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September 6th, 2018
In politics, Mr. Seehofer the Minister of Interior of Germany said quote
"Mutter aller Probleme ist die Migration" (Root cause of all problems is migration). This
is so wrong. Not just because I'd like it to be wrong, no. It is the EU and
a relatively good economy that is the root cause of all problems. Why is it
that Russia is looking to the EU with a distaste? We're doing well, we have
a great free trade zone amongst all EU members, and everything we could ever
want is produced here. Except one thing, personelled space products, like
crew modules for space stations, or crewed orbiting capsules. Now because
we "have everything" we are the scorn of all people who have less. Africans
have figured out that there is a backdoor, and they're using it. The Russians
are rattling our front doors with military might displays. The British who
are weakening the EU by leaving are perhaps doing us all a favour by weakening
us. And the Americans are possibly sleeping on what's happening. They have
their own problems and have said this all along. Their new involvement seems
to be Poland and the baltic states while leaving Germany permanently.
So has the EU ever heard of sharing? Or are we the greedy Europeans who don't
care what happens a continent away in Africa. It is proper to share your
wealth. While individually in Germany we may not have much but when we combine
efforts (as we do) we have a great deal and a great deal more than any African
nation could make up. If I was the African Union I'd put a carbon tax on
Europe for all the cars that pollute the worldwide atmosphere. Pollution of
the atmosphere is not bound by borders, it affects all. Then there is the
tax to keep the backdoor closed. Sorry that's extortion. Yes damn right.
We're being extorted, until the African can stand eye to eye to a European in
wealth. This is just how it goes, noone said the world was fair. We are after
all a global community, aren't we? Should a brother in Africa starve while we
use up global resources in splendor? Or should we be sharing our wealth? If
brother is happy, we're happy.
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My Hotspot is alive
August 28th, 2018
Last Friday/Saturday I had a conflict of interests with Freifunk's proposed
direction and I felt it was best to just do my own thing for a while. I have
reflashed my routers to OpenWRT and have configured wireguard on one. It's
a TP-LINK 1043ND v4. Today I made the password public by putting it in the
SSID of this router. Everything goes through the wireguard tunnel to sweden
and better yet it's all encrypted. So there is full WPA2 encryption to the
router and from there through the tunnel to sweden and into the Internet.
I am making use of the law that removed the Störerhaftung and I timed
a download and it came out to 7 Mbit/s. This is fabulous! Just what I wanted
to give out to this hotspot. So far I'm very pleased. I do hope nothing
causes me to get on the radar of evil people with this but who knows? It's
a hotspot. When the time comes, and someone in the neighbourhood gets freifunk
in my reach, then perhaps I'll go back to freifunk. Until then there is no
point in having a mesh, it's an island, it used the uplink to connect to the
freifunk network, so really useless rather. Looking forward to the future.
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Got another VPS
August 27th, 2018
I have renamed usw.freifunk-schweinfurt.de -> upsilon.virgostar.net and put
OpenBSD 6.3 on it. I also got a new VPS in finland with the same hoster,
hetzner online. This new one is called tau.virgostar.net. Also OpenBSD 6.3.
I now have five VPS's of which I will get rid of one at the end of its billing
cycle. That one is psi.virgostar.net and it's FreeBSD in Toronto. It has
about 2 more months left worth of operations. So I can count all my vps's on
one hand per finger, omega, psi, phi, upsilon, tau. I intend to make tunnels
from home again and have a routing algorithm that dishes routes out to omega,
upsilon and tau from phi. I'll probably make a random source hash routing
algorithm with pf. The latency from home to tau is 30 ms. And if I keep
everything below 60 ms before I exit my tunnel network it'll be great. It's
great that I can play with lots of hosts now for little money.
Very convenient.
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Why I (seemingly) left Freifunk Franken
August 25th, 2018
In 2014 I joined Freifunk Franken and it gave me a new direction of what
could be done with a wifi access point. I had believed that everyone should
do this too, but it was obvious after several attempts in 2016 to contact
neighbours that noone was interested in setting up a network even if I funded
it for them. Back then we had the so-called
Störerhaftung, so a law that explicitly forbid sharing your access point.
I personally felt involved by signing countless petitions to end this.
Freifunk was at the forefront of fighting the störerhaftung with the
portal freifunk-statt-angst.de. Well then in 2017 the law was dropped. We
won. But we were left with a system that was now outdated. Gateways, tunnels.
All nicely channeling packets into foreign countries to avoid a law that was
now non-existent.
