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TL;DR: The MediaTek MT7922 supports WPA3 the same way I support marathon running: enthusiastically in theory, catastrophically in practice. Disable WPA3, disable PMF, avoid WPA3‑only hotspots, and don’t trust the card when it says “Connected.” That’s it. That’s the plot. Future Meets Reality There’s a special kind of joy in buying a modular, repairable laptop like the Framework 13 . You feel like…
Here’s another visual mixtape from the past couple of months — apparently I took a brief sabbatical from posting. As before, no themes, no filters; just whatever life threw at me while I wasn’t paying full attention. Shortly after relocating to Lucerne, I stumbled across a burger shop in the main station called Holy Cow . One bite of their Yo Ginza — Swiss beef, teriyaki sauce, wasabi mayo,…
This edition is a tour through the usual chaos: fonts committing crimes, AI pretending to be management, retro‑tech experiments nobody asked for, and corporations reminding us that ownership is mostly a polite fiction. It’s a tidy little sampler of the internet’s ongoing weirdness — equal parts clever, cursed, and begrudgingly impressive. Dive in and enjoy the nonsense. Bumsrakete Most…
Daniel recently published an article about why trailing dots are his worst enemies and the issues curl had to wrestle with while handling them. The technical challenges he lays out make perfect sense, but one comment he made deserves a bit more nuance. A reader asked whether curl should simply return an error instead of stripping the trailing dot. Daniel replied: Since it is accepted by the…
Welcome back to Hyperlink Havoc — the ongoing experiment where I pretend to have control over my browser tabs. At this point you know the format: I dive in, you brace yourself, and together we surf the wreckage of my link‑hoarding habits. Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis by Jake Handy Excellent write‑up on the current wave of AI brain rot sweeping through executive circles — that magical…
Every now and then I toy with the idea of self‑hosting this page again instead of relying on Codeberg Pages — and, most likely unnoticed by any of you, I’ve actually gone ahead and migrated everything to a VPS from Infomaniak . Partly because the self‑hosting itch never really goes away, and partly because Codeberg Pages occasionally gave me grief: full outages, or the site randomly becoming…
Hyperlink Havoc is basically the classic link dump you’ve probably seen on other people’s pages — only this one is curated by me, filled with things I’ve read and found interesting or resonant in some way. I plan to publish one every now and then, but don’t expect a weekly cadence; I’m either too lazy, too busy, or both. In any case, feel free to dive into the depths of the web and see what caught…
Source: Unsplash Phew — it’s been a while since my last post. Truth be told, I just didn’t feel like writing anything for a bit. But don’t let that fool you into thinking nothing happened around here. Behind the scenes, there’s been plenty of tinkering: updating pages like Shows and Uses , and even adding a few new ones like Concerts and a shiny little Top 4 . The most noticeable change is…
Here’s another visual mixtape from the past couple of weeks. As before, there are no themes or filters; just spontaneous slices of life captured in passing. And yes, it’s mildly embarrassing, but after four long years I’ve finally picked a new bike. I technically own two already, but they’re still hibernating in a basement in Germany: one needs a full resurrection, and the other is a Analog…
I created my PlayStation Network account back when I got my PS4, and every now and then I like to change my profile image. Nothing exotic — just a normal user doing a normal thing I’ve done multiple times before. This time, though, I ran into a perfect specimen of bad UX. To change my profile image, I had to sign in to my PlayStation Network account. Fine. Expected. But during the sign‑in process,…
A visual mixtape of the past couple of weeks — no themes, no filters, just spontaneous slices of life caught in passing. From curious corners to fleeting glances, this post is a small celebration of randomness and the quiet joy of noticing. A gentle stroll through the lens, one moment at a time. A tiny ode to ambient documentation. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed when Café Florian at…
Of course, I don’t intend to compare a password manager with a desktop application for static sites. However, these two clash when upgrading on my Fedora . I tried to update the latter to the latest version. I primarily use Proton Pass to manage my passwords and share some of them with family members these days. Publii is a desktop application that provides a CMS -like experience for static…
