Recently I got myself a new toy, which is actually a very useful toy, a thermal camera! The one I got was used from eBay, a FLIR ONE Pro „for Android“ with USB type-C connector, this is how it looks like: This is a pretty neat device as it attaches directly to the USB type–C port of a mobile phone… Read more »
Bei soetwas könnte ich mich doch wirklich aufregen: https://www.golem.de/news/bestandsdaten-justizministerin-haelt-an-passwortherausgabe-fest-2001-146321.html Da entblödet sich diese Justizministerin doch in der Tat nicht weiterhin zu fordern, Zugriff auf Passwörter verlangen zu wollen – natürlich nur von den „Schwerstverbrechern“, natürlich. Könnte der mal bitte jemand erklären, dass das so einfach technisch nicht geht!? Entweder man speichert die Passwörter als Hash, also nicht lesbar und damit… Read more »
Seit Ende 2018 gilt ein Zusatz zum Personenstandsgesetz, der §45b. Nach diesem Paragraphen kann eine Person ihren amtlich erfassten Personenstand (das Geschlecht) durch Erklärung beim Standesamt in „männlich“, „weiblich“ oder „divers“ ändern lassen. In diesem Zusammenhang kann auch ein neuer Vorname gewählt werden. Voraussetzung ist die Vorlage eines ärztlichen Attests einer „Variante der Geschlechtsentwicklung“. Das Problem hierbei ist, dass der… Read more »
Ich finde es immer sau schwer Leuten zu erklären, warum diese Datensammelwut von Firmen und Behörden keine gute Idee ist. Das vermeintliche Gegenargument ist oft „Ich habe doch nichts zu verbergen!?„. Edward Snowden hat dazu einmal gesagt: Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t… Read more »
With the Teclast F5 (same hardware: BMAX Y11) being my portable little workstation I try to maximize battery life under Linux as much as I can and while doing that try to figure out which are high consumers and how to bring these down. One of the very first things I found useful was to run powertop and going to… Read more »
Do you know that feeling when a device you really care about, that you put a lot of effort into and that you love suddenly starts to misbehave? That it actually feels broken? And that you have admit that this fail has probably something to do with what you did last? When something like this happens my blood pressure rises,… Read more »
Some time ago I wrote a review of my experiences with the Teclast F5 11.6″ slim laptop and Linux. I am still a fan of this low cost but super slim and light weight laptop. It offers everything I need as an ultra mobile laptop for travel – 8GB RAM, M.2 SATA SSD slot, full-HD display and even touch. It… Read more »
This was my first travel with Singapore Airlines and more especially on an Airbus A380-800, from New York JFK back to Frankfurt Germany. I was pretty excited about this flight. I heard that Singapore Airlines offered outstanding service onboard and I was looking forward to experiencing the world’s largest long haul passenger plane first hand. So far I had just… Read more »
For my work for Purism I just had to book, even pretty short term, a trip from California USA to Shenzhen China. Since I needed to go in less than a week I already expected a pretty expensive ticket. But I was proven wrong, I got a roundtrip flight from Los Angeles (LAX) for US$500! With Hainan airlines, which I… Read more »
Just today it came to my attention that the GNOME Foundation, a non-profit free software governing foundation, has been approached by what seems to be a patent troll trying to squeeze money out of the non for profit GNOME foundation over a patent, which can only be laughed at. Here is the information that the GNOME foundation gave: https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-foundation-facing-lawsuit-from-rothschild-patent-imaging/ Looking… Read more »