A bit of the pile of shame
This page is nearly completely part of my pile of shame. How many hours are this? 300, 400 or even more?
I really like the Cherry Casino. Unfortunately I have only one deck and black is expensive. There is now one with a green back. Still thinking if I get me a deck or two
Apparently every magician who is doing video-tutorials that you can only buy, tells in interviews how you have to stay away from YouTube because every tutorial there is crap anyways.
Now I need to integrate Mail better with org-mode. But mu4e isn’t as good as I remember, I don’t like the notmuch-interface and the perl-script I found for capturing from mutt with .org-capture does not work for me :/
After using Todoist for a while again, I am back to org-mode in spacemacs. With beorg and Working Copy I can sync with git with iOS. I also get more into using it as a note-taking app.
Uuh…HumbleBundle has a Spawn Comic Bundle. One of my favorite series. Transmetropolitan next please.
@help can we get the new category-feature for self-hosted Wordpress-blogs as well please :)
Every time I see a Japanese text I am astonished how much I still know. Oo
Vollblut-Nazi, das werde ich ja wohl noch sagen dürfen, ist Spitzenkandidat bei der AfD Brandenburg für die Landtagswahl. https://m.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/brandenburg-rechtsaussen-kalbitz-fuehrt-afd-in-die-landtagswahl/23834136.html
My right arm hurts for a couple of days now. I think it comes from exercises in throwing cards. The little one really likes it, too ^^
Warum wird bei Bibi Blocksberg und Benjamin Blümchen die Schule und Lehrer in der Regel so schlecht dargestellt? Das ist der richtige Weg den Kindern Freude auf die Schule zu machen.
Mal abgesehen davon, dass sich „Digitales & KI“ anhört wie „los, los, die Newsletter brauchen immer zwei Wörter. Was passt zu Digitales?“ „Hm, KI. Da spricht doch gerade jeder drüber.“ Was kommt als nächstes? „Mobilität & Elektroautos“?
Der Tagesspiegel hat jetzt anscheinend Newsletter zum Thema „Klima & Energie“ und „Digitales & KI“ (hä?) Die AGB sind die einer Papierzeitung. Kündigsfrist: „6 Wochen zum Ende des Bezugsjahres“ Mal schauen was sie auf meine Mail zum Thema antworten
A Christmas movie evening I would enjoy: * Home Alone * Life of Brian * Die Hard
“A family productivity system is just what you need to get organized.”
Who comes up with such sentences? Source: https://blog.doist.com/using-todoist-with-your-family-e94862dce94
Shin Lim released the morphing card trick he used in the AGT finale. It is $159 and you get apparently 1 single card. 😮 I hope it doesn’t break fast. www.shinlimmagic.com/shop/kada…
All-Access rockrolls me. I click on the „Wake up before you go go“-morning-playlist and the first song is this
Plesk: when the group psacln can write into your document root, it will put in there all “missing” template files when you change any settings of the domain. Oh and Plesk isn’t considering this as a bug because that group shouldn’t be able to write in there anyways m)
Today’s horror sighting: PHP 5.2.17 in production use on public websites. Its EOL-date was ca. 8 years ago…
I hate Plesk
Oh, I just watched a gimmick presentation on YouTube, and noticed that at one step he just used a criss cross force because he messed up the trick. I am getting better. But I need to train routines and do some stuff in front of audiences #magic
I am speechless: Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html
Habe meine erste IFG-Anfrage auf fragdenstaat.de gestellt zur Kostenhöhe von der Plakataktion (und Website) von returningfromgermany.de Die Aktion ist mal wirklich schlimm und die Plakate bestärken mich im Wunsch mach einer werbefreien Stadt.
Wichtige Nummer für Berliner: 0178 5235838 Das ist die Telefonnumer vom Kältebus. Einspeichern und anrufen, wenn ihr jemanden zwischen 21 Uhr und 3 Uhr in Not seht.
I found this on reddit about a group of pathfinder-players. It is actually pretty awesome: “Help my players are drug dealers” https://reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/9xyg8d/help_my_player_are_drug_dealers/
I noticed that for quite some time I didn’t use any micro-blogging site and just the micro.blog-client to post. Reddit keeps me covered for my net-entertainment currently and home and the popular feed refresh rarely enough that I „need“ to use it far less than twitter or mastodon
Auch in Berlin arbeitet die SPD weiter an ihrer Abscchaffung: „Tagesspiegel: Bauen auf dem Tempelhofer Feld?“ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/trotz-volksentscheid-bauen-auf-dem-tempelhofer-feld/23649592.html
My three-way-mirror arrived and exercising card magic changed immediately because I see how dirty I am all the time and getting clean by watching 3 angles is really hard.
And suddenly the beggar in the subway teaches me a card trick #magic
Apparently sources and spies from the CIA could be found via open source intelligence. WTF‽ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/iran_cracked_cia_google/
That’s how true magic looks. Eric Chiens winning performance at the FISM 2018 (the world championship of magicians): https://youtu.be/CvzMqIQLiXE
Breaking Point is on sale. I just tried it a couple of times and it was enough that I was able to perform it in a way that my kids couldn’t watch out of disgust Perfect for the Halloween-party https://www.ellusionist.com/breaking-point-by-johannes-mengel.html
TIL: APFS breaks hardlinks. The future!
https://buzzways.at/collection/704/
I successfully forgot that there is a Fresh Pronce of Bel-Air-episode where Donald Trump made an appearance. Ugh.
How do you do configuration management in a zero-trust-network?
This is neat: a self-built digital typewriter with an e-ink-display and standard keyboard alternativebit.fr/posts/ult…
The problem with non-CC-RPGs: I do a lot of translation work for translating major parts of Curse of Strahd into German to have a better flow in my sessions and cannot share it legally :( #dnd #rpg
„Why Did China’s Biggest Movie Star and the Interpol Chief Vanish?“
A brick of cards :)
I like it how it seems that each “kind” of magician says that their specialization is harder to learn than the other ones. 🤦♂️
Today I ordered the first time a brick of cards. It’s just cheaper.
Where do I get nowqdays high quality Unix-stickers in low quantities since unixstickers.com closed shop?
Whey is cardistry and sleight of hand so hard? I am trying now for several hours to do a descent top shot and I get them right once in like 20 tries :/
And my current state of trust in card games is a serious “never play with people you do not know”
I just watched a short Shin Lim-performance and at the end it is clear that he forced the card at the beginning, and suddenly I am watching the beginning over and over again how the hell he did the force…my watching habits definitely changed. #magic
Fellow IT-people: when you are not a freelancer, do you take additional customers that will pay you money for your services or do you keep it at family support? I’m hesistant to do so because usually it is not “do it once” but usually they expect then support, if something breaks
Yeah. It is Tuesday and I am finished with the preparations for the next Curse of Strahd-session (Death House, part 2). That one might be a deadly one. #rpg #dnd
It arrived :D
In terms of hobbies where I can also have fun with my kids, magic beats so far everything. They want to be an audience, they want to know how stuff works, they want to try stuff themself. It is great :)
Oh, and it is astonishing what you can already do with a couple of mediocre sleights, a double lift and a bit of card control. #cardmagic
My older son told me about a magician that comes to their school. He worked out the tricks, cause he did really bad sleights by flashing to him the coin he palmed etc. He knew how the tricks worked but didn’t tell because he didn’t want to be the annoying spectator. Well done!
A short follow up. After my kid tried it twice, I asked him to hand me over the cards. I exchanged the cards snapped the finger and the right card was on top. He was flabbergasted. That was really cute ;)
Ok…so I could fool my kids with a couple of magic tricks. Nice. We all had fun :) The cutest thing was when the little one wanted to show the trick my wife, snapped his finger and the wrong card turned up. Snapped again, still the wrong card ;)
Shin Lims final performance in AGT is just out of this world
I have to say thought that I’d like to be more minimalistic andcould reduce my consumerist behavior. And regarding software: I use tools like mutt and vim because they make me productive. Use the tools that make you more productive and don’t trash talk other peoples tools.
Regarding minimalists: I still find those fun that own like a hundred things and one of them is a smartphone and one is a kindle. And they don’t mention how many ebooks, pieces of music and apps are on those. I bet often they are not really minimalistic ;)
This “your software is more bloated than yours” feels like a similar elitism like those from “militant” minimalists: look, I own only 10 things and my life is so much better than yours because of this. Fap, fap, fap… Minimalism is fine but this behavior just annoys me massively…
When I read those articles about bloated software like vim I always wonder what for machines these people use or files they edit, that they see a difference in their daily usage.
Just read yet another article how bloated vim is in contrast to nvi. Luckily even my slowest computer, a 1.6 GHz-dual core Atom from nearly 10 years ago with 2MB Ram, is performant enough that I do not really see a difference in my use cases (even with plugins etc).
