2020

I am getting the hang of using ansible for managing my dotfiles. That might make things even easier than using stow or chezmoi. And I might be able to use that knowledge for more.

Day 24 #24daysofLego

I am looking into ansible (usually I use saltstack) and now I wonder how you keep a record of which user did what when. With salt I have the log for sudo on the saltmaster. But what do you do when using ansible?

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And now: One of the better movies :) Big Trouble in Little China

We prepared ourself for the grandparent-visits with antigene-tests and FFP2-masks. But now all agreed that there won’t be any visits so that there is no risk in the first place :) There is Facetime et al. these days and we can have a nice getogether when the numbers are better.

Day 21 #24daysofLego

I did it! I made it through episode 9. Now I have to finally watch at some point episode 2. That’s the only one I never fully watched. I either fell asleep or had to stop it because I didn’t want to waste more of my life time. #starwars

Star Wars 7-9: Let’s remake Star Wars 4-6 but with longer fighting and battle scenes and make it more EPIC!!!!1!1!1!!1!! And wham it sucks. I hope Kenobi will be as good as The Mandalorian.

Blockbuster movies really need to cut down on these endless battle and fighting scenes.

Day 20 #24daysofLego

Rise of Skywalker is a pretty bad movie…and I’m just like 30 minutes in.

Wait, what? First the Space Force steals their emblem from Star Trek and now they call themselves Guardians (of the Galaxy)? What’s next? Battle Stars and Boas during Star Wars?

Day 19 #24daysofLego

Next level fan service by Disney. That was unexpected. #Mandalorian

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And the most important skill in this #DnD-session was: Persuasion All hail to the Bard! (which is me ;) )

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I just had a first look into COBOL. Wow, that language even feels old. I can imagine someone sitting in a suit in front of an amber-glowing display, typing in a program on a mechanical keyboards, click, click, click. But it is even older than amber-glowing displays I guess…

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Day 9. #24daysofLego

An Apple Watch is quite a paternalistic device. It tells me when to wash hands, when to stand up, when to go to bed…

I really miss Snickers since I gone seagan :/

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The hardest feat in this short magic-video of Donald and Mickey is probably the reverse spring done in the beginning by Mickey.

Listen to this Radiolab-episode for more fun with climate change!

Famous last word: Let me fix it quickly Aaaahhhhhhhh

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Zu wenig Schlaf. Mal schauen was Kaffee gemischt mit Koawach bringt.

Sometimes I just hate load balancers. That thing just cost me 2 hours of precious sleep.

Day 2 #24daysofLego

Day 1 of our little Christmas Lego town. This year it will need three levels on shelves since we have no real table left because of home office during pandemic times.

Our Lego-Christmas-town that gets built up over the next 24 days becomes international this year :)

I think this is the moment a CS-degree would be handy. I am trying to understand the difference between paging and swapping and how to interpret the paging-stats I get from sar(1).

Les ich das richtig oder ist das keine ziemlich rassistische Beschreibung eines PoC? Aus “Sophiechen und der gute Riese” von Roald Dahl.

In my next #cyberpunk-game there will be an NPC with a flying bathtub as a transport vehicle. Possibly armed. actually that would be a fun booster gang - DIY flying heavily armed bathtubs instead of motorcycles. youtu.be/EQK9m_OBV…

Also die Ergebnisse vom Coronagipfel sind wohl eher als schlechter Witz zu werten. Ich muss jetzt schon auf dem Parkplatz Maske beim Einkaufen tragen. Na, das wird das Infektionsgeschehen ja maßgeblich beeinflussen.

Ich bin seit über zwei Jahren bei diesem Funkzellenabfragen-Transparenz-System angemeldet. Und bis heute bekam ich keine einzige Meldung. Das fühlt sich kaputt an. Ich muss doch in irgendwelchen Abfragen von bereits abgeschlossenen Ermittlungen drin gewesen sein.

I got an Xbox360 today (yes, I know I am behind). Little one really likes Lego Dimensions. I played Halo 3 and it is weird to play ego-shooters with a pad (but I rarely play them anyways) and Batman: Arkham City seems to be pretty awesome. That’s what I tried for now :)

I know now enough people who got Covid-19 that it doesn’t feel a matter of whether I get but how long it will take until I get it.

Eigenverantwortung my ass! Das hat ja mit den Masken und selbst einschränken auch so gut geklappt. #silvester

TIL: there is music from SAMURAI, Johnny Silverhands band, on Apple Music. Cool. Unfortunately Black Dog is not yet there (but on YouTube) #cyberpunk #cpr

The UX for a new user in #roll20 is pretty horrible. How much I had to Google and read the help to figure out the best way to bring my existing character into it took too much time.

Cyberpunk Red is available on DriveThru and so far I like it :) The only thing I don’t like that much is the 3-pages character sheet. I am a 1-sheet guy but to few games deliver on that :/

My DM didn’t find an avatar on #roll20 for my character and doesn’t want to spend money. Can I bring an avatar and use it in his game? Any hints for an avatar for my Tiefling Bard? #ttrpg #dnd

Friday evening and I discuss the order of operations in math (PEMDAS). Well, there are worth things. Maybe not, since I am searching now the proof or the axiom to proof my point.

My typo-rate is high today #sigh

I recently had a neat idea for a cyberpunk/shadowrun-mission: capture person X and just hold them for a couple of days. During the footwork phase the players find out it is the main witness that could bring an important person into prison for a horrible crime.

Today I was very close to buying Shadowrun 6th edition. This was a close call 😰

RMS is a militant computer-vegan. The Linux-user who wants to have free software, more control about his computer but uses from time to time proprietary drivers (WiFi, Nvidia…) and proprietary software is a computer-vegetarian and macOS- and Win-users are computer-omnivores.

You know what happens tomorrow? The PDF of Cyberpunk Red will become available. Yeah :D And Polygon has already a pretty good review. I am waiting for months for this game :)

How to keep users from updating your software 101: LimeSurvey has a manual update method (throw all away except some files and re-upload) and a “comfort method”. First buy a trial key - and then you get a clickety-click update. All the love to Wordpress for auto-updates.

This is the first time in ages where I have only (S)FTP to upload a web-application to a server and no rsync or scp or ssh-access to directly download and extract on the server. How do people live with that? This is so fucking slow and cumbersome.

I never went so fast from “Let’s see if there is a relevant YouTube-video about this” to “Fuck this, I should start my own channel because this is all crap” while trying to find something relevant about journalctl.

Another discovery: youtube-sysadmins know about “man” but only skim over them in their videos but never use “apropos” which would be usually far more useful in their context (showing people which man-pages could be relevant to the topic).

Youtubing sysadmin copies over unit-file from /usr/lib/systemd/system/…/file.service to /etc/systemd/system/file.service instead of just using systemctl edit file.service and create an override.conf Why? Oo #linux

Der Radweg vom Südstern zum Hermannplatz ist auf den ersten 200m richtig gut und dann kommt die Baustelle…

I feel tired and exhausted. And it is just tuesday 🥱

Sleight of hand can be a useful skill when mythical beings like the tooth fairy forgot to do stuff…yeah, coin magic skills ;)

A first session of Hero Quest with my kids. They successfully but barely saved Sir Ragnar.

