#+SETUPFILE: ../../../template/level-2.org
#+TITLE: Dagbog-2014bog3
#+DATE: <2014-06-25 Wed 00:00>
#+AUTHOR: vaeringjar
#+EMAIL: vaeringjar@land
#+DESCRIPTION: This page contains the archive of my old microblog.
#+KEYWORDS: microblog archive legacyphpversion


This page contains the archive of my microblog from nightsallnine.com.  

I have not completely converted it back to markdown so some of it has noise from legacy php.  

## 2014bog3

### 2014-09-19

Interesting forum discussion about the <a href="http://www.coderanch.com/t/629154/java/java/length-null-array-object">length of a null array object</a>

### 2014-09-17
I have conflicting thoughts when it comes to declaration of race. Further, let me disclose that my opinion holds that race includes any arbitrary properties about a person, whether an advantage or disadvantage or a negative discrimination or privelege. I know that it helps for the purpose of affirmative action which helps reduce disparities. But I feel that the data people often collect does not objectively produce a precise survey. The normative set of races, in my experience, does not necessarily create a union with something that all people idenify with nor does it hold that when one person identifies as a specific race that other people would interpret that person as the same. In fact, I believe that because the survey of race makes people identify a or some race, especially the normative selections, that it begets racism. If not for the disparities, I would say stop using racism to fight racism. It reminds me of an analogue to violence.

### 2014-09-08
If people affect the global heating, then we should probably do something about it. But on the other hand, even if people do not affect the global heating, we have plenty of evidence that it happens to various extremes. We even know that the heat change goes in the other direction into ice ages. Now the real kicker, if we predict that the current global heating of just a couple ticks will spell droughts, flooding, and chaos, how can the people with all the money/power just let that happen?  
The Internet Archive as removed their copy of <a href="https://archive.org/details/SherlockHolmesComplete">the Complete Sherlock Holmes</a>. I asked them why but they only responded they removed them, so I assume their copy violated someone's copyright.  
<a href="http://vimeo.com/105001634">Blind Datism</a> XC races at the dairy.

### 2014-08-31
<a href="http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/disney-demonstrates-multicamera-auto-editing-/271785">Disney Demos Automated Multicamera Editing</a> Algorithm determines center of attention and calculates cuts  
Microsoft Research has developed <a href="https://research.microsoft.com/hyperlapse/">hyperlapse</a> software that works even if the original footage takes no conventional precautions aside from pointing the camera in the same general direction.

### 2014-08-30
A friend of mine recently asked the question, part of which I quote, &quot;Why are people upset about the police modernizing and strengthening their equipment and training?&quot; I do not think of this as a question about whether police need to escalate against increasing violence. I think of this as a question about what to make the default level. Just off the top of my head, Child Aiyana Jones would probably still be alive without special weapons and tactics. Officer Tom Smith, friendly fire death, would be alive if people asked questions first and shot later. John Winkler, a civilian going to help his neighbors, would be alive for the same reason. Fast and the furious actually put weapons in the hands of criminals and killed non-criminals. All of these illustrate the dangers of using more and more elevated means of force. In and of themselves, each one probably came about as an accident. But statistically, just like any thing else, as risk increases a little bit over a time span, the risks become instances of failure. My friend also asked, &quot;I know if my classroom were in trouble or somebody was trying to hurt me, I'd want the super-cop on my side.&quot; Super-cop might mean different things to different people. In terms of SWAT, many of those weapons are offensive weapons, not defensive weapons, or rather they put forth force rather than deflect or buffer force. Personally, as a person whose profession blurs among engineering, business, and education, I can say from best practice that the earlier one stops the root of a problem, the lower the costs. In terms of social and specifically criminal problems, education and welfare are much cheaper in terms of health and safety than offensive weapons. Though I do not mean to say that force does not work. But in the case of protection, children as a great example, offensive force against offensive force increases the risk and statistically ensures the failure over time. Of course, Brooks no silver bullet, almost an ironic metaphor for this tragic-bound topic.  
SIGGRAPH 2014 <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/">The Visual Microphone</a> Passive Recovery of Sound from Video

### 2014-08-28
I have a copy of the song <a href="http://www.danmoi.com/tapani-varis-munniharppuuna.html">Fanitullen</a> by Tapani Varis on a Nordic Roots complication. I really like the Jew's Harp.