Hm…I just figured out how I can”teleport” a card from hand to the other. This still needs a lot of exercise but that should work. Neat. #cardmagic
I am starting to understand some card magic performances and the whole thing becomes even more interesting when I have an idea how it works and see how skilled the people are who created and doing them. Shin Lim is not so magic anymore but I am more impressed by his performance.
Apple implements Screen Time and immediately does it right. This is far better than what Google does with Family Link.
Fighting with a RaidZ2 to get it to be performant. Added now a SLOG-device but it doesn’t really seem to help. Let’s watch that. But I see me already moving data to pools that are just a mirror and dissolve this RaidZ2. And I have to read up on the ARC… #zfs
Ok…Linus apologizes and Linux gets a sensible Code of Conduct…what happened? This is a great development imho. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f
Wow! Linus apologized and wants to change: “My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. (…) I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry.” https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
Out of curiosity I installed the Fedora XFCE-spin on my netbook. And it is sooo much more performant than OpenBSD (both with FDE). I didn’t expect that much of a performance boost. 🤔
That soccer game was a party and I had an awesome time with the big one. I can understand sports fans a lot better now.
My first soccer game I am watching in the stadium
Knowing how some of the sleight of hands-stuff work makes good magicians even more magical to me. The bad ones you see what they do, the mediocre you see it, when you know how it works but the good ones, there I just ask myself: What? How? It made magic more magically to me.
Today I could for the first time successfully let a card vanish in front of my kids: “Where did you put it, dad?” Short silence “Ah, I know, it is on the back of your hand” Slowly but surely I am getting there. :) And my dribble gets better, getting close to an anaconda :)
Freitag gehe ich zu meinem ersten Fußballspiel. Eisern Union gegen Duisburg. Was man nicht alles den Kindern zu Liebe macht. Aber gespannt bin ich ja schon.
Is the weather control-device in episode 6 of Jean-Claude van Johnson an N64-controller???
I just learned that there is a game called Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon that looks and feels like a sequel to Castlevania 3. It is pretty great on the 3DS.
This was a productive evening.
Manual MySQL-failovers…I hate them so much
Hörempfehlung über fair transportierte Schokolade: https://wrint.de/2018/09/04/wr850-schokofahrt/
Manchmal braucht‘s kein Buch oder Film für eine Horror-Story. Puh, ist das schrecklich… https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/hoexter-prozess-horrorhaus-1.4118307
My criticism of D&D and Pathfinder vs other RPGs can be summed up like this: in the world of D&D and PF people speak about “builds”, with other RPGs they speak about “characters”.
Bubble
Once again there is a really neat deck of cards up on Kickstarter: VICE kck.st/2P4GjVT
OMG, I just binge watched Cobra Kai. That series is great!
It really sucks that Wil Wheaton got bullied away from Mastodon. Too many assholes on this planet with access to the internet. Maybe social media is a dead concept federated or not…
TIL: I am listed on RPG Geek as an RPG Designer for the game I once developed and published as a download rpggeek.com/rpgdesign…
RedHat is a corporation so they probably might be able to filter the tone of the important people.
FreeBSD put up a CoC and the assholes came from the community or were unrelated but the “leaders” put up the CoC. I should have a look at Linux distributions and what they have done regarding CoCs and main people who cannot behave.
The edge of Microsoft and Apple is probably that you do not see core developers talking in an unfiltered way in a public space.
Current state of card obsession: „I‘d like to have a black or dark back and non-classical fronts. Oh and one deck of the Touch“ #cardistry
And if you do not have an idea what a Flicker Shot is, have a look here: youtu.be/ktq2Ta41-… When I saw that move the first time I thought: how the hell is this possible‽ I need to know how this works.
I bought last month and this month a couple of tutorials and it seems that it will take ages until I learned that stuff properly. But I really like those cardistry-moves (hello Flicker Shot) and prefer sleight of hand-magic far beyond gimmicky magic tricks.
Interesting thing about the world of magic and cardistry: I can’t find pirated videos and there seems to be an ethical consensus that you do not distribute content that wasn’t meant by the artist to be made public. Or I am too stupid to search but I like the ethics-thing better.
I really want to write but I have no story to tell :/
It just took ages for me to set up an Android-device for my child because I didn’t understand parental controls. At least it seems Google has now with Family Link its own app for that.
I bought now via eBay a Wii U Pro-controller for the RetroPie and have to wait now until it arrives. How is the SN30 Pro from 8Bitdo? Better or worse than the Wii U Pro? I need some decent Bluetooth-controllers to replace the wired XBox360-controllers #retrogaming
I so do not see forward to to update my Opensmtpd-config to the 6.4-syntax. I have only one machine (and a backup mx which runs something else) and I have no idea how I should test the new configuration before putting it into production. Besides the obvious downtime…
Suddenly a routing-loop in my opensmtpd-setup (OBSD 6.3). Where does this come from? Oo
Suddenly a routing-loop in my opensmtpd-setup (OBSD 6.3). Where does this come from? Oo
I set my bird site-account to private and do know my blog -> mastodon-posting via a twitter-spam-account of mine. Let’s see if this time the social network move is permanent in contrast to ADN.
Podcast recommendation: My Indian Life A bollywood-actress Interviews young Indian people with an interesting background about their past. Episodes are less than 30min and the host is very likable www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
The photos alone make me want to play the game again. I’d prefer LARP with Vampire but I don’t know about a good group in Berlin nowadays and I couldn’t probably fit it into my way of life currently.
I just had a first look at the Vampire 5th Edition-rulebook and I really like the photographs they used. This fits the style of the game far better than the comic-style they used in the past (2nd was ok, too but I think Revised started the comic-style that didn’t fit)
Der Retrokompott, in dem ich Quiz-Gast bin, ist erschienen: blog.retrokompott.de/retrokomp…
Why is the blog post on LinuxToday called „How to disable SELinux on CentOS“ longer than „Don’t!“? Why is there no follow-up with an introduction to SELinux?
Except a little problem with vlc the upgrade from Jessie to stretch went fine on the RetroPie. :) #retrogaming
I am trying now to upgrade my RetroPie to Stretch. Apparently a clean install is recommended but I just don’t want to do that. Let’s see if it will work out…
I got now a twitter to mastodon-crossposter recommended. Thus I’ll try that instead of the Wordpress-plug in. Btw. sending me messages or mentions on Twitter night have a huge delay in getting a reply because I don’t have any app installed anymore and get no notification.
Ich bin im Retroquiz vom Retrokompott an Madonna‘s Dickdarm Arcade Game gescheitert. Sachen gibt‘s…
It is so frustrating to see people doing backhand or tenkai-palms and they are so freaking fast. I can only imagine how much work it is to get to that speed #cardmagic
TIL: there are sites out there that do not look like the 90s but only provide sign-up/in-pages with http. Srsly? Come on!
Ein ganz netter Blog-Post warum man zu Mastodon wechseln sollte von Twitter. uarrr.org/2018/08/1…
I still can’t understand why DNS was a problem with my NFS when all hosts accessing the NFS-servers are in its /etc/hosts #freebsd
I still don’t like Debian. Don’t ask me why, maybe it is just that I am accustomed to Red Hat-systems and Debian is different.
What happened that I get suddenly new followers daily on my mastodon-accounts (interestingly on all of them, not only my main-account)?
My video game and book collection is already larger than what I could ever play through and read in my life. Why again do I still buy new games and books? A question I ask myself too often.
The kids have fun with good old games. Super Bomberman is still one of the best multiplayer games ever imho :D
I got this today and as a mail-admin this will find its way onto my desk :D
I translated a handout and I am now soooo close to write it by hand because I cannot find a decent free font that looks like it is handwritten and has all the characters I need #dnd
TIL: There is a Chinese author of crime novels who used his own murders as inspiration for his novels. WTF‽ via reddit: www.newsweek.com/crime-wri…
Next Friday I start the Curse of Strahd-campaign with House of the Dead. It is quite a while since I prepared that much for a session. I hope I can keep it up and it turns out well.
I got today the Virtuoso FW 17-deck and it feels really nice. Fairs are easier than with the Bicycle Seconds I use usually, Dribbles as well and everything that makes the card circle looks cool. Fans would look better as well, if I could fan cards ;) #cardistry
I just watched Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette on Netflix and you all should watch it. This was…I can’t express it right now with words. Just watch it.
And in the late afternoon I will watch Totoro in the cinema. It will be the German synchronization but still great to be able to do that. And the kids won’t be able to read subs thus it is the only option anyways
I am getting more and more into #cardistry. And even backed now the first deck of cards. They look awesome kck.st/2J28Nfw
I just heard parts of the Trump-Putin-press conference. The US has now probably a new power source: Dead Cold War presidents rotating in their grave.
Looking at cardistry-videos on ig is fascinating, enlightening and depressing at the same time. I have a very very very long way to go.
