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Cleaning out my digital closet
An inquiry into the profound satisfaction of deleting things you thought you might need someday, and the unexpected peace of keeping your services out of public reach.
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Upon the Latest PHP Calamity
Scarcely has the ink dried upon the previous patch before PHP presents us with yet another conundrum. A meditation on immortal monsters, tabloid hysterics, and the solace of the private tunnel.
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If You Find the Energy to Get It Done
A long-overdue sign of life, the retirement of dynamic nuisances, and a retreat into static simplicity.
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Kindheitserinnerungen
It's kind of funny to see some childhood memories again. Speaking of the past, I never had my own Tamagotchi and thus the joy of playing on one as I was mostly helping others out fixing theirs. So all that was left fo...
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Goodbye PHP 8.0, goodbye old stargazer.at page.
Somehow www.stargazer.at was always one of those pet projects who got way less love than they deserved - especially since I run blog pages. Just in time, PHP 8.0 went EOL and it happened to be the stuff that powered t...
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Settling the AdGuard vs PiHole debate for good
There is no way of keeping your sanity while surfing the web without adblocking. Seriously. Ads everywhere and it's just plain annoying - and sometimes even eating up your bandwidth. On a PC there are loads of tools t...
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Twitter vs Elon Musk
This post is only available in its original language (German).
Nachdem sich nun die Farce der ganze Prozess um den Kauf von Twitter gelegt hat, liest man die eine oder andere Nachricht dass Musk einen Haufen Leute entlässt bzw. das Unternehmen großzügig umbaut. Was soll man dazu...
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Matrix vs Ntfy - detective work
I'm running my own Matrix homeserver for a number of reasons - one of them is simply economical as 'disk space' on a mobile phone is way more expensive than on a server. You can easily slap a few TB into a server with...
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Blogs zusammenführen
At this point I slowly got used to Grav and I'm at the point of migrating all my blogs and cleaning up the mess on stargazer.at - I managed to have way too many subdomains active and some are even barely taken care of...
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Amazon mag mich offenbar nicht
This post is only available in its original language (German).
Heute brachte Amazon hier das Fass zum Überlaufen - also habe ich mich entschieden, das ganze Thema hier zu dokumentieren, wie es sich zugetragen hat. Wir beginnen am 20. August des Vorjahres, zu deren Zeit ich mir ei...
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Ich lebe noch
This post is only available in its original language (German).
"Was ist denn hier passiert?" - diese Frage wird sich der Eine oder Andere Leser stellen - und ich möchte sie beantworten: Ich hatte die Nase von Wordpress einfach gestrichen voll und mich für einen Umbau entschieden,...
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What's in my PC?
A post from Rei's World.
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Building the kernel with clang: messing around
The Linux kernel is an ingenious piece of software and I'm pretty confident in compiling it by myself since quite a while - so I was trying to step up the game by doing debian packages. But now as the Kernel supports...
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Working my way to automatic kernel builds
It's pretty obvious, that me maintaining the debian kernel repository which I announced in this post is a lot of work as I offer up to 4 flavors - which are 'vanilla', 'vm' and both for the gentoo patchset, I had to i...
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Ein Streaming-Abenteuer
This post is only available in its original language (German).
Liebe Leser, ich muss euch was beichten. Ich streame. Die volle Story hier nun als kleine Geschichte, damit ihr sie - wenn ihr sie verpasst habt, nachlesen könnt: Ich habe mir in den Kopf gesetzt, mal wieder etwas akt...
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Bash files vs configuration
You guys know me, I do script a lot of stuff to make my life easier. Starting from my (smart)home to my server maintenance - it just saves too much time. And today I would like to share some ideas on how (not?) to wor...
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Yubikey for system auth
Linux is a beautiful system that can be customized in very many ways - it amazes me everytime how easy or which features I can add to my system for making life easier for me. Today: Login using the Yubikey. System Aut...
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Central logging vs dns targets
Oh boy - I was not ready for a hit like that. But let me start with the whole picture, shall we? I do run a central syslog using graylog and I tend to ship my logs to that device for easier searching and poking around...
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ccache on kernels
As I am building debian packages of recent kernels , I have to build the same thing over and over again - pretty much three times to be exact. Once for 'vanilla', second time for virtual machines and third time for ga...
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YouTube und 'lass uns hacken'
This post is only available in its original language (German).
Mein Zugang zum Thema 'hacking' ist ein Anderer als es üblich ist: Ich bin oft damit beschäftigt und versuche in meine eigenen Netzwerke einzubrechen um ihre Sicherheit zu testen. Da man bei diesen Tests oftmals etwas...
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