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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Reminds me of the big fun fair last year. There have been some incidents in the last years where idiots (either islamic terrorists of white people with mental issues, your choice) have driven cars into groups of people, so there was a rather immense police presence on that fair. As they had promised on the radio they had both uniformed and civilian officers patrolling. I have no idea why they bother with civilian clothes, as the groups of non-uniformed policemen really stuck out like sore thumbs in the flow of happy, carelessly celebrating people. They could have worn helmets with flashing lights and not be any more noticable.


  • With tools it is often the thing with “newer, easier” and “old reliable” versions. If you want to write and print a text, Word might be easier, but TeX is still more predictable and reliable. And with software like the literally CORE utils, I actually prefer predictable and reliable over fancy eye candy. I could easily see to have them both installed, so everything that worked before still works without the risk of breaking at some odd point, but might use the Rust version like “Rcp -g” if applicable.









  • I use my former PC as the home server. It is probably 10+ years old, has no M2 slot or something, but an SSD for the OS. More than big and fast enough for all my needs: File service (Samba), Web service (apache2), Wiki service (mediawiki), Database (MySQL), Calendar service (Radicale), Project service (Subversion), and probably some others I forgot. All of it running on Ubuntu Server, aministrated by WebMin.

    The only investment I did when I turned this into a server was that I put 2x8TB in it as a RAID for bulk storage - I dump the family PCs backups on that machine, too.