Categorised in events, news, politics and web
The politicians, police and other officials - once again - gave a shit about the German constitution and intruded into private computers, even making them unsafe with their own, very badly programmed, trojan horse software.
The only political party which is really outraged about it, is the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei), which got 8.9 percent in the Berlin state elections, and is on its way to get seats in the national parliament in the next federal election, which is - unfortunately - not until 2013.
I helped to write their press release for the current issue of the state trojan (in German).
It’s time to change politics once and for all - by bringing more pirate parties into parliament. More information about the international pirate party movement (PPI).
Categorised in news, politics, ware and web
The parsefile project is still in alpha state, missing any online functionality, but you can already use it offline, e.g. for counting strings inside a file. For more information see the “algos/count_strings_readme.txt” inside the complete package. It can also parse binary files now, see the “readme” file for the binary mode.
The beta version with online functionality will follow next year, when I’ve got internet again. Then it will get really useful, even social network compatibility (e.g. parsing pages inside your facebook account) is planned,
Categorised in ware and web
Because of my volunteer life in Bulgaria (and without own internet) I wasn’t able to update this blog over the last months. But in the mean time I started to program a small but flexible tool for the parsing of text files, e.g. HTML files.
Check out the parsefile project website for more information.
Categorised in ware and web
How to access Wikileaks while it’s under attack
Because of the current events in the U.S., France and worldwide, here are some infos about mirrors and domains of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks:
French IP
http://213.251.145.96/
(Note: The French government already threatened to remove all content hosted by Wikileaks in France.)
Swedish IP
http://46.59.1.2/
Additional mirror
http://213.251.145.96.nyud.net/ (changing hosting countries)
www.mein-parteibuch.org.nyud.net/cablegate/ (cablegate releases only, seems to have problems with the browsing)
Domains
They following domains are usually using the two IPs mentioned above.
www.wikileaks.org (official, not available at the moment)
sunshinepress.org (official)
www.wikileaks.de
www.wikileaks.ch (by the Swiss Pirate Party, NA at the moment)
www.wikileaks.nl
www.wikileaks.fi
www.wikileaks.eu
www.wikileaks.is
wikileaks.piratenpartei.de (by the German Pirate Party)
ljsf.org
The current cables can also be found at the Guardian’s website, hosted in the United Kingdom. You can also search the cables on cablesearch.org, and on elpais.com (Spanish website), both hosted in Germany.
At the Anti War Blog, US-American Daniel Ellsberg, famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers, called for a boycott of book-seller Amazon, because it removed the Wikileaks content in an overnight action from their servers.
Keep spreading the truth and fighting for the freedom of opinion!
Categorised in politics and web
In the light of recent events I collected some links for learning Bulgarian online (for free, of course). You can find them there:
Learning Bulgarian online for free / Online kostenlos Bulgarisch lernen
I’m also working on my own bilingual guide to the Bulgarian language (in German and English), but this will take some time…
Categorised in studying and volunteering
For my time in Bulgaria, I created my first Drupal page, which was a very interesting experience, even when it took some time.
There will be a German blog about life in Bulgaria at bg.ghstyle.de.
I also added a Flattr connection to both blogs.
Flattr is a new micropayement service for Internet users. I really recommend it, because it makes it very easy to give everybody, who publishes content on the web that you really like, a little bit money.
It works this way: Every month you will pay an amount between 2 and 100 euro. When you are surfing around the web, there are Flattr! buttons everywhere, getting more every day.
You click on the Flattr buttons of stuff you like (you “flattr it”) and in the end of the month, your monthly money will be divided between all the things you flattred for.
Flattr keeps 10% of your money for itself, but this sounds quite fair to me. Of course, you can create Flattr buttons for your own stuff, too! So start registering now at Flattr!
Categorised in news, travel, volunteering and web
I’m working on an small overview of possible legal problems and laws web masters and hosters have to face in different countries worldwide.
Depending on my time, it will grow a little bit every few months.
Feel free to add your own experience, tips and opinions by using the feedback form provided!
Categorised in web
“Freedom instead of Fear!”, a large demonstration for the protection of personal rights and against the totalitarianism movement inside many governments worldwide, is taking place in Berlin on September 11th, 2010 again.
More information: www.freiheitstattangst.de (German)
Categorised in events and politics
My current travel map:
visited 24 states (10.6%)
Create your own visited map of The World
Well, Spain isn’t quite correct, in fact it was Tenerife. And Serbia doesn’t show red on the map, although it has been counted. Kosovo is not available. In Russia, I have only been to the European part. But apart from that, this map gives a good overview of my travels… 
Categorised in travel