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The FSFE Blog Theme — Up and running!

As you can see, the Pome theme I developed for the FSFE Fellowship is up and running on these here servers! I’m really happy I got the opportunity to provide some help to the important work of the...

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The Threat of Digital Incompetence — Censorship Codified Into Law

Today, I read an article on the TOR routing service. The article was a piece of sensationalist, badly researched, idiotic crap. The article accompanied a television show in which several people speak...

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PHP error: “The MySQL extension is not installed” on Lighttpd, Debian

An issue that has baffled me for the past weeks has finally been solved, thanks to my digital detective friend from Santarago Labs. This post applies to the following errors: WordPress “Your PHP...

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HTC Desire HD keeps opening the Locations app, and goes to speaker during...

Annoying phone troubles? Yes sir! My previously wonderful Android phone was recently becoming quite moody. It kept opening the ‘Locations’ application, as if it wanted to navigate away. I get the hint,...

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Bye bye, Netherlands.

First, a little superficial history. In the Netherlands, we’ve had a very liberal society these past 40 years. Freedom was the default here, and everybody could do whatever they wanted. It was an...

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Converting FLAC files to MP3 with FFmpeg and Bash

Yes, yes, I know, the title of this post is 100% geek-approved. All those acronyms mean little to most people, but I will explain. Recently, a friend of mine started converting his music into FLAC, the...

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GrooveShark Party Radio!

So, last weekend I was invited to a party here in Berlin. So, as I usually do on conquering the local hifi-installation, I opened up grooveshark.com on the connected computer. I really love...

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Remove your last git commit from a local repository.

Yeah, we’ve all been there. Committing to master when you wanted to commit to a freshly made branch. So the question is, how do you get rid of these nasty commits you’ve made? Well, the answer is...

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Use RSYNC to delete remote folders

The hosting provider I use offers a backup server. It’s very reliable, but it only supports the SFTP and RSYNC protocols. That’s all fine for regular usage, but when your backup script breaks somehow,...

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Home screen icons for both Apple and Android devices

On the FSFE web hackers mailing list there was some confusion about the meaning and implementation of the <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" /> tag. The Standard By its very nature, HTML5...

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