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Ach… Manchmal muss man bloß Rilke wieder lesen.
»Denn, Friedrich, glaube mir, je mehr man ist, je reicher ist alles, was man erlebt. Und wer in seinem Leben eine tiefe Liebe haben will, der muss sparen und sammeln dafür und Honig zusammentragen.«
Lovely #fediverse operators / #fediadmin, can someone point me to best practices when it comes to spinning up test instances that are designed to be deleted after some time?
It is unclear to me what happens in #activitypub when a server that was known disappears. I know this has happened in the past in rather traumatic ways (instance gone, backups gone, ...), so it must be somewhat well-supported.
Given that this is planned and designed though, I'd like to do things "properly" :-).
On today's work: UI testing by switching language to German, and seeing how bad texts overflow.
I somehow ended up programming some Pascal today, it had been... several years XD.
Tourismus News Rant
Hab grad bei der Tagesschau von gestern (2024-04-02) über die arme Touristen die über Ostern in Katalonien waren, und kein Wasser hatten gehört '^^
<sarcasm>
Oh ja, die arme private Pools in Hotels können nicht gefüllt werden, schock!
</sarcasm>
Ugh... wieder soweit: https://bundeswahlleiterin.de/europawahlen/2024/informationen-waehler/deutsche-im-ausland.html
Deutsche im Ausland müssen sich für die Europawahl 2024 anmelden. Frist ist 19. Mai 2024, und zwar:
> Der Antrag muss persönlich und handschriftlich von der Antragstellerin beziehungsweise dem Antragsteller unterzeichnet sein und der Gemeinde im Original übermittelt werden. Eine Einreichung per E-Mail oder Fax ist nicht ausreichend.
Alles sehr 2024-mäßig :-)
Achievement unlocked: found and fixed a leap year bug
I have been figuring out that the best things to do with my time are those whose impact compounds.
With this rationale, I am fishing for someone that has interest in contributing to #twisted #python and needs some support / supply of patches.
If that's you or someone you know, do reach out.
Turns out, actually landing patches requires love and dedication, the former I have, the latter I sometimes lack (work and life happen >,<).
I wrote a #yubikey/PGP/SSH thing and forgot to talk about it:
https://evilham.com/en/blog/2023-yubikey-PGP-SSH-auth/
It goes into details of managing PGP keys on a YubiKey, and how we can use that to SSH into machines with a single physical token.
This is not something I've seen fully documented anywhere, and some details are #freebsd-specific; if you try following them and need help getting things to work on #debian-based systems: do reach out. It can possibly take me less to reply than for you to find the answer :-)
I realised today has been of those days, in which I've used all languages I'm proficient in, but I struggle to remember which language was used with whom.
Some can be deduced (person X expresses themselves better in language L), but the memory of the conversations is basically translated into some babel that could fit whichever language.
If my Basque/#Euskara is ever good enough, things will get funkier.
I made some minor changes to my website (and a not so minor one: light theme!) and remembered that you can play #tetris there by typing out the Konami code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code )
Try it out and enjoy the music! Open https://evilham.com and type: ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA
Ejemplo de gran inversión de dinero público: https://primeran.eus (#Primeran significa: "de primera" / "estupendo" / "muy bien")
Una plataforma audiovisual con contenidos en #euskara o de origen vasco (y subtítulos o doblaje en ESP / EUS).
La verdad es que parece que deja un poco en ridículo a RTVE Play y, especialmente, a TV3 a la carta.
rant
Dolibarr is such a patchwork program.
Why on Earth would anyone create an API to POST something, but not to GET it.
Just why.
Besides: half of the things are named in French, the other half in English, it's all extremely confusing, I'd just rather the whole thing be in French instead, and it's not a language I'm proficient in.
At this point, I'm between:
- Writing a bunch of PHP
- Start a migration plan *away* from Dolibarr and talk people out of using it whenever they mention it
Just realised yesterday I've been running #freebsd 14 alpha, I guess the time is coming to decide again whether or not I'll keep running CURRENT as a daily driver :-D (it is mostly *that* stable)
I remembered I hadn't done anything with the Twitter account, recent rumours regarding training AI models with user content reminded me I probably should.
Here are some funny / interesting things I found dealing with the archive:
🙀 ya no sé escribir español.
"[…] pensaba mucho en tú […]"
Suuuure 
C# bashing
Seriously, how on earth is there no decent DNS library already in the system?
Do I seriously have to re-implement DNS or get some third-party library to perform a simple DNS query that goes beyond getting an IP?
ESpol
I see many people who have the right to vote this weekend will not exercise their right.
These people, being from my "progressive" bubble, would have likely voted non-retrograde, non-regressive parties. Also the people that say voting serves no purpose...
OTOH the phenomenon seen in e.g. Germany is that the far right does go to vote, en masse.
I guess, depending on who wins these elections, I might start being on the lookout for a new place of residence.