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2022
Legal entities do not hold right to attribution (in Slovenia)
A surprising find in the Copyright and Related Rights Act of the Republic of Slovenia
23 Oct. 2022
Activity-aware Firefox 0.4.1
Vastly improved through community collaboration
21 Oct. 2022
Downtime August 2022
21 Aug. 2022
Undocumented feature = bug
29 Jan. 2022
Template for KDE Plasma Activity – research & call for help
Original problem, documentation, and getting stuck
04 Jan. 2022
Sponge – a tool to soak up standard input and write to a file
Sponge things up before you shove a cat through a pipe
01 Jan. 2022
2021
Trying out Fish – the Friendly Interactive Shell (the first five years)
An overdue update
30 Dec. 2021
Trash – a safer alternative to rm
Be smart(er than me), start trash-ing now!
04 Sep. 2021
Introducing Activity-aware Firefox
A script to make KDE Plasma and Firefox work hand-in-hand
03 Jun. 2021
Dotfiles, Stow, i3, aerc – a quick look
A somewhat chaotic blog post
01 May. 2021
2020
How fun does my Ring Fit Adventure² look like after some time
The first month or so
13 May. 2020
How and why to properly write copyright statements in your code
… and probably more than what you ever wanted to know about them
24 Mar. 2020
Diving into the world of Ring Fit Adventure
The first two weeks
28 Feb. 2020
The beginning of my Ring Fit Adventure²
The wait, the surprise, the sweet sweet sweat
14 Feb. 2020
2019
Popular licenses in OpenAPI
11 Jul. 2019
How I put order in my bookmarks and found a better way to organise them
From folders to Memex
04 May. 2019
2018
The tasting of surströmming
13 Jul. 2018
Review of some Vahdam’s Masala Chai teas
11 Jul. 2018
2017
Fiduciary License Agreement 2.0
The long-due update of the most balanced contributor agreement
17 Oct. 2017
Three new FOSS umbrella organisations in Europe
20 Feb. 2017
Review of 10 Vahdam’s Assam teas
05 Jan. 2017
2016
Trying out Mosh – the Mobile Shell
17 Dec. 2016
Got my driving licence
13 Oct. 2016
Trying out Fish – the Friendly Interactive Shell (the first few days)
Getting to know each other
21 Aug. 2016
Conferences I will attend in the next two months
19 Aug. 2016
Finished my master’s thesis on the FLA
Mastering the laws
09 Feb. 2016
I am Using Let’s Encrypt on my server now
05 Jan. 2016
2015
NetHack 3.6.0 is out!
And it seems there are some important changes.
13 Dec. 2015
I ♥ Free Software 2015
It is all about communities
14 Feb. 2015
Last exam finished ☺
23 Jan. 2015
Changes to my blog in 2015
04 Jan. 2015
2014
My KWin short-cuts experiment
26 Dec. 2014
Second results of testing DE razor blades as well as shaving oils
25 Dec. 2014
My very first commit to KDE
Oh, and “Hello World!”
04 Oct. 2014
My ZSH theme ported to Oh My ZSH!
04 Oct. 2014
Blocked by GMail
27 May. 2014
Ceci n’est pas une pipe
Short update of the long migration of Kiberpipa
09 May. 2014
Renewing connections
05 May. 2014
The first results of testing DE razor blades for shaving with oil
22 Mar. 2014
How to write your Pelican-powered blog using ownCloud and WebDAV
10 Mar. 2014
5
th
Incarnation of Hook’s Humble Homepage
My biggest migration Odyssey so far
09 Feb. 2014
Delete a sentence in Vim
03 Jan. 2014
2013
Birth of a new emoticon
26 Dec. 2013
LVM or RAID? No, LVM RAID!
15 Dec. 2013
New blog: Pelican
15 Dec. 2013
Are copyright and other “IP” rights really a natural right?
