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"Let's ship more weapons to that monarchy, which is torturing and beheading people for 'moral' reasons." http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article143156813/Deutschland-liefert-Panzer-und-Boote-in-Golfregion.ht...

 

"South Korea's e-commerce and banking systems are currently required to authenticate users with Microsoft's ActiveX technology". http://www.coindesk.com/coinplug-south-korea-fintech-frontiers-prize/

 

Did Google just SEO-troll Apple really hard? In any case, great Street View stunt: http://googleblog.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/vertical-street-view-of-worlds-most.html

 

Las Palmas just re-entered the Primera División. Quiet Sunday hacknight is over I guess.

 

Finally set up FB syndication on https://updates.kip.pe and it works like a charm. Thanks, @withknown and https://www.brid.gy!

 

Known-to-Facebook test, one two. (If you like this post, your name might end up on https://updates.kip.pe)

 

"Reverse Voltaires" is my new favorite term for self-righteous, conformist bullies: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3132206/How-free-speech-thought-crime-chilling-warning-fem...

 
 

That time when you and another person simultaneously work on an app that syncs, both using the same test account, wondering wtf is going on.

 

Also: 45 minutes spent on phone calls with bank employees, because otherwise the money wouldn't even have come back by itself.

 

That is: 56 EUR less on my account than before, after the banks doing their thing without any unlawful activity involved. Good job, finance!

 

So, including all transaction fees and currency conversions, that intermediary bank blocking my transfer to the BTC exchange cost me 56 EUR.

 

Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/06/16/lets-encrypt-launch-schedule.html (General availability week of Sep 14)

 

Pretty sure I found the cheese from Asterix in Corsica. So vile, yet so delicious.

 

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

 

IMO the surveillance part of that is less disturbing than the discrimination part. Both are the reason crypto currencies are needed, though.

 

And so it begins. Intermediary bank blocked my SEPA transfer to a Bitcoin exchange due to the nature of the transaction. No law against BTC.

 

First surf lesson went pretty well. Caught some waves and stood up on the board. @surfoffice FTW!

 

Free wi-fi on a plane is my favorite kind of wi-fi. Thanks, Norwegian!

 

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