MediaGoblin v0.4.0
Should try again if I get this release work on my server. Always failed to get everything working together.
MediaGoblin's newest release is here, 0.4.0! We've got a whole lot of cool things, most excitingly document support and an improved plugin infrastructure. Now more than ever before MediaGoblin has the tooling to become a real library of knowledge. Sounds exciting? Read on! Cory Doctorow's Little Brother being shown in MediaGoblin First of all, let'...
But do I understand it right that MediaGoblin wants to use pump.io for federation?
Die Zeiten ändern sich...
Was man so alles erfährt...
Es gibt ein Gesetz, das dem Geheimdienst erlaubt bis zu 20 Prozent der Kommunikation zwischen der Bundesrepublik und dem Ausland auf verdächtige Inhalte zu prüfen? Wo lebe ich denn?
:headbang
heise online: "Spiegel": BND weitet Internet-Ãœberwachung aus (dpa)
Der BND liest mit: Nicht nur die amerikanische NSA, auch der deutsche Auslandsgeheimdienst kundschaftet internationalen Mailverkehr aus. Nun soll die Netzüberwachung sogar ausgebaut werden.
Der BND liest mit: Nicht nur die amerikanische NSA, auch der deutsche Auslandsgeheimdienst kundschaftet internationalen Mailverkehr aus. Nun soll die Netzüberwachung sogar ausgebaut werden.
Na was für ein Zufall:
Die Regierung müsse mehr in die IT-Sicherheit "Made in Germany" investieren. "Das wird dreistellige Millionenbeträge kosten."
heise online: Prism-Skandal: Politiker fordern IT "Made in Germany" (Jan-Keno Janssen)
Die Regierung müsse mehr in die IT-Sicherheit investieren, sagt CSU-Politiker Hans-Peter Uhl. Auch Dieter Wiefelspütz (SPD) fordert angesichts des US-Datenskandals "angemessene Alternativen".
Die Regierung müsse mehr in die IT-Sicherheit investieren, sagt CSU-Politiker Hans-Peter Uhl. Auch Dieter Wiefelspütz (SPD) fordert angesichts des US-Datenskandals "angemessene Alternativen".
Der Bundesüberwachungsminister informiert
Wenn die NSA flächendeckend das Netz überwacht, dann muss man sie einfach vor Kritik in Schutz nehmen, dachte sich wohl unser Bundesüberwachungsminister Hans-Peter Friedrich und dankte zugleich für die “gute Zusammenarbeitâ€: Bundesinnenminister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) hat die USA im NSA-Ãœberwachungsskandal verteidigt und vor deutscher K...
moments as possible so that we fall off guard 😕
Mal sehen was daraus wird
Parteien wollen Rechtsunsicherheit bei Softwarepatenten beenden » Linux-Magazin
Nach der Anhörung von Experten zur Patentierbarkeit von Computerprogrammen im Bundestag gibt es seit Freitag einen ersten, fraktionsübergreifenden Antrag, der Softwarepatenten Grenzen setzen möchte.
Das wird noch heisser Sommer
Na das wird ja noch bestimmt eine heisser Sommer...
Microsoft gibt US-Behörden vorab Lücken bekannt | Netzpolitik | futurezone.at: Technology-News
Laut einem Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Bloomberg arbeiten zahlreiche Privat-Unternehmen mit US-Nachrichtendiensten zusammen. So soll Microsoft Daten über Sicherheitslücken bereits vorab an NSA, CIA und FBI weitergeben. Im Gegenzug sollen die Unternehmen mit vertraulichen Informationen versorgt werden.
Google has too much power. Now they can force website operators to create mobile optimized websites. 
I think that is good for the user, but it is the totally wrong reason why you should do it.
Smartphone users are a significant and fast growing segment of Internet users, and at Google we want them to experience the full richness of the web. As part of our efforts to improve the mobile web, we published our recommendations and the most common configuration mistakes. Avoiding these mistakes helps your smartphone users engage with your site...
A new bestseller?
Sales of George Orwell’s ’1984′ up 69 percent on Amazon | WashingtonExaminer.com
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 are up 69 percent on Amazon, according to a list on the website.
The book marked its 60th anniversary on June 6 amid a flurry of real-world news stories on secret government surveillance.
Amazon lists the paperback version of the sci-fi classic as the 19th biggest book on its Movers and Shakers list. The current sales rank is 110.
The list identifies the biggest gainers in sales rank compared to 24 hours ago.
Update: As of 3:22 p.m. EDT, sales of Orwell's 1984 are up 91 percent on the Amazon Movers and Shakers list.
Update II: As of 10:16 p.m. EDT, sales of Orwell's 1984 are up 126 percent on the Amazon list. The sales rank is now at 71 - up from 161.
Link Hover Effects with CSS | Web Tutorial Plus
Links are the integral part of internet. The World Wide Web exists because of hyperlinks. So, while designing our websites, it’s important to give high priority to links styling. How do we style our links? I have seen that in many websites, the links are styled with distinct colors and background other than normal text. Surely, the basic design c...
