This morning I came across an interesting thread. Inflation in Austria apparently is an even bigger problem then it is in The Netherlands. I looked it up, and as of writing, it’s almost double (CPI July 2023 7,02%) compared to ours (3,03% for the same month). The responsible minister promised to develop a price comparison…
On mastodon I came across this amazing video of a blue tit building building its nest inside a nest box, having it’s young, right up until the last one leaves the nest. Too good not to share and archive:
There’s been a lot going on in the Fediverse. Meta is inviting select instances to the table, regarding it’s Project P92 – which apparently involves federating with at least some – if not all – servers, leading to a lot of debate. In this post I organize my thoughts on it, and link to various…
I recently acquired an Awair Element, which is a very cool IoT-device to measure air quality inside a room. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t connect to my home network – and after some time, I discovered that my network being Unifi-based was the cause.
That I was getting my fair share of bots and crawlers (even without actively publishing anything) on my personal domain was something I was already aware off. But after as many as 700 failed login attempts in the last 24 hours, I decided to investigate and at least shut down XML RPC.
Both ipfwd and natd have been deprecated for a while in Mac OS. If you used those to share your Mac’s internet- or VPN-connection, this article describes how to transition to a PF-based solution, using the pftcl-command and get things going again.
There’s a time and place for everything. But everything is changing. Hopefully, time and place will shift along. As for me: I’ll try. New technology enables us to do more with less effort in less time. The catch is in the temptation to focus on quantity rather than quality, quick wins, or even stuff that’s…