Every now and then, you come across an issue that is completely beyond your comprehension. To quote Rule 15 of “Rules of the Internet”: The harder you try, the harder you will fail. One issue I encountered is related to the floating “back to top” button I recently added to my blog. While it generally works fine, one browser acts funky, though not always. The funky browser in question is Ironfox 1…
This is a quick update on the zooming issue I mentioned in my last post . In the meantime, version 3.1.2 of /e/os has been released, which contains a fix for the issue. Zooming in the camera app now works, at least somewhat. However, the issue described in the bug report, where the camera app crashes after moving up and down the zoom level a few times, made it into the release. I’ve also…
Last weekend I was going for a short trip to the Truebsee , a lake which is just below the Titlis peak. While being there I wanted to take a few quick pictures of the current state of the lake and a few other things and therefore I wanted to zoom in on some details. You won’t believe how suprised I have been that I could not zoom in the camera app of my Fairphone 6 running /e/os . I…
Switching to a new mobile device is always exciting! This is certainly true because it’s a new device, and you are usually thrilled to have it. Another reason is the slight feeling of unease that comes with wondering if all your data is making it over from the old device to the new one. One might assume that, in 2025, this would be an easy process. While this is mostly true if you store all your…
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger The owner of stoerdebegga.org takes the privacy and security of your information seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how any personal information would be collected, used, or disclosed — if any were collected in the first place. For…
A lot of people have joined the party to post their default applications for the end of 2024, which you may have seen popping up here and there. Since I actually maintain a uses page, I will just focus on some of the more significant changes I made during the year. Terminal Emulator I have been using kitty as my terminal emulator for several years. The image preview as well as the tiling…
Before I got my current phone, a Fairphone 4, I used to use a OnePlus 7t, which was pretty much on the shelf since I switched, but for various reasons I had to reactivate the phone. The phone’s hardware is in perfect condition, and you won’t really notice that it’s been a daily driver for a long time. Where it clearly shows its age is in the lack of system updates that the devices still receive.…
I came across this post by monocyte , which is a response to the questionnaire set up by Dabi . It looked like fun, so here are my answers. The Questions Do you believe in aliens? If you have to dress in just one color for the rest of your life, what would it be? Favorite random fact that you know. Childhood dream. If you have to be a teacher, which subject would you teach? If you were an…
Source: Unsplash Inspired by Chris DeLuca’s post about his most used command line commands, I did a little digging into my shell history and crunched some numbers. While checking the ZSH history of my desktop, I noticed that it only contained entries starting in May 1, 2024. It seems I had deleted the history file before that for unknown reasons or it’s related to the set history size, but at…
Holy Moly! It is almost mid-December and I am obviously late with the November Nutshell post. November was pretty packed and it feels like it just flew by, so apologies for the late addition. Packed is the perfect keyword: my snow shovel has been packed too. I can’t remember when I’ve shoveled so much snow in the last decade. We had a record-breaking 42cm of fresh snow in about 12 hours in…
I’m certainly no stranger to developing web-based user interfaces or websites, something which I had been doing for the better part of my career though I also have to admit that my knowledge might be a little dated nowadays. For this blog I make use of a moderate amount of CSS and it seemed that I discovered another glitch in Brave, but this time on Android (/e/OS to be exact) instead of…
Lately I was tinkering with the CSS of my blog a lot. As part of that process I also tested how it displays in my main browsers on the desktop ( Librewolf , Brave ) as well as my personal mobile (Brave, Mull ). I couldn’t identify any major differences. More out of curiosity I also checked the browsers on my employer sponsored company phone which is an iPhone for a variety of reasons on which I do…
While the update to the latest Fedora release has been smooth as always, there is a minor scaling issue occuring afterwards. The GDM login as well as the actual Desktop had been set to a different scale level than compared to prior the update. In my case the desktop was set to 125% while the login screen got scaled up to 200%. The desktop scaling can be easily changed in the settings, but the…