Oh my god. What happened to me? I am defending Lennart Poettering.
Oh my god. What happened to me? I am defending Lennart Poettering.
I am getting more and more accustomed to iptools2, using stuff like ss, ip n, ip a etc But what can I use for dns lookups? Nowadays host and dig for example are not pre-installed on modern distributions
Was kommt zuerst? 10 Jahre Retrozirkel oder Retrozirkel Folge 100? Am 3.8.2011 haben wir Folge 1 veröffentlicht.
Was kommt zuerst? 10 Jahre Retrozirkel oder Retrozirkel Folge 100? Am 3.8.2011 haben wir Folge 1 veröffentlicht.
Paper-minis I got myself 100 plastic-bases for ~10€ and joined some patreons from „papercraft“-artists. Here an animated armor. I guess it can be done neater but this is a first fast tryout. #dnd
Trump didn’t really say: “I’m a really stable genius”, did he? I guess a lot of people beg to differ.
Urlaub! \o/
The latest episode of Reply All about why Amazon has a problem: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124
Thank you, Netflix! Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, one of my favorite sitcoms is now available in Germany. Yes!
TIL: you can search for “beethoven da da dam” on DuckDuckGo and the result is “Symphony No. 5” https://duckduckgo.com/?q=beethoven+da+da+dam&t=fpas&ia=about
Ha, ha! I have tonight japanese curry (カレー) and you don’t! 😁
Big one needs to exercise calculations from 0 to 20 and reading/writing in the summer holidays. I think I will level up the kids from Hero Kids to #DnD earlier than expected.
TIL: There is doping in bowling oO
Privilege
https://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20180701
You should listen to the latest episode of Rough Translation where they show how a mysoginistic talk show with quarrels started to explain feminism and people started to listen and ratings actually were high or higher as before https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624799760/intruders
The end of the series of Sense8 (the final episodes) is pretty awesome again. And it is great how they created so many characters to like.
Ob sich die Bundesregierung jetzt ein wenig ärgert, dass so manches Gesetzesvorhaben nicht ganz so unbemerkt durchgebracht werden kann?
TIL: France had capital punishment until 1981 and the last beheading was 1977. What?
The further I get into season 2 of Sense 8, the more happy I get that there is no season 3.
And so I ordered the Curse of Strahd. Even if I am not a big fan of #DnD once in my life I want to lead my players into Castle Ravenloft.
I am happy that there is no pre-crime yet. In recent times I bought a lockpick-set (a present), loaded dice (another present) and watch a lot of sleight of hand-videos (because I am interested in cardistry and sleight of hand-stuff is fun).
Does Amazon delete apps from the Fire when they disappear from the store?
My fingers hurt from exercising cardistry. My right thumb is sore from trying out to do a neat spring and the fingers feel overstretched from revolution cuts, one-handed rifle shuffles and a one-handed cut from which I can’t remember the name.
6 Parteien im Bundestag und alle lassen sich von so nem braunen Haufen nach vorne treiben.
Und der Verfassungsschutz tut mal seinen Job und schaut nicht nur auf die Linke, sondern auch auf die AfD (obwohl sie das hoffentlich schon tun) und hust, hust inzwischen auch auf die CSU.
Idee: CDU und SPD betreiben mal wieder Agenda-Setting. Die CDU überlegt sich ein paar wirtschaftspolitische Themen und die SPD ein paar sozialpolitische Themen. Und alles Themen ohne Flüchtlinge. Richtig gemacht löst das auch Probleme des Bevölkerungswachstums durch Flüchtlinge
Und diese am braunen Sumpf fischenden Politiker fühlen sich beleidigt, wenn man sie mit Nazis vergleicht. Aber auch sie wollen nur Hass in der Gesellschaft auf andere. Damit lässt sich wohl gerade Stimmenfang betreiben. Das ist doch alles kaputt gerade.
Mein Gefühl ist, dass die Journalisten aus Angst vor Fake News-Rufen einer „besorgten“ Minderheit jetzt genau das hinkritzeln was diese lesen wollen (oder sehen bei Talkshows): Hass! Und dann sagen sie, dass sie ja nichts dafür können, wenn Hass gegen andere das neue normal wird.
I warched “The Pirge: Election Year” today. What a bad movie. And there is a fourth movie coming? Next time my wive is choosing the evening movie. The last two I chose were pretty crappy.
Cardistry is damn hard. I can’t remember when I started something the last time and did progress so slowly.
Eine Jamaika-Koalition stimmt für die Umstellung auf Open Source? Es ist gerade ziemlich kalt in der Hölle, oder? https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Open-Source-vor-Schleswig-Holstein-will-sich-vollstaendig-von-Microsoft-loesen-4079834.html
Today I declared Podcast-bankruptcy and marked ca 650 episodes as played.
Netflix created one of the worst yakuza-movies ever and it is so eff-ing historically incorrect. Except the cars but not the amount of cars. #theoutsider
Da kauft man mal ein eBook nicht über Amazon und schon macht der gewünschte Shop Probleme. Mal sehen wie fix der Support ist :/
I hate this “but my OS is better than your OS” It might be news to you but they have all their merits and flaws. None is perfect, one might just fit your taste and priorities better. And maybe the other OS is just different enough that you don’t like it because it’s different.
Someone wants a password manager implemented as a shell-script implemented in C because it is more secure. Oo
I am now the proud owner of a Soroban. I am really curious to exercise with it.
TIL: prefix w brings up a pane-overview with previews #tmux
I figured out how to get colorized output (ssh -t), so let’s start the script-engines to make my live easier and faster
I just realized what “ssh $host $command” means for me and how it can improve the way I work a lot Now I need to figure out if there is a way to even get colorization working and then “Let’s start the script-engines!”
Öhm…470MB Daten “Der Mobilfunkanbieter der Familie habe aus Kulanzgründen die Rechnung auf 5000 Euro reduziert” (von 12.000€)
When you are on the internal black list of outlook/hotmail/live.com the servers will still accept your mail but then either won’t deliver it (srsly?) or put it into the spam-folder of the recipient. Some messaging via SMTP-status codes would be nice… #email
I still do not get how someone came up with debian-sys-maint-user for #mysql Ok, the security ramnifications are probably minimal but having a user with more or less db-root-privileges and its clear text password (readable only by root) on disk has a bitter taste #debian
If I started semi-regular sessions for Shadowrun 5e. Would there be people interested in that (usual play time in the evening time of UTC +1/+2)? Is there a better platform than roll20 for something like that? Language would be German or English.
Big mistake: I read some articles about Trump. Now I wonder once again why so many Americans thought he would be a good president. How do many US-politicians kind of try to be on good terms with him. And why there is no impeachement because he is damaging the country for years.
After quite a while I did this short 20 minute workout. I am still out of breath after showering. I think I chose those weights on the dumbbells a bit too heavy.
TIL: Doom has a real background story
FYI: I just paid for a copy of Doom 1 (the GBA-version though)
Is there any electronics-company out there that doesn’t let their workers in China and other factory countries work like slaves? There should be something like a “Fair Trade”-label but for electronics.
Surprise: Amazon is even handling their factory workers really bad. One shouldn’t buy from Amazon but it is just so convenient and often so cheap…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/human-cost-kindle-amazon-china-foxconn-jeff-bezos
TIL: There is an -ls-switch for find
Kirby‘s Epic Yarn is such a lovely made game
Because a user requested it I installed nano for him.
And then I sent him “Ed Mastery” and “Learning the vi and vim editor”…
I wonder how much a single sysadmin can break by not being careful in a large company like google or facebook. Or if there are so many failsaves that nobody will really notice when a command breaks a couple of machines.
The next macOS-update won’t be available for computers that were released before mid-2012. This means that iMacs and MacBooks which cost a four-digit-euro amount of money get obsoleted after 6 years. For phones that might be ok, but for eff-ing expensive computers?
I am like more than 10 years late to the game but I have now a Wii (even with GC-controller-ports) :D
But I know now usually when a new Fedora, FreeBSD or OpenBSD is released and can’t wait to update all the things ;)
I remember a time when I knew that I kept my evening free for watching a keynote. Today I checked twitter out of boredom, read a few tweets about apparently some new iOS-stuff and then realized that there is probably a keynote…
I hate the escort-mission in the third dungeon of Ocarina of Time. I wanted to prepare this game well for the next podcast by playing through it. But this annoys the hell out of me. Wrong step and return and do it all over again. Wailey, wailey, wailey…
Ehm… that happens when I search for „xdm themes“ on duckduckgo images
Frau Barley will jetzt XMPP per Gesetz erzwingen oder so…
I just found out that you can theme the xenodm-login. Does anyone have links for nice themes? #openbsd
Yep, I think github is kind of a social network and people won’t quit it if MS buys it by looking how much people are annoyed with other social networks and don’t quit them.
