Da's wel erg makkelijk hè? Asociaal herrie maken, en dan zeggen dat de ander dat moet tolereren omdat ze leven in een grote stad. Zo groot is die stad trouwens niet. Bangkok, *dat* is een grote stad. Daar is het, naar verhouding tot het verkeer en aantal mensen, muisstil, viel me op. Je mag best geluid maken, maar wij leerden als kinderen om *niet te hard* te praten op straat, en zeker niet 's avonds, wij leerden rekening te houden met wat anderen misschien als afleidend of storend zouden kunnen ervaren. Ook dieren trouwens, in een bos bijv. Als je in de natuur met heel veel hard getetter kinderen hoort kwebbelen, en de ouders/groepsleiders zeggen daar niets van, dan weet ik al meteen hoe laat het is. Een aantal kids in de buurt denken hier schijnbaar ook dat ze de enigen op de wereld zijn. Met hun bluetooth-speakers pontificaal gaan hangen voor je deur, of keihard krijsen, schreeuwen, stampen of tegen dingen aantrappen alsof ze psychiatrisch patienten zijn, zonder er een moment erg in te hebben dat er misschien mensen zijn die bijv. thuis werken en zich willen kunnen concentreren. Of die nachtdiensten draaien en willen kunnen slapen. Het gaat…

Sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? Clearly Gmail use their Spam 'detection' as a non-stop alpha version test-system, there's generally an alarming number of false positives in their Spam folder, or, wait, they don't call it a folder, they *label* it as being spam. I have been running my own mail-server(s) ever since the BBS/fidonet days in the 1990s, and I can assure you, the reader; I do know how email works, I know what each header in an email means, I know why and when it gets blocked, bounced, deferred, queued, tagged, blacklisted, you name it. Been there, done it all. And that's why I'm so fed up with google's attempts to monopolize the email-sphere by forcing all other mail service providers to jump through unpredictable hoops in order to avoid their false positive spam-tagging. Just because they're a big name doesn't mean they know how email works, in fact, most of their delivery-servers are blacklisted somewhere for a reason. Compare that with my score why don't you. Apparently Google wants the entire world to use Gmail, and Gmail alone. When you finally got used to their strange label- and filter-conventions, after years of sending each other huge attachments, Google forces…

So, Articles 11 and 13 have been approved by MEPs. Very bad news for the internet. Unless member states push back, Google News (among others) will shut down across the EU and all kinds of censorship mechanisms will become widespread. Creators and social media will not benefit. Amazing how time and time again those sociopaths in powerful positions, when they see something that works well, they manage to fuck it all up. GDPR also proved to be a disaster for internet in the EU but this will be even worse. And, as always, apparently the MEP's that voted in favor didn't even know what they are really voting on, because the result will just be the total opposite of what they hoped to achieve; - It will be the end of what was left of trust in main-stream media or social networks. - The Onion Router network will improve, expand in functionality, gain A LOT of traction and new users. - We will probably see new separate decentralized root-DNS appear, next to separate decentralized domain name registration systems, and secure tunneling inventions will explode. Let's see how they like that. - Mozilla Firefox will probably end up being the only…

Fun fact; Blockchain technology doesn't require any mining AT ALL, no cracking hashes, no crunching of numbers. Another fun fact: A good reliable functional cryptocurrency does not require mining AT ALL. It's an insane idea brought forward by virtual value backed by nothing (about the same as the one behind the dollar and euro today), implying that one has to do 'something special' in order to create new currency. A so-called 'proof of work' consensus algorithm. Completely unneeded. Mining is a deplorable wasteful mechanism by which only retards think they 'create value'. Mathematical and cryptography advancements have long surpassed any requirement of having to crunch numbers in order to 'create' new virtual currency. Funniest fact: Bitcoin creation ends when a set amount of them has been created by mining, thereby proving how useless the concept of wasting energy, time and resources has been all along. Its value doesn't just disappear after they've all been mined! Even bitcoin's core mining software developer stated that mining wasn't needed in order for BTC to function back in 2009. It was a silly fun idea, made up solely to make it look like you needed to do something in order to get rewarded that…

Dear people at Microsoft, Last year I rebuilt my desktop PC. Made sure it was all compatible, stable, reliable and tested new hardware. My previous Desktop PC had Win7 x64 and Linux Debain dual-booting. So at first I installed Linux on my new hardware, and ran a lot of Windows apps through wine and virtual options, but they still left a lot to be desired. I love debian for servers, would never do without it, but linux on desktop still does not entirely do it for me, I miss certain tiny tools and software, my USB-audio interface (Lynx Hilo) didn't function to its full extent, and performance differences are still very much apparent in some libraries and drivers (that is to say; Working natively in Windows they perform a lot faster). So I decided to install Windows 10 to dual-boot next to Debian. Install for that went fine. I decided to try and find out if I could actually like Windows 10, I used it on my super-fast desktop hardware for 3 weeks continuously (after killing all the snooping and stuff I didn't like it doing behind my back), but it gave me so many blue-screens (I've photographed all of…

Debating the causes of global warming is now irrelevant, the only debate of any worth is 'How badly is the earth f'd and how much longer will it be before we have catastrophic warming'? It's too late to stop things now. How to have it evolve without overly violent painful behavior along the way? We don't want powerful 'leaders' to resort to nuclear attacks 'because it doesn't matter anymore', or ideas like that to take hold of humanity. We don't have to end without dignity, we can arrange a peaceful demise, if only politicians would be prepared to see that's the only way to go. Honestly, I'd advise against more procreation a.s.a.p. That way we could plan for a decent civilized end-scenario, instead of resource depleted migratory disasters taking over day to day life. I doubt it will be possible, but one can dream.

For many computer savy users this is the eternal quest, with no end in sight looking into the (uncertain) future of computing power. It has to be somewhat user-friendly (easy, fast, few clicks to get results), but it also has to be unbreakable, preferably even for the idiots at the NSA, and even when quantum computing power hits mainstream. For my daily use this meant that I went from using TrueCrypt volumes (for a long time) to using VeraCrypt volumes (not so long), to now using ProxyCrypt volumes. ProxyCrypt may not be the most user-friendly of them all (although you could argue that it is, since you can script everything you ever need to do with it, unlike with most other software), but it sure is the fastest because it supports scrypt. ProxyCrypt works as a proxy for the ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver too, meaning you get to have read/write speeds emulating those for a RAM disk, if your processor is fast enough. CPU power and free RAM aren't much of an issue for me anymore. Using DDR memory as a proxy for physical storage has become a mainstay for me recently, saving my SSD/nvme/nand/flash storage media from a few…