Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 30

Of course, it was not a hacking contest. Some of the speakers were invited on stage as players in the Developers bowl (a Jeopardy-like game) at Software Gurú Conference & Expo 2014. I happened to be in the winning team :-)

Para este número, nuestra coordinadora editorial nos pidió enfocarnos a una retrospectiva de lo que significa esta década que se cumple. E inevitablemente, cada vez que comienzo a pensar al respecto, el plazo se me duplica, y termino tarareando una de dos melodías. Dos hermosas canciones que relatan, melancólicamente, a muy distinto ritmo y desde muy distintas ópticas, el recuerdo de un amor al paso de un largo intervalo de tiempo: La contradanza cubana Veinte años'', de María Teresa Vera, y el tangoVolver’’, de Le Pera y Gardel. En Veinte años'', se recuerda algo que terminó de forma irremisible, volviendo...

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Only a very short summary in English: I am Mexican. I am Jewish. I am almost completely disconnected from the local Jewish communities. And understanding the local Jewish communities is hard. There is a very interesting and brave campaign, recently started, called Neither do I — The Mexican Jewish gay activist group Guimel</em>, started off with this video (with English subtitles, if you are interested in following along). But how did I learn about this very bold initiative? By getting a hateful spam, inviting people to join a hate campaign. Right, the hate mail is not calling to violence, but...

So, after writing my last blog post in frustration, several people knowing their way around Tor better than me wrote that I should just configure my machine not to be an exit relay, but a middle relay or a bridge. So, I set it up to be a bridge about five days ago. And, as they pointed out, I have not experienced any problems. Interesting: The traffic pattern is very different. Compare: Traffic pattern as an exit relay: Traffic pattern as a bridge: Anyway — I’m happy to have Lobazal back online! Attachments retor1.png (56 KB)

Some days ago, I bit the bullet and accepted the Tor Challenge. Sadly, after only four days of having a Tor relay node happily sitting at home (and, of course, giving a nice function to this little friend). The inconveniences were too many. I understand anonimity can be used for many nefarious things, but I was surprised and saddened to see the amount of blocking services. Most notorious to me were the Freenode IRC network, friendly home to many free software projects, and the <a href=”http://wikimedia.org/>different Wikimedia projects</a>, which ban editting from IP addresses idenitfied as Tor relays. I’m saddened...

I must echo John Sullivan’s post: GPG keysigning and government identification. John states some very important reasons for people everywhere to verify the identities of those parties they sign GPG keys with in a meaningful way, and that means, not just trusting government-issued IDs. As he says, It’s not the Web of Amateur ID Checking. And I’ll take the opportunity to expand, based on what some of us saw in Debian, on what this means. I know most people (even most people involved in Free Software development — not everybody needs to join a globally-distributed, thousand-people-strong project such as Debian)...

As often is the case, the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic (http://smbc-comics.com/ gets it right. And I cannot help but share today’s comic. The picture explains it much better than what I ever could.

My guest and good friend Kaz, ready to start explaining the ext4 filesystem (and kernel module)

With eclectic sushi and several other goodies.