Source: Unsplash Reading It definitely took me way too long, but I managed to carve out some time to finish this very entertaining piece of fiction that Kurt Vonneguts’ Galápagos is. You might remember that I mentioned Murderbot a while ago and I figured that I have missed out on Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells so far. I’m just some 30 pages in so far, but yeah, the vibe is strong. Watching…
September somewhat passed in a blink of an eye and I do not have the feeling that I actually achieved anything of note. There certainly was a lot of work related items and the flag football department kept me busy as well, but ultimately we kicked of the U13 trainings, settled the plans for U16 and finally got a way forward with the Ladies team. Slowly but surely pieces are falling into its…
What’s the saying? Better late than never? Recreation. That’s exactly how my August began, with a three-week vacation of which I spent ten days in the south of Kassandra, Chalkidiki, Greece, mainly on the beach. I’ve been really craving for some sun and more importantly ocean. Though there are a lot of lakes for swimming around in Switzerland, I figured that I really missed the ocean, the smell,…
July is no more and we are in the mid of the summer vacation season. The last two weeks were pretty busy with work related stuff, especially as I also deputized two team members during their vacations. Nonetheless, there were a couple of reads, games played and shows watched. Reading The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka is a surprisingly fine novel, set in Colombo in late 1989…
Watching I finished Panchayat which is such a gem, an absolute delight that captures the heart and soul of rural India with such grace and humor. It’s a trove of laughter, heartfelt emotions, deep friendships, old-school romance and invaluable life lessons. The characters are so relatable and adorable, their lives so simple but yet special. I have enjoyed each and every single episode, though I…
Mustafa Suleyman dropped this absolute gem of audacity: I think that with respect to content that’s already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the ‘90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been “freeware,” if you like, that’s been the understanding. A lot of people have already pointed out how utterly deranged this…
Watching Oh boy, Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery was every single bit as painful as I thought it will turn out, but I finished it. Let’s see what season 5 brings to the table. The total opposite has been Fallout . This was just amazing from start to finish and I’m eagerly awaiting the second season. It’s hard to recap the show in a few words, but this has been by far the best and most intriguing…
Watching Ever had that moment when you start an episode, the previously on sums up the events and you’re like: I have no effin memory of this? This pretty much happened when I started to watch Star Trek: Discovery - Season 5 . I didn’t recognize any of the mentioned events. All of a sudden it struck me: I didn’t watch season 4 at all. So I’m currently catching up on that, almost through with it,…
Oh boy, compiling a new in a nutshell took me definitely longer than expected and originally intended. The good news though is that it was not related to the surgery I underwent, but simply work vs spare time vs mood. Without any further ado, here is a very brief recap of January , February and March . Reading Whenever I have finished a science fiction trilogy I promise to myself that I will never…
Reading Tusky is a quite popular Mastodon client which faced a bit of an uproar recently due to the Stepping back from the Tusky project post by Nik Clayton. I certainly will not publicly take sides here, but this entire affair is unfortunately so typical for open source projects; if it escalates then big time and it usually comes along with a huge decline in trust into the project as well as the…
This post is the result of some long pending clean ups of my laptop and desktop setups which led to delving into mounting options for network storage (served by CIFS) as I relied on fstab based auto mounts on both devices and figured they were not necessarily the way to go in some of my use cases, i.e. on the laptop an on demand mount would be preferable. In any case, while automatically mounting…
The global configuration file for git resides usually at ${HOME}/.gitconfig which is also the place where settings like git config user.name "John Doe" end up when you set them (only when applied outside of a git repository). A while ago I was revisting my settings and decided to split the file into smaller chunks, which I placed in ${HOME}/.config/git and looks like this. . ├──…
Geez, it’s been quite a while since the last In a Nutshell posting, but this was indeed a crazy year so far which came with a lot of changes in my private but also professional life. Thus, bare with me when I neither had the time nor was in the mood to put up a new post. As it has been nine months since the last In a Nutshell post, I’ll try to cover as much as possible and important. Reading I…
