Meta
December 2024 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Blogroll
IP info
Programs
Category Archives: Opinion
Macklemore anti-semitic because he looks like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
My significant other pointed me to this article over at People Magazine. The allegation is that Macklemore is anti-semitic, because his costume looks like a caricature of jews from the Third Reich. I don’t get it, my first association was … Continue reading
What a headline “FBI arrests 100 hackers over Blackshades malware”
Claims The Guardian. Well, a few things: Hacker refers to a very broad skill set, it doesn’t refer to motives or lack of ethical framework. The term in such case is usually cracker. Many skilled people with a perfectly intact … Continue reading
Posted in EN, IT Security, Opinion
Leave a comment
Are you f-ing nuts, Washington Post?
So while the people in Eastern and Southeastern Ukraine insist on their right of self-determination – which the US is otherwise officially supporting whenever it benefits the pockets of big US corporations – and while they state that the referendum … Continue reading
WWW == Wild Wild West?
Since April 2011 the companies of one Mr. Recher from Germany harassed me three times. I reported about this a few times already (e.g. here). I suspect I am not alone. Their scheme is to send automated, unverified abuse notifications … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Opinion
Leave a comment
Proof?
Now, this is a talk on the phone and as such not always easy to discern, especially with both people talking in parallel. The SBU, Ukraine’s secret service, has an article titled “SSU Has Evidence of Russian Involvement into Capture … Continue reading
Like!
Maria Zakharova wrote on the Facebook page of the Russian ministry of foreign affairs (Министерства иностранных дел России): One of the most important posts I ever did! I address this to my foreign media colleagues and friends from Reuters, CNN, … Continue reading
Is Kerry the successor in spirit of Goebbels?
… and the State Department the new propaganda ministry? Check this out: http://youtu.be/jshAX9ialok Quite frankly I found the one-sidedness of this clip appalling. Not to mention the blatant lie starting at 1:12 concerning the options of the referendum on Crimea … Continue reading
If Ambrose Bierce was still alive
… a subsequent edition or volume of his “Devil’s Dictionary” might define UN as follows: UN, acronym, pronounced US, spelled UN. // Oliver
Why do people send Word documents when it’s FYI?
I don’t get it, why can’t we use PDF or another commonly usable format if the intent is not to collaborate on the document in question? Just ranting 😉 // Oliver
Posted in EN, Opinion
Leave a comment
Laughing out loud
This tells more about RMS than about Clang/LLVM which is a great piece of software. // Oliver
“Fuck the EU”
Why does Victoria Nuland have to apologize for what she said in a private phone conversation? Whoever leaked this, it’s enlightening to hear, but it’s also no big deal. Besides, even US-Americans use the f-word much more often than the … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Opinion, Peace, Thoughts
Leave a comment
What’s the hype about VS 2010 through 2013
Finally I’ve gotten around to work a bit more with those versions. They are nice with PTVS, but heck they’re unstable. I encounter frequent crashes and hangs with all of those versions as well as slowness compared to VS 2005 … Continue reading
Posted in C/C++, EN, Opinion, Programming
Leave a comment
Windows 8.1 continued pains …
So, in order to add some stuff specific to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 I end up working a bit on Windows 8.1 these days. Mind you, it’s only for testing and therefore by no means the full horror experience. … Continue reading
“Why are you spying on Grandma?”
… just got to read these two gems earlier today: Former Top NSA Officials Insist Employees Are Leaving Because Obama Is Mean, Not Because They Object To NSA’s Current Activities NSA Sent Home Talking Points for Employees to Use in … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Human Rights, IT Security, Opinion, Privacy, Thoughts
Leave a comment
Uh oh …
George Clooney sent this video message to the Klichko/Klitschko brothers. A few tidbits: […] that true democracy cannot exist without a free and fair and honest election. Mr. Clooney, I hope you didn’t have the Florida supreme court decision from … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Opinion, Thoughts
Leave a comment
Fuck you very much, Peter King (R-NY)
The United States has done so much through the NSA to save lives in Germany. We have done much more for Germany through the NSA than the German army has done for itself since WWII said one Peter King, Republican … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Opinion, Thoughts
Leave a comment
Speaking of the devil
Just recently I mentioned Clean MX in this blog post and sure enough today I received another automated abuse message from them and relayed to me via Hetzner, my hoster. This time, however, I plan not to be so lenient … Continue reading
Posted in EN, IT Security, Opinion, Thoughts
Leave a comment
“land of the free and the home of the brave”?
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
Posted in EN, Opinion, Thoughts
Leave a comment
Oh for fucks sakes, Opera …
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
Posted in EN, Opinion, Software
Leave a comment
What the creator of PGP thinks …
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
Posted in EN, IT Security, Opinion, Privacy
Leave a comment