Author Archives: Oliver

Ausprobiert damit ihr nicht müßt …

Posted on 2013-08-19 by Oliver

Ich habe eine handbetriebene Kaffeemühle und da es ein langwieriger und arbeitsaufwendiger Vorgang ist an seinen feingemahlenen Kaffee zu kommen, hatte ich eine Idee. Einfach mal den Akkubohrschrauber oben ans Mahlwerk angestöpselt und geguckt. Der erste Versuch ging etwas in … Continue reading →

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For your benefit, I tried it so you don’t have to

Posted on 2013-08-19 by Oliver

I have a manual coffee grinder and since it’s a tedious and lengthy process, especially when you want very finely grained coffee, I decided to attach my screw drill to the top and try whether it works. Turns out during … Continue reading →

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“land of the free and the home of the brave”?

Posted on 2013-08-14 by Oliver

Edward Snowden leaks information about the massive surveillance world we live in under the disguise of the “war against terror”. Minitru could not have come up with a better wording in Orwell’s nightmarish novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Edward Snowden is being … Continue reading →

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Oh for fucks sakes, Opera …

Posted on 2013-08-13 by Oliver

Why did you have to make your browser crappy like the rest of the bunch? Just upgraded to 15.something and lo and behold tab stacking is no more and I am confronted with a sh*tload of tabs whose labels or … Continue reading →

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For anyone who uses premake4 and needs an up-to-date binary

Posted on 2013-08-13 by Oliver

A code-signed binary is included in the ZIP archive available here. All contents are signed using PGP as well, so they can be verified using the following command line (replace gpg for gpg2 depending on your version): gpg –verify signature.asc … Continue reading →

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What the creator of PGP thinks …

Posted on 2013-08-12 by Oliver

Read it over here. Excerpt: If we have a change in the government sometime in the future, that government will have such a powerful tool of surveillance, that we will find ourselves in a terrible predicament that we won’t be … Continue reading →

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Spot on ….

Posted on 2013-08-12 by Oliver

Klaus Stuttmann, a German caricaturist, has gotten it right, I think. See his take on the situation and argumentation between the USA and Russia here. Translation: Putin: “If Snowden was a Russian who had published the world-wide surveillance of Russian … Continue reading →

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Mehr als 50 minus 45 macht weniger als garnix? …

Posted on 2013-07-15 by Oliver

Die globalen Abhöraktionen haben also mehr als 50 Anschläge weltweit verhindert? Nach dem Besuch von Innenminister Friedrich in Washington waren es nur noch 45. Man kann nur hoffen, daß die fünf angeblich in Deutschland verhinderten Anschläge nicht zu den mehr … Continue reading →

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Die 500000-Emailbeschränkung bei GMX

Posted on 2013-07-12 by Oliver

Gestern hatte ich das Vergnügen, daß ich keine Emails mehr empfangen konnte. Senden konnte ich sie zwar noch über meinen eigenen SMTP-Server, aber das Abspeichern nach dem Versenden in der IMAP-Mailbox ging schon nicht mehr. Da ich aufgrund der ganzen … Continue reading →

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No compliments :)

Posted on 2013-07-05 by Oliver

A Youtube clip I was pointed to some time ago, but forgot again … Kollektivet: Music Video – Compliments // Oliver

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Is this the world we created?

Posted on 2013-07-03 by Oliver

Bolivian minister: Evo Morales’ plane rerouted on suspicion Snowden on board

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Clown-Schuhe

Posted on 2013-07-03 by Oliver

Letzten Freitag nahm mich mein Liebling auf einen Gewaltmarsch durch die Frankfurter Zeil mit, dessen Ziel es war schwarz-weiße Kleidung zu finden welche dem Anlaß (Hochzeit) angemessen wäre. Zuerst ging es um eine Hose. Nachdem wir also eine schwarze Anzughose … Continue reading →

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Die Unwissenden

Posted on 2013-07-02 by Oliver

Es ist schon makaber wie unsere Politiker in Europa und auch insbesondere Deutschland sich über die Abhörmaßnahmen der US-Amerikaner echauffieren, wenn doch schon lange selbst der Öffentlichkeit Echelon und andere Abhörmaßnahmen bekannt waren. Man kann ja nicht gerade behaupten die … Continue reading →

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Re: Are Americans the next Germans?

Posted on 2013-06-24 by Oliver

More circumstantial evidence transpired that US-Americans don’t understand the concept of irony anymore: Charles Schumer said: “He is not at all like the great human rights crusaders in the past, the Martin Luther Kings or the Gandhis who did civil … Continue reading →

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15 Jahre

Posted on 2013-06-24 by Oliver

Abhör-Dschungel: Geheimdienste lesen ungeniert mit — Grundrechte werden abgebaut von Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti aus der c’t 5/1998.

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Are Americans the next Germans?

Posted on 2013-06-23 by Oliver

Irony and sarcasm; two related concepts to which most Germans are oblivious, simply due to certain genes responsible for creating proteins that suppress the understanding of irony, sarcasm and, yes, in some extreme cases, humor. This was a trait developed … Continue reading →

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Wieso will die CDU eigentlich kinderreiche Familien fördern?

Posted on 2013-06-20 by Oliver

Das globale Bevölkerungswachstum wird uns Menschen in Gesamtheit ohnehin in Kürze auf die Füße fallen, warum also gerade “kinderreiche” Familien, Frau Schröder? // Oliver

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Thought experiment

Posted on 2013-06-19 by Oliver

If the justification for total surveillance is the fight against terrorists and prevention of terrorist acts, what does it tell us that governments spy on each other? Send me your solutions as comments to this post // Oliver

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Catch 22

Posted on 2013-06-18 by Oliver

So in the UK porn filters will be mandatory soon on public WLAN hotspots and even homes, reports Wired. Well, good for them chaps on the British Isles. Only this creates a small problem. Being slightly paranoid, I am using … Continue reading →

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“But I have got nothing to hide!”

Posted on 2013-06-14 by Oliver

If you have countered privacy concerns from people like me with that silly statement, you may be interested in reading this article. A particular tidbit: One can usually think of something that even the most open person would want to … Continue reading →

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