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
entertainment Watched: Dark Phoenix From the first minute the movie feels very “constructed” and very “artificial” to me. As if they discovered the comic book story and then decided they want to build a
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
gaming Cthulhu is a Cat When I saw "Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure", I immediately liked the premise of the story, and the fact that it was a 90's-style Adventure Game! A leopard cannot change
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
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
homelab Fan-less NUC Homelab Intel NUC in Akasa fan-less casesMy 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
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
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
customer service Amazon Logistics Sorgfältig geliefertes Paket von Amazon LogisticsSo geht man nicht mit Elektronik um. Das ist leider der (sehr niedrige) Standard auf dem Amazon Logistics operiert. Ich nutze Amazon nun seit fast 20 Jahren, aber so schlimm war es noch nie. In 99% der Fälle klingelt
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
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
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
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
apple Apple Earnings FQ1/2019 Apple just released their quarterly results for the first fiscal quarter for 2019 (in the real world, that is Q4 2018). The results were as expected after the warning they issued late last year. Some interesting tidbits from the telephone conference though. I would
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.
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
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
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
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
gaming Lootbox madness A couple of days ago the Washington Post wrote an article about EA’s Battlefront 2. It was the first time I read something this thorough and detailed about a
apple iMac on the Fritz After six and a half years of heavy use, my main computer, a mid-2011 27″ iMac, is on the Fritz. It is currently unclear if it is the graphics card
personal #BTW2017 Eigentlich wollte ich nicht mehr über Politik bloggen. Politische Meinungspost altern meiner Meinung nach sehr schlecht und sehr schnell. Meinungen reifen, Meinungen ändern sich, vor allen Dingen die eigenen. Das
apple iPhone 8 Plus When Apple first announced this year’s new phones, I immediately wanted to go for the iPhone X. I was instantly sold on the idea of having an almost bezel-free
personal Lucky We in the IT industry in general, and me in particular, very much like to complain. A lot. The recent iPhone release, and the expected price increase, helped me quite