Reading I just started to read The Garden Of Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee which is the third book in the four-book series of Rama. It took me a while to get back on the series for a variety of reasons which is a shame, as I should have continued the series directly. While the first two books were mostly about the ominous spacecraft and rather slow paced, the third one seems to pick up…
Track Listing Play All Kim Dracula - Make Me Famous [Trap Metal, Australia] Rage Of Light - Mechanicals [Trance Metal, Switzerland] Xonor - Murder The Government [Thrash Metal, Switzerland] Prestige - Exit [Thrash Metal, Finland] Ablaze My Sorrow - Transfiguration [Melodic Death Metal, Sweden] Crowned With Black - Silent Ground [Melodic Death Metal, Finland] Altered Rage - Forever Damned [Melodic…
Track Listing Play All Apastron - History Repeats [Progressive Metalcore, United States] Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous [Metalcore, United States] Selardi - Born In Ash [Groove Metal, Armenia] In Flames - End The Transmission [Melodic Groove Metal, Sweden] Evil Drive - Demons Within [Melodic Death Metal, Finland] Souldrainer - End Of The World [Melodic Death Metal, Sweden] Bereave - Doors Of…
Track Listing Play All Tribulation - Axis Mundi [Gothic Metal, Sweden] Deathstars - This Is [Industrial Metal, Sweden] Prestige - Candles [Thrash Metal, Finland] Overkill - The Surgeon [Thrash Metal, United States] Orthodox - Nothing To See [Groove Metal, United States] Eternal Conflict - Holiday [Melodic Death Metal, Ukraine] Foretoken - Demon Queller [Melodic Death Metal, United States] Dark…
It’s been a while since the last afterthoughts post. I have to admit that I got rather lazy with them, which is mostly because I felt kinda stressed to come up with some neatly written text on recapturing a month. Thus I have decided it’s time for a change, i.e. welcome to the first …in a Nutshell post. Reading I highly recommend Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir , especially if you have enjoyed the…
Track Listing Play All Nebulae - Countdown [Progressive Metal, Italy] Voice Of Baceprot - School Revolution [Progressive Metal, Indonesia] Redemption - Seven Minutes From Sunset [Progressive Metal, United States] Ihsahn - Contorted Monuments [Progressive Metal, Norway] Dreams Of Gray - Life In Gray [Melodic Death Metal, United States] Undead - Oblivion [Melodic Death Metal, Bolivia] Fallensun -…
Track Listing Play All Abysm - Betrayed [Melodic Thrash Metal, United States] Xonor - Just Another Massacre [Thrash Metal, Switzerland] Dead God - Burn The Priest [Groove Metal, Sweden] In Flames - Meet Your Maker [Melodic Groove Metal, Sweden] Principius - Malady [Melodic Death Metal, Canada] PLC - Martyr’s Cause [Melodic Death Metal, Canada] Insomnium - The Witch Hunter [Melodic Death Metal,…
Track Listing Play All Bitter Loss - End Of All Days [Thrash Metal, Greece] Eyes Of The Living - Destroy Everything [Thrash Metal, United States] As The Sun Falls - Out In The Cold [Melodic Death Metal, Switzerland] Eldfaerd - Själafrid [Melodic Death Metal, Sweden] Pantheon - Dead Existance [Melodic Death Metal, Israel] Serenity In Murder - Infact Bellum [Symphonic Death Metal, Japan] Bloody…
Track Listing Play All Moral Corruption - Dogma [Groove Metal, Greece] Prestige - You Weep [Thrash Metal, Finland] Artillery - In Your Mind [Thrash Metal, Denmark] Andrelamusia - A Prophecy [Melodic Death Metal, Israel] Temnein - The Architect And The Devil [Melodic Death Metal, France] Dysmal - Evolution Remnants [Melodic Death Metal, Germany] Sakis Tolis - Ad Astra [Death Doom Metal, Greece]…
Let me illustrate this post with Justin Peter Löwenbräu Griffin : As long as I have been contributing to MetalMittwoch I was relying on YouTube for linking to the videos, which was bogling me for quite a while now mostly due to privacy reasons. I actually had plans to replace all YouTube links by an Invidious instance, but the one thing that kept me away from doing so is the Click here to watch…
Track Listing Play All Underside - Satan In Your Stereo [Metalcore, Nepal] Desecrator - Summoning [Thrash Metal, Australia] Nervosa - Under Ruins [Thrash Metal, Brazil] Hellripper - The Nuckelavee [Blackened Speed Metal, Scotland] Bizarrekult - Midt I Stormen [Progressive Black Metal, Norway] Nachtrab - Outside The Circle [Melodic Death Metal, Germany] Self-Deceiver - Where The Purest Souls…
Track Listing Play All Frozen Crown - Neverending [Power Metal, Italy] Type O Negative - September Sun [Gothic Metal, United States] Underside - Gadhimai [Metalcore, Nepal] Divinations - A Haunted Soul [Metalcore, Germany] Deströyer 666 - Never Surrender [Blackened Thrash Metal, Australia] Dor Fantasma - Visions Of Suicide [Thrash Metal, Angola] Veritatem Solam - Sense Of Reality [Melodic Death…