17 Sep. 2013
After many years new laptop, after a decade a new distro and thankfully working backups
03 Sep. 2013
Several Git news in one go
02 Sep. 2013
I’m going to Akademy 2013 and will talk about the FLA
10 Jun. 2013
Join me in Kiberpipa to learn Python from the Mechanical MOOC
10 Jun. 2013
Test: Does Habari’s StatusNet pluging push to Friendica
05 Jun. 2013
Why and how to shave with shaving oil and DE safety razors
28 May. 2013
(Why) I ♥ Free Software
14 Feb. 2013
General e-mail netiquette
09 Jan. 2013
2012
More interesting findings on how Python handles sequences – same items have same ID
03 Nov. 2012
Understanding how Python counts
22 Oct. 2012
FSFE Legal office hours next two weeks & Going to Vienna next week
18 Oct. 2012
Rooting and flashing your device does not void the warranty in EU
18 Oct. 2012
DNS and HW issues cause downtime ☹
14 Oct. 2012
Office hours of FSFE Legal in Cyberpipe on Wednesdays
03 Oct. 2012
Simple backup system for SQLite in FCron
25 Sep. 2012
Migration to Habari done ✔
25 Sep. 2012
First impressions of the migration from Drupal to Habari
23 Sep. 2012
MarkDown supported now (also in comments)
23 Sep. 2012
Licensing change CC-By 2.5 Slovenia → 3.0 Unported
23 Sep. 2012
New blog/homepage installed
18 Sep. 2012
First post (on Habari)
18 Sep. 2012
Imminent migration
18 Sep. 2012
We, the Web kids & faith restored in our youth :]
26 Feb. 2012
2011
Free Software & law related links 15.VIII.2011 – 21.VIII.2011
22 Aug. 2011
Free Software & law related links 1.VIII.2011 – 14.VIII.2011
17 Aug. 2011
Free Software & law related links (cca.) 19.VII.2011 – 31.VII.2011
02 Aug. 2011
Free Software & law related links 11.VII.2011 – 18.VII.2011
18 Jul. 2011
Free Software & law related links 4.VII.2011 – 10.VII.2011
11 Jul. 2011
Free Software & law related links 27.VI.2011 – 3.VII.2011
05 Jul. 2011
Free Software & law related links 20.VI.2011 – 26.VI.2011
26 Jun. 2011
Freedom Party in Ljubljana, Slovenia
06 Jun. 2011
Free Software & law related links 23. V. 2011 – 29. V. 2011
29 May. 2011
Free Software & law related links 07. V. 2011 – 22. V. 2011
22 May. 2011
Free Software & law related links 30. IV. 2011 – 06. V. 2011
06 May. 2011
Free Software & law related links 25. IV. 2011 – 29. IV. 2011
29 Apr. 2011
Lazy man's guide to debugging in Gentoo
24 Apr. 2011
Hook's dot files now in English
24 Apr. 2011
Free Software & law related links 18. IV. 2011 – 24. IV. 2011
24 Apr. 2011
Must have apps: Screen & Reptyr
24 Apr. 2011
Free Software & law related links 29. III. 2011 – 17. IV. 2011
18 Apr. 2011
Free Software & law related links 21. III. 2011 – 28. III. 2011
28 Mar. 2011
Free Software & law related links 14. III. 2011 – 20. III. 2011
19 Mar. 2011
Free Software & law related links 5. III. 2011 – 13. III. 2011
13 Mar. 2011
Cherokee Market ToS and PP
05 Mar. 2011
Sorry for downtime
04 Mar. 2011
Free Software & law related links 26. II. 2011 – 4. III. 2011
04 Mar. 2011
Free Software & law related links 19. II. 2011 – 25. II. 2011
25 Feb. 2011
Got rid of my Google account
21 Feb. 2011
Free Software & law related links 12. II. 2011 – 18. II. 2011
18 Feb. 2011
Show your love for Free Software
14 Feb. 2011
Free Software & law related links 5. II. 2011 – 11. II. 2011
11 Feb. 2011
Sometimes I don't understand the world we live in
05 Feb. 2011
Free Software & law related links 29. I. 2011 – 4. II. 2011
04 Feb. 2011
Canceled my SF.net account
29 Jan. 2011
Help fight IPRED & ACTA – serious threats to net neutrality, our freedom of speech
28 Jan. 2011
Free Software & law related links 22. I. 2011 – 28. I. 2011
28 Jan. 2011
Publishing my dot files
22 Jan. 2011
Free Software & law related links 15. I. 2011 – 21. I. 2011
21 Jan. 2011
Reading patents made easier
16 Jan. 2011
Quit MSN/WLM → Completely free of proprietary IM now
15 Jan. 2011
Free Software & law related links 8. I. 2011 – 15. I. 2011
14 Jan. 2011
In the grid again – crunching with friends
12 Jan. 2011
Free Software & law related links 25. XII. 2010 – 7. I. 2011
11 Jan. 2011
Even less is even more in modern X
Or How I Migrated from HAL to udev, Survived Again and Found Another Neat Trick
06 Jan. 2011
2010
Issues and challenges for the post-Cablegate world
22 Dec. 2010
Accepting BitCoin now
10 Dec. 2010
What's wrong with proprietary IM (ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSN/WLM)
28 Nov. 2010
My very own Zsh prompt
22 Oct. 2010
And back to Deco
21 Oct. 2010
Major changes of my ~/.plan ← important!
