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June 29th, 2016
I'm doing changes to my home computers due to a startling discovery. I
believe my Macbook Pro is hacked or so. So I'm going to put OpenBSD on it
in due time. It's sort of a brexit of my own doing, avoiding Mac OS X and
the vmware'ed Windows 10 on the MBP. I don't need these totalitarian OS's
and I won't ever go on to Mac OS Sierra. I never liked the Apple announcement.
It is too privacy inhibiting. So I'm going to OpenBSD. It's open source,
I can look under the hood, and it's supposedly secure and functional. Most
my network gear is OpenBSD so I don't mind this decision at all. Fallout?
Yes there is fallout. I have a Numark DJ mixer that worked with DJ Pro
software on the Macbook Pro that I won't have a replacement for on OpenBSD.
Since I'm a monkey with mostly everything I don't think an openbsd driver and
software for the mixer will get written, if ever. So I needed the windows 10
on the MBP until today as I have installed Ubuntu on a netbook of mine (the
second Acer) and it does all the features I need with Java, luckily. Plus
I only need it once a month or so for work. Anyhow before I become too
incoherent I'm gonna keep this short. Just want to let you know!
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Ordered books from Amazon
June 26th, 2016
I have ordered a set of 4 books from Amazon. Donald Knuth's Art of Computer
Programming volumes 1-4. I count this as one book though in my list of a
dozen books per year. I'm happy to be receiving these by thursday.
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I hunt sysadmins
June 25th, 2016
The Five-Eyes nation's spy agencies have no more obligation to protect EU
citizens. They can now hunt sysadmins inside the EU with impunity due to
UK leaving EU. All those sysadmins operating in the EU should be aware
that this could result in sabotage or 0wnage. But don't get hysteric or
anything. Snowden told us this is happening, and we find ourselves on the
other side suddenly.
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EU, something must change!
June 25th, 2016
The EU has to draw consequences from brexit. Something must change. Let the
british leave not be in vain, their sacrifice should better us all. Let's
work for the people for example and less for political bureaucracy. I always
thought that the EU for a first attempt at managing a large union and doing so
democratically was doing fairly good, but we can do better. We also must
become friendlier with southern EU states. Less exploitation, more
subsidizations. We're all humans first and foremost, and EU citizens should
experience a similar quality of life no matter where in the union they may
be. We must strive for this. I know some think that this will be hard on
their wallet. But think about the lost opportunities when more countries
leave. That'll work contra to the progress we've all been making together.
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Idea Brainstorming for Britain
June 24th, 2016
So after brexit, what can britain do? I kinda feel sorry for them, so I'm
gonna talk about some ideas. There is the commonwealth. With Canada and
Australia there is potential for 120 million people being united globally.
There is ideas of hyperloops going from Canada to Scotland, there is movies
that have a tunnel go past the center of the earth to create a link between
England and Australia. Also scram-jet technology is talked about and tested
in Australia..
Also you don't have to look all that far, Norway is quite interested in what's
happening. With Britain, Norway and Iceland a triangle Atlantic union could
form. In times of ocean mining ideas perhaps there is stuff one can take out
of the ocean bed inside the triangle.
I do feel however that Britain has lost backing and a voice in the world. It
is now a small island nation and needs to look around a world that is
continually uniting to grasp market share and quality of life.
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Good bye Britannia
June 24th, 2016
The UK voted leave yesterday. Congrats for a large voter turnout. The
pound dropped to a 30 year low against the dollar, and that isn't all.
The UK is not part of the big three anymore and not part of the big four.
There will be unneeded hardships for everyone and if the UK wants to come
back into the EU there will be such a leashing back that it won't be worth
it for them. That's my outlook on this. I guess we pick up the pieces
from here. The new big three in the EU is Italy, France and Germany. The
fourth country in the EU to be part of the big four is Spain. I'm sad but
relieved a decision has fallen. Now we'll close the border to english
soccer fans too hopefully. What has gone down in France is a shame regarding
the violence of soccer fans.
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Happy Summer!
June 21st, 2016
Since I screwed up last post (solstice was yesterday) I want to wish you a
happy turn of the seasons. It's summer here in Germany. Happy summer!
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June Solstice in 3 days
June 20th, 2016
On thursday is solstice.
Happy festivities honoring your summer or winter gods (depending where you are
on earth). In the northern hemisphere the sun will shine directly down at a
90 degree angle at the tropic of cancer. There is probably a story of
Ptolemy (sp) who discovered that the sun shone straight down a well or cave
in ancient Egypt.
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Received seven Freifunk Routers
June 18th, 2016
Here is a (bad) photo of two of them:
I'm going to be using 6 of these for networking my neighbourhood.
Not going to say much more than that because I'm dealing with the
details but it's likely to go down mid August.
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Most cannot see the milky way
June 12th, 2016
This article
talks about light pollution. Light pollution affects 80% of global population.
I've never completely seen the milky way. But I have vivid memories of seeing
a lot of stars in northern Ontario, or even in northern Saskatchewan.
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