### 2014-08-27
<a href="http://www.vasen.se/">Vasen</a> musician group.  
The dark arts of <a href="pornburger.me/">hamburgery</a> by Mathew Ramsey.  
My greatest complaint with IPA relates to the possible ambiguity when reading it. My second most significant complaint relates to ambiguity in singing. As for the first, I think part of the issue comes from trying to remain true to the Roman alphabet; if IPA really deserved its name then it probably would not concern itself with international or national usage. The phonetic part of its name expresses the true intent behind the alphabet, or character set; using alphabet, again, has its heritage from Roman and Greek alphabets and Hebrew if venturing into aleph. The characters of IPA map to distinct sounds the human mouth can produce. With that in mind, the NATO phonetic alphabet (which has serveral names, but I will use this one) uses distinct words to map to characters. In both pronounciation and in print, the NATO alphabet has no confusion among its characters. I think IPA could learn from this by choosing a name that has a more applicative and by using distinct characters for print.

2016-08-26
I had a thought that facinates me. It combines commercial trend jargon and nature human rights and the assumption that some people have that some ideas just go without saying because of the group think. In commerical trends, I think some of the most exceptional examples seem like the cellular phone versus tablet versus phablet. If we remain true to commerical trends and the mob then any of those terms will do. But if we have a logical, as in rational, analysis of them, then really the only term that applies in abstraction for the device would seem like the tablet. This would encompass the special use cases, such as phone, which really any computer with a microphone and speaker can accomplish. Phablet makes no rational sense. Or at least it rests upon nothing more than mob mentality, which has no direct necessary link to rational thought. (I might add more in a bit)

### 2014-08-16
I found the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/addons.html">Free addons for IceCat</a> from GNU, another libre alternative.  
NaN's all around. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_%28software%29#History">NaN freed Blender for 100k&#8364;</a> circa 2002.

### 2014-08-04
If using alternate versions of Firefox, but not Abrowser, access the Trisquel project <a href="https://trisquel.info/en/browser">addons here</a>

### 2014-08-03
<a href="https://www.mailpile.is/">Mailpile</a> plans to have their Beta release August 8th and the final version ready by September.

### 2014-08-02
This article has some interesting ideas. <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-android/index.html">Working with XML on Android</a>  
<a href="https://gitlab.com/">Gitlab</a> has a <a href="https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq">repo on Github</a>. I wonder if Github has a repo on Gitlab.  
A discussion about <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8391979/does-java-have-a-int-tryparse-that-doesnt-throw-an-exception-for-bad-data">tryparse</a> in Java.  
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1991208/type-ahead-autocompletion-in-eclipse">Type ahead autocompletion in Eclipse</a>

### 2014-07-27
Guix released alpha <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/System-Installation.html">version 0.7</a> on Friday, which includes a USB file system install image. Currently supporting x86_64, i686, and MIPS using Linux-libre. Other people have already started talking and developing for other architectures and kernels such as <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/nix.html">Hurd</a>. I have yet to see anything about ARM, but I assume someone has already thought of it as well.  
I updated the anchors, so now each entry link at the date will point back to the dagbog instead of this page. That means I have nothing to change when I archive and move into the next season.

### 2014-07-26
I reorganized my dagbog. I still need to adjust the anchors, though.  
I updated my style sheets. Any use of proprietary fonts should now fall on the end user settings.  
I cannot remember if I found this before, but I have a similar issue to this about <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1316634">dummy output</a>. I followed this instructions to purge the two sound packages and then reinstalled. The alsa-base.conf file steps do not apply to my computer. After that I reinstalled the Trisquel meta-package which brought back some packages that purged by implication, such as the sound control in the toolbar.

