I came across a well-written paper last week titled “Cryptoanarchism and Cryptocurrencies” (August 20th 2020). The paper is written by Usman W. Chohan and it is available for download for free. | Continue reading
Following is an English translation of an article I wrote that was published on SUN earlier today. The original article is in Dutch and you can read it on SUN if you prefer that version. | Continue reading
People are taking the local criminal governments to court in various countries because of the lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 ‘pandemic.’ You probably won’t be hearing much about these cases in the mainstream media, ... | Continue reading
If, like me, you’ve wondered why all of our cultures, social institutions and ways of living together, have elements of slavery that are deeply, and indeed even fundamentally, embedded, then I hope you realize that this is because that’s ... | Continue reading
After Linus Torvalds got castrated and Richard M. Stallman was forced out of the organization he founded, Eric S. Raymond recently got banned as well from the mailing list of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) which he founded. | Continue reading
Many years ago one of my colleagues played a gospel song in the office during a break at one of my previous employers. | Continue reading
The earliest records for intentional physical castration are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 21st century BC. In those ancient times physical castration often involved the complete removal of the genitals. | Continue reading
About 11 years ago, when I first started to write programs, a good friend of mine taught me to write applications in CA-Clipper. CA-Clipper is a programming language which you can use to write database applications. | Continue reading
A few weeks ago I had noticed for the first time that the Internet Archive started requiring people to login before they are able to view certain content. To be clear, the login is not required for all content but only for specific content. | Continue reading
The criminal government of China, through one of their working arms called Huawei, are proposing to replace the underlying protocol of the Internet with a new protocol they call “New IP”. | Continue reading
Today I removed all my photos from licensing at 500px. It has frankly become a scam that’s ripping off photographers worldwide. | Continue reading
Linus Torvalds, inventor and lead developer of the Linux operating system, recently stepped down “temporarily” from his role in the Linux project due to controversy surrounding his management style. | Continue reading