The daily struggle to stay informed about Corona in Munich
“So how is the Corona pandemic going in Munich?” A question I ask myself every day since 2 years. And answering that question is kind of complicated. You’d h...
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PeerTube Video Embedding in a Jekyll Blog
Below you see an embedded (rather stupid and pointless) video clip from my PeerTube instance.
A Quick Fix For The Verified Status for Github on your Mastodon Profile
Mastodon has a very light-weight method of proving that you are the owner (or, at least an editor) for the links on your profile page. Technically you add a ...
Corona In Munich - numbers and problems
On my 50th birthday, back in January 2020, the first official PCR diagnosis of a new Corona virus in Germany was made here in Munich. This became later known...
German Card Paying Drama - the Verifone H5000 Part 2
Things are looking better. A short recap. On 2022-05-24 a lot, and I mean a LOT of Verifone H5000 payment terminals stopped working. Rebooting them didn’t he...
German Card Paying Drama - the Verifone H5000 Part 1
One single type of payment terminal (the Verifone H5000), a rather old platform, officially announced End of Life 2019, end of production 2020, with some sor...
SundayRecap
Time to revive this blog. I let it linger in limbo for too long. Running on a WordPress instance I set up 9 years ago (but I kept it up2date, vigorously). I ...
Testing this Jekyll and github stuff
Alright. I am not really sure where I am going to take this, but I now have a static blog here. I might move my existing blog over or I might keep this blog ...
#MyOpenHA Part 1 - Philosophy
Home Automation. The holy hipster and geek grail. I have played with it. I have tried. I have failed. But today I am proud to have a solution I can truly end...
Thank you, Tesla Motors For The Patents, but …
Here’s the thing. Elon Musk doesn’t trust the patent system to protect his inventions. So instead of filing for more, he will simply not file at all and keep...