What I listen to & want to share online. Nina Hagen in Ekstase Ich bin die Mutter des Punk - na Gott sei Dank! Cardiacs II Cardiacs I wrote about them before... never actually saw them, but have been listening to this album up and down for years. I wish I'd been woke enough back then to see them.....

Premise Create a user that has the sole task to run some daemon that also needs to store files on disk. Starting and stopping daemon, as well as accessing these files, needs to be possible via ssh. Otherwise it should be locked down as far as possible. Let's call the user sandy from now on. There al.....

Situation Two virtual servers with command line ssh and sftp access, administered from my local machine. I want to migrate everything from one server to the other, without an additional stop on the local machine. The web site in question is located in a www subfolder of the home folder (sometimes al.....

Seen on reddit Schrödinger's Douchebag: When you make sexist or racist statements then decide whether or not it was "just a joke" based on people's reaction. Adlai Stevenson II (1900 - 1965) My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Where it’s safe to say what.....

I recently watched the documentary BBC - Synth Britannia Just some notes on the music and bands covered. Blue Monday Orginal Video, 88 and 83 versions Throbbing Gristle BBC - Synth Britannia playlist: Artist/Band Title Depeche Mode New Life Wendy Carlos William Tell Wendy Carlos Clockwo.....

Sometimes I want to get a message from my server, e.g. diagnostic stuff from services (SMART daemon, fail2ban), or if someone tries to contact me on my website, and I want it sent to one of my email addresses which is not maintained on that server. I used to use sSMTP for this, but it seems to stop .....

I noticed that my server's (Debian stable) datetime was way off. Years. Strange, because I was sure I had enabled systemd-timesyncd (but apparently never gave it a second thought after that). Looking at systemctl status systemd-timesyncd I found this cryptic message: ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Ne.....

Situation I am using PicoCMS1. It's not installed through the global package management: all its files, content & executables (except PHP itself) are located under a single directory. This is not ideal, but common practice; and it has the advantage that it makes maintenance easier. This article .....