I just watched “Dealt” - the documentation about Richard Turner. It is really good and he is just so awesome. What he is doing with cards is just so out of this world.

And ehm. Woohoo! 🎉

Someone at the NY Times was really excited when typing these sentences…

Shouldn’t the evangelicals just say now: “Ok, apparently the Lord’s plan is different than I expected.”?

I wonder how nerve-wracking that must be for Trump and Biden.

This sounds pretty cool: Console-bound systemd services, the right way #sysadmin #linux

QualityLand 2.0 von Marc-Uwe Kling durchgehört. Wie immer: nehmt das Hörbuch anstelle des Buchs, weil sein Stil vorzulesen Mehrwert bringt. Sehr unterhaltsam. Nicht so gut wie Band 1 aber trotzdem unterhaltsam. Definitiv nicht kindertauglich; eher FSK12 oder ggf. sogar höher.

With countries like China you can at least say “this is the system, this is the government”. But with the US you can now definitely say “yes, it is the people”. Sorry for those who do not support an autocratic rascist. I still have my fingers crossed.

Every time I watch Last Week Tonight in the recent months I wonder if they have guillotines in the US.

Ubuntu 20.10 encrypts zpools with zfs native encryption when you choose zfs and encryption in the installer. But there is really a snapshot-overload. Every time you install a single package a snapshot is created which seems to be a BE actually. This should be fine-tuned somehow…

Tbh I rarely check out if news are for real real. But this seemed so unbelievable I searched for it. And it is true. Wow 😳 “Day of Remembrance for Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens”

Wie ist denn “Lockdown-Affinität nicht der Titel des aktuellen Logbuch: Netzpolitik geworden? 🤣

RIP Sean Connery :/

Die Politik: Lockdown. Schulleitung und Lehrer: bereitet euch auf Plan B vor, weil die Schule sicherlich auf Stufe rot geht. So sieht es konkret(er) aus. Das Schulamt so: ihre Schule ist weiterhin Stufe Gelb. Alles weiter wie zuvor. Whaaat?

Ok…soooo Walmart fears that there might be trouble coming up after the election… Walmart pulls guns and ammo from store displays, citing potential “civil unrest” - CBS News

I don’t follow sports-news but this NY Times-article sounds pretty bad how politics and sports mix (soccer in this case).

Who steals the bicycle of a child? They stole the bike of my little one in front of the school. A-holes!

In #DnD the quest for Dragonballs is a…different quest. Bring me the Dragonballs of Tiamat!

I got JEDict working for me with the help of the dev to get a native wadoku-client :) #macos #japanese

Which dictionary-software does one use nowadays on macOS for Japanese (especially for using edict- or jmdict-files)?

Das neue Album von Die Ärzte macht Spaß. Insbesondere Woodburger, Plan B, Warum spricht niemand über Gitarristen und Liebe gehen Rechts.

I crossed the Danish border back to Germany and immediately the quality of the internet in the train dropped. It is just so shameful for Germany that a small country like Denmark with its lower population density has so much better mobile internet.

My alarm was set for 5am. I am awake since 3am and cannot fall to sleep again 😣

Upgrading OpenBSD vs Ubuntu

I updated OpenBSD to 6.8 and Ubuntu to 20.10 on the cli over ssh. OpenBSD does it better with sysupgrade. Both machines have a similar setup. With OpenBSD I ran sysupgrade and had to do nothing during the upgrade. After that follow two advices and two package updates. With Ubuntu I had to look several times at the console because the process just waited for me to do some input. This was annoying.

I knew that it wasn’t a good idea but I didn’t know that it was that bad: Do not copy and paste from a website into a shell

Krass. Keine Thinkpad mehr in Deutschland?

It works again and my site is building again. Neat :)

I think I kind of broke my micro.blog. I have a post that turns up in my posts, not in my stream but for this an old similar post turns up on my site.

If you use 1password, the cli-tools and are a tmux-user this little script will make your life easier on iOS #!/bin/sh op get item "$1" –fields password|tmux loadb -

Der Tagesspiegel vergleicht das Ausschankverbot ab 23 Uhr in Berlin mit der Prohibition in den USA. Ich bin irgendwie sprachlos…

I started reading my first DnD-novel (The Legacy by Salvatore). Is it normal in DnD-novels that everybody who gets mentioned gets their race and class declared? The book starts in a drow-city and there is a drow rouge, a drow fighter, drow soldiers. What else? It is a drow city.

Thanks to @solene@bsd.network I found the solution “. ./.kshrc” works. I did just do “. .kshrc” before. #openbsd

To the folks using #OpenBSD: I might be stupid but how do I source my .kshrc without logging out and logging in again? “source” does not exist, and “. .kshrc” won’t work either.

Bitdefender and DnD Beyond have so similar icons that I get always baited by the Bitdefender-promo tweets in reading them. I have to block this company.

Finished Attack Surface. The end before the end felt a bit rushed. The final end was a great idea but felt a little rushed, too. The rest was excellent. 4.5/5 stars From my memory: better than Homeland, equal to Little Brother but with more mature themes.

We are privileged in Berlin. Here in more or less rural touristic Denmark: no oat milk (or other vegan milk alternatives) in Cafés or restaurants so far, no Tofu or alternatives in supermarkets. Vegan candy is hard to find. No vegan cakes so far.

Afaik you can see here consequences of Corona. Huge ships doing nothing.

And with a bit of seal-content.

Skagerrak. Where Baltic Sea and North Sea meet.

Die App vom Tagesspiegel greift sich aus einem mir unverständlichen Grund einfach mal das Clipboard ab. Und es scheint kein Setting zu geben, um das abstellen zu können.

Reading about the transphobia and racism in Cyberpunk 2077 let’s me worry a bit about Cyberpunk Red. But let’s hope for the best. But I guess racism won’t be a problem reading articles like this.

I am half through the book but Attack Surface is like Little Brother and Homeland a recommendation. It is interesting to see the backstory of one of the more or less bad people. A job well done again Cory Doctorow.

And today I thought I need to watch Hackers again. And then OpenBSD 6.8 gets released with such a release-image :D

sysupgrade(8) rocks. The first update I do with it and it is great. Btw. OpenBSD 6.8 got released. Happy 25th birthday OpenBSD :D

Atlassian discontinues self-hosted products (except the overpriced DC-edition) and does not even allow custom domains in their cloud? Oo

TIL: apparently Germany has advanced windows technology Oo

Woohoo, the Kickstarter I wrote recently about sorted out its issues with Backerkit and I got my downloads finally 😀 It is the ebook and audiobook of Attack Surface - the new book by the great Cory Doctorow 🤩

I kind of feel meh when a product from Kickstarter can be bought now, while I am still waiting for my BackerKit-mail (not the fault of the person behind the KS but it could have been organized differently probably)

Didn’t the UK try that and failed horribly in spring? White House embraces declaration that opposes lockdowns and relies on ‘herd immunity.’

