A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things, too.

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  • I suppose where I live they mostly ate food made from grain. Like bread or barley gritz or other tasteless stuff. And then some available vegetables, berries, some animal produce, probably not a cow unless they were rich, more like eggs and occasionally a chicken.

    I think the Roman empire also spread quite some culture and food across Europe. But I can’t imagine living before the Columbian exchange. That brought us most stuff we eat as if today. Yeah and colonialism in general, that made some goods available for people in Europe.


  • What’s traditional? Like some decades or 100 years ago? Or before the Spanish brought the potato to Europe? Or paleolithic diet? I don’t quite get what “traditional” means in the context of something always changing and evolving like food. And plants like potatos, tomatos, paprika, coffee, … and spices spreading over the world. And a constant flux of change and everything being connected and incluencing each other for centuries or thousands of years already.

    Or does traditional mean not as much additives, sugar and convenience food? Because I think we can answer that by looking at the statistics. People need less sugar and more fibers for example than we currently consume (on average).


  • For some time I’ve occasionally used the ones for the visually impaired because they were easier to get right. But they also messed those up. I get a load of fire hydrants, cars, stairs and bicycles and motorcycles and traffic lights. Sometimes the pictures just repeat. I don’t think the stock of images is that big. But they could look at other things instead of just correctness. Like your mouse movement and how long it takes you. Not sure if they do that.


  • I’m pretty sure the cryptographic parameters to generate a public key are included in the private key file. So while you can generate the other file from that file, it’s not only the private part in it but also some extra information and you can’t really change the characters in the private key part. Also not an expert here. I’m fairly certain that it can’t happen the other way round, or you could impersonate someone and do all kinds of MITM attacks… In this case I’ve tried it this way, changed characters and openssh-keygen complains and can’t generate anything anymore.



  • Glad you could figure it out. Keep an eye on the certificate updates. As far as I know letsencypt certs are valid for 90 days or so. In case you have a periodic job that renews them, that one might now fail to update the files when it runs the next time in 2 months or so. But that depends on the permissions and user of that renew job. However that’s set up. But for the next few months, everything should be fine now.


  • I think first of all there is a problem with gun violence in the USA. You should address that first before analzying the steps 2 layers down the chain. And that’d be pretty effective and way easier to do than fix the mental health of millions of people. After that you shoud do that too. Make it so the nation cares for people, helps them and educates them. Make life enjoyable and reduce hatred. You can’t prevent every assassination attempt of a president, but certainly save the lives of lots and lots of other people that way.


  • As far as I know Aldi and Lidl try to use their established business procedures everywhere, because it’s cheaper for them. I’ve never been to the US. But everywhere I’ve been, the stores all look very similar. I don’t know if that applies to bread, but the store layout and product assortment is similar and I bet they also use the same IT infrastructure. Including maybe ePaper price tags that arent that common in some other countries. There are some differences. Some products vary and they don’t ship them across the ocean but replace them with local products. And there are cultural differences. For example you can’t rip open the plastic wrapper and pull out one bottle of water in some countries. But I bet a lot of it is the same across the world. Especially in Europe.




  • Ich denke entweder Kollegen oder Chef fragen ob man spontan wechseln kann dafür muss man auch nicht unbedingt den ehrlichen Grund nennen. Sonst bei den Menschen mit dem Vorstellungsgespräch anrufen, höflich die Situation erklären und fragen ob man den Termin verschieben kann. Am Besten direkt Alternativvorschläge bereit haben. Macht ja auch einen guten Eindruck, wenn man seine Arbeit ernst nimmt. Nur: Wenn man schon seinem Chef gefragt hat, kann man dann natürlich nicht zufällig an dem Tag dan spontan krank feiern. Das sollte man sich vorher überlegen ob man das so lösen möchte, dann würde ich lieber niemanden fragen.


  • However this tool doesn’t have any safety warnings written on it. The App they used specifically caters for use-cases like this. They advertise to use it unmorally and we have technology to tell age from pictures for like 10 years. And they deliberately chose to have their tool generate pictures of like 13 yo girls. In the tool analogy that’s like selling a jigsaw that you’re very well aware of, misses some well established safety standards and is likely to injure someone. And it’s debatable whether it was made to cut wood anyways, or just injure people.
    And the rest fits, too. No company address, located in some country where they can’t be persecuted… They’re well aware of the use-case of their App.




  • Don’t think so. If life is just your SAT… I don’t think examns are that enjoyable. And it’s not like God gave us clear instructions anyways. If that sucks, it’s on him. And the bible is more treating us with the carrot and a stick. Lots of it is invoking fear… don’t do this, don’t do that… He’ll send plagues and illnesses, seems a narcissistic father and has no issue whatsoever making some of us suffer. I wouldn’t like it at all if it were true.

    Some people however will get a comfortable feeling from being exposed to empty promises. But to make them more effective, I’d say it’d need some more visual invitations. Like God showing himself and performing some more miracles so it becomes believable. And we need clearer instruction because christianity is just filled with contradictions. And it’s hard to cope with that. The promise is afterlife, but you’re set up for failure because of the bible telling everything and the opposite. And being set up for failure sucks.




  • Something like an old laptop will make a power-saving homeserver. But that won’t work if you want to attach lots of storage.

    I don’t think an Optiplex is the most energy-efficient choice. They seem somewhat okay, but you’d need to put some effort in and read some tests and reviews to find a really efficient mainboard and PSU. That’s not easy

    You can spin down your harddisks. I have some udev rule that executes hdparm -S60 /dev/sdb after boot. That’ll spin down the hdd after 5 minutes of inactivity. It’s alright for low usage scenarios. And it doesn’t spin up that often because the hdd contains my photos, backups and a few movies. And my operating system and files that are accessed often, are on a SSD. Starting and stopping disks like once a day should work for many years. But don’t cycle it every few minutes.

    And obviously, you can also shut off your server over night or just wake it on demand, if that fits your use-case.