Instead of discontinuing the centralized tunneling part Freifunk Franken
embedded itself into a network of gateways and tunnels, and the leaders who
ran these mostly founded an association called F3Netze to give each and every
one of us a membership. However this was stalled with laws and lawyers who
put forth topics like data protection laws yadda yadda. I never joined F3Netze
because I was confused as to its purpose. Instead of decentralizing it
unified but centralized us, in my opinion. I participated in what's called
a mumble yesterday which is sorta like a telephone conference, only better.
But I did not _really_ like what I heard coming from one end of the line.
We were told we must give new users a Pico Peering Agreement (which I have maybe
read once but totally forgot what it says), and then there was mention of
a "memorandum of understanding", which I didn't read at all. Finally someone
pointed out that the gateways, tunnel endpoints all hold the powershare in the
unification of Freifunk Franken and thus there is a power vacuum with users.
That's how I understood it anyhow. I tried to tell everyone that we're on a
path that leads us to the bleeding edge of a razor and it may hurt us and we
may disband because of these ambitions that were totally new. In fact when
you talk around something you don't understand and one person is trying to
push it through even though you don't understand it, it's called spin mastery.
I felt spin-mastered somewhat and I didn't like it. So I decided that I want
a hotspot above all at first and not give anyone a pico peering agreement and
a memorandum of understanding either. Not that I had to, noone in this
neighbourhood cares.
I'm sorry, I wished I could be part of a community but I feel pushed out. So
I'm gonna do my own thing again and if someone comes up with a freifunk node
in my neighbourhood perhaps we can make a pico peering agreement and share
the wireless ether. Freifunk Franken was great in opening my eyes in what
technology can do, and that's why I have flashed my routers to an openwrt
image instead of a FFF image. In the following months I'm going to make a
tunnel myself (it doesn't cost much now) and offer people Internet too.
It should also be said that my purpose was to install a network that is
resistant to power outtages. My setup is powered by solar and it will
continue doing that. Just not with the SSID freifunk.net. I also don't
have soooo much time that I could help the community much, anyhow. You're
better off without me, I feel. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
I firmly believe the sad situation of laws on German and European level failed
us. We don't need more laws, we don't need threats of any sorts of
liabilities, or data protection laws. If you think that I'm spying on you
because you use my hardware and the software is misbehaving and I'M debugging
it with tcpdump you're wrong. Come up to me and talk, send me an email and
discuss. We don't need a law around this. In the end this is all perhaps
FUD and I feel I'm a victim to it.
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Disabled HT on mercury(computer) this morning
August 24th, 2018
This
message made it to my inbox this morning. I have one more computer where
I can't turn HT off because it's a mac mini and I don't know how. Basically
Hyperthreading/SMT is bad because it can be abused to read memory that is
as I understand it remaining in the CPU cache of other processors. Turning
SMT/HT off is a safety precaution. Since most of my computers are either
off or idle anyhow this does not affect my experience with them, and if I
want to do computing intensive tasks I may consider getting a GPU to do that
for me. It all depends. My network here at home is real boring.
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I think I was censored in comments on Heise Online
August 23th, 2018
This article used to list the people that were
chosen for the "digital counsel" for the german government. They used to list
them by name and profession and I commented that these were only
"social winners" ie. they were bosses, professors, company founders, scientists
basically everything the academia and industry has in store. But they lacked
the normal person, the hacker, the social loser. So it's a biased counsel.
I commented that they did not chose someone who walked through the darkness,
but they want that this counsil places difficult questions. Good luck! And
boo for the censoring. Not too much disappointment in this, can't be much
more disappointed in our government than already.
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My battery powered Freifunk Emergency setup
August 18th, 2018
I have finally set up my Freifunk Router with the newly purchased Vodafone
Gigacube. The gigacube is an LTE router with 50 GB volume per month. It is
on a flex plan so when I don't use it (I keep it off until I need it) I don't
pay. I tested this setup on the battery just now and it works brilliantly.
I have made you some photos:
I'm very excited right now. The two of them together suck about 8-10 watts
but the sun was shining on the panel so perhaps it wasn't all battery suckage.
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New Keyboard
August 18th, 2018
I got a new keyboard after my old workstation keyboard gave up its ghost.
Problem is that this is a USB keyboard and not console keyboard, oh well.
setxkbmap 'de(mac_nodeadkeys)' -print | xkbcomp - $DISPLAY
The above string configures the keyboard, I put this in my .xsession file.
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