Adding wxallowed to /home for having working python virtual environments feels wrong #openbsd
Some new stickers
Getting into i3 again. It is still pretty good. Let’s see I set it up best at work with three displays…
I just saw the first time “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”. It is a bit weird but definitely recommended.
The full “toolset” is btw: mutt, vim, msmtp, mbsync, mu, w3m, pass, gpg and some cronjobs/systemd-timers (and then there is the stuff for viewing attachments)
Read yet another intro to mutt. When I think about writing texts like that, I always only think: but there are already tons out there for that why should I write yet another one?
I have this sticker for I think 10 years now and I am still not sure if I should put it on my laptop.
Das war das T-Shirt zur letzten Retrozirkel-Folge ;)
Das passende T-Shirt für die nächste Retrozirkel-Folge
Hm…a 1password-file was the key. I wonder if the passsword of the 1p-file was extremely weak or if it is has an implementation weakness https://cryptoslate.com/cryptocurrency-trading-app-taylor-loses-2500-eth-in-1-5m-hack/ #cryptocurrency #heist
I have currently so much energy and motivation that I get exactly zero of my projects realized -.-
Also ich hab ja auch nur mäßig Ahnung zur DSGVO, aber gefühlt ist verdammt viel gefährliches Halbwissen, na ja, nennen wir es Einviertelwissen im Umlauf.
And of course the top-yakuza has loads of tattoos and doesn’t wear a shirt. Why should he? m)
Is it just me or is a female yakuza-member (yes, I know but it is an American movie playing in Brazil) using “wa” at sentence endings weird? Isn’t that like 70s kawaii-speak? It’s been some time since I listened to real Japanese :/
Using this netbook means using the cli a lot but nearly 8 hours of battery are pretty awesome. I wonder how well the machine runs when I add the 2nd GB of RAM. But right now I am using usually only around 700MB #openbsd #i3
The WLAN- and Touchpad-disable-Keys on my netbook are actual hardware-functions and not in software I thought I broke my touchpad m)
I just added a very important alias to my cshrc:
alias fuck ‘sudo history -h 2 | head -n 1
‘
Ehm…if this would be correct, wouldn’t that be a pretty clear case of corruption?
So this means after all bye bye Instapaper, hello Pocket. #gdpr
Ich glaub ich muss das CRE über nethack nochmal hören…
Deadpool 2 was loads of fun
I started playing Carcassonne with the big one since he is finally old enough to play it. It is great and I have to install it on my iPhone again :)
I unsubscribed from your newsletter two days ago, how can you send me a GDPR-notice today?
„man sh“ on Fedora shows me the man-page for bash. But I want to write a portable script…
Kann es sein, dass die Unix-Opas von der GPN Linux-Opas waren? #spitzfindigkeiten
Talking about “unix”-tricks and how to show progress with dd but having no siginfo available 🤔 And my gut-feeling tells me that all those shell-tricks in the presentation might only be tested in bash and maybe zsh…
How do you manage dotfiles with different operating systems? I use stow for “deploying” them and have three branches in my git-repo (one for Linux, one for FreeBSD, one for OpenBSD). What are you using?
Just found this on reddit: Jimmy Kimmels people asked random people on the street to name a book. And I hope the result wouldn’t be the same here in Germany: https://www.bustle.com/p/jimmy-kimmel-challenged-people-on-the-street-name-any-book-it-went-extremely-badly-9129568
Is there a way to build a port in #OpenBSD outside of the ports-directory? /usr has only 2GB, is nearly full and building Lazarus needs too much space. Or should I just check out the ports-tree in my home?
Sometimes I am thinking about erasing myself from the net as much as possible, what it would entail and which disadvantages and advantages it might bring
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/19/exposed-how-to-disappear-from-the-internet
What is the reasoning for having a low limit of how many open files I can have at the same time? What is the disadvantage of setting kern.maxfiles to 65535 for example? #openbsd
ZipRecruiter-ads in a podcast about The education and Training of an ISIS-fighter might not be the wisest choice I think.
Oh fuck. My one private CentOS-machine is b0rked. I have apparently nearly 200 duplicate packages and cannot update. WTF?
Thanks to an awesome friend who helped me debut and explained my problems, I could solve my CS-assignment after all \o/ Yeah, for awesome friends!
Is there a better graphical front end to gdb than KDbg? #devtools #linux
I am too stupid for CS :(
Ar least this time my brain found the answer to my question while writing the mail to mailing list, and not 5 seconds after I hit send…
Aus einem Interview: „Wir werden die Videoüberwachung am Freiheitsplatz (…) starten.“
From an interview: „We will start the video surveillance of the Square of Freedom“
#nowords
After a long time I had today a look at KDE again. And I am quite impressed. I might change from Gnome3 to KDE.
It is astounding how many companies are not able to set correct SPF-entries.
Viele schreien nach Datenschutz… Bis sie es selber umsetzen müssen.
Rainloop is a pretty neat webmail-client.
Schlechter Mathehumor ab Min 1:50, aber doch irgendwie lustig youtu.be/Jq7K27cZh…
There is a fair today and I did some rides which make me think that I am getting too old. I nearly started vomiting twice…
OH Kind in Neukölln: „Darf ich die Treppe runterlaufen? Da sind auch keine Drogen.“
I solved my LibreOffice-problem (setting a background image in the bottom left corner scaled and get it displayed correctly in presentation mode) by creating the presentation in another tool, saving it as pptx, then open it in LO. Now it works and can be edited. What the Bug?
After years and years of using Keynote I have to create a presentation in LibreOffice Impress. And it sucks even more than PowerPoint. Who would have thought that this is possible?
Can anyone recommend me a mailing list for mail-administrators in general? I know only some which are specific to a certain software. But I want for example talk about spam fighting tactics.
The scale is broken :( Do I get now a normal one for 20€ or is there any good reason to get an expensive one with WiFi, Bluetooth etc.? I guess a scale that measures body fat is only useful when it has this sensor you hold in your hands, isn’t it?
I downloaded this PenPal-app from the AppStore because I like the concept of it. But it makes me kind of feeling old because I get only messages from like 18 year olds. The oldest person I met so far is 24 I think. That they don’t take age into consideration when matching people.
I downloaded this PenPal-app from the AppStore because I like the concept of it. But it makes me kind of feeling old because I get only messages from like 18 year olds. The oldest person I met so far is 24 I think. That they don’t take age into consideration when matching people.
I just realized that I play pen&paper RPGs for nearly 30 years now… wow…
I am trying to find some laptop that has a max size of 11.6” and will run OpenBSD and it should be below 60€. It seems that I cannot March my expectations yet to what I find online. I also can’t understand why there is only the Pi-top as a laptop casing for the RPi.
My most interesting cli-find in recent times is: find . -some-search-parameters -exec tar -rf file.tar {} \;
Ich will korrekt sein. Es lässt einen nicht mehr mit Kindern rein, die noch nicht im Schulalter sind. #sasaya
Das Sasaya in Berlin, das essenstechnisch wirklich großartig ist, lässt einen mit Kindern nicht mehr rein. Mit Kindern darf man nur noch draußen essen. Da muss ich wirklich stark überlegen, ob ich das noch weiterempfehlen mag…
The fpc available on OpenBSD 6.3 is newer than that on Fedora 27…
Does the CLOUD Act invalidate the EU-US Privacy Shield?
I upgraded two servers from FreeBSD 10.3 with php5.6 to FreeBSD 11.1 with php7.1. Now the application running on the servers is nearly double as fast but needs half the RAM and produces half the load. Astounding.
Interesting: I am dieting for only two weeks now and my heart rate at rest is going down according to my fitness tracker.
Each and every time I hear Trump speaking, I wonder if it is possible for this man to speak one complete and coherent sentence.
I did it! After two weeks of search I finally solved my NFS-problem! I was so desperate. It wasn’t the NFS and some people owe me something because they always derailed me from the real solution.
I just did a mathematical proof where I was unsure when I started. Then I read in the forum of the math course which made me uncertain what to do. I read more stuff, I was even more unsure and in the end I used a solution which feels like “that’s too simple; it can’t be this one”
I am the master of cross-posting and pretty desperate slowly but surely #nfs #freebsd
Ooh, a new 2600 got released :)
Bei eBay oder Amazon Deutschland nach „MiST Computer“ zu suchen, bringt nicht wirklich die erwünschten Ergebnisse…
Die Dame von der Bank hätte mir nur sagen müssen, dass sie die Persokopie wegen des GWGs brauch. Aber der Datenschutzbeauftragte hat wirklich schnell geantwortet nachdem ich ihm eine Mail schrieb.
So schnell geht es mit dem Datenschutz: Bankmitarbeiterin verwirrt und sie wird sich wohl denken „Was ist das für ein Trottel?“, weil ich keine ungeschwärzte Kopie meines Persos rüberschicken will.
