RalfWausE

Sysop, wannabe hacker, dad, always curious, slave of a cat

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2024-09-11 14:02:12

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GeoNet ... war mal verbandelt mit Teldanet, hat aber eine eigene, viel längere Geschichte (und führt derzeit eine Zombieexistenz unter anderen Besitzern als EMail-Reseller)

2024-09-11 12:07:13

Like in real archeology, once in a while you find your "stone of rosette" in software archeology too, in my special case it was a CD, innocently named "Projektdaten 2001", quietly and forgotten sitting in a box of perhaps 50 similar CDs in the farthest corner of our archives... I have no idea why I tried this specific CD as first but it was a surpring hit:
The complete source code and documentation for our ancient, mission critical but broken software.

2024-07-31 09:27:02

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In short flights (<8h)? No Problem, give me the cheapest seat possible!
On long flights (e.g. 16 h for a family visit in Vietnam)? Here I will never again compromise... business class please!

2024-07-30 19:41:53

Today, while procrastinating, I tried out various options on the Surface tablet because I wasn't really happy with the way VanillaOS handled the high DPI display of the surface and it showed also some nasty stability issues... well, after trying out the usual suspects I finally settled with KDE neon.
Why?
KDE neon is in its core a mature Ubuntu LTS version which is tweaked by the creators of KDE to work perfectly with their desktop... and after spending now about 8 hours on real work in Zed and various other tools in it I can say with confidence: It totally lives up to its promise.
It looks really nice, attaching and detaching from the dock works flawlessly, the scaling just fits... and it runs absolutely smooth even on the (by today's standards) humble configuration of the Surface.

2024-07-30 11:49:59

Today is one of those low energy days where I do anything, just ANYTHING other than productive work on a project of which the due date is nearing... just squandering the time I should use to code.
Yeah, I know this is stupid, but perhaps I just need that pressure of an rapidly approaching deadline build up a bit more to bring me back into the right mood to just grab my keyboard, put the knife between the teeth and grind on to finish that damn software...

2024-07-30 08:54:05

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It depends... Prigozhin was too confident to have the support of the military and the masses, and it was -all in all- a one man show. A furious population on the other hand... well, Arab Spring anyone?
The worst outcome of this would of course be a prolonged civil war with multiple nations meddling into it.

2024-07-30 06:34:52

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The moment you start to ban people with opposing ideas (how stupid those ideas ever may be from your perspective) you saw the seed of oppression that will at some point used against you... this has been proven time after time in human history

2024-07-30 06:14:23

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Well, I think we just see the beginning of yet another messy civil war... fuck politician who don't respect votes, fuck communism

2024-07-29 18:11:29

OK, man kann es sich noch nicht implantieren lassen, aber irgendwie erinnert das ganze doch an lange vergangene Shadowrun Pen and paper sessions...
https://www.heise.de/news/Outdoor-Ausruester-Arc-teryx-bietet-Exoskelett-Hose-fuer-einfacheres-Wandern-an-9817476.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.rdf.beitrag.beitrag

2024-07-29 17:39:35

Feierabend... alkoholfreies Weizen, Abendsonne und Rückblick auf einen Tag an dem mal alles gepasst hat

2024-07-29 13:51:44

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Wasn't there a report about a factory (?) a while ago where only smiling employees could enter?
Well... i guess that people are perhaps not HAPPY with the state of things is a growing problem...

2024-07-29 12:57:52

Das Mittagessen ist der definitive Tod jeder kreativen Denkleistung für mindestens zwei darauf folgende Stunden

2024-07-29 10:45:38

Somewhat fascinating: I get more hungry sitting at a desk hammering code into the computer at weekdays than when I lift heavy furniture or do construction work at the weekend...

2024-07-29 08:48:27

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Hmm, I think the closest you can get to this is by joining a public mesh network like "Freifunk" in Germany (I bet there are similar projects worldwide)

2024-07-28 19:27:53

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Not stunning in the 'stunning' sense, but more in its simplicity: Medley Interlisp and Plan 9

2024-07-28 15:35:42

What do you do if you have a terrace where the tiles that were laid down in the 70s are now crumbling away but not much time to spare? Well, my answer to this question is artificial lawn.
A Sunday afternoon later it now looks at least not THAT bad anymore.
https://image.nostr.build/0d9839ec537f2e0a1e302b5e724967673810d95988fd546366b63162f66bbbd0.jpg

