All Is Fair in Love and Twitter.

“It is ironic that the birth of hugely profitable social media sharing platforms have resulted from the gestation of the worst possible of human traits – selfishness, treacherous betrayal and a flexible (a)morality that bend to the calling of fame, fortune and celebrity. With such disreputable and cut-throat parentage, it comes as no surprise that Twitter and Facebook are used to efficiently disseminate blaring selfcasts. I found it dispiriting that technology developed to enhance human connectedness have merely become cynical instruments to advance personal ambition and gain.”

Tiled terminal, here I come.

tmux is the new screen.

The Coquettish Haberdasher.

Bitcoin, Shitcoin (cont’d).

Bitcoin Is Broken.

Ignoring the SEO mumbojumbo I at least learned that Google+ is Google.

Mass Killings Can Haunt Elephants for Decades.

“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?’ ― Jeremy Bentham.

How to run loggerhead via WSGI and Apache 2.4.

I did not find a complete instructional for doing this so I wrote down what I had to do to make it work on the “saucy” Ubuntu (13.10).

1. Copied the file /usr/share/doc/loggerhead/examples/apache-loggerhead.conf to /etc/apache2/config-available/loggerhead.conf
2. Modified the following lines: WSGIDaemonProcess loggerhead user=www-data group=www-data maximum-requests=1000 display-name=loggerhead processes=4 threads=1 WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/apache
3. Enabled the configuration by a2enconf loggerhead
4. Copied the file /usr/share/doc/loggerhead/examples/bazaar.conf to /var/www/.bazaar/bazaar.conf
5. Created the directory /var/cache/loggerhead and changed access permissions by chown www-data:www-data /var/cache/loggerhead
6. Disabled the loggerhead upstart service by echo 'manual' >> /etc/init/loggerhead.override
7. Restarted Apache by service apache2 restart

Of course, you also need to adapt the URL and file paths to your Bazaar repositories according to your setup.

I wish I only had a glimpse of how Mike Bostock comes up with the formulas for something like this Epicyclic Gearing thingie…

It’s all about math, trigonometry and shitake (and SVG of course), I know, but still: how long does it take to find out how to describe not only one gear but three different gears with a few lines of code and some sine and cosine calculations?

Bitcoin, Shitcoin.

On the fact that Bitcoin has a Kill Switch; and how to disconnect it.

Chemtrails, Nazis auf dem Mond, Neuschwabenland, Hohlwelt uvam. Irre!

Selten so gelacht: Die Mondverschwörung.