Category Archives: Technology

scary functionality from RIAA

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got a Mac? like me? you idiot!

look this…

I got an mp3 from a friend, on skype, and it was directly tracked and iconed by the filemanager. Iconed? Yes… the filemanager has immediately searched on the internet for the album it was belonging to and has added the proper album image to it. How can it do it? Simple, digging the ID3 tags present in the audio file. I wonder who else can know that my filesystem has requested those informations…

privacy… something unknown to lots of people,
and companies, RIAA in primis

+ + + [update this morning]

@Carlo: fuck you! I was so fucking scared… @All: the icon was embedded by iTunes at the source, so no fear (maybe…) 😀

facebooking

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I’m here with a friend of mine, in Duesseldorf for the weekend. We were considering our ex-collegues of university when we started… quite all of them, at least who we found on facebook, are gone abroad. Few of them are still in Italy. They are all software, electronic or telecommunication engineers… We are preparing the best tecnicians in the world and them we let them go because there is no market in Italy.

Well done… 😦

“nfs nautilus feature” not in ubuntu

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I got the latest one… 64bit Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 8.04 on my MacBook… I had a Debian Etch 4.0 before (which was capable of this functionality) … damn… it was very usefull… here is a discussion about this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/24430

ok ok… I cannot have everything. Ubuntu developers has done a good integration and a big improvement on Debian… anyway… we’ll see what will come next 😉

iPhone photoblog

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waiting to have time to aggregate all my internet accounts, I opened a wordpress.com blog to be able to post photos directly frm my iPhone… http://iphone.guidoserra.co.uk/ . I’m in Ireland on vacation the last week of August so I hope you’ll enjoy this new internet location I provide to my readers. Previously I was publishing with the facebook.com iPhone plugin… but this cuts off who doesn’t want to join the facebook network so… enjoy! 😉

figure di merda

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ma perchè il governo italiano deve sempre sottolineare la sua inettitudine?

riporto di seguito l’ennesima figura di merda internazionale… per non parlare di quello che e’ appena avvenuto a Rüsselsheim
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Fascist state censors Pirate Bay

We’re quite used to fascist countries not allowing freedom of speech. A lot of smaller nations that have dictators decide to block our site since we can help spread information that could be harmful to the dictators.

This time it’s Italy. They suffer from a really bad background as one of the IFPIs was formed in Italy during the fascist years and now they have a fascist leader in the country, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi is also the most powerful person in Italian media owning a lot of companies that compete with The Pirate Bay and he would like to stay that way – so one of his lackeys, Giancarlo Mancusi, ordered a shutdown of our domain name and IP in Italy to make it hard to not support Berlusconis empire.

We have had fights previously in Italy, recently with our successful art installation where we had to storm Fortezza in order to get our art done. And as usual, we won. We will also win this time.

We have already changed IP for the website – that makes it work for half the ISPs again. And we want you all to inform your italian friends to switch their DNS to OpenDNS so they can bypass their ISPs filters. This will also let them bypass the other filters installed by the Italian government, as a bonus. And for the meanwhile – http://labaia.org works (La Baia means The Bay in Italian).

And please, everybody should also contact their ISP and tell them that this is not OK and that the ISPs should appeal. We don’t want a censored internet! And the war starts here…