Linux, Automation, Cooking
On my gaming PC Windows complained that C:\ had only 10GB of free space left. Time to free up some space! In WindowsXP times I used a separate Program called GetFolderSize for this, but nowadays with PowerShell I was like: "Hey, I bet I can do this with PowerShell alone." After a bit of back & forth I came up with the following function: function Get-FolderSize { param([string]$Path = ".")…
The start: Knockoff browser extension A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Knockoff browser extension which helps consumers to filter out cheap and bogus brands from the Amazon search results. Now I found two websites which help me even more in a) filtering out/recognising bad brands and b) find good brands that still produce quality products which are worth their price. Discovering: Worse on…
In TinyMCE 6.8.1 (the WYSIWYG editor used by Bludit) iframe sandboxing was introduced. This automatically adds the sandbox="" parameter to all inserted <iframe> -tags. This blocks all embedded videos from playing, even when the CSP-Headers are correct. As I just wanted to write a short blogpost about a YouTube video which discusses why we Germans are able to eat raw pork (" Mett ") and suddenly…
Everything I ever wanted to know about Mett . Honestly I was just bored when I clicked on that video, thought of it to have a bit of over-promising/misleading title. But that turned out to be wrong. Oliver Kim or Microbehunter explains in detail why we Germans are able to eat Mett. Which is somewhat of a oddity, given that raw pork can be dangerous and is frowned upon in many cultures and…
I needed a quick throwaway Ubuntu VM for some testing, so I reached for the classic combo: an Ubuntu cloud image, a local cloud-init NoCloud datasource served over HTTP, and a bare qemu-system-x86_64 invocation. Nothing fancy, I've done this a dozen times before - just that the last time was ages ago.. My first attempt looked like this: root@vm:~# qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic \ -net user -machine…
A small pre-preface for users who followed the "Ultimate Pi-hole Setup" tutorial from the YouTuber WunderTech If you used the configuration files he provided on his homepage: https://www.wundertech.net/ultimate-pi-hole-setup/ you will experience the exact same problems sooner or later. The reason is that the VIPs from keepalived are not bound on a separate dummy interface and hence the pihole-FTL…
A little while ago Kevin mentioned he saw the Edge4Go OPNsense hardware from Thomas Krenn at a Linux convention. And yeah, it looked nice. The specs are really nice compared to the price. Especially the Intel Celeron which beats most China-hardware sold on Amazon. The problem? Thomas Krenn only sells to other businesses (B2B). Luckily my friends over at qwertiko were so nice to order one and sell…
Yes, apparently we reached that level of neglect in the Amazon store where we now need a browser extension to filter out all those cheap knockoff-brands which sell you the same crap products, just under a different brand name. Well, for the average Amazon-shopper this isn't something new. People have been complaining for years that Amazons product variety deteriorated constantly. Listing more of…
Someone I know from the Internet told me, that he applied at a company which offers "unlimited vacation days" in it's job ad. However, during the interview process it was revealed that they only write the absolute minimum amount of vacation days (20), required by German law, into the contract. I find this to be concerning. As these two statements just differ too much and this sends a somewhat…
It was just a few days ago when I learned of the existance of the SECUSO apps. These are apps developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) by their Research Group: Security • Usability • Society (SECUSO) . The Android apps they develop contain absolutely no tracking, no ads and use only the bare minimum of permissions. A sort of app I thought to be extinct in the current app ecosystem.…