21 Oct. 2010
Back to Acquia Slate
12 Oct. 2010
Report on 5th (first monthly) meeting of FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia
12 Oct. 2010
Notes from "Living in (Un)Regulated Surveillance Society"
01 Oct. 2010
Monthy meetings of Fellowship Slovenia
01 Oct. 2010
What I learnt from the Gallo report aftermath
25 Sep. 2010
HP Photosmart C4380 over WiFi problem with HPLIP and CUPS solved!
13 Sep. 2010
EU survey on access and re-use of public sector information
09 Sep. 2010
WD 12/2010 adopted, still need to reject ACTA altogether
08 Sep. 2010
Help stop ACTA, get your MEP to sign WD 12/2010
07 Sep. 2010
Created key signing policy
06 Sep. 2010
Ogg-seeding bovines and ease of use
31 Aug. 2010
Getting SmartCard reader working under Gentoo and SSH authentication via OpenPGP
30 Aug. 2010
Migrating to XMPP/Jabber (and AIM woes)
28 Aug. 2010
Hacked my Drupal into acknowledging Flattr
20 Aug. 2010
Got Flattr'd
19 Aug. 2010
FCron in practice – my fcrontabs shared
15 Aug. 2010
Trying to use only free/libre licenses under Gentoo
13 Aug. 2010
Problem with HP Photosmart C4380 fixed
12 Aug. 2010
Fight spam with spam
11 Aug. 2010
Short Rekonq 0.5.0 user review
10 Aug. 2010
Media's response to the Hacker != Cracker open letter
06 Aug. 2010
Open letter to the media about the misuse of the term "hacker"
02 Aug. 2010
Article about EUPL in Linux Magazine
29 Jul. 2010
3rd and 4th meeting of FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia
22 Jul. 2010
Kate syntax highlighting for Linux New Media articles
01 Jul. 2010
Curriculum Vitae
25 Jun. 2010
In love with “Digital: a Love Story”
19 May. 2010
Much to learn from Free software and the third world as well
19 May. 2010
Helping via the grid
15 May. 2010
Last lectures
15 May. 2010
Ryzom now (even more) open!
07 May. 2010
TGJE no. 11 – Jamendo's Ogg/Vorbis works again
05 May. 2010
Day Against DRM 2010
04 May. 2010
Sell your soul for Android apps
03 May. 2010
ODF is 5 years old
01 May. 2010
European Copyright Code project
01 May. 2010
Grazer Linux Tage 2010 report
30 Apr. 2010
New theme: Beach
30 Apr. 2010
DFD 2010 in Slovenia – report
17 Apr. 2010
Document Feedom Day 2010 in Slovenia
29 Mar. 2010
Change of license: CC-BY
10 Mar. 2010
EU might push ACTA to be transparent
08 Mar. 2010
Birth of a new emoticon set: OpenHeads
08 Mar. 2010
Should update my Writing ebuilds HOWTO
04 Mar. 2010
Me on Tentaclepr0n
27 Feb. 2010
(World Famous) Audio Hacker offline??
21 Feb. 2010
2nd meeting of FSFE (Fellowship group) Slovenia
13 Feb. 2010
Joined identi.ca
30 Jan. 2010
Faunus is alive!
