A paragraph from the new tor article. If not using tor, at least realize this The big fear of big brother watching you is no longer really relevant, we give away our data to what has affectionately been called “little sister”. She woes you with pretty images, convenience and a voyeuristic view on the lives [...]
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Big brother is no longer relevant. From my recent tor article.
Posted: 7th May 2013 by Gert in Cone.be, Interwebs, Security0
With the recent closing of Newzbin and then a few days later NZBMatrix, the heat is obviously on for Usenet indexers. The funny thing is though that these are, as any search engine, just aggregating meta data. The internet climate has obviously gotten extremely poisonous lately, where the mechanisms that the law provides (DMCA takedowns, [...]
On being knowledgeable about life versus living
Posted: 28th September 2012 by Gert in Interwebs, Letters, LifeA quote from “Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”. Quote by Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton : The interested and informed citizen can congratulate himself on his lofty state of interest and information and neglect to see that he has abstained from decision and action. In short, he takes his secondary [...]
Conversations: Trying to give money for digital content
Posted: 7th March 2012 by Gert in Conversations, InterwebsI was talking to a nice person in publishing when he asked me the following question. I might have given him more of an answer than he bargained for.. A third in the conversation series (because I am SO interesting!) Just out of curiosity, Where do you typically buy your ebooks? Buying anything digital these [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, I installed a dreaded Mobile plugin. I first installed the WordPress Mobile Pack and while that worked, it didnt entirely do what I needed it to do. It was very very extensive but it wanted to create an m.blog.cone.be for the mobi version and that just wasnt what I had in [...]
After much much “friendly asking” by people on twitter, I finally gave in and installed a mobile plugin for the blog. which takes me to the apology part; I loathe mobile interfaces. I am always very Very much irked when one of those interfaces kicks in and utterly screws my user experience of that site. [...]
I installed the Extension:AutomaticREMOTE USER on my personal wiki. Takes the .htaccess auth user and persuades mediawiki to use it for user info. Cool stuff! Works very well. though obsoleted by the new “private wiki” install option, I guess I also installed a Mediawiki 1.17.0 and ran into some dirty crap with the wfGetIP() function [...]
This was new to me.. Ego spam. (some time last week) It could even have worked if all the small details weren’t that off.. Not to mention that they commented to an old and utterly irrelevant post! Author : Rosaline Vila (IP: 199.119.224.221 , 199.119.224.221) E-mail : 48Shadduck@yahoo.com URL : http://www.26y045e-0htw.com Whois : http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/199.119.224.221 Comment: [...]