2024-07-28 12:09:21

A thing that I don't understand is the recent excitement in the broader Bitcoin community about Trump...
I mean, he is a politician who wants to be elected, of course he will talk positively about a thing that will bring him votes and donations. He (or his team) just calculated that being pro Bitcoin is at the moment more favorable than being against it, I don't believe he (or any other politician) will really embrace a technology which takes away control from the ruling class.
Tldr: Politicians lie to get votes

2024-07-28 09:44:05

A few days ago i got my hands on a Surface Pro 4 in near perfect condition for free and I couldn't resist to try out Linux on it... what can I say, its a perfect match with VanillaOS, very nimble and seems to be a good replacement for my ageing Thinkpad
https://image.nostr.build/34c2266dd2c26587fb9e5c5ee1f9e1fd74edfc706e391d2602763f9f95a57163.jpg

2024-07-27 16:22:47

I don't know why, but every single time the state announces that it wants to protect me as a citizen more, I feel somewhat threatened...

2024-07-27 09:22:39

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I habe no idea, i am 40 now and none in sight... but perhaps my family consists of "late bloomers" in this regard: My dad had something like a midlife crisis in his mid-70s...

2024-07-26 19:12:51

Yeah, that was a good day... spend the day in Home office and, surprisingly, I had a good run. In the late afternoon my wife and I FINALLY, after a too long time under construction could now move our bed out of the attic into our real bedroom and our desks in the designated office rooms.
Now, after about five years since we started to work on this old half timbered nightmare of a house it seems like we are somewhat in a place we can call "finished"...

2024-07-25 19:11:16

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The crux is: As a company that wants to stay in business and with leadership thereof that wants to stay OUT of prison you will always have to comply with court orders... and there will always be metadata.
Sooo what's the alternative? Well, going the self hosting path is clearly not for everyone (at least not if you want that your mail reaches its recipient in his walled garden), which leaves the "somewhat more privacy oriented" hoster like proton, tuta and so on...

2024-07-25 17:59:50

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I think it is still more secure than your average mailhoster, and if in doubt: Encrypt locally with GPG...

2024-07-25 13:06:10

My 'productivity circadian rhythm' is somewhat effed up: I have mayyyybe one or two hours in the morning where I have energy and 'the mood' to be really productive, followed by hours of somewhat dragging along until about early afternoon when the turbo kicks back in...

2024-07-24 20:24:01

Well, another day gone, what had it brought?
On a personal level: More energy than the last couple of days - which is good, a few little private successes.
On a professional level: Finished a (sub-) project on time.
Looks like a good moment to call it a day... and move in the general direction of the next available bed.

2024-07-24 17:42:46

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Immer noch besser als die Luft die wir hier in der Pampa haben wenn der Bauer nebenan mal wieder Gülle Ausfährt :D

2024-07-23 18:55:20

Today i went back to install and set up 9Front (a Plan 9 Fork) on my trusty old Thinkpad... my 'muscle memory' seemed still to work so I had a fully running workstation after about an hour.
Now its time to expand the grid and build a complete Plan 9 network...

2024-07-21 18:01:37

Hah, seems like Biden got the message and left the race...

2024-07-21 17:34:57

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Why deal with the hassle of collecting taxes when you can own everything in the first place?

2024-07-21 08:23:59

Nothing beats feeling fine the morning after a day of gastrointestinal unhappiness

2024-07-21 05:38:20

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Fun... directly followed by a long rant of my brain why it would divorce me if I ever try out something like that

2024-07-21 05:09:00

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The club should under no circumstances be able to control the money. But regarding the part of not agreeing with the clubs "service package": Well, in an ideal world it would be pretty easy to just switch to another club.

2024-07-21 04:39:14

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Well, if you define taxes as something like a membership fee like for being in some club, then yes, why not?
The membership in this club offers you (some) protection, some basic services and with its partner program the entry to other clubs based on its membership card.

2024-07-20 12:50:49

Boah, das ist jetzt das dritte mal innerhalb von zwei Monaten, dass wir hier alle flach liegen weil Junior was von der Kita eingeschleppt hat... ich könnte reiern, ach ne, habe ich ja schon die ganze Nacht...

2024-07-19 18:47:10

Its just too warm and humid today to ... well, to do anything productive

2024-07-19 08:07:32

I make the following statement as a former member of the church of emacs (now living in apostase):
VS Code is a damn fine code editor.

2024-07-19 06:57:40

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Hah, memories! My grandparents lived in such a "Zechenhaus" in Gladbeck. I really liked it as a small kid, it had a big (for me as a kid) garden behind it and was - all in all - a really nice place.