29 Jan. 2010
New e-mail address
22 Jan. 2010
How free music could become even more available
21 Jan. 2010
Got my T400s!
16 Jan. 2010
~/.plan for 2010
10 Jan. 2010
2009
Spam testing
25 Dec. 2009
Looking for a reader for the Fellowship Card
24 Dec. 2009
Joined the FSFE Fellowship
24 Dec. 2009
First paid legal counceling job
23 Dec. 2009
Shaman – the universal package management frontend possibly suitable for Gentoo's
06 Dec. 2009
Comments on the leaked EIFv2 draft
28 Nov. 2009
SpiderOak referral
21 Nov. 2009
Tea and physics
21 Nov. 2009
Migrated to Sabayon, in need of a EvroKorpus plasmoid
15 Nov. 2009
TGJE no. 10 – On music players
09 Nov. 2009
TGJE no. 9 – Joy of discovery
09 Nov. 2009
Matthias Ettrich awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit
07 Nov. 2009
TGJE no. 8 – Tron lives!
26 Oct. 2009
Last year of studies
09 Oct. 2009
How the internet works
06 Oct. 2009
Secrets of Masala Chai
03 Oct. 2009
Report: Linux Business Conference 2009
01 Oct. 2009
AES encryption comic
26 Sep. 2009
New CAPTCHA system
23 Sep. 2009
New theme: Acquia Slate
23 Sep. 2009
TGJE no. 7 – Garage rock, I found you!
20 Sep. 2009
Pirate Day booty! Aaaaarg!
19 Sep. 2009
Windows makes me one inch shorter!! XD
14 Sep. 2009
TGJE no. 6 – Jimmy the Hideous Penguin reaches my Top 10 Artists of all time
13 Sep. 2009
Inactivity (or calm before the storm)
13 Sep. 2009
TGJE no. 5 – On and off again
12 Sep. 2009
Kontact/KMail/KOrganizer ←→ Thunderbird/Sunbird conversion
30 Aug. 2009
Laptop dead again
30 Aug. 2009
TGJE no. 4 – Seeding is fun! :D
21 Aug. 2009
Read "Little Brother"
20 Aug. 2009
Lightweight compositing in X
15 Aug. 2009
It's alive!
10 Aug. 2009
Reading "Little Brother" is good procrastination
08 Aug. 2009
Being a computer hobo
01 Aug. 2009
Cloud computing on netbooks – Why?
10 Jul. 2009
TGJE report no. 3 – What I dislike on Jamendo
26 Jun. 2009
Lawrence Lessig = Linus van Pelt
22 Jun. 2009
x86 vs. amd64 in Portage
20 Jun. 2009
Dead laptop
06 Jun. 2009
AdBard advertisements + layout
05 Jun. 2009
Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!
02 Jun. 2009
The Jamendo Experiment – report no. 2
14 May. 2009
The Jamendo experiment – “week” 1
01 May. 2009
Eix, syncing and overlays
27 Apr. 2009
More changes on my system
26 Apr. 2009
The Jamendo experiment
20 Apr. 2009
I give up!
13 Apr. 2009
Literally cut- and pasting law ;)
13 Apr. 2009
External disk dead, backups gone …music too
10 Apr. 2009
Tea + Alcohol
10 Apr. 2009
Battle won, war goes on!
10 Apr. 2009
And justice for all… or rather we're all guilty, they say
30 Mar. 2009
Tea + Laptop = not good
19 Mar. 2009
The Future of Intellectual Property EU conference
18 Mar. 2009
Are we just tourists in our own world?
10 Mar. 2009
Hacking the sack
24 Feb. 2009
Code is not law
22 Feb. 2009
Lid switch fix
21 Feb. 2009
Tiptoe through the needles
16 Feb. 2009
Emoticon theme problem with Kopete from KDE4
14 Feb. 2009
White Emoticons that work 0.6
13 Feb. 2009
(Re)Reading Code v2
09 Feb. 2009
Jamendo + Electric Sheep
11 Jan. 2009
GNU is 25 years old!
