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Cake day: May 31st, 2020



  • “Oven is going to be a grind, especially the first nine months or so. If work-life balance means a lot of time spent not working, it’s probably not a good fit.”

    Oh man, someone here recently shared a blog post on startup culture in software companies, which likened software to an oven, where you’d add a specific button for a customer and that fucks up your whole architecture for years to come etc…

    For just a moment, I thought this was a direct quote from that blog post.







  • df only shows partitions, whereas du adds up the file sizes in the directory you specify.

    So, in particular, if you want to find out what’s taking up so much space, you can repeatedly run du -sh * and cd into the largest directory.




  • Posteo is mostly just a deployment of RoundCube.

    Mind you, I do assume they have deployment scripts and code for handling payments and such, which aren’t open-source.

    I also have to say, though, a hosted service using open-source is *nice*, because they will hopeful contribute back to that, but it’s not much beyond that.
    You cannot know, whether they actually run the software that they publish in their repository, so auditing the open-source code hardly tells you anything about the trustworthiness of the actual service.


  • For me, the green part is: Because I used them while cooking and don’t want to get anything else dirty.

    I’m still adjusting to them for eating (should probably cut/choose my veggies, noodles etc. to rather be long+thin). But for cooking, I do find them quite good.

    I can use wooden chopsticks in my non-stick pan. And they’re really useful for stirring food, as you can just hold them close together (or use a single stick), when the food is prone to spilling.

    I don’t yet have the dexterity to always successfully flip foods in my frying pan with chopsticks, but it’s not like I have that with other utensils. Whether chopsticks, spatula or fork, it’s always a fiddly bugger.


  • Yeah, we’re also still on 24.04. And from what I’ve seen, 26.04 will ship with Plasma 6.6, not 6.7.

    Maybe the kubuntu-backports repository can give it earlier than that, but yeah, I don’t even know yet, when we’ll upgrade to 26.04.
    Good point, though, about the .01 release. Maybe I’ll start bothering IT when that’s out.





  • Better than the original. As in, it’s a faithful reimplementation with quality of life improvements, like higher resolution, support for modern operating systems, and most loading times eliminated.

    I believe, there’s still tiny differences to how the original behaved in certain situations, which is why they don’t call it “1.0” yet, but you’re not going to notice while playing.


  • Man, you seem to get much nicer vegan cheese. In the shops here, it’s just slices of hardened fat with flavoring and no protein.

    Some brands do make it taste like real Gouda, but it still feels so very pointless to throw just some fat onto your bread. Might as well eat the bread by itself or, you know, with real food like baked beans or dal or such.