Andrew Wigglesworth's personal website

Well, here we go again, Google pushing it's privacy busting agenda onto yet another part of their empire.

I tried to log into Youtube today to correct something on a video of Greenman Rising (I play in the band). However, it would not let me log in and it turns out it's because I turned off third party cookies.

Yes, there you go, I couldn't log into a website because I'd set my browser not to accept cookies from other websites. Who does that benefit? The Google and Doubleclick (also owned by Google) advertising networks who wish to track me across multiple websites around the web.

I know this because when I set Icecat to accept third party cookies, lo and behold, I could log into Youtube along with recieving a slew of Google and Doubleclick cookies. Also, Youtube started to pester me to join together completely seperate Youtube and Google accounts... how the hell did they make the connection?

No way!

Screw Google and screw the Youtube website. This is a further perversion of the use of cookies, it's is not what they were meant for. Google wish to force people to give up even more of their privacy before they will allow them access to their websites. Well, I have an answer, I won't use them at all and will do my best to encourage people to use alternatives.

Goodbye Youtube.

posted at: 22:20 | path: / | permanent link to this entry

EMMS (the GNU Emacs media player) can work with libre.fm, the community website which shows and shares your music listening habits.

This uses the built in lastfm capabilities of GNU Emacs, but crucially points to the libre.fm server. Obviously you will need to change $username and $password for the ones you used to register at libre.fm.

I believe that this will only work in GNU Emacs 22 and above.

(require 'emms-lastfm)
(require 'emms-playing-time)
(require 'emms-playing-time)
(emms-lastfm-enable)
(emms-playing-time 1)
   (setq emms-lastfm-server "http://turtle.libre.fm/")
   (setq emms-lastfm-username "$username"
   emms-lastfm-password "$password")

If you don't want reporting to libre.fm automatically enabled then delete the line "(emms-lastfm-enable)". In any case, reporting can be enabled and disabled using M-x emms-lastfm-enable and M-x emms-lastfm-disable.

Oh, and my own libre.fm page is here:

http://libre.fm/user/ecadre

posted at: 10:50 | path: / | permanent link to this entry

Well, cheers to everyone who told me that they'd be voting for the Liberal Democrats because it was the most "radical thing to do". My usual response was that I had no intention of voting for what I regard as "orange Tories".

As they have done so many times in councils around the country, the Liberal Democrats have shown their true colours and delivered us a Tory government.

In our "democracy" the vasty majority of people didn't vote for this and the sole aim of this government will be to make the working classes pay for the crisis in capitalism.

For news of the growing resistance: Morning Star Online

posted at: 10:33 | path: / | permanent link to this entry

  Rise like Lions after slumber
  In unvanquishable number,
  Shake your chains to earth like dew
  Which in sleep had fallen on you -
  Ye are many - they are few.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, From The Masque of Anarchy.

posted at: 08:16 | path: / | permanent link to this entry

One little issue that I've had with stumpwm, emacs and conkeror is copying and pasting between emacs and conkeror without using a mouse... oh, the horror! :-D

Now, there are probably a million and one ways in which this can be done, ought to be done etc. So, please do point and laugh at my ignorance, but I was happy this morning to find that Shift-insert will paste text that has been highlighted in emacs into conkeror.

posted at: 09:06 | path: / | permanent link to this entry