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A little explanatory sidenote to the pretty overlay currently decorating my site.

As you might remember, the german parliament, in 2007, passed the “Gesetz zur Neuregelung der Telekommunikationsüberwachung” (de / en), legalizing government mass data retention. ((Previously here, Previously: privacy-related). Now, January 1st 2009, things really get rolling: Broad retention of e-mail, phone, and internet connection data becomes mandatory (Only de), all to keep you safe, obviously.

Relatedly, the new BKA-Law was signed by the Bundespräsident. Now, we can have the government legally secretly ruffling through the data on anyones PC! lol, Bundestrojaner, indeed.

Thanks, dear CDU/CSU/SPD, but we could have lived without those christmas presents.

Update: Protest image, translated into english, because someone asked.

Let's make happy trees!
How much tree is enough tree? 6
      _/\_
       \/
       /\
      /__\
      /()\
     /____\
     /()()\
    /______\
    /()()()\
   /________\
   /()()()()\
  /__________\
  /()()()()()\
 /____________\
      |  |
      |  |      |\_/|
      |  | nyo~ ='_'=
      |  |      |._.|-*
(Actually, you can't have enough tree! But this will have to do for now!)

• AndrewS.java - Tannenbaum Generator, including Haiku comment.
• Previous Christmassy things on halcy.de…

Oh, in any case: 10 all new and shiny halcy.de favicon buttons have arrived, ready for giving out. (Or, if distance requires this, mailing out to ~any place in the world~. Buttons: The best excuse ever for writing people real-life letters!) Drop me a line if you want one.

Time for some noise. If uninterested, turn away now.

Semiimportant things which happened since I last posted something personalish to this blog:

• Finished FSJ. I’m officially not an ambulance driver / EMT anymore.
• Moved to Karlsruhe.
• Started Uni. I’m now a first-semester CS student at the University of Karlsruhe. It’s nice there, met awesome people. :D
• Mostly, though, we do math. Which is why this post is pretty much over already, all that math didn’t leave much time to do a lot of things.

(I did mess around writing code for a thing or two, but that is considered signal, and thus material for another post, some time.)