This is a note to my future self as much as to anyone else.
I own an old Yuraku MB24WKH screen which I never got to work via its DVI connector, but the VGA works just fine. It is for reading text, not gaming or image processing, so that's ...
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Why Facebook Keeps Switching You to "Top Stories"
tl;dr
Facebook earns money from you being on their crappy ranked "newsfeed". It allows them to pressure businesses and artists into paying for your otherwise free attention.
Today I fell for facebook's "Top Stories" again. After scrolling through some pages of posts I realized I am seeing old ...
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All Remedies Available, Part II
Today Ars Technica has a short report about a new law "that exempts GCHQ, police, and other intelligence officers from prosecution for hacking into computers and mobile phones." Effectively this makes (some of) the things that Edward Snowden made us aware of legal.
But why would the public accept this ...
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Cameron's Dystopia
When I first read about this in the Independent I thought they must have gotten something wrong. But no, The Intercept and the Guardian heard the same words.
This actually seems to be David Cameron's stance on what a democracy should look like:
For too long, we have been ...
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Das Problem ist der Wütende Mob!
Für die, dies es nicht mitbekommen haben: Spiegel Online berichtete am Donnerstag darüber, dass der BND jahrelang wissentlich Selektoren der NSA verheimlicht hat, die klar gegen europäische und deutsche Ziele gerichtet waren, und nicht etwa gegen Terroristen oder dergleichen.
In der FAZ erklärt Japser von Altenbockum, was das eigentliche Problem ...
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Typing French Characters in GTK Applications
All the Unicode codes needed to type the full French alphabet on any keyboard.
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French Media on the Arrest of (yet another) Artist
Have you heard of Zeon? Well, I heard about him today, here.
Short version: he makes cartoons. Which is what he got arrested for. Or rather, for hatespeech. In his cartoons.
While you might disagree with his views, the whole Charlie affair should still be fresh enough for people to ...
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Google shows Ethymology for words
This may be ancient but I only really noticed this now.
Note the diagram! Another field where Google beats the community. I have been craving for years for a good source on ethymological knowledge on the web. Wikipedia has some infos on some words wherever the authors thought it worthwhile ...
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User Tracking goes deeper than Ads
Subscription-based Publishing won't solve User Tracking and Profiling. A new privacy-violating market would emerge soon.
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Holy Crap, I am Dangerous!
French "Anti-Terror Campaign" Drops any Rest of Reason
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