05 Jan. 2009
2008
More Christmas cleaning
30 Dec. 2008
New Year's resolution for 2009
30 Dec. 2008
Christmas cleaning
26 Dec. 2008
Switch from ghostscript-esp to ghostscript-gpl or ghostscript-gnu
23 Dec. 2008
Gravatar support
20 Dec. 2008
Standardised semantic desktop and web instead of FaceBook et al.
17 Dec. 2008
Why I dislike FaceBook with great intensity (and left it)
16 Dec. 2008
I'm off FaceBook for good!
15 Dec. 2008
Not a good day for science
11 Dec. 2008
I switched to MyOpenID
07 Dec. 2008
Shoe odssey
06 Dec. 2008
FSFE article on patents and standardisation in IT
06 Dec. 2008
More legal stuff
03 Dec. 2008
Code syntax highlighting
27 Nov. 2008
Easy Breezy
27 Nov. 2008
New default theme
27 Nov. 2008
Page hits
25 Nov. 2008
Less is more in modern X
Or How I Enabled Hotplugging in X, Survived and Got an Extra Treat
25 Nov. 2008
First snow
24 Nov. 2008
My bad
24 Nov. 2008
Shiver me timbers!
21 Nov. 2008
Scourge of the seven seas
18 Nov. 2008
Ever so proud! :]
15 Oct. 2008
When recession kicks in
07 Oct. 2008
R.I.P. Miha Valič
06 Oct. 2008
Gentoo not cutting edge anymore
01 Oct. 2008
Understanding software pirates
15 Sep. 2008
Flaming sheep speaks political fortune
11 Sep. 2008
Tea and honey
10 Sep. 2008
Gorillaz Sound System in my street
05 Sep. 2008
I found a book! And it's travelling! :D
20 Aug. 2008
OOXML appeals rejected – DIS 29500 to be published within the next few weeks
19 Aug. 2008
Word War Vi hits Portage!
04 Aug. 2008
Downtime
04 Aug. 2008
Writing ebuilds is easy!
28 Jul. 2008
Tea + Coffee = ?
18 Jun. 2008
Free wireless in NUK
16 Jun. 2008
I want my fruit back!!!
09 Jun. 2008
Setting up wireless printing and scanning on HP All-in-One devices
06 Jun. 2008
Hello planet(s)
05 Jun. 2008
What is in the size of a poster
04 Jun. 2008
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam …
01 Jun. 2008
There are three OOXML appeals
30 May. 2008
Remove – a short film about privacy and data trafficing
25 May. 2008
I like Vimeo better then YouTube
25 May. 2008
More critique on Microsoft's decision to include ODF in Office 2007
24 May. 2008
Glossary goodness :]
23 May. 2008
matija.suklje.name up again
23 May. 2008
Microsoft Office 2007 to natively support ODF and PDF
22 May. 2008
Darjeeling, oh, Darjeeling
19 May. 2008
Zsh 'Vi' and 'Emacs' modes
17 May. 2008
White Emoticons that work 0.5
16 May. 2008
Domain name
15 May. 2008
Vim
15 May. 2008
Subcultures
01 May. 2008
Dvorak zine
20 Apr. 2008
Laptop mobile again
16 Apr. 2008
OOXML received needed votes for approval on ISO/IEC
02 Apr. 2008
Academic high five
02 Apr. 2008
OOXML to be approved as ISO/IEC standard
01 Apr. 2008
The first Document freedom day
26 Mar. 2008
Change of theme: Deco
23 Mar. 2008
Exam over, slowly regaining normality
20 Mar. 2008
Written part over and a funny fact about Rooibos tea
15 Mar. 2008
Sometimes I just hate it
08 Mar. 2008
Test from KBlogger
23 Feb. 2008
Study hell
20 Feb. 2008
First post on Drupal 6
17 Feb. 2008
2007
Still zombie mode
02 Mar. 2007
Dead Tired
18 Feb. 2007
Sorry for the downtime
18 Feb. 2007
And finally …I found my first 1€
13 Jan. 2007
…and lost my first 1€
10 Jan. 2007
I spent my first Slovenian €
08 Jan. 2007
New year's good-byes
02 Jan. 2007
2006
Htop and Atop – they top the top
22 Nov. 2006
OpenMoko
08 Nov. 2006
I don't dance
15 Oct. 2006
Geeky video feeds
18 Sep. 2006
ISP blues
07 Aug. 2006
The younger brother and the window(s)
05 Aug. 2006
But I don't want a green card!
