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October 3rd, 2015
And everyone who is born on this day, happy birthday!
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For God's sake! Stoererhaftung is in the Way!
October 3rd, 2015
In Germany there is a law preventing people from opening their access point to
anyone in the public. It's called the Stoererhaftung (in german) which
translates to the two words "Stoer" which means disrupt and "haftung" which
means accountability.
We have a situation now that is of national significance. We have a lot of
refugees that are flooding first contact centers. The refugees are in dire
need of Internet to keep touch with their families. After food, clothing,
shelter and security Internet is the next needed thing for them.
The german government has denied Internet access to refugees for a period up
to two years, which is the word from someone I got to know through a mailing
list. She works with the refugees. People and groups are helping providing
Internet by using the Freifunk infrastructure which bypasses the legal
situation with the Stoererhaftung. It's not ideal because the resources of
Freifunk groups is limited.
While Freifunk is happy now that we're seeing real user numbers on our stats,
I worry about the long term effects half a year down the line. We need to
offload. And the only correct way is to offload the Stoererhaftung. We
fought the government on this before, and to put it bluntly the government
is the reason that we're dumped on with refugees looking for Internet.
Getting rid of the Stoererhaftung would allow us to make operations cheaper as
traffic would come from inside Germany, it would make everything sustainable.
This is a classic case where a law designed by government is causing people in
need to suffer.
I expect from the german government to immediately do everything in their
powers to help the humanitarian crisis that our refugees are facing. Look no
further but the Stoererhaftung it's a law that is disruptive in all respects.
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Happy Birthday M.
October 2nd, 2015
I know you probably won't read this but here is a try anyhow. May the walks
of life guide you back to us.
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Wrote a donation to OpenBSD
September 30th, 2015
Yes it's donation time again. I have written the transaction and will be
bringing it to the bank friday the 9th of october or thereabouts. It's
only 50 euros so nothing much to get excited about. But every tidbit helps.
This brings the total donations this year to 200 euros, I think.
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Profit for the poor!
September 27th, 2015
I have saved a lump some of money over several years. It's more than a little
and too little to gain any attention. However I want to invest it into a
business of Internet
nature. I would do work just before and during this endeavour to make it
work. The big problem that I see is that I don't have enough capital to
start to make it, and I want to do it on my own. I realise that "The Internet"
the medium that promised freedoms to us is only a place where the rich can
make a profit. And that's what's wrong with it. It is _the_ motor that
makes the rich richer and the poor poorer because poor are just supposed to
give money to the rich on the Internet and no opportunity for small business
is granted. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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European Union where is your strength?
September 26th, 2015
The fact that all of Syria
only represents ~4 percent of all
EU citizens makes
it a sad chapter in Europe as a whole that we can't "grow" 4%. And not only
that there is talk of 800,000 refugees this year which is 0.16% of the
European population. And even then if you were to take all 60 million
refugees worldwide that's only 12% of the EU citizen base. I just can't
believe that some Central European nations within the EU don't want to take
their fair share of refugees. Where is our conscience?
Why are europeans
so xenophobic when it comes to our neighbours? Let me spell it out for you
2000 years ago Syria was part of the Roman Byzantine Empire and is a
mediterranean nation. This means it is on the same Mediterranean as Italy
and Spain. Have you not realised by now that the ground you're on in Europe
is not yours? You're only a steward of managing this ground as is everyone
else, we all die, so then that stewardship is dissolved. The land belongs to
noone the people and their visions are the stewards of the land, and a slight
discrepancy in numbers (4%!) doesn't affect the main core! What's happening
now is disgusting, greed, opportunism, xenophobia, and racism are the signs
coming out of Europe.
We should be above all those things, our waters are
clean to drink giving us health. The land is fruitful giving us food to eat.
What can't we share that to people who have lost it all? And mind you the
uprisings in the fringe nations of the EU are an indirect cause of our
unity. We should feel compelled to help them not close them out.
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Happy September Equinox!
September 23th, 2015
As I write this there is about 30 minutes until it's truely equinox. Happy
Equinox! I turned the heat to 1 (out of a possible 3 settings) today as it
was quite chilly overnight. This morning I looked up the temperature at
10 degrees Celsius. Since these are night heating units it'll take 1 or 2
days for them to reach their heating potential.
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I'm not hiring
September 15th, 2015
People are sending me resumes of what I can tell from the envelope. I'm not
opening resumes as I'm not hiring. I look at these as attempts of phishing.
Thanks. Also I'd like to say that I'd love to be hiring, had I money. Sad
truth is that I'm not rich.
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Ordered a book from Amazon
September 10th, 2015
I ordered the "Computer Security Handbook" by Seymour Bosworth et al. It
cost a lot of money, but it's a thick book (2000+ pages). I was made aware
of this book when I googled the domain of my place of work and it came up.
Apparently a link in the book is to our servers, which interests me. Oh well
here is hoping to it being good.
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