2024-07-18 20:04:31

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Ich hatte die Piraten von Anfang an im Auge, war auch ein fleißiger Wähler (bis sie dann anfingen zu verrennen und selbst zu zerlegen), war aber nie Mitglied.
Tja, und was die Nostalgie angeht: Als die Piratenpartei auf der Bildfläche erschien war das Netz noch frei(er) als heute (wenn auch nicht mehr so wie in der Anfangszeit in den 90ern), und irgendwie hatte vieles noch eine etwas... optimistischere... Grundstimmung.

2024-07-18 18:56:14

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Ja, sowas weckt definitiv Nostalgie...

2024-07-18 13:35:49

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Oh bitte nicht... ich bin gerade erst die Pfunde losgeworden die ich mir in den diversen Lockdowns abgefressen hatte...

2024-07-18 11:13:15

I love my job, and I would never willingly harm any person who doesn't threaten me or my family physically, just to clarify...
But, if today there is just ONE more person who tries to make his problem, which in its entirety only exists because my previous warnings were disregarded, into my problem and tries to blame a bad outcome on me there will be blood.

2024-07-18 06:47:41

OK, Biden has Covid now... allegedly. But whatever if its true, it would be a nice, somewhat face-saving offramp for him. I mean, he has positioned himself in a situation where he cannot easily leave the race without shooting his party in the foot.
So let's see if he takes the opportunity and if so, who will be nominated next...

2024-07-17 19:18:47

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Yeah, this "Kriegsbegeisterung" you currently see nearly everywhere is absolutely frightening...

2024-07-16 19:24:17

Another day filled with appointments finished... and I am more and more convinced that they, the appointments, are pack animals. I mean - and I bet you, dear reader, will agree - that it is rare to encounter only one or two appointments in a week. Its well more likely to have either nought appointments or encounter a whole herd of those dastardly beasts.
In my personal case, this week I encountered six of those critters of the private subspecies, mangled with a couple more of the work related kind. Curiously, last week there were nought, and as far as I can forsee next week too there will be no sightings... therefore, I propose to categorize, as mentioned before, appointmens as a herd species.

2024-07-15 20:05:36

Well, "Feierabend", so let's review the day:
-Saved my dumb ass after a rookie mistake by rolling back the last backup, astoundingly nobody noticed anything.
-Finished a project while my toddler reenacted some Godzilla movie in my office... at least I think this was what he had in mind judged by the destruction he left in his trail
-Sorted out a major "Old house problem"... much better for my peace of mind.
All in all: I am exhausted, but happy.

2024-07-15 09:05:52

Backups... es geht nichts über funktionierende Backups.

2024-07-14 20:51:46

With the Trump assassination attempt and everything around I was somewhat reminded of the whole "John Titor" (allegedly a time traveler) thing I witnessed back in the early 00s in some forum... back then everything about a second american civil war, a conflict with the Russians and so on seemed too over the top to be possible... well, now I am not so sure anymore.

2024-07-14 20:12:43

Recently I stumbled upon the Amber scripting language ( https://amber-lang.com ) and while I at first thought nothing good about it I have now played a bit with it and I must honestly confess: I like it.
So, WHY?
Well, for people like me who are more or less glorified digital janitors who OCCASIONALLY code a bit and like to experiment with programming its a nice little new part in the toolbox to glue various Unix programs together and perform little automated tasks without delving too deep into BASHs ehm... 'peculiarities'.
Yeah, its just another level of needless abstraction, I get it, but to be frank: Everything above straight up Assembly is. And while I adore minimalism, suckless and so on, sometimes I have to acknowledge that we are way past the 1970s and we aren't coding on teletypes connected to a PDP-11, aren't we?

2024-07-14 18:41:19

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Does that really matter? I mean, Trump, as i see him through the (mostly german) media doesn't seem to be a person who sticks to plans or has much of firm stands on topics, but seems more or less to roll with the punches and change his opinion constantly... for better or worse

2024-07-14 10:37:32

Lebensweisheit des Tages: Wenn man ein altes Fachwerkhaus für sehr kleines Geld kauft und sich denkt "Wie schlimm kann es schon werden?"... Es wird schlimmer werden.

2024-07-14 05:00:25

Whatever ones opinion about Trump may be, you must admit: He knows how to use a moment

2024-07-14 04:22:38

Well... i guess we just witnessed the first shots of the second american civil war...

