Niels K.

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€)

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mobile-Daten-auf-Kreuzfahrt-genutzt-Rechnung-von-12-000-Euro-4077975.html

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)

We are searching for an abacus for the big one for school. And I found soroban (the Japanese abacus). After watching a couple of YT-videos I want now one just for learning how to do calculations with it.

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 ;)