One of the great things about the magic-community: you can even ask the most famous ones about a routine they show on DVDs or in books and get usually answer :)

Is there any difference in security when using SFTP or FTPS (I mean with starttls)?

I didn’t know that you could mess up the user interface of a drip coffee machine Oo

Nacht in Angst ist nicht nur eins der besseren ???-Hörspiele, sondern auch eins der besseren Bücher. Gerade fertig geworden. Das gefiel mir sehr.

The North Sea on a sunny but cold day :)

If I want to give my son a soccer-game on the Switch for Christmas, which one should I buy? The Fifa-reviews suck because they don’t look at the person who don’t own any yet. And getting a new console is out of the question ;)

Achievement of today: started my first fire with fat wood, fire steel and a knife

Ich fahre nach Dänemark. Man kann nur eine Corona-App aktiv haben. Wann wechsel ich denn auf die dänische und wann wieder zurück?

This happy feeling when a long-standing issue comes to an end, and you can already see the light at the end of the tunnel where technical debt will be left behind :)

Question to the #ttrpg-crowd: how do non-level based Fantasy-games deal with progression of characters? In level-based systems you go from noob to hero in a quite short campaign.

This ad for Trump takes an unexpected turn youtu.be/Qg0pO9VG1…

This headline… Security flaw left ‘smart’ chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in

Capitalism and marketing at work. The wristband of my Fitbit broke and I seriously considered getting an Apple Watch instead of just replacing the wristband. I bought a new wristband though. But I really want that Apple Watch :/

I wrote a script for a magic trick tonite. I think the script and the trick still need some work. The trick is completely a routine I saw in a video from David Regal but I changed the topic from non-mixing fluids to kids who can’t stop to argue…

I finally decided that I will switch over from Bicycles to Phoenix cards. They are just better for magic. Card-Shark rules :)

Ich bin kein Freund von Pro 7 aber diese Doku ist sehr gut. Nehmt euch die 2 Stunden und schaut sie an: Rechts. Deutsch. Radikal. Sehr guter Hinweis vom Podcast Lage der Nation.

How many republican senators must get SARS-COV2 so that there won’t be a new Supreme Court judge?

Useless computer-skills that make the kid happy: installed a game from GOG that only works via windows but is a dosbox-game. Now it is running in the native linux-dosbox on his Ubuntu, in German (gog-launcher didn’t work) and he has it in his dock. Now he can play Dungeon Keeper.

So, Mitte ist lt Schleswig-Holstein jetzt Risiko-Gebiet. Wie weist man denn nach, dass man nicht in Mitte war? Und warum gibt es nirgendwo Informationen was ist, wenn man durch Risikogebiete durchreist im Zug?

Oh Monkey Island becomes 30 this year and even the Independent has an article about it I hope the iOS-ports of the remastered-editions will be released with updates for this event. But I guess Disney doesn’t care.

You probably all know Uncle Roger already but his videos on critizing cooks, especially Jamie Oliver on egg fried rice are hilarious (and his criticism is correct…) www.youtube.com/watch

I wonder if there are any other magicians on micro.blog. So far a search for magic turns up more or less only posts about Magic Trackpads or Magic the Gathering…

Ok…after some waiting I had suddenly 420 pages on my published micro.blog. It seems that huge sites take some time to be rendered…

Hm…my micro.blog has 380 pages, when I render it to the webpage it has 2…something is wrong And I found out that the renderer does not like a “\” in the title of a post…

I switched now to micro.blog for my blog but I cannot move the main url yet because I fucked up the import and I hope @help can help with the image import 😭

…apparently she didn’t sleep in her bed while shots were fired. The main questions for me are did police announce themself and why do people all the time carry guns with themselves around? Or is the case different from what The NY Times reported?

And one police office was at the outside and shot through the wall (seriously wtf?) and hit her, instead one of the cops in the apartment. And police cared about their own people first. The whole thing is fucked up, especially how the police missed important parts but…

What I do not get with Brennan Taylor after listening to The Daily: why do people say that she slept in her bed while she got shot? Apparently police invaded (loud or not), boyfriend was carrying and shot at the police, Breonna was next to him and police shot back.

Any tips and tricks I should or shouldn’t do with Tiefling bard I start playing soon? I don’t plan to play the always horny bard #dnd

So, Make America Medival Again? Listening to the Daily and that republicans really do not keep “standards” they set themselves and that the US is setting itself up to illegalize abortion if possible.

I didn’t expect that deferring a todo to a later point of time in the day and how it is reflected in the badge of the todo-app is that important to me. A real advantage of #OmniFocus in comparison to #Things But I really like the Today/Evening-thing of Things.

DnD Beyond is pretty cool for character generation. But why can’t I manage equipment and stuff in the app itself but have to use the “Go to website”-button? :/

I have to hand in a .docx at work for some texts. Thus I fought today with word processors. But now I found out that pandoc can convert to .docx and here is a decent thesaurus-vim-plugin: github.com/Ron89/the… Back to plain text and neovim :D

Serious question: if healthcare insurance is usually provided through the job in the US: what happens when you become unable to work (case A: accident at work, case B: accident outside of work, case C: sudden development of some serious disease)?

I wonder why Trump didn’t introduce The Purge yet via executive order…

Woohoo. Booked the family vacation in Denmark. :D Just 10 hours in trains per trip >_<

There are insult generators for vicious mockery. I wished there was one for German. But I will definitely use those from the insult sowed fighting from Monkey Island. #dnd

I finally figured out how to solve a cube without using a cheat sheet. Even the last algorithms aren’t necessary anymore. Let’s see if it still works tomorrow.

Today was a hard day in my vegan, because of health-reasons, life. My wife made Chicken Katsudon and I couldn’t eat it. Usually I don’t have problems with eating vegan but tonight was really hard >_<

Meg haudcoriting does not work for Scribble c iOS14. Typings a lot lasher and it has no problems with title case

I built now my new DnD-character (a Tiefling Bard). Now I am thinking about commissioning some art.

Politics at the dinner table…trying to explain the 9-year old the gist of the Cold War, communism, socialism and capitalism…

I still have to look a couple of things up but I am now constantly sub 5 minutes with a 3x3-Rubik’s cube and sometimes even under 3 minutes. Nothing in comparison to speedcubers but I am slowly getting better :)

Just finished watching season 5 of Rita. That season was definitely different. I really liked the season and the series in total that guessing by the final scene found its end. Great that all character plots got resolved. I am a sucker for happy endings :)

I was excited about Lowlife 2090. And now I see it is D20-based :/ Maybe the Kickstarter is interesting for someone else though. Shadowrun but D20. lowlife2090.com

Cobra Kai is now on Netflix. If you haven’t watched it yet, do it. Especially if you liked Karate Kid. This series is so great!

I just found Mobile Frame Zero. A tactical tabletop game with Lego and manuals for building LEGO-mechs mobileframezero.com/mfz/

Strahd is defeated, Barovia is saved, the heroes can return home. The campaign is over after ca. 2 years (monthly games plus Corona-interruption). Let’s see what comes next #cos #dnd #ttrpg

I finally solved my rubik’s cube. Apparently when I broke it one time, I assembled it not correctly and brought it into an unsolvable configuration. Figured it only out because of a rubik’s cube solver.