2024-07-13 20:21:14

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Definitively... i mean, I know at least a dozen (more or less elderly) people who have a chest full of Krugerrands (this coin was somewhat popular here in Germany in the 50s - 70s)

2024-07-13 11:39:44

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Also Clipious hat zumindest gestern bei mir noch einwandfrei funktioniert.

2024-07-13 07:57:55

Hah, waking up at 01:00 AM to the sound of a puking toddler... the joys of fatherhood...

2024-07-12 20:50:56

Just spend the last three hours getting my mind adjusted back to C development... well, it seems its easier to strip away complexity of thought than adding it.

2024-07-12 18:24:10

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Oh, i am pretty sure there will be a campaign to discredit it if its user base grows to a certain extend... perhaps not an official one, but some "investigative journalism"

2024-07-12 14:25:19

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Der Witz bei der Sache ist ja, dass immer wenn Wahlen nicht so ausgehen wie von den mächtigen gewünscht nach mehr "politischer Bildung" gerufen wird die dem Pöbel erklärt wo er sein Kreuzchen zu machen hat...
Früher hätte man so was schlicht den Ruf nach mehr Propaganda genannt.

2024-07-12 07:06:20

Ist an der Sache was dran? Ehrlich, ich weiß es nicht... nur zum Verständnis: Ich habe mich impfen lassen und hatte danach auch keine (für mich feststellbaren) Probleme, ABER was mir während der ganzen Pandemie sehr sauer aufgestoßen ist, ist das jede Form des Zweifels oder der Kritik gleich in die Kategorie "Schwurbelei" gesteckt wurde...
Ich meine, hey, ich bin ein Kind der 80er und über meine gesamte Schulzeit wurde noch das Ideal des mündigen, die Dinge hinterfragenden Staatsbürgers propagandiert, über die letzten Jahre habe ich aber eher das Gefühl, dass dies heute nicht mehr wirklich gewünscht ist...
#nevent1q…8xkn

2024-07-11 20:29:19

Just noticed some... purple streak... in apps I think are cool:
- Amethyst
- Tor Browser
- Obsidian
- Proton Mail
- Clipious

2024-07-11 08:56:54

Eine einfache Weisheit: Wenn es so schwül ist dass der Kaffee nicht mehr schmeckt ist es zu schwül

2024-07-10 19:50:49

Hah, just found out that I am an alt right nazi because accepting that persons have different opinions than mine and opposing to utterly destroy those persons life is equal to embracing those positions and become a Nazi...
Well... what more to say?

2024-07-10 19:02:12

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I mean its... wow... i cannot find words for it, but a nanosecond after that thought the part of my brain that is responsible for self preservation shouted a clear and loud veto against ever trying out something even remotely similar...

2024-07-10 15:30:48

What a day... after having a really nice ride to work the way home was... special.
First I was pulled over by a young cop about a km after work, he complained the scooter was too loud. After arguing back and forth that a scooter that was build in 1986 in the GDR is simply that loud and that its perfectly legal he called soneone... lengthy... before finally letting me go, but not without telling me that in his opinion that "garbage" should not be allowed on the street.
Well, after that encounter the scooter started to rebellion against me and stalled about 20 times on my way home... nice workout to kickstart 20 times in the humid heat.

2024-07-10 13:25:46

Just had a lengthy chat with my barber, looks like we will have a lightning accepting barbershop soon here in the middle of nowhere...

2024-07-10 09:55:38

Call it destiny, call it karma, call it randomness: The moment the old scooter is fixed and runs reliable the car starts to make problems...

2024-07-09 09:56:58

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Yeah, you are right, normally people are too occupied with, well, "just keep going" to fight for a cause, but this can change. I remember back in the time after the Snowden leaks there was a very strong push - even by normal people - for defense against surveillance. I remember how many coworkers and friends started to ask what they could do for more privacy...
But with other news and other problems this all fizzled out after months to years. I guess we will have to push the matter ever more in the focus to keep up with the ever shrinking attention span of the general population.
Yeah, its like good old Sisyphus... but I think its the only tool we have.

2024-07-09 09:23:02

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Oh there is, a very old one: Boycott
Granted, if its only a minority it will do nothing, but if companies that use FedEx are shunned by many it will have an effect.

2024-07-09 09:10:38

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My personal take on this is, that we cannot count on governments and legislation to stop surveillance (why should a government want this?), the responsibility to stop it lies in the hands of tech people to build and educate the users about alternatives and in the hands of the users to actually USE those alternatives.

