Dave Winer I mean, with his newsRiver.root:
When the aggregator reads a feed it sets the referer for the request to http://www.newsriver.org/, a new site with a place-holder message for people who are unfamiliar with the aggregator. This address will appear in the referer logs for feeds that are read by users of this aggregator.
And again he spammed the referer, instead of adhering to the standard of putting the URL for the aggregator in the User-Agent header. No, not all hits from aggregators come from their pages, this is utter nonsense that he already perpetrated with the Radio Userland aggregator. And back then he showed himself to be forgetful when it was tried to explain it to him.
Why are programmers, especially in the field of web technologies and related topics, so incapable of looking at specifications? And simply adhering to what makes sense? The HTTP specification is not that complicated that one couldn't at least adhere to it rudimentarily ...
I would be in favor of extending the naturalization test for Muslims to politicians in general:
One question, for example, is: "How do you feel about the statement that a woman should obey her husband and that he is allowed to beat her if she is not obedient?" Another one: "Imagine your adult son comes to you and tells you he is homosexual and would like to live with another man. How do you react?" However, there is no passing score for the test. According to the Interior Ministry, the overall impression from the conversation is decisive.
When it comes to questions about homosexuality and the role of women, presumably quite a few Union politicians would fail, right?
Sometimes you really wonder how politicians manage to implement every absurd and ridiculous idea and then still find it to be a great idea. I mean, at some point the reptilian brain must crawl out of the politician's ears in desperation at the evolutionary regression and strangle him ...
Codeville - and yet another version control system, this one is written in Python and specifically addresses the problem of merge algorithms.
Crossroads 0.23 - Load-Balancer for TCP. With load-based switching and availability.
Once again, a current crisis is being used as an excuse for stupid remarks:
Söder called for consequences from the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. Possibly, the Russian gas company Gazprom will one day also blackmail Germany.
I mean - everyone has now realized that there is not even any intention of blackmailing Europe. Not even the action against Ukraine is - from a capitalist perspective - unusual, after all Gazprom is only demanding the world market price for gas from Ukraine. Shouldn't the Union politicians now quickly perk up and applaud? But when they are on the receiving end of capitalism, they scream and squeal like stuck pigs.
Instead of drawing sensible conclusions and, for example, strengthening renewable and locally producible energy sources, they are calling for nuclear power. But what would that cause? A stronger bondage and blackmailability of German society by the people who already repeatedly attract attention through blackmail: the energy companies. Who make a fortune at the expense of society, but still increase prices. Who pocket millions from the state for the construction of their facilities, but then complain that everything is so expensive and therefore the citizen should pay again. But of course, jobs must be cut at the same time, because one wants to make record profits again next year.
In addition, it makes us more dependent on foreign sources for the fuel rods and the reprocessing and disposal - and creates massive problems through the still unsolved problem of final storage (and no, selling the problem to others will not bring us anything in the long run).
Regardless of the consequences for the environment and health - the decision for nuclear power is purely economically a complete nonsense. Apart from the fact that you can operate gas heating systems very poorly with electricity, the whole fuss in the context of gas deliveries from Russia should only be considered as stupid populist propaganda.
After reading about the RFID Zapper on Bruce Schneier's blog - what actually happens if the chip is defective? Do you get a free replacement? Do you have to pay for the passport again? Do passports have to be accepted even without a functioning chip - since they are still identification documents?
Chips can also break down without any problems in normal ways - even without the application of EMP or microwave.
monotone: distributed version control - by now Monotone is quite mature. Main advantage: it is distributed as a single executable. And the content-based addressing also sounds very interesting.
xmledit - A filetype plugin to help edit XML, HTML, and SGML documents : vim online - nice plugin for VIM (more precisely a macro package) to better edit XML files with tag completion and automatic closing and jumping between block start and end.