Employers propose immediate program - one could also call it an "exploitation program". The industry dog has tasted blood ...
Archive 14. March 2005
CherryFlow - Continuations in Python
CherryFlow is a continuation-based framework for Python and CherryPy. With it, you can also build continuation-based web servers in Python. The special feature: CherryFlow uses either Stackless' dumpable generators or StateSaver, a small C extension that allows copying running generators under normal Python. Exactly what I back then was looking for to complete my continuations for Python.
Debian plans to reduce the number of architectures - I don't know if that's such a great idea. The many architectures were one of the pro-arguments for Debian. Of course, exotic architectures can cause problems - especially when they simply can't keep up during the recompile orgies that are due for a release (I'm thinking of the 68K architecture here). Nevertheless, it's a shame if this aspect of Debian is weakened.
In the Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks I found the tip on how to block advertising images and videos with a user CSS. Certainly old news for most, but new to me. Nice, because for example Camino doesn't have a proper ad blocker like Firefox (yes, I'm back to Camino again ...).
Agreements on data retention cause outrage
heise online - Absprachen über Vorratsdatenspeicherung lösen Empörung aus
According to a result paper of the backroom talks with Deutsche Telekom, which is available to heise online, investigators and intelligence agencies are pushing for a storage period of 180 days for IP addresses and login data, the connection data in a landline call and in the mobile communications sector, in addition, the location identifier and "if necessary card number (IMSI) or identifier of the terminal device (IMEI)". Deutsche Telekom is said to have agreed to archive the corresponding personal data for this period. Currently, the company stores data for 90 days. Contrary to the requirements of the security authorities, Schily and Zypries are considering storing data for one year.
Great. The demands of the intelligence agencies are already absurd to the extreme - especially in mobile communications, this results in continuous tracking of all mobile subscribers - and Otto Orwell and the combined incompetence of the Ministry of Justice are even demanding more. Great democracy, I feel so safe with so much surveillance.
Brand name "Milka" wins against Mrs. Milka - and thus joins the current series of nonsense.
Crooked Otto
Schräger Otto
A very crooked dog, the tower. Somehow, you can photograph it however you want, it always looks crooked. This is because the base of the tower is an oval and the windows are not always the same on the floors. Somehow it always looks like a spiral, but they are just normal floors. Many partition walls probably don't have offices ...
Vacation booked for May ...
... it will be Flensburg. And timed so that we can experience the Flensburger Rum Regatta.
Time to Ditch iChat
And why? Well, AOL's strange terms of use for AIM enforce the surrender of all rights and all privacy in the data transported over the AIM network. Verbatim:
In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses.
Sorry, what? Have they gone mad? These terms of use should actually be completely illegal in Germany - I don't think you can absolve yourself of all responsibility and the user of all rights through a disclaimer ...
iChat is based on AIM as a transport network. Hence the subject. It's time to work with clients like Fire where you can switch to Jabber for example - a network of servers that, on the one hand, are not under the central control of a company and, on the other hand, can be easily expanded with your own server. Moreover, the technical protocol is better ...
The CCC also operates a Jabber server. The topic of AOL terms of use was also taken up there. The use of the server is also free of charge and no changes are currently planned. So I am now available via instant messaging at hugo at jabber.ccc.de, if I am reachable. The AIM and ICQ (also belongs to AOL!) accounts that I still have will probably be closed. Jabber accounts are now really trivial to get and there is no reason to use the outdated and proprietary protocols anymore. (Found via Ted Leung)