Current state of solving a Rubik’s cube: I somehow make it to the yellow cross and then I am giving away to despair.

There should be something like Lego Star Wars-scene sets. I.e. a Death Star and a dozen tiny tie fighters and some small X- and Y-Wings. And everything prepared so that you can suspend them from a ceiling or so.

Wait, what? The plan for putting up Kanye West is to siphone away young black votes from Biden? The GOP tries really everything, doesn’t they? www.vice.com/en_us/art…

Our studies in Japanese Science have finally a purpose 🤣 #lastpost

The big one has now English classes in school. My wife suddenly switched to Japanese to talk with me about the kids 😂

YouTube empfiehlt mir ein Video aus RT Deutsch. WTF?

Menschen, die über “Lifestyleaktivisten” wettern, dass das alles nichts bringt, stellen sich auf eine ähnliche Stufe wie Menschen, die gegen “Gutmenschen” wettern. Und das nur, weil sie eigentlich keinen Bock haben, etwas am eigenen Lebensstil zu ändern. #showerthought

I understand how it works with non-physical goods like PDFs. Just because I add another chapter from another author or more art, means only that I have a one-time cost which I can afford because more people buy the product but production cost per unit scales perfectly

I always wonder how the financial maths of physical stretch goals in an rpg-Kickstarter work. I still have the base cost of producing the physical goods which increases with the stretch goals. Does it decrease in the same manner just because of scale?

I am too stupid to follow tutorials about solving a Rubik’s cube :(

Ich habe gestern diesen Aufnäher bekommen (mit Klett). Ich muss scharf nachdenken, wo ich den draufmache.

Since I recently bought Alien: The RPG because it won an Ennie, I am now re-watching the first movie. That movie is a masterpiece. And I have the feeling that this game will be really hard to run. #ttrpg

Vielleicht hat hier ja jemand eine Ahnung: wie sehr unterscheiden sich die Deutsche, Österreichische und die Schweizer-Deutsche Gebärdensprache? Ich wusste, dass es keine vereinigte gibt, aber das selbst drei deutschsprachige Länder unterschiedliche haben, überrascht mich.

Apple hat es nötig. Die geben die 3% MwSt.-Senkung nicht weiter.

The more I think about #DND the less I like it. So many more good systems out there and I am stuck with it. Or I have to see how I can play more, so that I can have another group without DND

I hate my meds

In #shadowrun for example this was always quite interesting. In most editions iirc physical combat spells originated at your point of location and flew to the target. Thus a window blocked the spell. In other editions the spell materialized at the target - windows were no problem

Realism in #ttrpg: yes, there might be magic and there might be everything available you can imagine. But I think it needs to be realistic in terms of the world. Thus I am a great fan of a fleshed out magic theory, so that I know if something is feasible or not or at what cost.

A Trump-interview might get high ratings but the main reason is probably that it is like a car crash where you can’t look away.

“The world is a very angry place”. This is a sentence said by the President of the United States. In an interview. And it was not when speaking with a pre-school-kid.

I am watching the Trump-interview from HBO that got released on YT a couple of hours ago. My condolences to all the journalists and political analysts who have to watch all of his interviews and briefings as part of their job.

Dieser ganze Event regt mich einfach nur auf. Und dass die Polizei die so laufen lässt, geht mal gar nicht klar auch wenn es unter freiem Himmel ist. Ich wünsche niemandem schlechtes, aber ich muss mich hier wirklich zusammenreißen denen nichts schlechtes zu wünschen.

‪Das sind keine Covidioten. Das sind ganz einfach anti-soziale egoistische Arschlöcher die sich selbst am nächsten sind. Mal abgesehen davon ist “Tag der Freiheit” ein Riefenstahl-Film. Damit sollte jedem dort klar sein, dass er unter Nazi-Flagge läuft.‬

Either I wasn’t that self-critical in the past or my qualities as a game Master stink these days. I am not really satisfied with the way I run games. The players said that it was fun but I could have done far better. My NPC-work really really sucks these days :/ #ttrpg

Oh, and the t-shirt of the day which leads to people around to want to eat sushi

No beard anymore and a new haircut

Me with a fantasy-rpg: What to do? Why should a group of people stumble from one adventure to another? Me with a Cyberpunk-game: I have a city, I have corps, I have criminal organizations, I have suffering and misery: soooo much to do for the players, let’s start the missions

The Old Guard is pretty boring

My old #TTRPG-bubble: there are tons of rpgs out there. So many, that we cannot decide what to play first (and I played dnd like only a couple of times in more than 2 decades). Now I thought I follow more RPG-people on Twitter and some subreddits. And it seems there’s only DnD…

I got four players for my #Cyberpunk Red-one shot. 2 of them I don’t know at all. Now I really need to prepare that :) #ttrpg

I do something wrong or is that some kind of privilege I need to know since I am a white male? But when I tell someone I don’t drink alc or ask if something is vegan people just accepted it so far. The maximum was curiosity (and then more acceptance) and even that’s rare.

I didn’t expect that it is so hard to find 4 players for an online-game of Cyberpunk Red in German…

What did I do wrong that Netflix sends me a mail informing me about the release of “The Kissing Booth 2”‽

TIL: editor wars are still a thing.

Ich wollte nochmal drauf hinweisen. Mittwoch, 29. Juli, ab 18 Uhr eine One-Shot-Runde #CyberpunkRed per Discord (Video) o.ä. Gibt es vielleicht doch noch Interessenten? Ich suche noch 2 feste Zusagen bis Sonntag sonntagshelden.de/forum/thr…

Seagan (vegan + fish)-life for a couple of months, I lost 4 kg without doing anything. Now I gained it all back and a little extra since I figured out what is all possible to eat…

Oh…Altered Carbon is an RPG where you do a lot of subtractions instead of additions. Even though it is low numbers my experience tells me that people are inherently bad with subtractions.

Oh, my digital copy of the Altered Carbon-TTRPG arrived :)

The boys are enjoying the new She-Ra on Netflix. One calls her “the nice lady”, the other one “the weird lady” because they cannot remember her name.

Clarky‘s Bacon-Snack ist von der reinen Zutatenliste her vegan. 😂

Wenn jemand in Berlin (oder falls es online wird wohl dann ist der Wohnort wohl eher egal) Lust nächste Wochhe auf einen One-Shot Cyberpunk Red hat… sonntagshelden.de/forum/thr…

Endgame wasn’t that great either…I am really happy that I never went to the movies for it or bought a blu-ray or something but just got it in my streaming subscription.

I just watched Infinity War. That wasn’t really that good. I hope End Game is better…

There are people stopping to use spamassassin because they move away from the term white/blacklist. This makes it apparently politically motivated software (which is apparently bad?) I have not enough hands for this facepalm.

There are people who apparently stop using spamassassin because they move away from the terms white/blacklist because this makes spamassassin political software. And they have a company policy that they don’t use software that is political motivated.

