The Threat of Digital Incompetence — Censorship Codified Into Law
Today, I read an article on the TOR routing service. The article was a piece of sensationalist, badly researched, idiotic crap. The article accompanied a television show in which several people speak...
View ArticlePHP error: “The MySQL extension is not installed” on Lighttpd, Debian
An issue that has baffled me for the past weeks has finally been solved, thanks to my digital detective friend from Santarago Labs. This post applies to the following errors: WordPress “Your PHP...
View ArticleHTC Desire HD keeps opening the Locations app, and goes to speaker during...
Annoying phone troubles? Yes sir! My previously wonderful Android phone was recently becoming quite moody. It kept opening the ‘Locations’ application, as if it wanted to navigate away. I get the hint,...
View ArticleBye bye, Netherlands.
First, a little superficial history. In the Netherlands, we’ve had a very liberal society these past 40 years. Freedom was the default here, and everybody could do whatever they wanted. It was an...
View ArticleConverting FLAC files to MP3 with FFmpeg and Bash
Yes, yes, I know, the title of this post is 100% geek-approved. All those acronyms mean little to most people, but I will explain. Recently, a friend of mine started converting his music into FLAC, the...
View ArticleGrooveShark Party Radio!
So, last weekend I was invited to a party here in Berlin. So, as I usually do on conquering the local hifi-installation, I opened up grooveshark.com on the connected computer. I really love...
View ArticleRemove your last git commit from a local repository.
Yeah, we’ve all been there. Committing to master when you wanted to commit to a freshly made branch. So the question is, how do you get rid of these nasty commits you’ve made? Well, the answer is...
View ArticleUse RSYNC to delete remote folders
The hosting provider I use offers a backup server. It’s very reliable, but it only supports the SFTP and RSYNC protocols. That’s all fine for regular usage, but when your backup script breaks somehow,...
View ArticleNeed to play high-fidelity white noise? Listen to /dev/urandom on OSX!
At the FSFE Berlin meet yesterday, one recently-become-father fellow showed us he Chromadoze app on his android phone. This app worked wonders in putting his baby to sleep by playing white noise across...
View ArticleHome screen icons for both Apple and Android devices
On the FSFE web hackers mailing list there was some confusion about the meaning and implementation of the <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" /> tag. The Standard By its very nature, HTML5...
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