Topic: WEB - on August 5, 2016 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
Turkey and his recent coup. A short insight into 10GB of Twitter data: origin, fav. words, time series analysis.
The coup/attempt in Turkey kept me up from going to sleep after the two nice hours of “Back to the Future” on German television. So despite of the tragedy behind it: twitter was exploding as I watched the news coming in. I was interested in the timeline of tweets, locations and “everything”. I downloaded about 10Gb of twitter data and here is my analysis for everything ‘#turkey’ from Friday till Monday. When I first thought about it and trying to get tweets from the Twitter API I reached any limits quite soon. So how was it possible to get over 10GB of twitter data in just 8hrs?
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Topic: WEB - on August 1, 2016 at 4:42:00 PM CEST
When the Internet Came to Everest
It was morning on May 10. I was in a teahouse in Dingboche, a remote Nepalese village about a two-day trek from the Mt. Everest base camp, sipping instant coffee, watching the sun rise from behind snow-crested Himalayan peaks, and trawling my Facebook feed using the Everest Link Wi-Fi network.
My guide Bishnu checked the day’s weather forecast on his smartphone. Although there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, he told me there was snow expected later in the afternoon. I was skeptical, but he said it would be best to leave sooner rather than later.
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Topic: WEB - on July 16, 2016 at 6:07:00 PM CEST
Fast jeder Zweite surft am Klo im Internet
Dies ergab eine Umfrage des Portals YouGov Einer Umfrage von YouGov zufolge nutzt mittlerweile fast jeder Zweite das Smartphone am Klo. 45 Prozent der 1035 Teilnehmer gaben an, dass sie auf der Toilette selten oder regelmäßig im Netz surfen. Für 61 Prozent der Frauen ist die Internet-Nutzung am Klo eher tabu als für Männer (48 Prozent). Nur 13 Prozent der 18- bis 29-Jährigen gaben an, noch nie das Smartphone oder Tablet für Internetzugang auf der Toilette verwendet zu haben.
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Topic: WEB - on July 16, 2016 at 6:05:00 PM CEST
WWW-Erfinder ruft EU-Bürger auf, sich noch an Netzneutralitäts-Debatte zu beteiligen
Bis Montag noch kann sich jeder der EU-Konsultation zur Netzneutralität beteiligen Am 18. Juli endet die öffentliche Konsultation der EU zur Netzneutralität. In einem offenen Brief fordert WWW-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee gemeinsam mit der Stanford-Professorin Barbara van Schewick und Creative-Commons-Gründer Lawrence Lessig EU-Bürger auf, sich daran zu beteiligen. Sie appellieren an Nutzer, Aktivisten und Organisationen, "das Internet in Europa zu retten".
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Topic: WEB - on July 16, 2016 at 6:03:00 PM CEST
2 Days to Save the Open Internet in Europe: An Open Letter
We have four days to save the open Internet in Europe By Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Lawrence Lessig, and Professor Barbara van Schewick Network neutrality for hundreds of millions of Europeans is within our grasp. Securing this is essential to preserve the open Internet as a driver for economic growth and social progress. But the public needs to tell regulators now to strengthen safeguards, and not cave in to telecommunications carriers’ manipulative tactics. We are so close. In October, the European Parliament voted on network neutrality rules for the European Union. Now regulators are writing guidelines to determine how the law will be applied in practice. These guidelines could secure net neutrality in Europe – if regulators use them to close potential loopholes in the law.
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Topic: WEB - on July 16, 2016 at 6:00:00 PM CEST
How the internet was invented
In 40 years, the internet has morphed from a military communication network into a vast global cyberspace. And it all started in a California beer garden.
In the kingdom of apps and unicorns, Rossotti’s is a rarity. This beer garden in the heart of Silicon Valley has been standing on the same spot since 1852. It isn’t disruptive; it doesn’t scale. But for more than 150 years, it has done one thing and done it well: it has given Californians a good place to get drunk. During the course of its long existence, Rossotti’s has been a frontier saloon, a gold rush gambling den, and a Hells Angels hangout. These days it is called the Alpine Inn Beer Garden, and the clientele remains as motley as ever. On the patio out back, there are cyclists in spandex and bikers in leather. There is a wild-haired man who might be a professor or a lunatic or a CEO, scribbling into a notebook. In the parking lot is a Harley, a Maserati, and a horse.
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Topic: WEB - on July 13, 2016 at 11:49:00 AM CEST
Facebook is still a gun marketplace
On January 29 2016, Facebook announced they would no longer allow peer to peer sales of guns. They made a big deal about it. Got a big write-up in the New York Times. It was a big deal. The world’s biggest social network was taking a stand against guns. I wish they’d meant it. I really fucking do. On June 13 2016, an asshole walked into a gay Orlando nightclub and killed 49 people with an AR15. It was the latest in a long string of gun violence in the US. And it didn’t even piss me off. At least I couldn’t tell if that massacre was pissing me off or whether I was still pissed off from the one before. They run together like water now.
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Topic: WEB - on July 6, 2016 at 2:04:00 PM CEST
TrumpScript
TrumpScript is a language based upon the illustrious Donald Trump. As the undeniably best presidential candidate in the 2016 language, we found that the current field of programming languages does not include any that Trump's glorious golden combover would approve of. TrumpScript is our solution to this. It's the programming language Trump would approve of. Just like he is making America great again, we hope our efforts will make programming great again.
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Topic: WEB - on July 5, 2016 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson caused a minor stir a couple weeks ago when he gave a speech at an advertising conference declaring that “No one who refuses to contribute to the creation of high quality journalism has the right to consume it.” He went on to say that while the Times is “not there yet,” the company may soon prevent users with ad blockers from accessing its site. But newspaper executives like Thompson often focus exclusively on the drawbacks of ad blockers, leaving a big part of the story untold. Thompson did not say one word in his keynote address about the significant security benefits of ad blockers, which is ironic, because his paper was one of several news organizations that served its users.
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Topic: WEB - on July 4, 2016 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Nazi Detector
Nazi Detector: A Google Chrome extension that identifies white supremacists online, based on the infamous (((Coincidence Detector)))
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Topic: WEB - on June 30, 2016 at 11:13:00 AM CEST
Home Computers Connected to the Internet Aren't Private, Court Rules
A judge in Virginia rules that people should have no expectation of privacy on their home PCs because no connected computer "is immune from invasion." A federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled that the user of any computer that connects to the Internet should not have an expectation of privacy because computer security is ineffectual at stopping hackers. The June 23 ruling came in one of the many cases resulting from the FBI's infiltration of PlayPen, a hidden service on the Tor network that acted as a hub for child exploitation, and the subsequent prosecution of hundreds of individuals. To identify suspects, the FBI took control of PlayPen for two weeks and used, what it calls, a "network investigative technique," or NIT—a program that runs on a visitor's computer and identifies their Internet address.
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Topic: WEB - on June 29, 2016 at 11:17:00 AM CEST
Save the Internet
Diesen Sommer wird in Europa über die Zukunft des Internets entschieden. Große Telekomkonzerne wollen darüber entscheiden, was wir online tun können und was nicht. Um die Freiheit des Internets zu erhalten und unsere Rechte zu schützen, müssen wir alle aktiv werden. Hilf mit, werde jetzt aktiv!
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