I’m a little techno-skeptical at times. And the concept of (mobile/native) apps has bothered me ever since the first true smart-phones popped up 20 years ago. The word “app” is annoying in itself: we’ve had software “applications” for decades. And we’ve had software package managers, too. Then someone comes along, hijacks the term “app”, puts …
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Apa Kabar, Lombok? [en]
When I visited Indonesia back in 2003, I spent most of my time on the island of Lombok. On my latest trip, I saved Lombok for the last three weeks. I sorta knew what to expect there, so travel planning was less of a hassle, as compared to Sumbawa or Flores/Komodo. The phrase “Apa kabar?” …
Shoot yourself in the foot: WordPress UAM vs. HTTP Cache Headers [en]
Ever since I had reactivated this blog a couple of years ago, I noticed that something was wrong with its content caching. On each page reload, the browser would download all images from scratch. Even though it should have been easy to cache these images. There are various standards govern how web browsers should cache …
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Komodo & Flores – Last Chance To See? [en]
It’s been a while since I’ve read Douglas Adams’ (et. al.) Last Chance to See, but I remember that it had Komodo Dragons in it. The German edition prominently features a Komodo Dragon on its cover, while the English editions feature the diverse animals that are discussed in the book in a more balanced manner. …
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Back to Wallacea: Sumbawa [en]
After my Singapore stopover, I headed straight to the Indonesian island of Sumbawa. Sumbawa lies between Lombok in the west and Flores in the east. Its location can be classified in many different ways. Amongst others, Sumbawa is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Lesser Sunda Islands, the province of Nusa Tenggara Barat …
Singapore Stopover – No Smoking, No Durians! [en]
I hate air travel. I just cannot afford it. Nobody can. But many of us are doing it anyway. At least those who can afford it financially. Sadly, this includes myself occasionally. For damage control, I’ve self-imposed a flight reduction policy, which I’ve been trying to follow in recent years: In theory, my ongoing Indonesia …
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Bali Picdump [en]
I’m currently on a trip to Indonesia. I’ve spent the first month on Bali, mostly surfing. But I’ve also had a chance to do some other tourist activities. So, let’s dump some pictures here, with just a little textual context… Uluwatu Uluwatu (on the Bukit peninsula in Bali’s south) has some of the most popular …
Once upon a time in Indonesia [en]
Today I’m on my way to my yearly surf-trip. This year it’s gonna be Indonesia. My third trip to the country. I might share some impressions later. But right now, I want to revisit my first trip to Indonesia. That was more than 20 years ago, back in 2003. It was my first big journey …
Shoot yourself in the foot: Docker, Nextcloud & git [en]
I did something stupid again. I noticed it, when I received notifications from my Prometheus monitoring. The probe that sends HTTP requests to my Nextcloud server was failing. Strangely, no other probes were failing. No high load, no memory exhaustion, no filesystem running full. Manual testing confirmed that all my other web-apps worked as expected, …
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Kodi on Raspberry Pi: First Impressions [en]
Background I’ve been living without a proper TV for the past 20 years. Nevertheless, I’m consuming a shitload of video content. Mostly streaming services; the usual suspects. But also select contents from Germany’s public TV stations. So far, I’ve been watching such videos on my laptop computer – I get a lot of screen-time there, …
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Free at Last — XSS Edition [en]
Yesterday my employment contract ended, after more than ten years at a big software company. I feel free now. Weirdly. Cause it’s not like I wasn’t free in my work there. I had a lot of freedom in what I was working on and how I organized my work. And, I was working alongside some …
Bobr Kurva [en]
I’m using the Czech spelling here, rather than the more common Polish Bóbr Kurwa — meaning (nsfw) and pronunciation are much the same anyway. It’s just because this has happened in Czechia recently: V okolí Padrťských rybníků v chráněné krajinné oblasti Brdy postavil bobr hned několik hrází a vytvořil tak přírodní mokřad. Právě takový chtěla …
Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Nouvelle Vague [en]
I guess I should not dabble in French wordplay, since I barely know the language. However, my surf trip this year did take me to the Atlantic coast of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and I did get to know many new waves… Unlike previous years, I was too lazy to keep a detailed surf diary. But I’d still …
Interrail — Voyage, Voyage [en]
Another train trip, this time to the French Atlantic coast. (So, pronounce the title of this post in French, please!) After questionable financial outcome of a similar trip 2 years ago, I gave Interrail another shot. This time, I put more effort into upfront planning and bought the smallest Interrail pass that fit my journey. …
Warning: This route crosses through Austria [en]
Well, thanks for the warning, Google Maps: Now I’m wondering: Do you know something about Austria that I’m not aware of? Or are you just upset about Austropop, après-ski, Opernball, and what happened in Braunau? I should mention that I was planning a car trip from Munich to the Friuli region. (Shout-outs to Lago 3 …
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Morocco — Surfing the Land of Rights [en]
Just returned from one of my yearly surf-trips, this time revisiting Morocco. Here is some old pics, from when I visited there back in 2011: Unlike last year in Iberia or the year before that in Zanzibar, I only had four weeks. So I wanted to do less sight-seeing and traveling, and focus more on …
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New OpenPGP Key [en]
I’ve been using OpenPGP for email signing (and very rarely for email encryption) for ages. In fact, the key that I’ve been using so far is from 2001: This key (actually two sub-keys, one for signing, one for encryption) has a fairly low size by today’s standards. I’ve been aware of this for ages, but …
Shoot yourself in the foot: crypttab edition [en]
I’m running Ubuntu on my laptop, using the standard disk-encryption that the Ubuntu installer provides. (Well, the one it provided a couple of years back, when I last installed from scratch.) This setup uses cryptsetup with LUKS on the main partition. This in turn contains an LVM physical volume, which contains a volume group with …
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Sag mir, dass du bei Stattauto München bist … [de]
… ohne mir zu sagen, dass du bei Stattauto München bist:
Iberia Impressions: Cantabria [en]
From the Picos de Europa I headed back to the Bay of Biscay. Cantabria was the last section of Spains northern coast that I hadn’t visited yet. Santander I only spent a few hours in Cantabria’s capital Santander, because I had to return my rental car there. As ever so often, the most apparent landmarks …