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Another small this and that post. Blog Stuff I decided to remove all web fonts from my blog. At the end it was nearly 500Kb just for a slightly different font. Well, I used self-hosted WOFF2 Fonts. Nevertheless, tiny is better. Also at the footer of each post I integrated a webmention display via webmention.io. And last but not least, I updated the /uses page. Home Desktop Win Free 1st of may is a public holiday in germany, I used to extended weekend to debug a small thing which got on my nerves recently. My home Desktop boot time was annoying me. Sometimes it needed 1-2 minutes to show the login screen. Don’t get me wrong, I am not always in a rush - but this is one hting I cant stand; Having a system I know it should boot in <20s and seeing something is not right. Just bugs me and causes something I call a “frustration focus” so it had to be solved no matter what. Guess what; It was the 2nd SSD in my System with a Win11 on it for dual boot. For what ever reason the systemd init every boot tried to “wait” for this drive. I set a udev rule, didnt helped. I excluded it fully in grub, did not help either. After tinkering around for longer then I should have, I finally decided that the last time I booted this windows I cant even remember so why bother… Partition table cleared and disk reinit as btrfs. ...

Recently we had the Digital Independence Day what better Reason could one have to rethink how I use published photos. I actually wanted to integrate them better into my blog already since long. But Digital Independence Day was a good kick in the ass to finally quit Instagram for real. I’m not here to start a big moral talk… let’s focus on the Tech Aspects of what I did. As you may noted we now have the new Menu entry /photos which offers a small Gallery. Instead of integrating another workflow which is doomed to fail because of my lazyness, I need something easy usable from my Android phone. So I had my pixelfed account laying there, mostly collecting dust. Why not start using it again and integrate it into the blog. This post is about how I wired this up. ...

Fixing Git Clone SSH Agent on Windows Last days I run Git on Windows for a quick upload of something, tried cloning the private repo over SSH, and it bombed out with a permission denied error. Even though a plain SSH test to GitHub worked fine. As said, normally I work on my Linux Laptop but during Holidays I –had– to build some csharp stuff in windows. So old pains came back :) ...

Today I want to give a Software Recommendation; Joplin. In the grand journey of life, there comes a point when the sheer volume of knowledge accumulated over the years becomes overwhelming. That’s when the things you learned over Time becomes an invaluable asset. For those of us who’ve embarked on the quest to tame the information beast, a personal knowledge base and note-taking tool are needed companions. I’ve tried various tools like Notion, Evernote, and Obsidian, each with its unique strengths. But in the end, my heart settled on Joplin. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. There are several reasons, the most important one is that my old domain got some big hit and “Negative” Backlinks over the many past years. The old Domain solariz.de was registered more then 20 Years ago, in this Time I did a lot of changes on the Domain, CMS, files I hosted and so on. Those gave me a lot of different Backlinks from all over the World – you might think Backlinks are a great thing. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: With LoL’s rise and DOTA2’s push, HoN struggles despite a loyal fanbase. Tencent, owner of Riot Games, secured full HoN rights for China, aiming at MOBA dominance; they also own SMITE and tried to buy Strife. This likely benefits HoN via investment. HoN now ready for China. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: Thanks to Timon for the current logo—it fits the new blog design and shows the topic clearly. Interesting how the blog and logo changed over the years. Long-time readers will remember. Here’s a brief history: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, and current. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: CAPTCHA: acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Intended to block bots, used in registrations/forms. But some are unreadable, frustrating users and increasing bounce rates. Today I couldn’t register because the CAPTCHA was like a Rorschach test. Developers, please consider usability; many won’t try five times. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: ProxTube, popular for bypassing YouTube’s GEMA block, is now available for Chrome. It detects the block message and reloads the video via a foreign proxy, only for the client login step, not the whole stream. A cited lawyer says using a proxy to bypass geoblocking does not break the law. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: I discuss hashes due to recent data leaks (Sony, Ashampoo). Passwords should be stored as hashes, not plaintext. Hashing isn’t encryption; it can’t be reversed. Example with digit sum shows collisions. Common algorithms: MD5, SHA; others include Whirlpool, Tiger, RipeMD, Haval, Adler32. Example: 12345 -> md5, SHA-1, Haval. ...