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Bye bye Coke & Code

During the last years (and certainly when I was still studying) I drank a lot of coca-cola, especially when I was up late night writing code or text. Ahhh … the golden days. This week, I’m putting a stop to this. No more coke, and once I’m completely detoxed, we’ll …

Interesting TOR talk

I spent the morning watching this hugely interesting talk about the TOR project and the censoring problems it had this year.It has been an important tool for dissidents and activists trying to get the truth out in an oppressive regime. The talk was given yesterday at the CCC’s crypto event by Roger Ingledine …

Hipsters

Seriously, why would you want to have your picture looking like it was taken 30 years ago? Cut your ‘vintage’ obsession and stop making your snapshots look like shit. But hey, don’t take my word for it, Mike Polk knows best.

Whiteboard Coding

For an upcoming job interview, I had to practice whiteboard coding. If you can solve it on a whiteboard, you can pretty much solve it anywhere else. Unfortunately, my hand-scribbles are pretty unreadable on traditional paper as it is, so transforming my sloppy writing to the white void wasn’t an …

Apple & Infringing Copyrights

It’s news like this that reminds me on why I haven’t got any Apple products around. Apple removed a Bittorrent app from the app store, because BitTorrent is often used to “infringe copyrights”. When will anyone learn? Here’s what the app author has to say: I’d just like to reiterate …

SSH Socks Proxy

There might be several reasons to tunnel your internet traffic. In my case, I had to test a website I was developing at Zeropoint.it. Local issues prevented me from viewing the site in its pure uncached form, so I had to use a proxy. Another reason why you might be interested …

Spectrial: the sequel

Whereas the first part of the Spectrial – the case against the Swedish-born torrent site/tracker The Pirate Bay – was covered extensively in journals and reports worldwide (on this very blog, for example), the appeals case which starts today has only received minimal attention. In april 2009, the four defendants …

Def Surrounds Us

Today, DJ Shadow released 2 tracks on his website, downloadable for free in the next 24 hours. Having seen him playing the first track, Def Surrounds Us, live at the Rivierenhof in Deurne, I can recommend downloading the EP. If these tracks are a taste of things to come, it’s looking …