Jason Friedrich

talks

Interessante Vorträge vom 36C3

Ich weiss nicht ob ich zu einem "grumpy old man" mutiere, oder ob die Vorträge wirklich jedes Jahr uninteressanter werden. Auf jeden Fall war 2019 für mich das langweiligste Jahr seitdem ich Congress-Vorträge gucke. Trotzdem waren auch dieses Mal ein paar Perlen dabei. Allerdings habe ich, wie letztes Jahr auch,

stuff

Google Year in Search 2019

Interesting how people turn to “heroes” in times like these. It is no coincidence that superhero movies and tv shows are en-vogue, people need symbols that inspire them. But sadly, there are not many “leaders” left that exude confidence or hope or even competence — no matter the field in society:

music

Fort Nowhere: The Times They Are A-Changing

Fort Nowhere finally released their version of Bob Dylan's iconic song "The Times They are A-Changing" that was used in the season three trailer of "The Crown". I immediately fell in love with the song and now I can finally listen to it all-day on repeat 😁. "The Times They are

tech

New Blogging Engine

I am trying something new. Again. I am not really happy with the blogging platforms out there. I went with Wordpress for a while, but its transition from a "blogging platform" into a general "web site platform" is almost completed. Too complex, too bloated for my little needs. It is

gaming

Cthulhu is a Cat

I am a sucker for 90's-style Adventure Games. so I had to test the new game that was recently released by a small Transylvanian studio.

podcasts

Wie lang dürfen Podcasts sein

Die Mehrheit der Hörerïnnen bevorzugt anscheinend kurze Podcastfolgen: Die Dauer sollte idealerweise zwischen 5 und 10 Minuten liegen, finden 49 Prozent der Befragten einer repräsentativen Umfrage im Auftrag des Digitalverbands Bitkom: https://t.co/aY3kAthTaA — ARDZDFmedienakademie (@ARDZDF_Akademie) August 9, 2019 ‪Ich denke man kann die Länge von Podcasts

networking

INWX DynDNS Service

I have not used dynamic DNS in a very, very long time. I think the last time was back at the end of the 90's or the beginning 00's. Most (if not all) of the services I used at the time do not exist anymore. I happily noticed that my

homelab

Fan-less NUC Homelab

My Intel NUC home lab is finally fan-less. In the summer months, with air temperatures of 30˚ to 40˚C, the small fans were spinning almost all day. Especially with the older models. Nevermore! I finally decided to get Akasa cases for the NUC. As they are sitting on one

development

Back to Github Free

Now that GitHub is owned by Microsoft, free accounts can have unlimited private repositories. Before the acquisition, this feature was only available to "Pro" accounts. That, and the fact that I like to support companies which products I use, was the main factor for me to have a paid account.

development

A New Git Desktop Client

I am not what you would consider a "Pro User" for git. Not at all. I would classify myself as an intermediate user. But even as an intermediate user, things can get pretty ugly and inconvenient when you only rely on the standard Git console client. When things got more

politics

Europas Leyen

Wenn man das so kurz, prägnant und präzise herunter gebrochen bekommt, fragt man sich, wieso sich das "Heute Journal", die "Tagesthemen" oder ähnliche öffentlich-rechtliche Programme nicht damit auseinander setzen? Vielleicht mal mit Hintergrundberichten und kritischen Interviews? Wieso bekomme ich dort stattdessen nur ständig "Horse Race", "Köpfe" und unkritische Fragen? Kommen

security

Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates with Docker

In the past I used a self-built Docker container that was running easy-rsa with a customized openssl.cnf file. This got very annoying, very quickly, as I needed to import my private CA to all systems I wanted to use it on. A couple of weeks back I decided to

entertainment

HBO Chernobyl Mini-Series

Chernobyl is one of the best shows I have seen in the past couple of years. After I watched it, I asked myself how much of it was „real“ and how much of it was „fiction“. Surprisingly, it was very real, with a lot attention to detail. In Germany, it

personal

Office Organized

Finally got the office organized - it was about time. It only took about 18 months for me to weed out the cable mess and give it a good "Spring Cleaning". All that remains is to hide the cables on the left side. I already ordered the cable channels.

virtualization

Use your own certificates with vCenter 6.7

Managing your own CA is usually very tedious and time consuming, so I decided to partly automate it using a Docker container and easy-rsa. The container generates my CA and server/client certificates for all my devices in my home office and the test lab. VMware vSphere always offered the

gaming

Mobile Game Renaissance?

Interessant. Apple gibt angeblich "hundreds of millions of dollars" aus um ca. 100 Spiele in ihre "Apple Arcade" Subscription zu bekommen. Insgesamt sollen es über $500 Mio. sein. Die Titel sollen allerdings nicht allzu lange exklusiv an Apples Dienst gebunden sein. Eine Renaissance des Mobile Gaming, fernab von "Schlumpfbeeren" und

networking

VPN with Wireguard on macOS & iOS

I read and hear a lot about Wireguard the last couple of weeks. Even Linus Torvalds seems to like it – and praise like that is not easy to achieve. When people say so many good things about it, I should give it a try. I was looking for an OpenVPN

politics

Brexit

I honestly do not know what to say anymore. I am so much done with this Groundhog Day. All I have left is pitch black humor with deep-seated cynicism... and these videos:

internet

Why do you need Gigabit Internet?

Whenever I say that I would love to have Gigabit Internet, or at least 500 Mbit up- and downstream, people tend to ask me "What in the world would you do with such a high bandwidth?!" Let me play you the song of my people... I have around 20 TB

cloud

Repeated Office365 Outages

Well, some companies have just switched from their on-premise Exchange installation to Office365 and OneDrive. Maybe they should have listened to their engineers about the ongoing problems with Microsoft's cloud offering. I am sure the decision to focus on Azure for SaaS deployments is only because the service quality is

entertainment

Nanette

It has been a while that a piece of stand-up has caught me so off-guard and took me on a real journey. It was funny, so it left me entertained, but it also left me thoughtful and pensive, and at the end deeply moved. Definitely watch it till the end

automation

Fediverse Link Bot

In the past it was easy to share interesting, or funny finds on the Internet. First of all, the Internet was this magical place which was called “cyberspace” by the “common folk”. Only people who were really interested in this new medium were able to use it properly, as it

tech

There and back again

“What, you changed your blog? Again?!“. That is something I hear very often these days. And they are right, every single one of them. For a while it seemed that I was changing blogging software and blog themes more often than my underwear. But that is all over now, for

networking

Cisco AnyConnect Client DNS issues

Since I started using the Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client, I had DNS issues. I could not fully figure out why this happens on my system, but all signs lead to an issue with scoped DNS queries on macOS. Whenever the VPN is established, macOS uses the wrong order to resolve

apple

macOS: Video files in Quarantine

I am not sure when it exactly started. But some time after I upgraded to High Sierra, VLC started to display a “Verifying the file” prompt with a progress bar whenever I opened a MKV or MP4 file. It did it every time and for every file, which was very