Sometimes when I go through the supermarket I try to imagine how big the fields in total must be and how much of livestock must be out there to produce that much food to stock all the shelves everywhere. It’s always overwhelming.

There is a Flash Gordon-rpg. And currently it is sold in a bundle of holding. Tempting, very tempting. bundleofholding.com/presents/…

The de-tainted world of exim 4.94 is no fun and soo much work. I wished there was a compatability mode I could switch on, so that I could upgrade but wouldn’t need to change so many things.

My kids are taking trapeze-classes. Soon they are able to do far more pull-ups than I can do. It’s crazy how much core strength they need and how much they need these muscles you strengthen with pull-ups.

That reminds me: any good reason to switch from Alfred to Launchbar these days?

I am very happy with OmniFocus 3. Why am I looking up Things?

TIL: there are loads of people on the spamassassin-ml who have political views I do not share…

To be honest: I still don’t get why D&D is so succesful. But maybe I am just not enough of a fantasy-fan.

When I think about it the games I put the most hours in are Killer Instinct (SNES), DOA 2 (PS2) and Soulcalibur 2 (PS2, Arcade) Probably Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart and NBA Jam (all SNES) are following close behind…

How comes that I mute the sound on macOS and I still get sounds from notifications?

My new t-shirt. I really like it.

Airwolf is far darker than I remember it. But from what I read they lighten it up from season 2.

After I read the Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit I wonder how much time I would need per week to get an online-campaign running which runs every other week. I don’t like the time I need for the monthly DnD-campaign. But I imagine that I actually need less time to prepare a CP-session

Amazon Prime hat wohl alle 4 Staffeln von Airwolf in der Flatrate :D

I am watching Hamilton and I really hope Disney (or Netflix) bring more musicals to their streaming platform. I really want to watch Avenue Q for example.

What is the state of Cyberpunk RED? Does anyone have an idea? The FAQ says “end of summer 2020" but this might change.

TIL: Reddit ratelimits your replies to replies to your comments. And this pretty fast.

Reddit shows video where a-hole gets knocked down with an elbow hit, dude does an additional kick to the guy on the ground. I ask: why? Reddit: you do if he deserves it; if he’s an a-hole to my family he can die What the serious fuck? You do not kick ppl already on the ground.

Ok, another broken system in the US. When you do a social media post your employer doesn’t like and fires you because of it, you might not be eligible for unemployment benefits. WTF?

I need to read up on unemployment benefits in the US. Apparently the people who fire someone can somehow deny them unemployment benefits. Shouldn’t the state be completely responsible for this? But this might be my European point of view…

This evening I practiced 45 minutes of juggling and close to an hour of coin magic. This was a good evening.

TIL about Air Up. What a load of marketing crap on their site. Unbelievable. But I am tempted to try it but 30€ for a starter? I like the benefit edition. 5€ more than the normal starter but 2€ are donated. 🤦 www.air-up.com

If you want to watch a light Japanese series that is really nice and has a great intro song, watch Midnight Diner (深夜食堂) on Netflix.

My wife bought juggling balls so that the kids can learn juggle because it helps with some stuff and she wanted to juggle with balls herself. Now I am close to be able to juggle three balls and everyone else doesn’t juggle at all 🤦

There is a Bundle of Holding for Invisible Sun. The 1000-pages pdf books and stuff that you usually pay $100 for just to get in. The base price is $25 bundleofholding.com/presents/…

There is a Shadowrun-hack for The Sprawl (which is PbtA). It is pay what you want and is looking good so far. This as an insta-buy. I definitely have to try it out. stuh42l.itch.io/shadowrun…

The rules of Quidditch annoy me each time I read or watch Harry Potter.

Schienenersatzverkehr mit übervollen Bussen. Da klappt das mit dem Abstand nicht so richtig. Da hat die S-Bahn Berlin mal wieder richtig mitgedacht…

PSA: Am Samstag ist das Strandbad Wannsee schon ausgebucht, am Sonntag bekommt man noch Tickets. #berlin

The Record of Lodoss War-RPG is like when you translate English to Japanese and then back to English, right? RoLW is based on DnD, so why did they create an RPG based on RoLW?

This is a great rpg-idea: you play the clean-up service who cleans up after wizard-accidents so non-mages do not find out www.drivethrurpg.com/product/2…

When machines will rule over the world the only non-free people will be Caucasians because of biased machine learning models. As my wife said this could be a pretty cool book.

Do I need new t-shirts from Qwertee or is it just consumerism?

Na ja, bei 1,5m Abstand würde ich für den Regelbetrieb einer Schule ja sogar schätzen, dass eine Verdopplung der Räume nicht ausreicht, sondern eher eine Verdreifachung gebraucht wird (plus die entsprechenden Lehrer).

Kein Mindestabstand in den Schulen nach dem Sommerferien. Warum wundert das jemanden? Es wurde doch mehrfach gesagt, dass es dann Regelbetrieb geben soll. Das geht mit der Anstandsregel nicht. Wie denn auch bei der Größe und Anzahl der Räume einer Schule?

TIL: There are fingernail printers. They can even print photos onto a fingernail. A bit pricey (like 800€) but this is pretty damn cool.

Nightmares from Wikipedia: “When the wasp larva hatches, it creates a small hole in the spider’s (tarantula) abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara…

I am re-watching Malcolm in the Middle and there are everywhere the good old iMac G3s. I really like their look. I am big fan of that era of Macs. The colorful iMacs and iBooks were looking fun. And the the Powerbook was really another thing in comparison.

I have Apple Music and Family Sharing. I synchronized my personal music with Apple Music on a Mac and can see the songs on my devices. Why doesn’t it turn up for example on the devices the kids have? There is quite some stuff in there especially for them.

Juggling is even harder than expected.

It seems there is a third time in like two years where I will have data loss even though I use zfs. Two times a mirror was involved. Yeah me. It isn’t indestructible and will fail like everything else.

And it would have been cool if she would have done the bar exam and would be a PI with the perks of being a lawyer. That could have been already used in the books. Cliff wouldn’t be that useful anymore but they could have found a way I guess to include him.

So, I watched now the Veronica Mars-movie and read the books. Next up: getting season 4. They could have made a better reason why Veronica gets back into the PI-game by stating that she can help people instead of making lawsuits against rich people go away.

The new stealth bomber apparently runs with Kubernetes. Aren’t stealth bombers equipped with nuclear warheads? independenteagle.com/new-air-f… #wcpgw

Auschwitz-Birkenau needs apparently donations because of the pandemic. You can donate here: auschwitz.org/en/donate…

My eyes bleed. I looked too much at ssl-certificates today.

The recent trend to put self-promotional tweets under a tweet that got a lot of replies is kind of annoying.

Sigmata - a real cool tabletop rpg-game about resistance which is quite cyberpunky based on 80s-technology is currently pay what you want (incl. free). www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product…

At least my Black Bird got shipped today. That increases my mood a little bit. #magic #coinmagic

Bad news at the beginning of the weekend. I am in a really bad mood now.

