HTC Droid Incredible
It's a new gadget (a smartphone if you're either not a USian or living under a rock) I got a couple of days ago. It was intended for Christmas, but it's impossible to get a new phone without activating it, so I got it early...
A note to people using AES
The United States State Department does not recommend AES for encrypting classified information.
QR
As some of you may have noticed, my avatar on all my sites has been changed to something like this:
The Blu-Ray/HDCP master key
HDCP MASTER KEY (MIRROR THIS TEXT!).
Beta automatic CAPTCHA
It's based on HashCash. The client performs a CPU-intensive task (it concatenates the URL, time accurate to the minute, and tries to find a number to tack onto the end that has a SHA1 hash with enough zeroes on the beginning). It's easy to tell (one hash and query to the clock), but hard to get (a ton of numbers won't generate enough zeroes).
For a better browsing experience!
I've been using Google Chrome (or, rather, the unbranded Chromium that's available in the Debian repositories) for awhile now, but have been holding off on blogging about it due to a combined laziness and desire to have a very complete review ready.
Okay, I want to know. Why are you using Disqus?
If you've never heard of Disqus, you either don't notice the logo or don't comment on very many blogs. It's a centraized service running comments forms. Just install an add-on into Wordpress, which already provides commenting......
Segways and redesigns
I know, I've never lumped two topics into posts before. Just didn't see how either of them could stand alone.
Diaspora: an attempt at a better Facebook, but that's not all
A notable, and widely anticipated piece of software has just been released.
Wikileaks founder wanted with... rape?!
I just opened Akregator and saw that the Wikileaks blog had a new entry. This isn't very common (the Wikileaks blog isn't a firehose of leaks; it's news about the site itself), and, after reading it, had to do a double-take.
IT'S CRAP!!!
"Oracle sues Google over use of Java in Android. Yes, you got it right. After Oracle bought Sun (along with their Java patents), they started suing people. According to Oracle:
Muppet Show Java
No, I don't know what it has to do with Java. Doesn't make it less cool...
Hi!
As I mentioned I would be in my first post, I'm now on the LO planet.
ur.ly - the underappreciated URL shortener
I say underappreciated because it has all the good things you could want of a URL shortener (it makes URLs very short, is fast, scalable, and should last), yet everyone I know is using bit.ly, ur1.ca, or, worse, tinyurl.com.
Clockwork
Yep, it's been ages since I last posted here, but no matter. I'll just brashly start talking again like it never happened.
proxy.googlesharing.net
"GoogleSharing is a special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent Google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit. GoogleSharing is not a full proxy service designed to anonymize all your traffic, but rather something designed exclusively for your communication with Google. Our system is totally transparent, with no special "alternative" websites to visit. Your normal work flow should be exactly the same." - googlesharing.net
No deals with the devil necessary....
And you expected them to be dishonest about it....
Introspection
This post contains 128 characters, 1 paragraph, and is titled "Introspection". Were you expecting something deep and emotional?
Johan Schlüter loves child porn
I'm only half-surprized to see Disney-ish villians in a media conglomerate. I am very surprized to see matching levels of stupidity.
Apple, rumors, and blogs
It's finally happened. Apple has finally played their ace.
Birds
We bought birds the day before yesterday.
XMPP PubSub vs. PubSubHubbub
Okay, so now I support both XMPP-PubSub and PubSubHubbub. Neither is a bad protocol. PubSubHubbub certainly is the simpler of the two, since HTTP is simpler than XMPP.
Push: The PubSubHubbub
If you've never heard of Pub*SubH*ubbub, and, being not very well-known outside of the hardcore web developer world, you probably haven't, I guess I'll have to describe it before I announce that I've implemented it.
Smurfing in sign language
It's been awhile since I've been posting videos. This one seemed to be unusual enough to warrant it.
Ada
Today is Ada Loverance day. In case you were wondering, yes, the Ada language is named after her. She's the first computer programmer. Yes, really.
Another cool graphic
Another cool graphic. Or should I say "meh."
Our trip
Yesterday, we took a trip with my grandparents for almost the entire day. We arrived home late (and I forgot the camera in the car :S) so I'm posting the photos today. The trip was to San Xavier mission and the Pima Air & Space Museum. I've got the pictures of San Xavier (expect the Pima ones next blogpost).
Domino logic
... with real dominoes! TinyOgg/YouTube.
The top 50 oxymorons
The top 50 oxymorons:
The Microsoft Tax
"You could say it's a public safety issue and do it with general taxation," Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney said. Say what?
Sorry...
Like so many bloggers before me, I've also stopped blogging for a period of time, and am now apologizing to my imaginary readership. I'll be back to blogging soon, I promise.
Sorry...
Like so many bloggers before me, I've also stopped blogging for a period of time, and am now apologizing to my imaginary readership. I'll be back to blogging soon, I promise.
I will not accept laptops from school...
I don't know something stupid like this won't happen.
Aava
If you have any familiarity with the mobile phone market, you'll know that the GSM (don't know what it stands for, but I know it actually links to the cell network) is proprietary on every phone, even the "FreeRunner." That is, until now.
Visual thinking
A short guide to visual thinking: part one, part two, part three.
You learn something new every day...
I've never seen the "Microsoft Halloween documents" even though they're quite old. They're leaked internal documents from MS, closely related to their approach to F/L/OSS software.
If anything can go wrong... and other, related things.
I found this while looking up text alignment in web pages.
Artists vs. art appreciators
When you start getting stuff like Readability bookmarklet and this graphic, you know something's wrong.
TinyOgg's "Random" button
WARNING: Disturbing, a bit funny, and contains curse words.
NONONONONO!!!!
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
string question = "Answer to Life the Universe and Everything";
cout << question << " = " << question.size() << endl;
return 0;
}
The definition of awesome
There are a lot of awesome things in the world. God is awesome. The word "antidisestablishmentarianism" is awesome. This video is awesome. So what makes something awesome (I know that "awesome" is a point-of-view thing, but so is "funny" and "beautiful," and there are common characteristics in all people; otherwise, you can't reliably produce something beautiful or funny).
Muppets!
We are caught in a time warp...
We have gold!
Are you fed up with Apple's DRM? Did you get 4 iPods for christmas and 2 for your birthday? Did you suddenly lose your job, and care more about getting food than keeping your 15G iPod?
Propagating memes
It's a quiz on "what American accent do you have."
A magical and revolutionary device
Yes, I'm quoting Apple inc. I expected them to at least know how to use language better than that.
Hulu, Flash, Miro, and Fluffy
If you're familiar with Flash on Linux, you can probably understand our problem. Fluffy is Debbie's old computer (old, as opposed to Retro). It's a pretty good computer, nonetheless. It's fast enough to play a DVD, it's network connection (end-to-end) is fast enough to stream video from Hulu. However, the video skips when playing a video on Hulu. If the DVD is set to OpenGL (like Flash does) instead of Xv, it skips, too.
Day of quotes
A couple of quotes that deserve to be pulled out. I may put some of them into .signatures.
Privacy is dead: get over it
This is why I try to keep stuff off The Information Conglomerate's systems, why I use and support everyday use of strong encryption, and why I like anonymous communication platforms like Freenet. Privacy, in the current situation, is dead.
Political correctness
I'm not the only one who thinks all the anti-violence stuff is getting out of hand.
Random song
Sick humor, A modern fairy tale
If you've ever spent a significant amount of time on the LO forums, you'll know that it's frequenters make a point of treating the start of a thread of conversation as a start, not a guideline. This is particularly easy to notice in spam thread, where the conversation can become very distant from the thread title, indeed.