TIL: there are not only licensed mini-figures (like Star Wars) which they can’t replace/sell outside of a set but also internally licensed brands like Nexo Knights and Ninjago where apparently the same rules apply. Keep care of your mini-figures and those of your kids #LEGO
It is only Monday and I feel like it could already be Thursday…
Zur Zeit macht das einfach alles keinen Spaß…
In Germany I would consider the political spectrums from left to right. In the US it seems to be from liberal to conservatism. Why is there this difference or do I make a translation-error and they are actually the same?
I just added todos with syntax highlighting for Pascal and different warning-times when their deadline approaches for the programming tasks I have to do for university. This rocks and even beats OmniFocus.
Hm, idea for mastodon-instances: in-character-instances for role playing games. So you have a Shadowrun-instance for example were every user has a Shadowrun-character as which they post. And then federate only with other Shadowrun-instances.
Und T-Mobile Austria auf Twitter so: wir speichern eure Passwörter im Klartext und unsere Sicherheit ist so krass, dass ihr euch keine Sorgen machen braucht 🤦♂️ https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/981418339653300224 https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/982187919061303296
So, I created now two additional mastodon-accounts for their local timelines on other instances. On my main-account my TL is interesting, but the federated timeline is just too full of uninteresting stuff
Using now a org-mode in spacemacs for a week or two and I am quite happy with it. Using spacemacs for general editing doesn’t feels as comfortable as with vim in the console though so far. But I use vim now for years and spacemacs only for a rather short time.
Dear Company, please tell me who provided you my number. No one of them was authorized to give you this number and I’d like to sue them all. Best regards
“You provide us the phone numbers of XXXX users and your other contacts in your mobile phone address book on a regular basis. You confirm you are authorized to provide us such numbers to allow us to provide our Services.”
Guess the EULA and how should I be able to be authorized?
Wow, this t-shirt is already like 13 years old #tlug
„Alle 11 Minuten verliebt sich ein Single über Parship.“ Aber wie häufig verlieben sich zwei? Und dann auch noch ineinander?
The registry Raddix apparently automatically deactivates domains without notification when they land on the RBL SURBL and reactivates when your domain got removed. So, don’t register any domains which have their TLD administered by Raddix.
Bento. Yummy 😋
The internet doesn’t like that I host my own mail. First the domain of my mail-server got deactivated (it‘s running again after a week, yeah). Now the VM is down because there are backend-problems -.-
TIL: Rockman (Megaman) might have been named Rainbow Man because each weapon changed him to another color.
1Password became now LastPass with 1Password X?
My domain is now down for 5 days. In the future I know that I will have a look at the registry before registering a domain and I think to move the service provider where I register my domains. Their reaction times are far too slow…
SoliMate
A reminder: do backup your data. You never know what might happen.
30 minutes from setting the downtimes until both OpenBSD-servers were updated to 6.3 incl all packages. Nice. Only IPv6 does not work as expected. I have to look into that.
And yes, OpenBSD 6.3 got released :)
grep comes really from ed (g/re/p) but sed is the stream editor and is based on qed (quick editor) and ed.
The names of grep (g/re/p) and sed (s/ed) do not really come from ed, do they? Oo
I can recommend Michael W Lucas new book Ed Mastery. Once I had only /bin available and vi was in /use/bin. I wish I had read that book before. Ed is more useful than I thought.
https://www.michaelwlucas.com/tools/ed
Woohoo, mail works again :) (Even though my domain is not fixed yet… :/ )
Next years April Fools-joke: moving editors around and linking things like vi, vim, nano, emacs et al to ed on selected servers
I don’t know how and why but DNS is utterly broken for my domains. And it even doesn’t matter which dns-servers are responsible. One domain is on Cloudflare and adding a new subdomain doesn’t do anything :(
My domain isn’t resolving and it seems to happen at the registrars level…very big meh…
Each time I have to deal with iptables be it through “iptables” or “firewall-cmd” I really wish I would have pf available…
I have to think about BSD/Linux-sysadmin-Interview questions. That is harder than I expected…and when I google around I have to say that I don’t like questions like “how does sudo work? What are its disadvantages”
I am thinking about inlcuding “pf or iptables?” though ;)
Ich hab jetzt ca ein Dutzend ???-Bücher gelesen. Wow,sind die Hörspiele verkürzt und hui sind die Sachen, die sie noch erleben mal auf nem ganz anderen Level (rausgeschwemmt werden aufs offene Meer, mit Glück auf einer Insel landen und dann ein Segelboot zusammen improvisiert zB)
I was told today that I passed the certification for the internal data protection officer :)
It is always the same: I have a problem in a program, search for a solution, give up and while I write the forum-post to ask people, I see my error and can fix it 🤦♂️
Sale bei Herrenschuhen
I tried now the browser Brave on iOS. I can’t use sites with basic auth and there is no way to get bookmarks from other browsers into it apparently. I am not really sure why I should use it. Do the other content blockers on iOS block so much less than Brave?
What I don’t understand: “Why can’t people can quit Facebook”? There was a time when they joined it for some reason. Why aren’t they able to join another service now. Isn’t it mainly a chicken-and-egg-situation and the unwillingness trying to carry people over to another service?
While learning math I always ask myself: how did someone come up with this stuff? Especially when I look for example at algebraic structures like rings and bodies.
Samstagabendunterhaltung
Just this once I’ve a good idea for an April fools joke for the office (making the unicorn-theme in icinga2 the default and disabling all the other themes) and this year it is on a Sunday. Now I have to wait a goddamn year :( github.com/Mikesch-m…
Since beorg can sync with WebDAV I even can use nextcloud to sync my files and do not have to use Dropbox.
After two days getting into org-mode with spacemacs and beorg (iOS) I am getting more comfortable and it really seems that I finally found a worthy replacement for OmniFocus (and OmniOutliner actually as I was using it) which I really miss since my switch to Linux.
Current state: I have 8 todo-apps installed (without Due and Reminders) installed on my phone…when getting your todos right seems to matter more than doing your todos…
First session of Uncharted Worlds and the players randomly created 5 factions by rolling dice. We now have:
The Empire The Federation The Cartel The Reich The Colonists
I kid you not, it is a very dark and bleak future they rolled.
I kind of want a Rubber Ducky and a Bash Bunny to play around with it. But it is kind of expensive to have ‘em just as toys :/
Gibt es eine deutsche Übersetzung von Steven Levys Hackers?
What is your favorite way to handle todos and sync them between iOS and Linux/*BSD (thus a webapp on the desktop would be acceptable as well)?
I am game mastering tomorrow a session of Uncharted Worlds (switching from Traveller) and I couldn’t remember the name of the game only “something something worlds”. This isn’t a good sign, is it?
I am trying to figure out how to check which commands root ran on FreeBSD. auditd doesn’t work as expected…
lol…the whole Indieweb-thing shouldn’t be GDPR-compliant. When someone on twitter replies to me, it gets added as a comment to my website which shouldn’t allowed without consent from the user…ok…
Heute dann die Prüfung für ein Zertifikat zum betrieblichen Datenschutzbeauftragten. Mal schauen wie das wird.
I need to test something
Dropbox has at least articles about how they work on getting compliant with the GDPR until May 25th. Interesting. But when MS looses at the Supreme Court, it all falls with Privacy Shield probably.
Nozbe is a polish service (so it is EU) but its servers are in the US and Japan. And Japan is surprisingly as I learned today not a secure country for storing data in regards to the GDPR and I bet they don’t have any corporate binding rules or Standard Contract Clauses…
On iOS even Todotxt-apps cannot really be used because they sync with Dropbox. That is part of privacy shield. But that is still kind of risky.
I looked around today and you probably cannot use pretty much any online todo-service for your business-needs if you want to follow the #GDPR. No one seems to be part of privacy shield or has its data obviously in the EU. Probably Things but they are Apple-only.
GTD stands for Getting Things Done. Or “Global Terrorism Database”…
There are modern web services that allow only 12-character passwords. Oo The same service has no privacy policy as well on its website and no info how my data is secured. It has interesting features for my GTD-needs, but I still won’t use that…
I am taking part in a training on the European General Data Protection Regulation. I could also call it: “How you will be able to annoy your European start-up”-training.
This is already a twist at the start of my studies: I was afraid of math and suddenly it gets more and more fun because each successful solved task where I had to do a „little trick“ I figured out myself, is such a sense of achievement that I just want to go on and on 😃
I am so bad at math that I have to color-code steps because I won’t know tomorrow how it worked…
Something is not working as expected…
Hm…
And so my old X201 moves over to a new owner replacing an even older MacBook. At the same moment there is a new Linux-user (Fedora) :)
Why is it that installing a new OS on your phone voids your warranty and doesn’t void it on a laptop?
Once again a podcast where the host celebrate the importance of open source but use themselves MacOS and I bet for production as well mostly closed source software -.-
“feminism and other related ideologies …” Feminism is an ideology???