I conquered firewalld to build a keepalived-based LB-pair working on CentOS8. That cost so much time I could have tried to build a pair with OpenBSD and relayd. That reminds me: does anyone have benchmarks comparing load balancers that include Linux/keepalived and OBSD/relayd?

Btw my favorite Ghost in the Shell-media are the first manga which I have luckily in a bilingual uncensored version and the first season of SAC.

I am not even 10 minutes in the SAC-series by Netflix and I already don’t like it. The style sucks and the behavior of the characters just feels wrong. I don’t know if I should continue this even though I really like pretty much everything Ghost in the Shell.

Die Mega Man (X) Legacy Collections und Mega Man 11 sind gerade im Sale (halber Preis) im Nintendo E-Shop für die Switch, falls noch jemand wie ich drauf gewartet hat, dass sie endlich im Sale landen.

Yeah, the children are old enough that we can play together Carcassonne. The little one still needs help, the big one plays already tactical :D They have previous experience through the awesome (old) Carcassonne on iOS though

Was ist denn der günstigste (legale) Weg in Deutschland Veronica Mars den Film und die 4. Staffel zu schauen?

Yet another evening with magic. I love playing with coins for some weeks now and those Orbit 7th Edition are beautiful cards. #magic

Neuer Markenname für vegane Fleischersatzprodukte „Fuck Fleisch“ Auszusprechen wie „Hackfleisch“, nur mit F.

The upgrade from OpenBSD 6.6 to 6.7 was painless and fast. sysupgrade is neat.

Magic: the only hobby where the first 10 minutes of a DVD will keep you busy for the next 8 weeks…

Veronica Mars mentions packing pepper spray at the end of Season 2 because she might run into this Trump character when she travels to New York.

I am excited. Even though it is only a video seminar but I have a seat in an online seminar of one of the greatest magicians alive tomorrow. I cannot wait to see what Juan Tamariz will teach there. #magic

I watch Veronica Mars and some of the adults are like my age. And either I am a very weird grown-up, or other grown-ups are very weird.

Sad. Roy Horn from Siegfried & Roy died because of COVID-19. NY Times Obituary

Practicing sleight of hand can actually be painful.

Eric Chien is a monster. #magic

Is there a fictional utopia which seems really good but the more you read the more you see behind the scenes and see a dystopia?

Oh. That is cool: Neo-Geo Assembly Programming for the Absolute Beginner

It seems that just using the ssh-agent-plugin solves my problem. I thought I tried that in the past.

Coin magic is hard!

I use a remote server with mosh - which means unfortunately no agent-forwarding. On this server I am using tmux and zsh. In the tmux-Session I connect to other servers - what do I have to do that I have to put in my ssh key-password only once?

Coin magic is hard

When I use mosh, ssh-agent-forwarding does not work. So I want to work on a machine via ssh, open there a tmux and then ssh into other machines. What is the best way that I have to enter my ssh-key-pass only once? My shell on the “jump-host” is zsh.

I thought that systemd-homed is not so useful. Now I thought about it a bit and I see more and more use cases for it and it could be quite useful especially since many people I know use Linux.

Yesterday I started watching Veronica Mars. I am really enjoying the show. Is it correct that the meta plot-case gets closed on the end of a season? How much is left open at the end of season 3?

systemd needs a rebranding. And Lennart Poettering needs aliases. If one of those two is attached to a project, there is just hate coming in, no matter if it is useful or not.

I ordered yesterday in China reproduction sets of Morgan dollars and Walking Liberty-half dollars for coin magic. I really really hope they look good. The real deal is just too expensive (especially with the specials for magic).

I want a tabletop-RPG for Avatar/Legend of Korra. My kid is watching the show and the world is awesome. I wonder if it would work with Apocalypse Engine or Forged in the Dark.

Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows

Apparently I didn’t even liked that post that I “put” apparently into someone’s timeline because I “liked” it. Twitter is just broken it seems.

On mastodon people want that I put content warnings on virus-related stuff, on Twitter people say that I shouldn’t like stuff because Twitter is broadcasting it unasked to people who follow me. Yeah…

RyanAir: Beschwerde per Kontakformular, Mail und Brief nach Irland möglich. Der E-Mailserver von RyanAir nimmt nur aktuell keine Mails an. Ich hab meine gerade zurückbekommen und auf “meiner” Mailplatform habe ich Mails in den Queues gesehen, die die Server nicht loswerden.

Zwei Sachen, die ich vom Drosten-Podcast mitnehme: eine medizinische Studie ordentlich durchzuführen ist sehr schwer und die Schwächen in einer veröffentlichten Studie zu finden erfordert viel Erfahrung.

Never again RyanAir. They cancelled our flight, I requested a refund and a month later (today) I get a message that I get a voucher that expires after 12 months. I can request the money but I will get into a cash request queue which will get their money back after Covid-19.

So, it is not bye bye mastodon. I will just move back from chaos.social to mastodon.social.

So, the mastodon-server I am using wants me to use content warnings if I post something about covid-19. The cross post-bot from micro.blog doesn’t let me do it. So I will have to leave the server or at least won’t use it anymore for posting. Well. Bye Mastodon.

@help when crossposting to mastodon, is it possible to set a content warning? if not, please implement this. If I post via the crosspost-bot (through wordpress) could a tag or something help?

The mortality rate of COVID-19 makes me worry. But the permanent lung damage even light cases can have make me worry even more.

Lese in einer Twitter-Bio “kritischer Bürger” und mir fehlen die nicht-abelistischen Worte um meine Vorurteile auszudrücken.

Well, I hope Rise of Skywalker is better than the last two. At least this trilogy is better than the prequels. But I really like The Mandalorian. It is so much better than the movies.

Rey, Super-Jedi. It still feels wrong. But maybe my knowledge of Star Wars is just sub-par.

Watching The Last Jedi the first time and ehm… is it me or is The Mandalorian better than Force Awakens and Last Jedi?

My son says he had no white bricks/parts to build a wind generator. I think it is a very morbid wind generator… Oh and Tzimisce would love it…

Great. The latest beta of the password-manager I am using on iOS won’t accept the password of my private hog-key anymore and is therefore unable to decrypt any passwords. Awesome way to start into the weekend -.-

The end of a normal lockdown evening. I hope I will be able to perform soon in front of people again from time to time. #magic

When I want to distribute the softirqs of network load over multiple cpus: do I need a network driver/card that supports multi queuing or is it enough to change smp_affinity for the irq? Any recommendations what to read about this topic? #linux #network #tuning

Sometimes when I read news from the US I have suddenly the image in my head from when I was a child or teenager and what I thought about the US back then. It was kind of a land of dreams, now I would think twice if I even would want to do a vacation there. It sounds so broken.

Da liest du ein Buch über die Geschichte der Zauberei von einem Zauberer aus der DDR und plötzlich kurz vor Schluss kommt die Message zum Sozialismus. (Wunderwelt Magie von Jochen Zmeck, 1966, S. 181)

Is there any information what is happening in North Korea regarding COVID-19?

