Christoph Berg

@df7cb
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Debian Developer, PostgreSQL Major Contributor, Ham Radio Operator
Homepagehttps://www.df7cb.de/

I'm a forty-five-year-old man, and I've been using desktop web browsers for twenty-eight of them, and only a few months ago I learned how to highlight text that is a hyperlink without clicking the link: by holding Alt why highlighting. I use it many times a day now. How did even use the web before that?

In case you still didn't know it, now you do.

Thank you @jhsoby for teaching me this.

Happy new year! During 2025 my all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds, and this picture shows what happened in the sky. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

The #hamchallenge is starting into its second year!

In 2025 we had 70 different participants who submitted 798 toots. The most successful participant was Ian, M0TRT (@ian) who completed 41 challenges!

Thanks to Phil, DL9PK (@phikes) for taking over the organization and operation of the 2026 edition. He rewrote the website, open sourced it (https://github.com/phikes/hamchallenge.org), and collected challenges for the coming year.

Here's to a successful second year, and thanks for all the fun we had in 2025!

17021 #hamradio QSO with 239 countries in 2025. I'm happy to see more activity from Africa, but there are still plenty of white spots. (11139 CW, 5401 data, 481 SSB)
#AmazingWorld
In #Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise.
Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost.
That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments.
Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.

English really is a funny language.

#SoftwareEngineering #Developers #Memes

I had to spend a bunch of time researching the implementation of IRC ping timeouts for a lawsuit so now you get to know as well: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73777.html
mjg59 | How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?