So, McAffee bought Tunnelbear… I am very happy with mullvad.net
Nice, I received my download-link for Heavy Metal Thunder Mouse :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/… #rpg
The programming-course doesn’t only use Pascal but the forum for the student exchange is a newsgroup Oo I bet chatting with the staff is done via IRC…
The programming-course doesn’t only use Pascal but the forum for the student exchange is a newsgroup Oo I bet chatting with the staff is done via IRC…
My first CS-course about programming teaches it with Pascal… that, well… it is a bit surprising.
I ask for a lightning-cable-recommendation and some troll comes up from under the bridge to lash out at me how much Apple sucks. WTF‽
My new problem which I encountered now on several OpenBSD-servers (6.1 and 6.2) and now on FreeBSD (11.1-p7) as well: the pf.conf is not loaded after booting the machine and I have to kick it once so that it works.
I am listening to Nightwish and immediately I feel an urge to want to play Vampire: The Masquerade. I didn’t know that those two things were this much connected for me.
I am burning a music-CD. This feels so 90s…
I arrived at mathematical induction and my brain just doesn’t want to comprehend it :/
I solved my duplicate host-problem (same host, two names with identical IPs in the FritzBox) now by restarting the FritzBox…
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I am using Fedora 27 on my laptop and a FritzBox by AVM as my home router/dns-multipurpose-network-thingy. Any ideas why my ULA resolves to a wrong FQDN (netcat-2.fritz.box instead of netcat.fritz.box) and how I could fix this?
Modern product development: dilbert.com/strip/201…
Challenges with the children’s birthday party: some kids eat only white chocolate, other kids only helal. Well, luckily both is not so much of a problem here :)
Now I even have to read the privacy policies of mobile apps. An app on the AppStore for opening LibreOffice-files sends all files to the server of the dev for preparing them for the app. This is not mentioned when you open the app, only in the help and privacy policy. WTF?
Social network based on a blockchain. No, you won’t delete this post, we will never forget.
How did I miss that there was a new 2600 released? I really need some kind of subscription or at least a reminder or so…
Ich lese seit Jahrzehnten mal wieder die Drei ??? Ich habe total vergessen wieviel mehr Details in den Büchern als in den Hörspielen sind. Und manches kommt mir vor, als ob ich es nie gelesen hätte (zB der Super-Papagei)
Hmm: „You may not: (i) modify, disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer the Mobile Software, except to the extent that such restriction is expressly prohibited by law“ #vero
Interesting: Vero declares that I own my content but I give them more or less permission to do anything with it (which they technically need for the service) but it is „irrevocable“. Thus they directly say that they will never delete my content even when I close my account.
I am getting old: I read about a new online service and instead of clicking myself directly an account, I read the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use before I do anything else…
Interesting mail header: X-Recruiting: Interested in headers? Join us: www.groupon.com/techjobs/
Google Music and other streaming-services seem to be like Netflix: music gets deleted & re-added depending on licensing I guess. Well, it’s just a subscription and you do not own the music. But I pay now more for music because of streaming in a year than I did ever before
The Google Support doesn’t seem to know what it is doing and seems to be less knowledgeable about things like gmail/googlemail in its accounts than me…
Ich fange jetzt an die Drei ??? als ebooks nachzukaufen. Fast 200 Bände (ohne Sonderteile)…das wird dauern.
I finished Altered Carbon. This series is so great. Really great transhumanic crime story and it looks like my imagination when I read cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk stories. Can’t wait to read the books now.
Priorities: „Florida House declares porn a public health risk shortly after denying assault rifle ban“
And the next family member who will move from macOS to Linux when the current laptop breaks (actually it is already not upgradable anymore from macOS 10.6…) because Macs are just too expensive compared to used Thinkpads.
I’ve beaten now the clone in Wily Stage 2 in Rockman. This is a real hard game. No weapon refills between stages is evil.
Jeremy Parish in the latest retronauts-episode (FF VI): „There was a real quality curve to Square‘s 16-bit-output. Like they started out very good and you ended up with Chrono Trigger.“
Today a pupil in the school of my son told that his father had an old video game-console, too.
It is a PlayStation 3…
Dear iOS-game devs: I always look at the IAP before I download a game and when I see that there are only consumables to buy, I do not even download your game when I can’t figure out if I need those to have a playable game.
My mastodon-timeline gets more interesting. So, I will probably use it more. You can find me at nielsk@mastodon.social
A podcast where the (remote) guest has apparently music running in the background…making the already mediocre audio-quality even worse.
Podcast recommendation: Darknet Diaries https://darknetdiaries.com/
I wonder if there are any Linux- or *BSD-users on micro.blog. My timeline shows only Mac-users so far…
Current state of Rockman: thanks to lots of quick saving I advanced to the Wily Stages. I didn’t have to backtrack to the magnet beam because I tackled Guts Man first. I really hate the start of the stage.
Mein Japanologie-Studium hat einen Nutzen: ich kann es mir als Nebenfach im Informatikstudium anrechnen lassen ;)
Mein Japanologie-Studium hat einen Nutzen: ich kann es mir als Nebenfach im Informatikstudium anrechnen lassen ;)
Oh, a very old password from me which I still have on old unused accounts and when I need fast a short temporary one got compromised. In other news companies (even smaller ones where I thought they’d do better) still store passwords in clear text.
Nope, it doesn’t seem to speak IPv6…
Ok, I can’t bring spamd to listen on IPv4 and IPv6 :( #openbsd
Ah, it is not spamd I think but the way I set it up Where I had to decide between IPv4 and IPv6 :/
Could it be that spamd on OpenBSD still doesn’t speak IPv6?
Current state: I‘d like to have a descent desktop operating system like Fedora…
I really hope the gnome 3.26-port is soon finished #freebsd
The problem with the iOS-apps for todo.txt and task paper is that they all kind of suck. No SimpleTasks for iOS :(
My biggest problem with the BulletJournal so far: I can’t carry the book and/or a pen around with me. It seems I’ll move back to my phone again. And I know me: I’ll try first a plain-text method and a month later I am back at Todoist.
I am close to shutting down my blog. In Germany you are more or less forced to publish your mail-address, phone-number and address (you can even find my phone number). Yeah for lots of data privacy rules…as long as you aren’t using your own stuff. But isn’t it too late anyways?
I read once again a book about living in North Korea and I can only recommend it: Ishikawa, Masaji: A River in the Darkness. One Man’s Escape from North Korea
It is about a Japanese citizen who had to move to NK as a child and lived there for 36 years (1960-96) until he fled.
Great read: „Why Paper Jams Persist“ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams-persist
Things I don’t understand: people doing big talks about the merits and importance of open source software while sitting in front of macOS.
Probably unpopular opinion: people who say that the homo economicus doesn’t work, do not understand the homo economicus
Btw I thought the same and didn’t understand it for a long time as well and I studied economics
Someone probably waited a long time to write this headline: “smart sex toy fails penetration test” https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/02/adult_fun_toy_security_fail/
Optimized ads in podcasts are at max 20 seconds long imho. Then it is usually more pain to skip them than just to listen to them…
Priorities
If you need a pdf viewer on your open source-OS (I tested it on Linux and FreeBSD), you should try PDF studio viewer. Very fast and can do stuff like removing layers from the PDF https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/
Was ist denn bitte gentechnik freie Milch? Keine Klonkühe?
I just learned about the Match-statement for the sshd_config. That is awesome. Thanks @mwlauthor and SSH Mastery
RIP John Perry Barlow :( https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018
“Bill & Ted the ghostbusters”, I mean Sam & Dean. What’s the name again 🤦♂️
So, Altered Carbon is Eclipse Phase the TV series?
My FreeBSD-workstation is now doing the systemd and doesn’t reboot properly anymore. #meh
Tutorials either assume you have no knowledge at all on the CLI or you have sufficient knowledge and explain too much. But you don’t need to know iptables in the beginning. Just how to drop all the traffic without shutting yourself out, open up new ports and make it persistent.
I set up a VM for my nephew and that let me realize that I don’t know about any good tutorials about setting up your first (Linux)-servers and making them secure immediately (especially not in German). Like build it, set good passwords,use sudo, set up an ssh-key, set up a FW etc
Gute Kolumne auf Spiegel Online über die AfD und einen neuen „nationalen Sozialismus“ http://m.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/afd-die-rechtspopulisten-und-dernationalenationale-sozialismus-kolumne-a-1191417.html
And the printer from Canon died. End of warranty was in December. Only one year old. What a crappy thing #fml
I wonder how I could create a staging-environment for a mail platform and how to test with it
TIL: „As in most marsupials, the male koala has a bifurcated penis, and the female has two lateral vaginas and two separate uteri.“ #wikipedia
I just read a mailing list-thread where top and bottom-posting was mixed. That was really horrible to read
200MB im ICE pro Tag genügen für das WLAN. Das ist so langsam, dass es schwer wird überhaupt die 200MB zu erreichen
GLOW could have been great if the most annoying character wouldn’t have been the main character.