2024-07-09 06:59:22

This is gonna be a hot, hot day in Germany...

2024-07-09 04:40:55

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Well, whatever the reason, its a good opportunity to stock up...

2024-07-08 18:29:29

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Well, if I would guess based on my experience with german government agencies this was either a quick decision of some official leaving office and "cleaning house" so that he can not be blamed for something... or a new one entering and willing to set his mark on some "success"...

2024-07-08 11:41:44

Manchmal glaube ich die Stressresilienz geht ab dem 70. Geburtstag komplett in den Keller...
Kurze Rückblende nach ca. 12:00: Mein Handy klingelt, Muttern ist am Apparat, berichtet völlig aufgelöst eine Katastrophe wäre passiert, alles ganz schlimm, ich muss kommen. Da ich nichts weiter sinnvolles aus ihr heraus bekommen habe springe ich - diverse Horrorszenarien im Kopf durchspielend - ins Auto und Düse heimwärts.
Was ist passiert? Waschmaschine defekt und ein mäßig geflutetes Bad. Nicht schön, nicht schrecklich. Nach Einsatz des Nasssaugers ist alles wieder auf dem Weg trocken zu werden und Muttern ist auch wieder halbwegs in Richtung eines emotionalen Equilibriums unterwegs.

2024-07-08 08:03:23

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I would agree with your point of view if we still had the internet we had in the late 90s or very early 00s. The problem now is that the vast majority is controlled by giant tech corporations, under heavy surveillance by state actors and will now be poisoned by unimaginable masses of AI generated crap.
Things like the fediverse, Nostr, the Tor Project, Bitcoin and so on have the chance to turn the tide again... but we have to be alert, keeping the net free is a constant struggle against big and powerful adversaries.

2024-07-08 03:37:51

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Well, I think this explains the "Death" in "Death Valley"...

2024-07-07 18:53:07

Just rediscover a site I frequented heavily in the 00s - early 10s, and which sparked my interest in electronic experiments (and fringe science):
http://jnaudin.free.fr/

2024-07-07 16:08:05

Finally, after years I got the old Simson back on the street. Well, there is no smell like that of a two stroke engine ;-)
https://image.nostr.build/71fb50dd4a382ebccd3ebec8ad1a06fd9c7afbea93d64f3ccabe2cf8b8dcca50.jpg

2024-07-06 21:07:19

It's somewhat possible that I am on my way to go full on tinfoil hat... i am today trying out how much I can really do anonymously on the net using only tails and... it works surprisingly well.

2024-07-06 13:56:11

Very overcast warm and humid today... really not pleasant weather, especially not if you have to do construction work around the house. And especially not when you discover that the main spars off a shed near the house are rotting away and the shed itself is not far from a total collapse...
Well, another item on the to do list.

2024-07-06 10:15:01

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This is a really good example why we need a free internet that is not controlled by big corporations, that can not easily be censored, why we need to go back to a state of the net we already had 20 years ago but decided to abandon for convenience

2024-07-05 19:53:35

A stateless workstation with EasyOS
After reading the blog post of Solene (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-04-20-workstation-going-stateless.html) back in april the thought of recreating something like her setup lingered in my mind. With #EasyOS as Live Distribution I had now the ideal tool at hand.
What is my goal?
Well, to put it simple: A workstation that is in the same state on any reboot. Think about how things were back in the C64 days.
So, what did I do?
I installed #EasyOS on a new USB stick, configured it the way I liked it and installed the necessary software I need locally. I will access a few web services I had already running at pikapods (https://pikapods.com):
- Pydio cells for data storage
- Gitea for my development
- Shiori for bookmark management
- WeKan for task management
I already use Bitwarden as password manager, bit I am already looking for an local alternative.
After I had everything configured in EasyOS it was just a matter of selecting "Lockdown in RAM" at the shutdown option menu and selecting "permanent" in the option to tell the system to copy everything to RAM at the next reboot and unmount the stick. From this moment on my system is at every reboot in the same state - until I select at boot that I want to back into a mutable state (e.g. to install additional software)

2024-07-05 10:47:24

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Das klingt etwas danach als ob ein gewisses Serviceteam wohl mit einem Satz heißer Ohren ins Wochenende gehen wird ;-)

2024-07-05 08:02:31

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I think especially developing countries with a history of inflation / rapid cycle of money reforms and / or instable governments (hah, when have you last seen a stable government anywhere?) can profit from an adoption of bitcoin... it gives the businesses and population stability without tying to a foreign currency like the Dollar or Euro.