### 2014-07-23
I just realized that I have my website style sheet's default fonts set to non-free fonts. I will take care of that soon.

### 2014-07-21
Looks like we have no /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/architectures file in Trisquel 6.0 64bit. So do this: sudo echo \"foreign-architecture i386\" > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch  
meh <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxNewVersion">firefox</a> from ppa

### 2014-07-14

<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/hummingboard-looks-like-a-raspberry-pi-but-packs-in-more-power/">Hummingboard</a> sounds interesting.

### 2014-07-12
Reading this story about <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/suing-defend-americans-right-take-pictures-public">how taking photos in public</a> can raise flags for public safety or national security persons does not surprise me. In the fall of 2001 I remember taking photos outside of my own building when one of the other tenants called the police on me. When the officers showed up and asked me what was going on they laughed. I laughed too. And the person who called me in? Prank, paranoia, or stupidity? I'll never know.  
I found another <a href="http://cayoosh.net/hiyu/">Chinuk-Wawa</a> website with a few interesting things about the etymologies.  
The description of this <a href="http://www.strongblade.com/prod/sbmu-vikingshield.html">viking shield</a> made me laugh. Reminds me of Monty Python.  
<a href="https://openmw.org/">OpenMW</a>, a new and modern engine based on the one that runs the 2002 open-world RPG Morrowind. Users can create their own games using the OpenCS editor.  
<a href="http://gnu.io/">GNU projects for network services</a>  
<a href="http://www.changethemascot.org/">Change the mascot</a> is <a href="http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-rdskins-myth-of-a-manufactured-white-liberal-controversy-hesaid/">not a new battle</a>

### 2014-07-10
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/07/cassinis-decade-at-saturn-in-pictures/">Cassini’s decade at Saturn in pictures</a>  
I have not looked at the progress for <a href="http://www.webmproject.org/vp9/">vp9</a> in about a year. Looks like things have moved along quite a bit.

### 2014-07-09
This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l8YnuGffbDg">video</a> might only seem funny to me.  
<a href="http://www.dtcoffeeclub.com/Fair-Trade-versus-Direct-Trade-The-Sociological-Breakdown_b_4.html">Direct Trade vs Fair Trade</a>  
The NSA calls TOR users extremists. RMS posted about <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#07_July_2014_(TORorists)">TORorists</a>. I do not know if TOR users made that name up or if the NSA did. The weird part, to me, the US government funds <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-US-Government-Funds-60-Percent-of-the-Tor-Project-381195.shtml">sixty percent of TOR</a>. So I find it hard to figure out the straight dope on that one. Hype? Marketing? Interesting either way. And then we find <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/07-5">this</a>.  
I read <a href="http://m.thenation.com/article/179461-new-abolitionism">The New Abolitionism</a>, by Christopher Hayes, this morning. I do not think it accounts for the percentage of slave owners to non slave owners in the south. Or at least the percentage household to household. Also the author, has reservations about their own comparison between industrial slavery and global heating/petroleum use. Petroleum represents only part of the global heating issue, which also faces death and destruction that will trivialize industrial slavery and the civil war combined. In my opinion, of course. But on the other hand, as RMS points out, burning a single gallon of oil is trivial compared to the injustice of enslaving a single person. I do not think we have doomed ourselves yet, but the signs have stared us in the face for longer than my lifetime.  
A <a href="http://www.viking-shield.com/p/303/hammer-scrimshaw-drinking-horn">drinking horn with Mjölnir</a> on it.