Focal Point
What a nice solution to get the right focal point when cropping images in #RWD. #CSS
GitHub: focal-point
A small set of CSS classnames to help keep images cropped on the focal point for responsive designs. Using only HTML/CSS, web authors can specify an image's focal point, which stays as the imag...
focal-point - A small set of CSS classnames to help keep images cropped on the focal point for responsive designs. Using only HTML/CSS, web authors can specify an image's focal point, which stays as the image's primary focus, while the image's available width changes on responsive webpages. Crop and re-size images depending on available width and let CSS to do all of the work, and without any JavaScript.
An intersting article that shows it in action:
Design Shack: Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images | Design Shack (Joshua Johnson)
The practice of implementing responsive images is still in its infancy. We’ve seen a lot of ideas and suggestions for how it should be done and we’re bound to see a lot more.
Reading an article entitled Focal Point: Intelligent Cropping of Responsive Images on Design Shack.
Just need to get this into my CMS somehow.
like this
A very intersting video presenting a great idea for the other half.
Finland’s Jolla Phone Aims to Compete With Apple, Samsung
In the world of tech giants Apple and Samsung, tiny upstarts make small waves. Finland’s smartphone maker Jolla hopes to change that with security innovations in its new phone.
Being able to switch the security level and applications from work phone to private phone would be really interesting.
The alternatives look quite disappointing. 🙁
Opt out of PRISM, the NSA's global data surveillance program. Stop reporting your online activities to the American government with these free alternatives to proprietary software.
Indeed, their list of alternatives is woefully inadequate.
For instance, there are definitely secure e-mail alternatives, like, admittedly, some more technologically complex ones, like running your own mail server, using SSL and GPG encryption, or using a platform like friendica or red where you can send private messages that are, likewise, protected by both, SSL and encryption.
Of course, their list of social alternatives is very lacking, and fails to mention friendica, redmatrix, status.net, and libertree (plus options such as running your own server with forum software, like phpbb or smartmachines, or other platforms for, say, local groups, personal friends, family, as one friend of mine does).
What's funny is, while completely ignoring these options, they only thing they offer for media sharing is mediagoblin, which is a complex solution requiring that one run their own server (or have a friend who does). And, honestly, redmatrix and friendica can be used well to share media, privately, as well (although they aren't structured as media galleries, so lack some of the media organization that mediagoblin has). Plus there are other FLOSS media gallery platforms, like piwigo or gallery(2,3), etc.
Another failure is their list of search options. Startpage.com is okay, offering google results over a secure proxy, thus, without the tracking, but the same provider offers ixquick.com, plus, they completely ignore duckduckgo.com, and decentralized search indexes, like yacy and seeks.
This needs addressed.
JURI workshop on 9 July: Legal aspects of free and open source software
There will be a workshop in the European Parliament about "Legal aspects of free and open source software"
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/juri/events.html?id=workshops#menuzone
The attending speakers sounds very interesting, Jutta Kreyss from the LiMux project and also Eben Moglen
Okay, come on, speak up! Whose idea was this for the worlds biggest marketing campaign for decentralised networks?!? Someone from ~friendica 
or red
matrix? Someone from the new merged StatusNet/GNU social? Or is it a campaign for pump.io? Whoever you are you are genious.
If not we really screwed it up in the last 10years to let this happen!
NSA Whistleblower
Can this story be true?
The Guardian: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again' (Ewen MacAskill)
Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation – and what happens next
Source for the Guardian's NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation – and what happens next
Von der Kunst der Kommunikation
Von der Kunst der Kommunikation » Linux-Magazin
Ich gebe zu, für mein Alter bin ich schon ziemlich lang online. Meine erste Verbindung, damals noch unter dem Begriff DFÜ, führte mich 1991 in die wunderbare Welt der Mailboxen, ihrer ANSI-Grafiken auf schwarzem Hintergrund, und modernen Protokollen wi...
Netzneutralität für Joe Average
Ein paar interessante Ideen wie man die Konsequenzen für eine breitere Masse verständlich machen sollte. Vergisst man wohl leider viel zu häufig.
Eure T-Netzneutralität versteht kein Mensch!
Die Wikipedia Deutschland kennt Netzneutralität seit dem 2. Juni 2006. Kurz vor dem deutschen Sommermärchen legte der Nutzer Gibro den etwas mageren Artikel mit dem folgenden Wortlaut an: Unter Netzneutralität wird eine in den USA geführte Diskussion verstanden, bei der es um einen Gesetzesentwurf zur Nutzung der Bandbreiten für Internetanwe...
Security by Obscurity
Ein wunderschönes Beispiel, vor allem wie versucht wird mit völlig unbrauchbaren Lösungen etwas zu "reparieren". #fail
Gastbeitrag: Security by Obscurity bei Netgear-Switches » Linux-Magazin
Im Linux-Magazin 10/2012 beschrieb der Autor Sven Anders seine Erlebnisse mit dem Netgear-Switch GS108E, einem relativ preisgünstigen Modell des Herstellers. Das Gerät bietet aber die Möglichkeit, VLANs zu verwenden oder auch einen Port zu spiegeln. Da...