I wonder if it would be possible to build a pong-game (1d-pong?) with the HDD-lights of the servers in a rack…

Zum Thema Ehrenrechte gibt es einen Wikipedia-Artikel: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3… Aberkennung der Ehrenrechte gibt es seit 1969 nicht mehr. #jura #lastpost

1959: “das Westberliner Landgericht … zu 15 Monaten Zuchthaus, 5000 Mark Geldstrafe und 3 Jahre Ehrverlust verurteilte.“ Was hat denn der „Ehrverlust“ für Folgen gehabt? Gibt es das noch und wird nur nicht mehr angewendet? #jura #geschichte #fragen

Regarding my last post to KISS: I never met someone who installed just a simple editor and started his work. Except maybe the one time when I read the John Carmack installed OpenBSD one summer and programmed using only using base. Usually they install and configure tons of tools

My problem with KISS: those distributions and window managers usually take far longer to be in a state that one is productive and lead to far more tinkering (being a distraction by this) than the black box that just works #linux

Someone solved this already I bet: what is the best way to stream my iPhone-camera to my iPad? I want to use my iPad as a monitor to see what is happening but also want to record video with the iPhone

Ok. This is awesome when using Apple Music.

Damn. That would have been nice: Fake animal news abounds on social media as coronavirus upends life

What is your preferred light theme for gnome-terminal? Please with a link if available :) #gnome #linux

I am really tempted right now to do a clean install on my laptop with Ubuntu 20.04 and zfs-on-root with a natively encrypted home partition. But actually everything is working pretty well at the moment. Why do I have so often the urge to change my setup for some change? #linux

Trump: I did nothing wrong, it was the WHO. Trumps parents really failed in teaching their son that it is wrong to always blame others.

There is now spam via Fitbit contact requests -.-

Sozialpatriotisch hört sich an wie nationalsozial #AfD

I needed like 15 minutes to completely break a Ubuntu 20.04 with a zfs-native encrypted home (renamed it twice and after the systemd-service for decrypt on boot wouldn’t work anymore). And I cannot get zsys to recognize my new dataset. And new users don’t get their own datasets…

Meine Frau ist so großartig: sie hat mir veganen Blätterkrokant gemacht :D

War gerade einkaufen. Gefühlt werden die Leute wieder unvorsichtiger…

Nun gut. Es ist doch nicht nur Sport §14 3i i) Sport und Bewegung an der frischen Luft, alleine, mit Angehörigen des eigenen Haushalts oder mit einer anderen Person, ohne jede sonstige Gruppenbildung, #ausgangsbeschränkungen #berlin

Ist ja schön, wenn ich mich auf einer Picknickdecke in den Park setzen darf. Aber ich darf doch nicht mal in den Park und wer joggt mit Picknickdecke?

Also für mich liest sich das so, als ob wir in Berlin mit dem Bußgeldkatalog effektiv Ausgangssperren hätten m.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/ve…

Why doesn’t Disney+ have all Lucasfilm-movies? I knew they bought Star Wars. But now I see that they have also Willow. But there is no Indiana Jones. Oo

FaceID doesn’t work anymore

Would it be possible for Trump to postpone elections because of the pandemic?

I just started to watch Tangled and realized that it is actually a pretty much fitting movie with this self-isolating woman…

The characters of my kids reached now level 3. I do short sessions if 90-120 minutes and that works pretty well. But they are a bit more into roll-play than role-play and it is pretty combat focused so far. But it is fun for them and me :) #dnd #selfisolation

Mietbegrenzung in Berlin hat „tolle“ Folge: Vermieter schreiben hin: aktuell ist die Wohnung so billig, aber eigentlich wollen wir €€€ mehr. Und wenn das Gesetz doch gekippt wird durch Gerichte fordern wir das Geld komplett zurück. Das macht die Wohnungssuche viel komplizierter.

Es wäre echt blöd, wenn es nach der Krise nur noch die großen Händler gibt, weil den ganzen Kleinen die Laufkundschaft fehlt.

Schaut mal ob eure lokalen Buchhändler und kleine Läden vielleicht auch online verkaufen. Der Buchhafen Neukölln bringt die Bücher per Fahrrad rum, eine der Eigentümerinnen vom Zauberkönig hat mir meine Bestellung heute persönlich vorbeigebracht. Es muss nicht immer Amazon sein.

Die erste Vorstellung von #SavetheArt war großartig. Sichert euch Karten für die nächsten. Es gibt keine Aufzeichnung. Das ist einmalig. savetheart.de

I feel like getting a cold. First thing: googling Covid-19-symptoms. I might not have it.

Was mich an “We are the Wave” massiv stört ist, dass sie sagen: die Nazis sind so ein bisschen doof und sind ein wenig Aggro. Aber die radikale Linke will alles in die Luft jagen. Und “loosely based”…das Buch war über die Übelkeit des Faschismus und das…meh

For those people who already set up jitsi-servers in these times: what for specs do I need for a server that can hold a video conference for around 15 people, maybe a couple more?

An astronaut’s guide to self-isolation youtu.be/4uL5sqe5U…

The governor of Pennsylvaniadoesnt think that GameStop is essential retail and removes their business license. They move now to online sales in other states, too… www.dualshockers.com/gamestop-…

Woohoo, RyanAir finally cancelled our flight.

I need a new calendar. Those Only-for-Premium-signs in Fantastical are annoying. Even though I don’t need those features. I would have bought an upgrade but the subscription-pricing is ridiculous.

GameStop seems to think it is essential retail and doesn’t need to close stores 🤦 kotaku.com/gamestop-…

Wenn Bund und Länder am Wochenende über Ausgangssperren reden, dann geht es vermutlich Dienstag oder Mittwoch los……yeah…

My keyboard glows even when it has time off. I didn’t expect those powered USB-ports at the laptop would deliver power when the laptop is turned off.

Nochmal der Hinweis auf www.savetheart.de Lasst euch am 26.3. von einem der besten Zauberkünstler Deutschlands im Livestream verzaubern. Karten kosten keine 10€. Und da kommt danach hoffentlich noch mehr. Das kann auch sicherlich Retweets und Boosts vertragen.

Super Idee! Wenn wir nicht ins Theater können, kommt das Theater per Stream zu uns. www.savetheart.de Den Auftakt macht Jan Logemann am 26.3. Ein großartiger Zauberkünstler der Weltmeister der Kartenkunst 2012-2015 wurde und Magier des Jahres 2012 ist.

Reading the news feels like the notifications when I am getting succesful in Plague Inc.

curl corona-stats.online

RyanAir just confirmed my flight again. To Denmark in the beginning of April. Denmark closed its borders completely until April 13th. WTF? The responsible team is gone since Friday probably and no one works until Monday or so…

My kids just played their first-ever Dungeons & Dragons-game. 3 hours is quite a long time for a 5- and a 9-year old and it went really great. Thanks to Corona and the closed schools and kindergartens I will play it now regularly with them and lead them through a campaign.

Was zur Hölle ist denn eine Tanzlustbarkeit? Prostitutionsstätten müssen auch dicht gemacht werden und Prostitutionsveranstaltungen sind auch verboten in Berlin. Begriffe gibt’s… #berlin #corona

Onward was a lot of fun. And if you like D&D it is just one more reason to go.

