Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. The extension tells the browser to always use the encrypted https protocol if it is available.

This is a small but important step towards protecting your privacy. It will be effective against the EU’s Data Retention Directive (Datalagringsdirektivet) that is drawing closer every day, and that will force all Internet service providers to save all the Internet traffic from your computer.  (The extension will naturally not protect agains Google’s or Facebook’s snooping).

Install the HTTPS Everywhere extension now!

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Min son har visat sig ha ett stort intresse för tåg. Här är några filmer som både han och jag uppskattar:

Tittar just nu på en debatt mellan Wanja Lundby-Wedin och Jan Björklund i Agenda. Jannes enda argument verkar vara det gamla “varför inte RUT-avdrag om man har ROT-avdrag”-argumentet.

Han kanske inte har läst Lena Anderssons insiktsfulla kolumn “Hemmets makt” i DN häromdagen.

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Das Erzeugnisprogramm Dezentrale Datentechnik

For some strange and irritating reason, the developers of WordPress MU have decided that users of said product are not allowed to access their own web server using a web address beginning with www.

Fortunaltely, the system is open source so this amazingly stupid setting can be deactivated (comment out a few lines in wpmu-settings.php). It’s just that you have to remeber this change when you update the software.

Read more if this is of any interest to you:

http://wpmututorials.com/hacks/forcing-mu-to-use-www/

(And I don’t think it’s a bad idea to use URLs without www, it’s just that it’s not up to the developers of WPMU…)