Black Tuesday
Posted by isecore on 1st December 2009
Until the end and back again
Defiant to the last man
‘Til there’s nothing left
To fight against
No surrender
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All about the intarwebs
Posted by isecore on 1st December 2009
Until the end and back again
Defiant to the last man
‘Til there’s nothing left
To fight against
No surrender
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Posted by isecore on 26th November 2009
Detta är ett öppet och gemensamt blogginlägg – kopiera, förbättra och publicera på din blogg.
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Från och med den första december 2009 är Sverige en övervakad nation – det är då som FRA får tillgång till en stor del av vår Internet- och mobiltrafik.
Detta kommer att få ett antal konsekvenser. De mest påtagliga är att flera grundläggande rättigheter i praktiken kommer att sättas ur spel. En självklarhet som brevhemligheten kommer efter den första december 2009 inte att existera på Internet. Även andra grundlagsskyddade rättigheter som källskyddet är starkt hotat. Många organisationer har skarpt protesterat mot FRA-lagen, däribland Journalistförbundet och Advokatsamfundet. En majoritet av det svenska folket är emot FRAs avlyssning.
Flera juridiska experter uttrycker sig dessutom mycket tveksamt till om FRA-lagen är förenlig med Europakonventionen, dvs. den europeiska konventionen angående skydd för de mänskliga rättigheterna. Sverige har förbundit sig att följa den konventionen och rimligtvis bör lagen alltså prövas i Europeiska domstolen för de mänskliga rättigheterna. Telia ansvarar idag för en majoritet av den trafik som FRA kommer att vilja avlyssna. Därför uppmanar vi Telia: ta FRA-lagen till domstol.
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I mitt fall har jag kopierat inlägget från Humlan.
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Posted by isecore on 3rd September 2009
A while back I said that this fall I was going to reinstall the server that powers (among others) this website. I reneged on this since I was a coward, and felt it would be a lot of work.
But, after having fiddled around with Ubuntu Server in a VM I’ve come to the insight that it won’t be as much work as I thought it might be. Sure, it’ll still be work, but not nearly as much as I anticipated. In fact, I think it’ll go over fairly smooth.
I’m going to hold off on it until the upcoming version of Ubuntu Server is released, and then I’m going to take the plunge.
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Posted by isecore on 16th August 2009
Back in the early days of the World Wide Web every website had a “www.something” type domain. When I first got access to the internet around 1995 I quickly learned that www meant it was a website. Type in www.whatever.whatever in a webbrowser and that meant there was a website.
What I didn’t understand back then of course was how the Internet worked. I didn’t understand things like DNS, I didn’t understand webservers or what powered them. All I knew was that I had a browser (Netscape!) and the power to put adresses in it and access all kinds of content.
Nowadays I understand why the www-subdomain got so much attention. This was because back in the early ’90s when the dubyadubyadubya was invented websites were the exception, not the norm. Back then it was things like Gopher, Usenet, Archie and all those other arcane tools which now mostly have gone the way of the Dodo. Back then it was a quick and simple hack to make a domain “world wide web-aware” and point it to whatever tiny little webserver you were running.
This of course kept on, and became the norm. A quick and dirty little hack became a standard, and now it’s so deeply entrenched in the collective psyche that it’s difficult to stop using it.
I thought the www-subdomain was some kind of magic affair back then. It isn’t. It’s simply a redirect in the DNS, DNS being the Domain Name System, the system that resolves human-readable domains and translates them into difficult-to-remember IP adresses.
Today we keep using the www.something fashion of setting up domains even though it’s become completely redundant. The vast majority of traffic on the Internet today is on the world wide web, and if you ask any teenager what Gopher is they’ll say it’s a ground-dwelling rodent.
There are plenty people out there advocating that we should stop using the www. fashion of naming domains completely, and I agree with them. It’s an obsolete and deprecated tradition, and we shouldn’t continue teaching it’s use with new generations of Internet users. My own personal problem is that the habit of typing www.something is so deep that I often do it without thinking, and for me it’s an active and conscious thing reminding me not to use it.
So if you’re the owner of a site and domain, the proper way is to remove it. Rather than having http://www.something.com you should simply remove the www and people should put http://something.com in their browser instead. Do a DNS-redirect or even some more basic HTTP-redirect to get visitors to the right place. I’m going to undertake this myself soon and become more consistent in my web-presence.
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Posted by isecore on 9th June 2009
Jag har för mig att citatet som jag använt som rubrik kommer från Waynes World. Brydde mig aldrig om det konceptet, men citatet är ett av mina favorituttryck och jag använder det när helst nåt är fullständig orimligt.
Den här gången hävdas det att Tomas Norström inte var jävig. Det är tingsrätten som slår fast detta, och går därmed ut offentligt och bekräftar att de är antingen
A. Korrupta.
eller
B. Fullständigt pantade.
Det är inte heller omöjligt att tingsrätten är både och. Jag tycker det är uppenbart för vem som helst att han var genomrutten. Det här stärker inte mitt förtroende för det svenska rättsväsendet, som verkar ha fler hål än en schweizerost.
Om Tomas Norström inte är jävig så väntar jag på att en hord med apor kommer att spruta ut ur min röv precis vilken sekund som helst.
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Posted by isecore on 21st May 2009
Jag gillar att emellanåt göra en fartkontroll på mitt bredband. Gjorde en nyss. Med tanke på att jag officiellt har en 100/10 uppkoppling får det här väl anses godkänt

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Posted by isecore on 17th May 2009
A few days back I discovered a really cool short film called “What’s In The Box?”. As far as I can tell this is some enthusiastic semi-professional filmmakers who decided to make a short and publish it on the interweb. I strongly suggest you watch it since it’s incredibly intense and atmospheric.
And yes, they borrowed some sounds from Half-Life 2, but it’s all in good spirit. Go watch it now. It has a rather cryptic website as well, which I haven’t had the patience to decode just yet.
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Posted by isecore on 17th May 2009
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Posted by isecore on 15th May 2009
I’ve decided that the major project for this summer will be the complete and utter reinstallation of the server hosting this material. I’m going to restructure things HEAVILY and rely on my experiences over five years of running this machine.
Sometime between June 1st and August 30th it’s going to happen and be done. I have put this up for too long, and the reboot of this blog has given me the inspiration to go ahead with this. It’s a much bigger project and thus it will need some planning beforehand.
But it’s going to happen. You can bet your sweet patootie on it.
Update: Yeah, guess what. It ain’t gonna happen. It’s almost August now and I have no energy to do this. Bummer.
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