02 Aug. 2006
Microsoft pushes spyware to new heights.
29 Jul. 2006
Happy System Admin Appreciation Day!!!
28 Jul. 2006
Synaptics touchpad works now
24 Jul. 2006
War in essence…
24 Jul. 2006
Everything more or less in place
21 Jul. 2006
Ska
19 Jul. 2006
One year old
17 Jul. 2006
It's a nice PlaneShift-y day
05 Jul. 2006
HOWTO use IRC with Konversation
02 Jul. 2006
90% win of IBM (and thus also GNU/Linux) over SCO
02 Jul. 2006
Make-up HOWTO for girl geeks
28 Jun. 2006
The Shadows playing surf rock before it was invented.
08 Jun. 2006
Looking like a shaven ancient philosopher
02 Jun. 2006
Suspend to RAM with (K)Powersave
07 May. 2006
WIPO to decide on intellectual property rights from webcasting
06 May. 2006
Practical problem with lowering the standards of proof in criminal law
05 May. 2006
OpenDocument is now ISO standard ISO/IEC 26300
05 May. 2006
Probably the best joke-blog on Linux I've read so far
29 Apr. 2006
General Musashi – a great boogie rock band
29 Apr. 2006
Spell checking everywhere in KDE with Aspell
27 Apr. 2006
A coin does *not* have (only) two sides…
20 Apr. 2006
Monkey Island madness!
27 Mar. 2006
Life is random …so, boogie ;)
04 Mar. 2006
Sunny sunday
19 Feb. 2006
Finally some rest after ELMC …oh, and one of those "personality tests" from a webcomic :]
05 Feb. 2006
(Re)Started to learn Python
23 Jan. 2006
2005
Turn your monitor into an AM transmitter
28 Dec. 2005
Why is new hardware so crappy?
17 Dec. 2005
BioWare operating system poll
13 Dec. 2005
Life is great!
13 Dec. 2005
Moronic heroics
08 Dec. 2005
Study visit from Trier, Germany
08 Dec. 2005
Why smokers are better off
27 Nov. 2005
Passed the first year! :D
25 Nov. 2005
Thanks
24 Nov. 2005
Examy snow
21 Nov. 2005
On the 7th of November 2005
07 Nov. 2005
OOo rant continued
06 Nov. 2005
OOo troubles (my fault) and simple ramblings
05 Nov. 2005
Problems of Sophocracy
05 Nov. 2005
Learning backgammon with a GNU
19 Oct. 2005
Why abandonware (games) are importaint
09 Oct. 2005
HOWTO use iRiver with Linux
02 Oct. 2005
Making brochures and losing mobiles
29 Sep. 2005
Searching the law with Konqueror
24 Sep. 2005
How secure are laptops?
22 Sep. 2005
Beep Media Player – an xmms fork
03 Aug. 2005
KPDF-0.4.1 (in KDE-3.4.1) is just "wow"!
02 Aug. 2005
Some changes :]
28 Jul. 2005
A short take on abandonware
28 Jul. 2005
Of idleness, Socrates and Nietzsche
25 Jul. 2005
Homepage organization
23 Jul. 2005
Migrating to a new homepage
18 Jul. 2005
First mindless ramblings – mostly about the server and the homepage
17 Jul. 2005
On the feeling of freedom
04 Jul. 2005
2004
Birthday :D
09 Nov. 2004
Back online, stiches out :]
20 Aug. 2004
3 stiches, FOSS, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
10 Aug. 2004
10th post for the dogs
06 Aug. 2004
Roman law, German girls, scripts and translations
03 Aug. 2004
A new day, a new style ^-^
31 Jul. 2004
Of translations, wolves, and so on…
31 Jul. 2004
Just got back from sailing and the 0.5 frenzy
27 Jul. 2004
The sneakers and the claw
21 Jul. 2004
Summer sales OLo
21 Jul. 2004
Erm …about the pic
21 Jul. 2004
First real post
21 Jul. 2004
Test (on Blogger/BlogSpot)
21 Jul. 2004