtonPost
- EFF
- Ixquick
- Identica
- DuckDuckGo
- GentooBugzilla
Learn how to write your own ruleset here.
I’ve been using HTTPS Everywhere for a couple of days now without any other hassles than Twitter being a bit slow. Then again, Twitter is always kind of weird so I don’t know who’s to blame here.
Anyway, give it a try!
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2010-06-22
[swedish] Drottning Silvia och SVT ligger ute med osanna uppgifter
— http://farmorgun.blogspot.com/2010/06/ett-oppet-eller-blockeratcensurerat.html
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2010-06-18
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2010-06-16
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2010-06-15
In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions.
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2010-06-12
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 articles (i.e. email messages) as expirable. Tedious by hand, lots of fun using this mark-as-processable thing. This is how you do it.
- Press `#’ on all articles that you’d like to expire.
- Press `M-& E’ to do it.
The `M-&’ prefix is the magic that tells Gnus to do whatever command you enter next on all articles that are currently marked for precession. Now, isn’t this nice?
