DIY – „Do It Yourself“ – is mostly about computers here, and mostly about operating services oneself that these days are typically bought from some platform (using some currency not necessarily monetary in the narrower sense). Indeed, I claim that if digital self-determination means anything (ro: can mean anything given the mad complexity of modern computers in both software and hardware), it will be this: can you run the services you want to use yourself? Or can, perhaps, your friends do that, providing truly social media, from human to human, not mediated via markets, but in direct, well, social interaction?
Blog comments may be dead out there; here, I'd like to at least pretend they're still alive, and thus I've written a pelican plugin to properly mark them up.
When I added a feedback form to this site about a year ago, I also created a small ReStructuredText (RST) extension …
Das Happy End dieses Artikels: Ich habe das 49-Euro-Ticket auf Rechnern unter meiner Kontrolle (neben dem N900 im Bild auch noch auf meinem ordentlichen Computer).
Ich habe mir ein 49-Euro-Ticket von der Bahn gekauft. Ich …
You can even have the DNS-based adblocking discussed here in your whole network if your router runs dnsmasq (it probably does) and you can edit its configuration (you probably can't). As shown here, with freetz you can.
I'm not a big fan of in-browser adblocking. For one, I have my …
Sunday morning: my gajim is automatically offline. This post explains how I'm doing that.
I still consider XMPP the …
Die Krapizität der Webseiten, auf die ich hier so verlinkt habe (und noch ein paar mehr): works with netsurf!
Kurz nachdem das Web seine akademische Unschuld verloren hat, Ende der 1990er, habe ich den UNiMUT Schwobifying Proxy geschrieben, ein kleines Skript, das das ganze Web in Schwäbisch, hust, erlebbar machte …
qropen.py in action: Here, it has scanned a QR code on a chocolate wrapper and asks for confirmation that you actually want to open the URI contained (of course, it doesn't come with the glitzy background).
When I was investigating the SARS-2 vaccination certificates last year (sorry: that post …
This is what this post is about: having a single switch for monitor, amplifier, and computer.
I use an oldish notebook with a retired monitor and an amplifier I picked up from kerbside junk to watch …
In der diesjährigen Buchmesse-Sendung von Forschung aktuell am Deutschlandfunk ging es vor allem um Bücher zur Zukunft an und für sich. In der Anmoderation dazu sagte Ralf Krauter:
Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist denn auch voll von krass falschen Prognosen. Die vielleicht bekannteste – oder eine meiner Favoriten – kennen Sie womöglich …
This post takes an odd bend to become an apology for CGI (as in common gateway interface) scripts. This is the netsurf browser communicating with the CGI shell script at the foot of this post.
I have written a few plugins and extensions for this blog, and I have discussed …
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main --- push ---> main
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published --- make publish ---> nginx
Fig 1. Our scheme in classic ASCII art.
In my post on how I'm using pelican – the static blog engine that formats this site –, I had described that on a make install …
Bahnauskunft von 2022 auf einem Nokia N900 von 2009: Es braucht inzwischen etwas Mühe, um das gebastelt zu kriegen.
Als die Bahn-Webseite nicht mehr ordentlich auf kompakten Browsern wie dillo funktionierte und auch nicht per WAP– also Mitte der 2010er Jahre –, habe ich mir ein ein kleines Skript geschrieben, das …
Somewhere beneath the fan on the right edge of this image there is breakage. This post is about how to limit the damage in software until I find the leisure to dig deeper into this pile of hitech.
My machine (a Lenovo X240) has a smart card reader built in …
As I have already pointed out in April, I consider simple and compact web browsers a matter of freedom (well, Freedom as in speech, actually), and although there's been a bit of talk about ladybird lately, my favourite in this category still is netsurf, which apparently to this date is …
In January, I described how I use this blog's engine, pelican, and how I have a “development” and a “production” site (where I will concede any time that it's exceedingly silly to talk about “production” in this context). Part of that was a trivial script, remake.sh, that I would …
About the lamest component of my current machine, a Lenovo XP 240, is the touchpad. Well, it's actually a clickpad, i.e., a thing without real buttons that you can press to make mouse button clicks.
Yes, this machine was designed at a time when everyone thought they had to …
I realise that the great days of discussions on blogs are over, as Sam Hartman blogged the other day – at least for now. Still, I'd like to make it somewhat more straightforward to send me feedback on the posts here than having to get the contact address and dropping me …
As I've blogged the other day, I like having my machine's syslog on the screen background so I notice when the machine is unwell and generally have some idea what it thinks it is doing. That also makes me spot milder distress signals like:
logind-uaccess-command[30337]: Failed to reset ACL …
AGPL (copyright)
While I believe that RSS (or rather Atom a.k.a. RFC 4287) is a great standard for subscribing to media like blogs[1], I strongly suspect that virtually nobody pulls my RSS feed. I'm almost tempted to log for a while to ascertain that. Then …
Right after I had celebrated the first anniversary of this blog with the post on my Pelican setup, I decided to write another plugin I've been planning to write for a while: taginfo.py.
Nachtrag (2022-10-07)
Don't take it from here; rather, see https://codeberg.org/AnselmF/pelican-ext
This is …
I started this blog on January 14th last year. To celebrate the anniversary, I thought I could show how I'm using pelican (the blog engine I'm using); perhaps it'll help other people using it or some other static …
Since there hasn't been real snow around here this year until right this morning, I've been running xsnow off and on recently[1]. And that made me feel the lack of a compositor on my everyday desktop. Certainly, drop shadows and fading windows aren't all that necessary, but I've been …
Wer hinreichend Geduld und Kompetenz hat, bekommt in den Zügen von Go-Ahead am Ende so eine Seite vom Captive Portal.
Zu den ärgerlichen Folgen des Irrsinns vom „geistigem Eigentum“ gehören Captive Portals, also Webseiten, auf die mensch in öffentlichen WLANs erstmal umgeleitet wird. Erst, wer Familienpackungen Javascript ausführen lässt und …
This blog is mainly in German, but in particular computer-related posts I'm writing in (some version of) English, as I expect they might be useful and/or interesting to quite a few people who don't speak German. On the English-language pages, I was always a bit unhappy that the footers …
Nachtrag (2022-10-11)
Ich habe das Programm jetzt auf codeberg untergebracht
Die Unsitte, alles in den Browser zu verlegen, ist ja schon aus einer Freiheitsperspektive zu verurteilen – „die Plattform“ gibt die Benutzerschnittstelle vor, kann die Software jederzeit abschalten und sieht (potenziell) noch den kleinsten Klick der NutzerIn (vgl. WWWorst …
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