LibrePlan
This project makes a quite interesting impression. Especially the multi-project features sounds good. But not sure if it will fit so good into an agile development process.
LibrePlan: The open source web application for project planning, monitoring and control
The open source web application for project planning, monitoring and control
GNU social merges with StatusNet
Was there any big difference between these ever? Thought they are all StatusNet anyway.
On June 8th, 2013 the developers of GNU social are pleased to announce a merger with both the Free Social project and the StatusNet project. Free Social developer and founder, Mikael Nordfeldth and GNU social founder, Matt Lee will co-manage the project. StatusNet founder and Federated Web pioneer Evan Prodromou, will remain active on the project a...
Funny logo of GNU social, btw.
The disappointments about app stores
There is quite much development in the bodega repositories. Really looking forward to see how well this new concept will work.
the triumphs and travails of a shift-key-challenged KDE hacker The biggest thing that I dislike about "app stores" (when did they stop being applications by the way?) is that it changes me from being an end user to a customer. It's really more of an overall philosophy. So rather than focus on quality, a focus on getting money from the customer is a...
quick update on vivaldi hardware
aseigo: quick update on vivaldi hardware
Here's a very quick and terse update on where we are with hardware for the long-awaited (by me if noone else ;) Vivaldi tablet hardware: ...
the triumphs and travails of a shift-key-challenged KDE hacker You are not the only one eagerly waiting. Me too! BTW, with the start of the FairPhone i would like to know, how "fair" the Vivaldi hardware is. Have you plans on this? It would be great, if after a while, it would be as fair as the software allready is. Does it go into desktop mode whe...
PHP Version Adoption
I also have to still run one server with PHP5.2 because of proprietary and PHP versions incompatible applications. 🙁
PHP runs over 75% of all websites whose technologies are known (source: w3techs), which makes for a really REALLY long tail of users who once installed wordpress, phpmyadmin, or some other open source project that helped their business needs at the time. What they don't do is upgrade. PHP's current usage statistics look like this (source and raw nu...
Seriously.js
Is this JavaScript only? Seriously?
GitHub: Seriously.js
A real-time, node-based video effects compositor for the web built with HTML5, Javascript and WebGL - brianchirls/Seriously.js
Seriously.js - A real-time, node-based video effects compositor for the web built with HTML5, Javascript and WebGL
Lifehacker: Hacker Challenge: Share Your Best DIY Parenting Hacks (Walter Glenn)
Welcome to our next Hacker Challenge! Each week, we issue a new challenge. You get until Sunday to prepare your submission and send it to us. That giv
Welcome to our next Hacker Challenge! Each week, we issue a new challenge. You get until Sunday to prepare your submission and send it to us. That gives you a few days to think about it and a whole weekend to work it up. Our editors pick the best submissions and our favorite will win a copy of the Lifehacker book!
State communication surveillance undermines freedom of expression, warns UN expert
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13400&LangID=E
GENEVA (4 June 2013) – “Freedom of expression cannot be ensured without respect to privacy in communications,†United Nations Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue said today, calling for more global attention to the widespread use of surveillance technologies by States in violation of the human rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
Rangy not supported
Looks like pump.io is not compatible with my browser. When I go to https://e14n.com/evan/note/Ppnxw_dxS5C_S5xMbrqS9Q I only get this JavaScript error message and get presented the start page.
Rangy not supported in your browser. Reason: Neither Range nor TextRange are implemented
Welcome to the new open web, now I will even never get to know why the move from identi.ca to pump.io was postponed.
Babies are supposed to like high-contrast mobiles, but I didn’t like any of the high modernist alternatives out there, so I made my own. Carbon fiber band, lots of black and white animals, and of course Tux the GNU/Linux penguin ...
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No webarchive in Konqueror with WebKit
Creative Commons beim NDR
Letztens total überrascht, als ich einen Beitrag vom NDR gesehen habe, der unter einer CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 3.0 Deutschland stand. Sollte ruhig öfters gemacht werden!
Aserbaidschanischer Exilsender in Berlin
Ein Jahr nach dem ESC in Baku ist Aserbaidschan autoritärer geworden, sagt Emin Milli. Mit Meydan TV informiert der Blogger als unabhängige Stimme - aus einem Keller in Berlin.
Immer wieder ein interessanter Vortrag. #Antifeatures
Linuxtag 2013 Einige Hard- und Softwarehersteller betreiben enormen Aufwand, um Funktionen auf ihren Geräten einzuschränken. MIT-Forscher Benjamin Mako Hill bezeichnet diese als "Antifeatures" -
Sometimes more is more
InfoWorld: When server consolidation goes too far
Virtualization has revolutionized the data center, but less isn't always more when it comes to the number of server virtualization hosts
Virtualization has revolutionized the data center, but less isn't always more when it comes to the number of server virtualization hosts
Tobias
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