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Lately everything has been somewhat serious, so to lighten up the mood, some fun from the 80's.

The other day my friend was singing this 80's song in German, I recognised it and it reminded me of an American song. We set out to find out WTF is the deal.. It turns out I was thinking of M...

About a week ago FunnyJunk threatened The Oatmeal and to do so they engaged a lawyer, to which The Oatmeal responded with a humorous charity action. I thought that was quite funny, interesting and even a nice thing to do. ...

The thing is I just read this

Seems like Reddit is now in the business of banning certain domains from their website. They have banned URL shorteners, but that is for the obvious reason that url shorteners are bad so everyone is okay with that, however blocking w...

FunnyJunk, a website whose main "about us" link is a Copyright Infringement Notification page, has hired an "Internet lawyer" to put pressure on TheOatmeal to remove any content that speaks o...

Lately there have been more and more attempts to legislate, censor and control the Internet and with that many protests to counter these measures. There are also more and new groups and political parties that advocate Internet freedoms, freedom of speech and all that stuff. Even some website tha...

Film-makers and musicians have been largely against the peer to peer file sharing networks.. . All ? No, some are even getting The Pirate Bay bump to help them promote their projects. This is known as The Promo Bay.

Today it's

It's been a few years now that some of us have been watching closely as a few distributed social networking tools have been developing. I am one of those, I don't like to have personal accounts on corporate servers and I do think that if it's not distributed it's not an Internet communica...

Since last night I noticed that The Pirate Bay's website appeared down. I checked in this morning, checked via multiple locations (from different countries) and same result. I asked a few friends to help figure this one out because this is not a DNS issue and it seemed to be more t...

Friendica is a truly decentralised social network, it has been around for a few years now already. Back in the day it was called Mistpark and already then it was more than just a proof of concept.

Today

Finally, France got rid of it's highness Sarkozy. It's good to see the French did not re-elect a president who's campaign was

I just read this rant on Google by Wil, it's a bit true but something itches me.

What happened is that Wil surfed the Internet while not logged into his Gaccoun...

Tomorrow, May 4th 2012, will be Day Against DRM. Take a moment to reflect on the devices you perhaps use that may infringe on your digital Freedoms.

The short version is, many digital devices and software are designed to restrict the usage you can ...

The other day a good friend of mine suggested I implement Gravatar on my website. So I started checking how it works and found it was incredibly easy. All I'd have to do use put an img element with a link to an md5 hash of the commenter's email. Like this: <img src="http://www.gravata...

You may have already heard about CISPA (or CISPA or

Many ISPs or other Internet services in these current days will often voluntarily co-operate with the authorities without requiring warrants and such. Some will be even

The UK would like to implement a new system (originally brought up by the Labour party) that would oblige Internet access providers to monitor all electronic communications. The ISPs would have to store logs of all communications, though they say the actual content of emails wouldn't be recorded ...

Ubuntu requires visitors to create an account and log in to view certain threads. I've read this thread (not blocked yet) and now I understand their reasoning: Anything they may have archived is to be considered old and...

Today I read this rant about how the Linux desktop is not free enough. I almost stopped at the first sentence but still read on. I have to comment on a few things, but of course I don't have a google+ account, it's not ...

Yes, I know.. . . .WTF is Firefox doing here, it's a browser not a resolver. If anyone from Firefox reads this, WHY ?? Let people who want this useless function enable it themselves and not the other way around.

Now to disable it, very simple is the procedure, and very very intuitive.. ...

Today I noticed on a Xen DomU running Debian Squeeze that time seemed to be running a bit too fast, I noticed the same on a Debian Wheezy DomU. They both have in common the kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64.

After breaking a few keyboards I found the following on domU:

You may already know that Saab, the car company, has been having many issues and even filed for bankruptcy. After GM claimed to not want to sell technologies to the Chinese bidder who has been trying to save Saab. GM has n...

The other day I walked by Finsbury Square, I met Marc who is currently occupying the square along with others. I wont comment much, but here are some word from Marc himself.

I am there for justice to oppose the injustices concerning the poor in this country, the power ...

Today I learned that on March 8 2012 the FBI will be shutting down some surrogate DNS resolvers and that could break the Internet for as much as 500 kilo Americans and many others in the world. These resolvers have been configured on computers that have been infected with some