Freedom Call.

  • 2020-05-09

Over the past two months, I’m in voice and video conferences for several hours a day. It has become routine. But this is something else entirely. I strongly reminds me of a day 15 years ago when I had my first 3G video call to my girlfriend between Germany and Italy. She was in Rome at the time walking through the Circo Massimo and showed me the place. A magic moment, my first international video call. Today was such a magic moment again. Private end-to-end mobile voice and video calling over my own infrastructure. Ah!

Martin Sauter: XMPP Voice and Video Calls with Conversations – A Dream Come True

Open But.

  • 2020-05-08

A prediction: "But your paper is not open access." will be the new academic version of "But your file was a .DOC."

Coonkiesent.

  • 2020-05-07

Based on recital 32, actions such as scrolling or swiping through a webpage or similar user activity will not under any circumstances satisfy the requirement of a clear and affirmative action:such actions may be difficult to distinguish from other activity or interaction by a user and therefore determining that an unambiguous consent has been obtained will also not be possible. Furthermore,in such a case, it will be difficult to provide a way for the user to withdraw consent in a manner that is as easy as granting it.

European Data Protection Board: Guidelines 05/2020 on consent under Regulation 2016/679

The right to hold property.

  • 2020-05-06

But most importantly, I don’t want to be in a place with such priorities. I have achieved most goals on my list – goals that were agreed upon at the beginning – despite having a major illness. I will not be an award-winning researcher, but I feel – and people have told me – that the things I do are valuable. If the university does not see this, I need to find a place that does.

Dr Veronika CH: Goodbye, tenure track

Bill the Plumber.

  • 2020-05-05

Where did the internet go? I mean the one where people identified as Web Master, called each other Mighty and cited Tina Turner just for fun?