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During my flight I finally decided to watch the “Shape of Water”. I knew the film was critically acclaimed but I wasn’t expecting a lovecraftian theme and it never clicked with me that it was directed by Guillermo del Toro - it was a very fitting thing to watch during a flight above the ocean depths and now I want “At the mountains of madness” to finally happen even more. The last leg of the…
The last OpenBSD daily read happened on August 18th. I decided to cancel the next one that was scheduled for August 25th and promised to do a recap on this blog over the weekend. Had no votes for an #OpenBSD -daily so cancelling it for today. Will digest and throw out a blog post over the weekend. — mulander (@mulander) August 25, 2017 It’s been over two weeks since that tweet so here is the…
I made a new years resolution to read at least one C source file from OpenBSD daily. The goal was to both get better at C and to contribute more to the base system and userland developmnet. I have to admit that initially I wasn’t consistent with it at all. In the first quarter of the year I read the code of a few small base utilities and nothing else. Still, every bit counts and it’s never too…
I hate Android phones. I had a few from higher to low end brands. They never received upgrades on a timely matter, had build quality issues and over time got bloated enough that the base system was not able to update the bundled apps anymore. Not to mention leaving enough space for anything else. The one I had with me during g2k16 wiped itself due to overheating and recently ended it’s life by…
The recent linkedin password leak is a huge deal. The data was obviously leaked in 2012 but it’s ’;–have i been pwned? that notified me about it and not linkedin. I did change my password more than once since 2012. Is that enough reason for linkedin to not inform me about it? What if I removed my account completely? These days I am using a keepassx for password management and generate unique…
It is a common theme in the GNU/Linux community to tout the current year as the year of the linux desktop. Every year the same thing happens. The nay sayers nag that Linux is a tiny percentage of the desktop market and that Mac OS X/Windows is superior in so many ways. What most people miss is that for the majority of users the year of the Linux desktop already happend. I myself can count at least…
I became trigger happy and I’m not happy about it. What do I mean by that? Not taking enough time to think through a decision and checking all the facts. Ducking it before I head to the man pages or project documentation . Reading and basing my solutions on Stack Overflow even though I knew that it’s a really toxic thing to even read. The end result are sub-par solutions, simple mistakes and…
Recently I have been taking a look at Syncthing in the hope of being able to replace ownCloud with it after I received a recommendation on HN. Initial impressions were quite good. It’s obviously a different category, closer to initial use case represented by Dropbox versus the full software suite including nice web clients that are now expected out of Dropbox like solutions. My current ownCloud…
Do you remember My Opera? The place where fans of a once great browser would create their own blogs, participated in forums, maintained picture galleries and much more? It’s gone now. The great browser is also gone, replaced by a Chrome fork. Vendor lock-in is a big problem, but the possibility of a vendor going offline is a much bigger problem that none of us are truly prepared for. I moved my…
No time to read the whole thing? TL;DR around 250 USD per year and growing rapidly excluding the cost of personal time spent on maintaining my own services. More frequent readers of my blog will notice that I didn't write a single blog post in quite a while. The main reason is that I planned to move off from blogger to my personal server - I also had a lot of stuff to do at work so there's always…