Spaß! Ab morgen sind die Bibliotheken in Berlin bis zum 19.4. geschlossen #corona

I am unusually proud of myself when I create a magic thing by myself especially when I come up with it myself or see a performance and have an idea how I could create the effect myself and build it. #magic

Ich liebe ja das Känguru aber der Film war jetzt nicht so der Bringer. Da kann man warten bis er auf einer Streaming-Platform erscheint.

Harry Potter is a novelized Metroidvania. Each book he gets a new item or spell that unlocks new parts of Hogwarts or empowers him to defeat new foes or just upgrades him (like the Firebolt over the Nimbus).

I need to find a way to meditate again.

I just checked prices of Disneyland Paris. 3 nights, 4 days, even with their rebate and cheapest hotel it is 1800€ for my family. That is some holiday I can do with that amount of money. I was there once as a child and I really want to go there with my kids. But at that rate…

For the people who are hosting mails by themself: do you have someone else who hosts their mail by themself and you use their server as second mx and they use yours or how do you handle matters of a secondary mx?

Is it a red flag if a system administrator uses ‘nano’?

FYI: das Zeug schmeckt wie die Creme in Raffaelos (Rapunzel Kokos-Mandel Creme - in ihrem gut sotiertem Bio-Supermarkt und vegan ist es auch noch)

6 hours of work during the night and I have to finish with a rollback. Aaaahhhhhhh

Do I go now to bed, get up in two hours, bring the kid to kindergarten and go to bed again, or do I wait until the kids are gone and then go to bed?

Becoming average in speaking Mandarine must be pretty hard. There are so many native speakers (and close to native speakers) that there are probably not enough learners to drag the average down by a lot.

The thing is that orgs always have new requirements and updates of soft- and hardware brings up new problems, thus system administrators are still needed in the end even though they automated everything and built highly reliable systems.

Maybe an unpopular opinion: but the two most important jobs of a system administrator is to make himself needless (for example through automation and increasing reliability of the systems he builds and maintains) and replaceable (by creating good documentation).

And today I saw on a mailing list again: people shit-talking other operating systems than the one they like usually have only barely a clue about the other operating systems they are talking about.

What is the best website currently to find Creative Common-licensed music?

Pacemaker problems…I just can’t getting this MySQL-replication back up without taking down the primary -.-

I am always surprised how few people now „at“ on Unix-like systems. It is so useful for jobs that have to run once at a certain time and where you do not want to sit in front of the machine for them. It even accepts a file as input when you want to run multiple commands.

Today’s fallout in Barovia: 2 player characters are now evil. #dnd

Using the docker-version of OnlyOffice also failed. I just couldn’t get it to work properly. Collabora was far easier.

I tried installing Onlyoffice on my Nextcloud-server today. I failed. The Ubuntu-package they provide depends on Nginx, I run Apache. Then I tried to remove it and had nginx removed before. Thus Deinstallation fails because it wants to reload nginx.

Gibt es eigentlich PC-Hardware mit der ich mir sowas wie ein 4-Bay QNAP oder Synology bauen kann, aber günstiger für gleiche Spec, um dann FreeNAS drauf zu fahren?

Next in the USA: the FDA forbids drinking water and replaces the drinking water supply with Coca-Cola.

Unexpected development: after figuring out that linking rings are fun, I play around recently a lot with sponge ball magic. Maybe I start to like rope or silk magic at one point after all.

What happens to the food in cooking competitions shows. I find Zumbos Just Desserts very entertaining but the food waste is massive. I hope the staff or whoever gets all the cake that isn’t eaten by the judges. How does it work with those shows? Everything gets thrown away?

I give up in creating a fake-Facebook-account. This is just too much work and time consuming.

I am trying to create a Facebook-account not associated with another online identity. Right now I am trying to find a disposable usable phone number. The whole process is far harder than expected.

My evening: I played around with a couple of sponge balls and a purse frame…

The Lenovo-laptop Robin uses in Titans S02E04 st 22:40 looks to new for the year the scene is playing in…

How do I teach magicians that they know how to manipulate and use perception and expectations but Facebook knows how to do this as well but does it at a far larger scale and not for astonishment or entertainment?

To someone with more knowledge in cryptography and dovecot: what is the purpose of the DH-parameters? Why don’t I need to generate DH-parameters for apache or nginx for example?

I wonder if “Not feeling the joy” is a reason to return something to Konmaries web shop

When did I wake up in one of those Cyberpunk-novels?

TIL: even whey protein-powder gets gendered and there is the normal and the „Ladies“-variant. WTF‽

When KDE 5.18 is released I will give it yet another try. I don’t know why I always want to try other distros, DMs and WMs when I am actually quite happy with my current setup.

Wo kann ich denn Drei Fragezeichen-Hörspiele als mp3 kaufen, wenn ich mein Geld nicht bei Amazon lassen will?

Es ist zwar vegetarisch. Aber Katjes wir müssen reden. Über eure scheiß gegenderten Süßigkeiten! Auch wenn ich Einhörner mag.

Rereading the Lord of the Rings after 20 years and I wonder how I remember the The Two Towers is mainly descriptions of the environment of Middle-Earth. There is so much happening, so many conversations, so many songs.

I hate auto-correct

It seems that I fixed a plugin for tt-rss by just changing three characters.

The best compliment I got tonite probably was: “When I was little my grandpa did tricks for our kids. But you could easily see through them. Your stuff was way beyond that.” And the colleague who wants to get up early on Monday to draw a pentagram around my desk before I arrive…

Delivered a 45 minute magic show at the new year party from work and everyone was astonished at the end. It went great :D

Colleagues asked me to do a little magic at an office party tomorrow. I am very anxious. When I perform in a bar I do not really have problems with anxiety. I think I have mainly problems with performing in front of people I know. Meh.

Is there any other eInk-reader that can also sync its read-state to a decent iPhone/Android-app like the Kindle even with ebooks that are not bought from the store it uses (I doubt that there are yet open source solutions :/ )

And another reason why one should reduce ones spending on Amazon “Amazon ‘threatens to fire’ employees for campaigning against climate change” www.independent.co.uk/news/worl…

Plans for my retirement: creating a TTRPG-campaign in the epic sense where the players are like Luke, Leia, Han Solo et al in Star Wars or the members of the fellowship in the Lord of the Rings. Right in the middle of the real big events and a major part in the fight against evil

coc.nvim - one of the worst or funniest names for a plug-in ever. I always have to shake my head and snicker when I see Reddit-posts like “What are your COC-settings?” #neovim

I travelled back 20 years today and did a stupid Sysadmin-thing: I tried to upgrade CentOS7 to CentOS8 without doing a snapshot of the VM beforehand. What the hell did I think? Well, now it is an Ubuntu 18.04 which I already started to set up a month ago as a replacement.

I just a Lamborghini that resembled a SUV Oo

“Don’t be Evil” is probably for a couple of years now “Make More Money” #google medium.com/@rossform…

Wholesome statistic: no children died in traffic accidents in 2019 in Norway www.nrk.no/trondelag…