Crap, I forgot Dirk Gentley. That is awesome, too #netflix
I don’t know exactly why but Rita is besides Sense8 and Dear White People my favorite Netflix Originals-series.
Is there an age where you are kind of too old to wear hoodies and should switch to shirts?
Checking the suit. I don’t like suits but I actually kind of like the look…
I just posted a question on the #FreeBSD-forums and maybe someone here can help me: Encrypting home on a system already in use forums.freebsd.org/threads/6…
And so I renewed my @linuxjournal-subscription. Let’s see what the first issue after the relaunch in March brings :)
Ein Podcast wie More Perfect aber über das Bundesverfassungsgericht #wasfehlt
I can’t break the habit to hit escape after typing in LibreOffice 🤦♂️ #vim
I bought a book more or less blindly and I thought it is non-fiction about the Night Witches (Russian female aviators in WW2). Now it is a novel with a Night Witch as main character and the love story starts in chapter 3 #sigh
Software review in the open source world works great apparently. The newest version of curl fixes a security bug that exists since before 1999 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/25/curl_carried_auth_leak_bug_practically_forever/ #manyeyes
Es gibt das kommunistische Manifest als Kindle-Edition für 99 Cent. Kein Vermerk, ob das DRM entfernt wurde…
Marxistische Verlage, die ihre Bücher auf Amazon verkaufen…
TIL: the earth rotation slows down every 25-30 years which probably leads to an increase of earthquakes ca every 32 years
Achievement unlocked: The first time I used „at“ in a useful way. #unix
Which reminds me: does anyone have an idea how it came to those fugly packaging covers for the Megaman Classic-games in comparison to these great 80s-manga-style covers of Rockman?
Die aktuelle ???-Folge Verbrechen im Nichts ist wirklich gut. Keine großen Sachen, eher Kleineres, man kann ein wenig miträtseln, und eine ordentliche Auslösung. Sehr schön.
How did I spent so many hours with this screen?
I just learned about the “Horny Samus”-meme. Why internet, why? #metroid
Thema des nächsten Spiels (Metroid 2) beim Retrozirkel: Genozid…
This year doesn’t start good. A second funeral I need to go already… and that one came far more shockingly and surprising.
Fencing doesn’t relay work in my VirtualBox-test setup… hmpf… #pacemaker
Dabbling around with pacemaker and corosync. Some stuff is weird…
I got today an invitation to a funeral I already knew of and expected. But it hit harder than I thought it would.
I wonder what the problem with GNU coreutils so called bloat is. Does it make them slower (any benchmarks)? Does it introduce far more bugs? What is the problem with it?
Is there any desktop environment on FreeBSD that is actually close to its current version? Gnome-Shell is on 3.18 (vs 3.26), Cinnamon is on 2.4 (3.6), KDE-Plasma is not even available on the official ports-tree yet…
Uuh, there’s a 4th season of Rita on Netflix :)
„Im Hexadezimalcode des Bootloaders hat der Beschuldigte den Text „Fick dich du scheiss KT!“ eingetragen.“
lol (KT = Kriminaltechnik)
Adam Segal in „The Hacked World“ about spear-phishing mails: „These multiphased attacks, often called advanced persistent threats, are in fact less advanced and much more persistent.“
Dazu muss ich sagen, dass ich die Känguru-Bücher für großartig halte und auch Qualityland sehr mag und gerne empfehle.
Ich hab dann übrigens jedes Kapitel vom Buch angelesen und dann übersprungen. Selbst die von Kling inkl dem Känguru-Kapitel waren nicht dolle. Sehr enttäuschend.
Diese zwei Sammlungen an Kurzgeschichten von Marc-Uwe Kling und seinen Kollegen kann ich überhaupt nicht empfehlen.
Lese ich das Buch jetzt weiter, weil ich dafür Geld ausgegeben habe oder lass ich es links liegen, weil es Mist ist?
Things that kind of frightening me about myself: I have fun configuring and working with Jira and Confluence…
There should be a kill-switch: „Tour device is too out-of-date and isn’t allowed to connect to the internet anymore.”
At least that would generate pressure to update all this old stuff (customer- and enterprise-devices).
Old Android devices are so broken… a device from 2012 doesn’t know root certs from end of 2010. And people connect those things to the internet…
Sebastian Lemann: „Ich war dumm mit einundzwanzig, ich habe die Grünen gewählt und dachte trotzdem, ich wäre links.“ In: Über Arbeiten und Fertigsein. Real existierender Humor
In den Büchern von Marc-Uwe Kling und seinen Kollegen, schreibt mindestens einer ihäufig, dass Kling so bekannt wäre und dass die Leute nur wegen ihm kämen. Leider ja. Das Känguruh ist witzig und regt zum Denken an. Die Kollegen tun leider weder noch :/
I told myself I wanted to read more at the end of last year. 7 books in 12 days…good pace so far I guess But I probably slow down now. I kind of like the concept of sleep.
Seriously: read the Twenty Palaces-novels by Harry Connolly. Start with Child of Fire. I read now three books and one novella in 6 days. They are terrific Urban Fantasy-entertainment. Only one book left (the prequel). Meh. I hope he writes more soon.
What I still don’t understand about Meltdown and Spectre is, how targeted the attacks can be. Can I get only some random memory, can I dump everything, can I aim for example for a certain process (like the password manager of a user in a different vm) etc…
Why is there yet another actor for Spider-Man in Homecoming?
DarkSeoul? Those names are sometimes really weird…
Sukiyaki in the making
„A Burglar‘s Guide to the City“ is not really what I expected and there are often passages where I thought that they could have been shortened. So far 3 out of 5 (page 157 of 296)
Update: Finished it now. Pretty good book after all. 4 out of 5 , sometimes a bit too long. I would have hoped that there is more about architecture and more details in terms of weaknesses. And I think about getting some lockpicks again.
Uncharted Worlds seem to be the better choice for our group than Traveller. Simpler rules, more or less the same setting. And simple rules are king when you play only once a month imho.
TIL: HumbleBundle doesn’t show you when you purchased a bundle already. But double purchases seem so normal, that they are in the pull-down for support requests 🤦♂️
The Pilot Frixion Gel Pen is really good. Its grip is great, it dries fast and the eraseability is awesome.
A friend went into an electronic discounter & got a laptop recommended with 4GB RAM and a slow HDD. The moment windows update does stuff it gets slow as hell & she wonders what the problem could be. Dear discounters people really think they get good advice from your sales people.
Tomorrow I‘ll receive a new Bulletjournal and Frixion gel pens. Let‘s see if I can get into paper again in 2018. For studying I believe in paper more anyways for taking notes and exam preparation. Laptops are great for writing papers but not for getting stuff into your head.
As I have written before I will soon start studying CS part-time. Any recommendations for getting through math (besides visiting every session and doing all the homework - that’s how I got through all those math (or heavy on math) courses in economics at least)? Any good books?
And the next question is: what do your roleplaying-characters tell about you?
How does it come that the bios of my shadowrun-characters get darker & grittier the older I get? In the past it was the cool hacker, the war hero who used his skills in a more profitable way. Today it is the hardened criminal, abused as a kid, trying to survive in a world of pain
What do I do next as a private project? Move my wordpress-installation (right now on a FreeBSD-VM) to OpenBSD or move it to jails (one nginx/php, one MySQL) in FreeBSD…hm…
Ich empfehle übrigens allen Quality Land von Marc-Uwe Kling zu lesen oder zu hören. Gerade denen die Technikentwicklung und mögliche Folgenabschätzung nicht so verfolgen. Das Hörbuch macht Spaß aber auch Sorgen.
I really like how Fitbit sends me a mail when my Charge 2 is nearly empty, so that I know that I should recharge it soon
My main use of Japanese these days: answering questions on Quora from time to time I wish it could be more useful.
Oh @nelstrom is writing a new book and you can already buy it pragprog.com/book/modv… #vim #neovim
An interesting article you should read: “A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America” www.theguardian.com/society/2…
There were some snapshots on my FreeNAS from June that didn’t get deleted. They just used up several hundred GB and I wondered where all my space went.
Mr Robot Season 3 finished. Now I curious about things to come.