2024-07-05 06:49:42

Perhaps its morally not right to somewhat enjoy the fall of the Bitcoin price over the last days... but I see it as an opportunity for many folks who missed the "cheap times" to take a slightly less steep onramp.
I, for one, will surely make use of it.

2024-07-04 20:39:09

Finally time to clock off. My feeling this morning was right, it was a good day, one of those days where you finish old stuff and accumulate new ideas and insights.
As I have written in my last notes I have finished today some tasks that were long overdue and I also did, in a way, cut a few more ties to something I call my "old life"... a life where I was somewhat stuck in a past long gone.
So, while wife and son are already asleep I will spend the next hour or so with a glass of wine, a book and generally happy thoughts. https://image.nostr.build/38244415887e2ad8da4d2cd9a9dc0466cd8773661f9206951ef1990400c75a8e.jpg

2024-07-04 13:03:40

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Weeelll... the last time I personally was on allergy meds I walked around like something out of The Walking Dead. And I am less then half of Bidens age. So, plausible on the one hand...
But, on the other hand, IF this was the case, then this was a fail of proportions bordering on sabotage by Bidens medical team.
So, who knows...

2024-07-04 10:49:44

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How funny it is that there is no perversion the tech / ad industry will not try out...

2024-07-04 10:04:02

12:00 and it seems like this is one of those days where I get things DONE. Finished some small but long overdue tasks, finally updated the documentation on a project... for the moment I am happy.

2024-07-04 07:09:27

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Well, this is why i like the whole suckless ecosystem... The slightly hostile, slightly sociopathic but overall anarchistic climate around it tend to scare away the demographic who wants to push for such actions.
I am pretty sure over the next years we will see the fall of much more open source projects as identity politics kreep ever more into them. The most infuriating thing is, how superfluous this all is... "On the internet, nobody knows you are a dog"
With bringing this topic into the internet they are destroying the ultimate safespace that it once was.

2024-07-04 05:36:50

The day starts with heavy rain and dark clouds, junior is awake since 05:30 and tries his best to wake up his parents too. Everything (besides the very active toddler in extremely good mood) is calling for a long cozy morning in bed.
Alas... its time to get up, I somehow have the feeling that this is going to be a good day.

2024-07-03 18:02:00

Oookay, anscheinend hat irgend jemand den Nachbarn gesteckt, dass weder die Musik noch die ... ähm... Dekoration erwünscht ist, jedenfalls sind sie jetzt zu normaler Partymucke übergegangen und die Fahne ist auch wieder verschwunden

2024-07-03 17:41:55

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I mean, why should they? I think it's universal understood that it has consequences if you do war crimes...

2024-07-03 15:27:41

Ich bin begeistert... meine neuen Nachbarn ballern gerade Rechtsrock mit 120 dB in die Atmosphäre. Reichsflagge weht auch schon.. ey ... ich glaube mein Schwein pfeift...

2024-07-01 13:22:25

Oookay, the company website I am working on requires JavaScript to look modern, BUT I could at least manage to make it fully functional without it. Good for the clear conscience.

2024-07-01 11:01:07

Wow... it seems I have FINALY the chance to work on a real project using clojure... just in time when i have nearly forgotten all of it

2024-07-01 08:03:06

Back in the office, I still quarantine myself in my office and have let the others know that it would be nice (for them) if they leave me alone the next days until I am fully recovered.
One may ask: Why go back to the office while not fully recovered? Well, I have still tons of (highly interesting for myself) projects to finish and I am feeling fine - if you exclude that my mouth still hurts as hell if I talk or eat.

2024-06-30 15:32:48

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Aaah, memories of a good time long gone...

2024-06-29 17:43:34

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I don't think there will be any lockdowns in the near future... too much bad blood, and they know this.
Here in Germany all covid measures ended shortly after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, I think because the government knew the already disgruntled public would literally rebell if they had to live wis all the side effects AND the fallout from the conflict.
Governments may be unscrupulous, unethically, even tyrannical... but seldom stupid.

2024-06-29 12:28:48

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I love the classic Mini (a really shoddy one was my first car in the late 90s)... I think you would be impressed how much you really can stuff into one: I did regular drives with three friends and our computer equipment (bigtowers and CRTs!) to LAN party's back then... Granted, it was not FUN to travel like this but very much doable.

2024-06-29 09:04:45

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Outch... but as good old Nietzsche said: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"