Links Law Professor vs Municipal Court A story about a law professor who challenged his ticket for a traffic violation on the grounds of the constitution. By doing so, he shows big flaws in the criminal and civil justice
post-it Goodbye Sipgate After seven years (at least, the oldest email I could find was from 2008) I cancelled my Sipgate account today. My main reason for getting Sipgate in the first place was the “pdf
post-it DS1815+ with 16 GB memory My Synology DS1815+ now has 16 GB of memory. Thanks to Mike Tabor, who tried it as one of the first and wrote a blog post about it
media Favorite Podcasts 01/2017 I am an avid podcast listener. My favorite English and German podcasts categorized as “regular” and “other”, sorted in alphabetical order. Regular podcasts Podcasts I listen to regularly. I usually don’t miss
post-it Tagesschau App 2.0 Version 2.0 der Tagesschau App habe ich gerade geloescht. Die App ist noch unuebersichtlicher geworden, was zu 90% daran liegt das nun das Bewegtbild im Fokus liegt. Wenn man denn mal den
hardware Tablet & Netbook Hype Parallels I definitely see parallels between the Netbook hype and the Tablet hype. It was new, it was exciting, it was the same but something different. It was smaller, and lightweight. But in the
education Self-improving Sundays Every Sunday I try to do something against my self-identified knowledge gaps and learn either something new, or make an attempt to get a deeper understanding of a certain topic. This week (like
post-it Finished Mafia 3 Finally finished Mafia 3. Despite all it’s problems and bugs – even on the PS4 – I really liked the story and the voice actors. I will probably buy the DLC’s in a
gaming The big games rip-off I am talking a lot with my US colleagues and friends about games. We are also talking a lot about game prices, special deals and upcoming sales. Every time that topic comes up,
Links Human Lifespan ends at 122 It seems that human life has a fixed endpoint at 122 years – even though we made huge discoveries and saw tremendous improvements in medicine and science over the last centuries. Fascinating!
post-it More and more Apple bugs Apple is going through a slump right now or something. It feels like they never had more issues than these days. Now new phones are activation locked with unknown Apple IDs. Weird and
post-it Google Pixel 2016 Google just presented their new phones to the world, and to be honest, I am not impressed at all. But I am very surprised that the price tag now matches the iPhone’s.
Links Perfectly unhappy The Oatmeal has yet another comic that speaks right to my heart. I always wondered about this weird thing called “happiness”. The comic is based on an article by Augusten Burroughs.
esports KeSPA CUP Surprise For the first time in *16 years* a foreigner has made it to the quarter finals of a Korean StarCraft 2 tournament. That alone would have been impressive enough, but [Neeb](https://twitter.
entertainment Shakespeare Solos When I heard Damian Lewis speak the lines of Antony at Caesar’s funeral, I immediately fell in love with Shakespeare again. The Guardian’s video series “Shakespeare Solos” is magnificent. All of
social media Expiring tweets John O’Nolan wrote an interesting article about how care-free the early use of Twitter was and how much it became kind of a burden in recent days. As Twitter grew, it changed
tech HE & DigitalOcean - Blocked IPv6 ports I recently created several Virtual Machines on my new Hetzner server as part of my migration efforts from DigitalOcean to my self-hosted ESXi hypervisor. I don’t migrate my VMs and services away
tech Evernote Spotlight Indexing After the fuck-up fairy visited the Apple Notes team, I found myself without a usable notes application. Why they were so braindead to choose such an abominably small default font, and didn’t
ipv6 HE IPv6 tunnel with Ubnt EdgeMax Lite router IPv6 gets more and more important. I think 2016 will be the year when it get’s adopted on a large scale and finally will start to be mandatory with every new Internet
linux Let's Encrypt - Beta Impressions The Let’s Encrypt Beta has finally started. I registered a couple of weeks ago and the domains I use regularly got white-listed. Just a few impressions so far: The client ist still
books The first true eBook OK, it might not be the first “real eBook”, but for me it is the first one I would buy **in addition** to the books I already have. JK Rowling and Barnes & Noble
workplace Bitter-sweet farewell I am very sad today. As I always am in these bitter-sweet moments when I see smart, passionate and very talented people leave my team or even leave the company. You share a
linux Running your own mail server in 2015 Running your own mail server always was a pain in the ass[1](#fn:1). Ever since I started to become involved with IT, operating you own mail server was a lot of
gaming E3 2015 Another year, another E3. It is the biggest computer game expo in the US with a lot of hype, so of course everyone tweaked, enhanced and polished their trailers, cinematic and demos as
apple iMac memory extension Apples gives a maximum of 16 GB of memory for a 27-ich, mid-2011 iMac. The screenshot below proves them otherwise: The iMac works fine with 32 GB of memory. I finally have a