Category: General / Allgemein

if there are problems… run this one-liner… and ESPECIALLY with let’s encrypt… watch CAREFULLY… as not all errors might show up in a nice red color as errors might NOT be reported for the domainX.com that causes the error… but […]

something must have gone wrong during a apt update && apt upgrade… the /etc/apt/sources.list suddenly… is empty. GNU Linux Debian 11 (bullseye) default sources.list non-encrypted-transmission deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security […]

(has nothing to do with the drug) “Crystal is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language, designed and developed by Ary Borenszweig, Juan Wajnerman, Brian Cardiff and more than 300 contributors.[5] With syntax inspired by the language Ruby,[4] it is a compiled […]

TLC last longer and are faster but also more expensive

RetroArch ROCKS! with those cold and dark winter times coming around again, it’s time for some (CO2 neutral because Solar Power stored in battery) GAMING! 😀 get a gamepad 😀 can recommend: logitech f310 search eBay (buy second hand if […]

Efficiency is good in terms of: saving resources. Same results with less (power and other) input. BUT: good people need to be cultivated, by culture. Culture does not simply mean “gifts on Christmas” and “Lederhosen”. (that’s what it has become, […]

in order to preserve best audio quality instead of converting audio, it is better (better audio quality and also faster) to simply extract the aac from an mp4 like this: vim /scripts/aacFromMp4.sh #!/bin/bash # 🙂 ffmpeg rocks! if [ -z […]

How to create an encrypted USB stick Creating an encrypted USB stick under GNU/Linux is fairly ease. First lets install required packages and erase everything from the stick export USB_STICK=”/dev/sdb” apt-get install parted cryptsetup-bin shred -n 10 -v -z “${USB_STICK}” […]

software minimalism is key for stability, maintainability, security and performance so regularly check, what services are running and if they can be disabled/uninstalled 🙂 systemd: systemctl.man.txt # list all units (list can be /searched like less) systemctl # list all […]

Pro: schneller Techniker vor Ort wenn man Business Kunde ist Con: katastrophaler kompetenz & service egal ob am Telefon oder vor Ort beim ersten Anruf bei der Nicht-Business Hotline, tatsächlich schnell jemand erreicht mit dem Hinweis: Er sei der falsche, […]

login to mysql: su – root; list all available databases: # login & send command to mysql & logout mysql -u root -e ‘show databases’ -s –skip-column-names # or login mysql -u root -p; # enter command mysql> show databases; […]

currently wrestling with a LTE modem, that used to work under Ubuntu, but refuses to work under Debian 11. while true; do echo “=== show modem status:”; mmcli -m 1|grep -e model -e primary -e state -e signal; echo -e […]

trying to redirect to: https://dwaves.de/2022/06/14/hardware-review-usb-to-nvme-adapter-asus-usb-3-2-gen-2-type-c-m-2-nvme-ssd-to-usb-adapter-also-known-as-rog-strix-arion-vs-inateck-m-2-nvme-2-usb-adapter/ because wp failed this time…

So Tuxedo has no direct cooperation with System76 but maybe with this company: as the “TUXEDO InfinityBook S 14 Gen6” = “System76 Lemur Pro” = “CLEVO L141MU” = HYPERBOOK L14 ULTRA” Clevo sub company in Germany, main company in Poland […]

Updates are sometimes welcome, sometimes hated. This is how the slogan: “never touch a running/working system” originated. But in the times of the wild west internet, all directly or indirectly internet connected devices need to stay as up to date […]

which pretty much reads like: it probably has to do with: https://wiki.mozilla.org/ServerJS/Introduction (used in firefox and/or thunderbird?) (checkout this search for more javascript rants X-D) one day either JavaScript or Autocomplete will cause the 3rd world war: now imagine Biden […]

all those pictures were post processed with “Auto Adjust” via RawTherapie Open Source picture optimizer. 1x Zoom 4:3 3x Zoom 4:3 10x Zoom 4:3 1x Zoom 108MP Mode: without RawTherapie: with RawTherapie post processing: (click on the pictures to get […]

they are fast, they are small, they use very little energy (less than 30W), the Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p Tiny despite being also pretty old (2012/2013) it still rocks, the naming ain’t sexy, but they work very well. now let’s look […]

what’s in the (Debian apt) repo concerning RSS (News) Feeds? apt search rss … then manually filtered. akregator/stable 4:20.08.3-1 amd64 RSS/Atom feed aggregator cairo-dock-rssreader-plug-in/stable 3.4.1+git20201022.a0d3415c-1 amd64 RSS Reader plug-in for Cairo-dock chromium-tt-rss-notifier/stable 0.5.2-2.1 all Chromium extension providing toolbar button for […]

Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]

cyber is on heightened alarm levels … ya’ll know why. timeline of a successful attack on the most basic tools like: exiftool cve-2021-22204 (failed to properly validate parsed input) This was reported by a security researcher on April 7, 2021, […]

a word of warning: NEVER EVER INSTALL GAMES ON “FOR WORK” MACHINES! also: NEVER run any downloaded games while being connected to a network of importance (no matter if private or business) (nobody knows what those C++ dlls are up […]

a word of warning: NEVER EVER INSTALL GAMES ON “FOR WORK” MACHINES! NEVER run any downloaded games while being connected to a network of importance (no matter if private or business) (nobody knows what those C++ dlls are up to) […]

update: there is indeed a small screw missing from the angle grinder: Ersatzteilinformation: part detailed information: 1603300016 Sachnummer:  1603300016 Beschreibung: Sechskantmutter DIN-Text:  M7, SW10 Preis * 1,04  €* Preisgruppe 11 * Alle Preise inkl. Mehrwertsteuer zzgl. Versandkosten Always say something […]

Update: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-uses-ai-software-improve-its-surveillance-capabilities-2022-04-08/ https://merics.org/en/merics-briefs/china-2022-look-ahead PSS: PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT IT-SECURITY IS TIGHT! & IT WON’T BECOME “SKYNET“ Terminator Skynet AI Network: damn, those Terminator robots have good dentists! “Skynet is a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind[citation needed] and artificial […]

0) for security: keep all internet connected devices as up to date as possible! “Freifunk updates its router firmware and closes a critical security vulnerability that could allow attackers to install their own firmware on the devices” (src: heise.de) Also […]

the risks of all digital (no cash) payment systems & amok AI: “This happens quite often with customers of the Cashgroup banks (@DeutscheBank / @Postbank / @Commerzbank / @Comdirect) as soon as their algorithms hit your account is directly without […]

not employed by Oracle in any kind, the only advantage VirtualBox (still) has over all the other virtualization systems: was designed to be cross OS from the start and does that pretty well. Holy Crap! Google (crazy guys) ported KVM […]

straight after (Debian based) GNU Linux OS setup, usually doing those modifications to: speed up boot & start of programs grub timetout 1sec shotcuts for faster start of programs in MATE Desktop Alt+F2 -> fox, will start firefox (no need […]

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