### 2014-07-05
I paraphrase and call this one, <a href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/the-one-sided-culture-war-against-children/">The war on children</a>.  
I just found out about <a href="https://tails.boum.org/">Tails</a>, which might turn into my new alternative to Knoppix.  
<a href="https://www.gourmet-coffee.com/fair-direct-trade.html">Fair Trade Certified versus Fairly Traded</a>

### 2014-06-30
While surfing I stumbled upon an article that claims <a href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/think-raw-veggies-are-best-think-again/">why raw veggies are bad for you</a>. I read the whole thing laughing, nodding some parts and head tilting at others, unable to discern whether the author considered themself serious or a bit playfully, cleverly ajoking. If the blog does intend seriousness, which I had trouble figuring out because they list the Daily Show as a reference, then I found it hard to follow. The sources mismatch the claims in the blog and the explanations sound like magic and leave out other important obvious plantbased toxins, even in the part that discusses nightshades. But we have other sources to help. Just to take one case, I looked up oxalic acid and its precipitates on Wikipedia. Basically salts, or the ingredients for salts. If ones wants to eat their meat, as the author seems to beg vegetarians, just remember that salts show up in <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23732207">carnes aka animal proteins</a> as well. But anyway, all of the sources on Wikipedia I looked at turned into additional secondary or tertiary sources, without specific metrics. One source that looked promising, <a href="http://oxalicacidinfo.com/">an oxalic acid information site</a>, claimed someone would have to eat eleven pounds of rhubarb for a lethal dose. First, I cannot imagine eating eleven pounds of anything. Second, with that much food in my belly, how do I know if the dose is related to soluability in body mass or based on metabolism by organs or by a combination? Babies of only eight pounds would probably die before they drank eleven pounds of milk or water, let alone if they could chew eleven pounds of plant matter. I have had to calculate chocolate toxicity for dogs two or three times over the years. Or by common example, blood to alcohol content when driving measures a percentage. The point here I bring shows a ratio, of which most people should already have familiarity with. That said, Healthy Home Economist might have a point for some of its claims, but it needs better data.

### 2014-06-29
I keep coming across this blog called <a href="http://astronomyandlaw.com/tag/space-shuttle/">AstronomyAndLaw</a> about the space shuttles.  
I went on a wild goose chase, yesterday. I present my braindump as follows. 

Tint Browser does not seem to work as well since Android 4.4.4.  
Should I submit an issue?  
Looking into other options.  
Firefox 30 resently released. It requires microphone unconditional use. I dislike that.  
Can I use AppOps to control it? Not with my present system. Not even with the Launch App Ops from Fdroid.  
Looking into other options.  
I still do not own a phone that Replicant officially supports, and last time I looked into it for an unsupported device that spurred another wild goose chase.  
Other options?  
Cyanogenmod gives user control over permissions.  
But Cyanogenmod 11 requires connecting the Android device to PC.  
Rather, I cannot boot from a disc like most other computers.  

<a href="http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_mako">Install_CM_for_mako</a>  

My system does not recognize the MTPFS format by default.  
Found go-mtpfs.  
go-mtpfs requires usblib1.0-dev or whatever. Installed via apt-get.  
go-mtpfs requires go version 1.3 or higher for the sync.Pool.  
<a href="https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/">go-mtpfs repo</a>.  
<a href="https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/issues/68">go-mtpfs issues page</a>.  
<a href="http://golang.org/">Go programming language</a>.  

After all that, try out the go-mtpfs utility for GUI support. 
<a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-to-mount-android-40-ubuntu-go-mtpfs.html">how-to-mount-android-40-ubuntu-go-mtpfs</a>  
I have some formatting differences as my ublog progresses. Most of them most people will not notice.

### 2014-06-25

<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10923751/Dawn-of-bionic-age-Paralysed-man-becomes-first-to-use-power-of-thought-to-move-hand.html"> Non-fictional bionics</a> and <a href="http://www.epicstream.com/list.asp?articleid=627&id=72&name=15+Cyberpunk+Short+Films+That+Will+Rock+Your+World"> fictional cybernetics</a>. $break";
<a href="http://www.opb.org/news/blog/newsblog/whats-the-fastest-way-to-get-around-portland/"> What's The Fastest Way To Get Around Portland?</a> by OPB Lizzy Duffy.  