I want this, too: in Iceland there is a tradition that people give each other books as Christmas presents, open them right away and read the rest of the evening while drinking hot chocolate etc jolabokaflod.org/about/fou…
freebsd-update forgot to install three files which led to me not being able to log in anymore after a reboot. Yeah ipmi. Copied the files from my machine to an iso, mounted that, copied the files to the correct location and it worked again. What a fuck up
I added today the task “Develop master plan for 2018” onto my todo-list for tomorrow… 1.5 weeks left until vacation \o/
Yeah, the certificate from my university came and I have now officially a Magister. And in good old Magister-tradition I needed 20+ semesters ;)
And tonight I will fill out the application for starting a B.Sc.-program in Computer Science :)
Ich glaube ich habe gerade das erste Mal bewusst den Gender-* benutzt
Some very nifty ssh-tips in this article: blogs.perl.org/users/smy…
Order pizza from vim: github.com/arithran/…
Ok, Bud Spencer und Terence Hill auf Italienisch zu sehen ist ungewohnt.
Well, FML. macOS 10.13, root-problem published. I set a root-password. I install Security 2017-001 which should fix the problem. I couldn’t even unlock with the set pw, thought I mistyped. I installed 10.13.1 and root works without a password again. Thanks Apple!
And his wive is actually the one who makes the career and he has to move with her and not the other way around. And she looks like a „normal“ woman not like some super sexed up doll. #diehard
Odd thing I find fascinating about Die Hard 1 & 2 is that the hero doesn’t get the some new girl in each movie but that he just tries to save his wive and wants to see his kids.
Why does it at least feel like there are so many tutorials, books and courses about shell-scripting that are just about bash but not about POSIX-shell scripting? With the latter one people can write portable scripts.
An Open Source application that explains that it is designed to be not tied to any one company/service and its only way initially to sync is OneDrive and not something like Nextcloud (planned though) m(
Security vs Business www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/1…
I read a biography about RMS and now I am really thinking about calling the OS GNU/Linux and not just Linux.
I hate computers…
Since kids can unlock their parents iPhone Xs with FaceID I can’t wait for the news coming out when the first kid emptied their parents credit card with in-app purchases.
I call this sunday “whiny sunday”
And now the migration assistant fucks up. Once upon a time Intold people to get Macs because “It just works” Apple what happened to you?
Ha, I have an „alias -s py=python“ in my zshrc That‘s why it is not working
What the hell? The shebang-works when called from bash but not in zsh? Oo
I am on Fedora 27 and a #!/usr/bin/env python3 gives me #python 2.7 according to sys.version
But when I run env python3 in the shell it shows me python 3.6
Why???
Woohoo, I have a booting system again. Let’s get this data from the backup again onto the system. Via USB 2……
An installation- or major upgrade fuck up makes you hate probably any operating system…
Now I try a clean install of High Sierra from a USB-stick. Let’s see if this works out :/
Yep, crash with the same problem. A couple of hours wasted. Now to the USB-installer. Meh. It needs ages to download with this slow connection. Thanks Apple for showing me what is great about the BSDs and Linux. #macos #update
Fuck. Now the damn thing might be stuck again and no eff-ing information what is happening. Argh. #macos #update
And there is no log and no verbosity at all. Why Apple? I want to know what the computer is doing.
After waiting for over an hour while looking at an install-screen for macOS, it rebooted and tells me now „Installing: 45 minutes“, „Installing: estimated time is being calculated“ (roughly translated from German. This is no fun…
After waiting for over an hour while looking at an install-screen for macOS, it rebooted and tells me now „Installing: 45 minutes“, „Installing: estimated time is being calculated“ (roughly translated from German. This is no fun…
I’d really like to take part in a politics or economics-podcast. Or at least have an interesting conversation about those areas. I really miss that from university :/
I just saw Die Hard. Those were the times where my studies in Japanese science and economics probably would have been more “profitable” than my hobby “doing stuff with computers”.
From a book about operating systems: „Idle lawyers tend to become politicians, so there is a certain social value in keeping lawyers busy.“ (Operating System Concepts Essentials)
Cars 3 was faaaar better than expected :D
And now: two overly happy kids
and Cars 3 in the movies
Watched Stranger Things, did some dumbbell training and meditated. Sounds like a good Sunday evening
Today‘s The Daily is imho one of the best produced podcast-episodes I‘ve listened to in a long time. Besides that it is interesting mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/1…
I need to start meditating again.
Achievement unlocked: die erste Box Weihnachtskekse vor dem 1.12./1. Advent gebacken und aufgegessen. (Gebacken letzte Woche, heute aufgegessen)
I just saw for the first time Deadpool. That was fun :D
Your security-software can’t authenticate on my mail server. „The settings seem to be standard. Can you try it on port 25 without SSL?“
No…and I even have to reconfigure submission for allowing auth w/out TLS…
Pinocchios Schlaraffenland wurde heute im Kindertheater mit Sonnenstuhl, VR-Brille und Diskokugel dargestellt. Der Fuchs war nen Alki und die Katze hat gekokst. Sehr abgefahrenes Stück.
I have to look into Bitwarden. That might be a way to replace password-store for me and have a self-hosted password manager solution for the family.
TIL there is SNI for pop3, imap and smtp. But clients do not necessarily support it.
Monitoring: a cron job, which runs a script to let a command write something into a file and send it per mail. Because it is the fastest way to implement this as a quick fix. I bet some day it will be explained with “because of reasons” m) #sysadminslife
This page is nearly completely part of my pile of shame. How many hours are this? 300, 400 or even more?
Woohoo, I got a message from the university that I passed everything in Japanese Science and Economics and will get my certificate in 4 weeks \o/
The repo for the game: dissent on github #rpg
For the thing I have in mind right now the working title probably changes from „Menschmaschinen“ to „Dissent“
Instead of doing more posts about a game on the blog, I think I will start soon-ish a github-repo where I write in public. Issues for feedback, pull requests for corrections ;) #rpg
And now: Mr. Robot
Isn’t it part of studying to get deep into a topic even outside of that what is in your curriculum? Get yourself knowledge in the topics you are studying and try to get knowledge beyond that? It is not school anymore, you should get beyond the script from the prof.
I am listening to a podcast about how the university economics programs changed after the financial crisis. And I am only thinking: yes, they taught me mainly the mainstream and that was already a lot. But the rest I did in my off-time with books and papers.
And what I definitely like better than in Samus Returns: run, shoot while running and continue running instead of run, stop wait, wait for the massive attack, counter it, shoot, run. And the Metroid-fights aren’t so cumbersome. #metroid2
Ok, Metroid 2 is better than I remember. Thanks @retronauts for bringing me back to the game.
Hm, xfs allocates disc space dynamically dependent on file size - then a 4GB-file can become an 8GB-file…yeah… www.fromdual.com
Btw. it was also very annoying when I wrote that macOS and Apple-hardware is awesome (quiet, fast, long battery life) and some F/OSS-zealot came and told me that Apple sucks and that their computers are way overpriced.
Every time I say I don’t want to spend a ton of money on non-serviceable computers anymore, an Apple-zealot comes and tells me that F/OSS-systems suck and only power users can use them. It is so annoying.
She even thinks about using a Raspberry Pi because it might be sufficient ;)
When the MacBook Air dies, my wife will probably switch to Linux. We both don’t want to spend anymore more than 1500€ for a computer for our use cases.
I listened yesterday to newest Retronauts-episode about Metroid 2 and its remake. Now I really want to give Metroid 2 another chance.
The MacBook Air of my wife makes problems. Now I am thinking about what a replacement could be if it breaks down at some point…
The MacBook Air of my wife makes problems. Now I am thinking about what a replacement could be if it breaks down at some point…
Unheil abgewendet #puuuuuuuh
A recruiting mail where I’d like to write: “Please read my profile before you send me your spam”
Aaahhhh
I ran into an edge-case of Exim and SRS. This cost me now 4 hours for 3 mails that couldn’t get sent out yesterday but work now. And I don’t think that this will get fixed.
I don’t know why but I am in an extremely good mood :D
I am listening to The Daily and the guest arguments that you need to arm up because there are so many weapons in the US… m(
I think that the Cyberpunk-like game will take up the „rebellion“-setting first. In the spirit of Walkaway, Little Brother and Homeland. There are enough games out there where you are the criminal for gain or on the opressors side.
There is no „man hier“ on openindiana? Oo
I just needed three tries to write and figure out how Illumos is called and spelled m(
Shouldn’t the „evil“ permissions be 666 and not 777?
Woohoo, das Gutachten für meine Magisterarbeit ist endlich fertig und es ist absehbar, dass ich ein Zeugnis bekomme.
How people react to “circle-instead-of-character count” on Twitter is soooo weird…
Ich finde es ein wenig nervig, dass die Podcasternachrichtencasts, die ich höre so viel über Trump berichten…
Gerade einen alten Twitter-Post von mir gesehen “Gibt’s bei Vollbeschäftigung freiwillige Arbeitslosigkeit”. Ja, Herr Kobschätzki, ja.
I wonder how bearable a git/taskpaper-Workflow with Working Copy and Taskmator on the iPhone is…on my computers it is pretty good though with my current working environment
A first try to microblog from Wordpress until micro.blog arrives