Coding Relic

I use Proxmox with a ZFS array to run a number of self-hosted services. I have been working on setting up zrepl for offsite backup, replic...

I received a Sterbeurkunde from Stadtarchiv Hannover on 28 March 2025, with the following note in the email signature: Von März bis Jah...

My Macbook Air M1 was gradually developing some kind of impairment in its USB-C ports where I'd have to jiggle or put actual pressure on...

Venmo pushes hard for transaction activity to be Public. It doesn't say whether any past payments were actually public, and puts up an i...

I started using Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation several months ago. It is a browser extension — I use it with Chr...

As published in The Atlantic today: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders include...

# sync; sync; sync # Pros: Works. Cons: Boring.   # cat ~/.profile alias sanc=sync alias sunc=sync # # # sync; sanc; sunc Muc...

Why yes, a Boeing 747 flying low directly over our house at 3am does wake us up. Who could possibly have predicted it?

My final Pokémon I was an enormous fan of Pokémon GO for several years, zealously playing no matter where I was. It spurred me to do in...

In 2023 my wife and our children became German citizens via a declaration process called Staatsangehörigkeit § 5 . The official paperwork ca...

Our whole family had submitted DNA kits to 23andme including our kids and even my mother, who has since passed away. Our earliest kits us...

My spouse's mother was German and emigrated to the United States in 1958. Until 1975 German mothers did not pass on citizenship to child...

Four months ago I exported all photos from Google Photos to import into immich , and scheduled followon Takeout runs every two months. I ...

In its initial proposal for a refreshed fleet of delivery trucks in 2022, the US Postal Service and its contractor Oshkosh Defense proposal ...

I'd say not to spend it all in one place but I think the maximum number of places they could possibly spend it is four, so... go ahead. ...