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October 4th, 2018
You may have noticed I changed the DNS server psi.virgostar.net to
tau.virgostar.net. Tau is in Finland, psi is in Canada. I'm going
to expire psi in 2 months or so. So for now it idles.
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Turned up the heat for 2018/2019
October 3rd, 2018
Yesterday I turned on the heating units but it seems they aren't fully
charged today, yet.
Much like 2 years ago we've had a hot summer but it's time now to heat.
Funny thing about turning on the heat I noticed I didn't turn down the units
properly in spring, or someone was in my apartment, or they automatically turn
themselves to an on level. Oh well, tomorrow I expect everything to be
rather cozy. Today is a holiday, day of reunification in germany. Happy
Holiday!
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Registration period for the Prototype fund has closed
October 1st, 2018
This has been the longest wait for me. I'm curious whether I got it or not.
I'm unsure when they'll give word, I'd expect them to say something in the
near-future. Tomorrow I'm going to the (Un)Employment office and give them
my resume, and talk a little, I guess they want to know more about me. So I
hope it won't come to a showdown to any prospective jobs and prototype fund.
I can't really wait, I need employment again soon.
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Starting from the very top, Germany has no IT plan
September 29th, 2018
I write this to you because I'm distraught about the future of IT in Germany.
Simply put, there is no plan. So there isn't even a plan B. It seems that
everything that even closely resembles a plan is 2-4 years years in the making
and lacks any kind of long term commitment. On top of that I predict machine
learning and artificial intelligence will succeed IT workers jobs in roughly
a dozen years. That doesn't mean that all IT workers will lose their jobs
immediately, but the easy to pick fruits are going then. Eventually even the
"remote hands" are going away as a robot will be doing this. So what's the
plan? There is none. Germany's plan is akin to a crack addict waiting for
the next hit coming from silicon valley and Redmond. We have an eroded
computer culture and anyone who even strives to have a bit of clue is toiling
with the waste-of-time linux OS. Open source is great, but if you're not
even sure with what language you want to program in, you'll never get beyond
a few hello worlds.
There is probably people working on something. yadda yadda yadda. BTW Germany
when are you going to stop being an Internet spying whore?
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Arjen Kamphuis missing in Norway
September 27th, 2018
If you didn't hear of this, here it is. A computer security researcher has
gone missing in Norway. Here is what I heard about him. He worked for
wikileaks once and thus could be seen as a threat to the western establishment.
He did appearances/speakings with William Binney an ex-NSA intelligence officer
who turned whistleblower. Who knows what sorts of enemies he made. I believe
he went missing 4 weeks ago, near Bodo (sp) in Norway, he was on his way to
Trondheim to catch a flight to the Netherlands (which is his country of birth).
He rented a folding kayak, and last week his belongings were found in the
bay or fjord near Bodo. It was claimed that he was not suicidal. Norway
reported that his cell phone was turned on for 5 seconds near Stavanger which
was 1700 km away, but there is room for error so this wasn't reliable. The
Netherlands dispatched two criminal investigators to Norway to help the search
effort. That's all I know. I hope he's found.
In other news, Wikileaks founder and lead Julian Assange is no more the lead
person for the Wikileaks organisation.
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Zitis is going to use a quantum computer
September 27th, 2018
In this link (german) from heise.de, Zitis announces that they are going to use a quantum computer to crack Internet cryptography. This doesn't surprise me. If the germans
are doing this, the Americans are probably already there at 10x the budget, so
6 billion USD perhaps. It's hard to tell how many black budgets the USA have.
We know that IBM, D-WAVE, Google, Microsoft and others are working on quantum
computers. So is NASA and other government contractors. Soo. It may not be
possible for a million classical computers to crack your crypto, but the
government can. Or if you dish out 20 million dollars for a D-Wave. How does
that make you feel? Personally it makes me feel shitty. As the government
is a data whore, they take any piece of information they can. At least here.
Where is the privacy? And what makes anyone so sure that high crime isn't
going to buy their own quantum computer? Or maybe they already have that.
I'd like to make you aware of a post-quantum cryptography RFC that has hit
us already it's called RFC 8391.
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Trusting Letsencrypt?
September 24th, 2018
Recently it came to my attention that paypal has pulled out of business with
Alex Jones of infowars.com. I don't necessarily agree with him 100% and maybe
not even 50% but I do recognize that he's being censored, and how easy
american corporations have the authority to ban someone.
This story made me think of letsencrypt. Because I was looking for a
what's the catch scenario. And I found it I think. Let's encrypt is mostly
american corporations who are its sponsor as told at
https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/. I always thought they were google and
perhaps I'm not wrong. Anyhow. If you get in trouble with an opinion that
americans dislike (like alex jones) what are the chances that they'll revoke
your TLS certificate? You're basically unable to do business online anymore
at that point, and wide open to spoofery and forgery.
Freedom it seems has a price after all. Now I'm a little uneasy going with
letsencrypt for this website because there is really no choice. There is no
other service that compares. I'll try it though. In a few weeks when OpenBSD
6.4 comes out, I'll be making steps to encrypt this website with the
acme-client. It'll be interesting how that will work out. Not my first time
working with letsencrypt but first time with acme-client. As a final sentence
I'd just like to say "keep looking for the conspiracies out there", maybe
someone will find something.
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Smuggling Politics into a Free Trade Zone (goods, services and values?)
September 22th, 2018
When the EU was formed it was called the EEC as far as I know. EEC the
European Economic Community was a free trade zone among its member countries.
Eventually politics made it into this free trade zone and we have a centralized
police force governed by the EU (EuroPol). Now there is talk of a european
military, and the original free trade zone is overshadowed by the stench of
political values. Where will it end? I for one am growing more and more
distant to the EU. How many laws do we have? I know not one. Why am I not
being taught these laws? Is a single human being even capable of knowing them
all and not be a professor, or professional of law? This is getting ridiculous
I say we need only a blacklist of the most important things that we can't do,
ie. Murder, Steal, Bribe, Libel, and others to sum these up it's called common
sense. Put away the whitelist of the things we can do as they are a given.
Don't make politics too complex or the people will not know what you want of
them. It seems to me the vision of the free trade zone was lost in the need
for values imposed on us the EU citizens. And we don't even know the laws of
which we're constrained with. Only until we're charged in a court of law.
Pathetic?
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Trivia: Three famous people who went into exile on another Continent
September 22nd, 2018
This was a hard list to create because two were easy and the third not so,
easy. Well here goes:
- Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, spent five years in exile in Bath,
England
- Napoleon of France, spent the rest of his life until his death in St.
Helena, Atlantic Ocean which was closest to Africa or South America.
- Fethullah Gülen, is a not so well known person from Turkey who is
in exile in the USA
- Dalai Lama of Tibet, while he didn't exile into another Continent (Asia)
it is said that India is a sub-continent, I'll add him here anyhow as the
fourth famous person in exile.
If you know any other figures who are in exile on another continent send a
comment.
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What my dad taught me
September 20th, 2018
When doing taxes, my dad taught me that the value of office equipment is
stretched over a period of four (4) years. This taught me that office
equipment has a lifespan of around 4 years. Then it's time to buy new
stuff, and this has to be calculated into the business plan from day one.
When I see people using Core 2 Duos still, for work tools, I
keep thinking that the problems stem not from the day they bought
equipment X years ago but that they didn't think of replacing it (X + 4)
years later. I'm totally disgusted by business practices out there. And
I have to pass the buck here, I'm not going to involve myself with this,
let some other fool take the wheel there.
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