Alex (QWxleA)

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Coffee, Linux and an occasional beer. And jazz, loads of Jazz
home pagehttps://qwxlea.ml
Header-art (by Kevin)https://portfolio.hyperlinkyourheart.com/category/pixel-art.html#space-station

“I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”

#notetaking 🤯

https://macwright.com/2021/03/16/return-of-fancy-tools.html

The return of fancy tools - macwright.com

Dreamweaver as a low-code local-first native app

I wrote a tool help me create/delete a bunch of VMs at once, for my local libvirt. It also creates an SSH host certificate for the VMs so that I don't have to accept new host keys, or delete them from my known hosts -file manually.

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2021/03/13/vmadm/

vmadm: helping me manage my local libvirt VMs

An average Kdrama heroine is a typical damsel in distress who needs help 24/7... Every single drama is a variation of Pride and Prejudice... Behind every awkward female, there is a rich and handsome guy, ready to help, pay, save, and give a piggy-back ride, when needed.

Hyena's main character eats dudes for breakfast though. They even made her less good-looking, for some weird reason. Thoroughly recommended series:

https://mydramalist.com/36297-hyena

#kdrama

Security researcher recommends against #LastPass after detailing 7 #trackers

A security researcher is recommending against LastPass password manager after detailing seven trackers found in the Android app.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/26/22302709/lastpass-android-app-trackers-security-research-privacy

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/165465/

LastPass Android: Drittanbieter überwachen jeden Schritt

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/lastpass-android-drittanbieter-ueberwachen-jeden-schritt/

Security researcher recommends against LastPass after detailing 7 trackers

A security researcher has detailed the total of seven trackers in LastPass’s Android app, They say their presence is bad practice for a security-critical app handling sensitive information.

The Verge

TV / media consumption 📺

Don't know about you, but for me the excessive amount of being at home has changed my media consumption quite a bit. I both watch more TV, but also less of what I used to watch in the past. My wife got me on Korean dramas, and despite not being the target audience, I'm totally into it!

Currently watching: https://mydramalist.com/49865-psycho-but-it-s-okay

#tv #kdrama 🍿

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

Moon Gang Tae is a community health worker at a psychiatric ward who was blessed with everything including a great body, smarts, ability to sympathize...

Openstreetmap, being a nerd, is one of the fun-things on my phone, celebrated it's 100 millionth change-set, amazing!

To see change-sets in real-time: https://jwestman.gitlab.io/osm-in-realtime/

They also have weekly news which is fun to read (nerd fun, that is):
https://weeklyosm.eu/archives/14269#wn551_about_us

#osm

OSM In Realtime

Watch OSM updates in near real-time

- Redesigned the drafts function, so they are faster, more user friendly and hopefully more reliable.
- Wellbeing mode, allows you to limit certain features in Tusky. You can enable it in Preferences!
- Animated emoji support, need we say more?
- Timed mutes (for supported servers).
- Notification 🔔 for specific users posting, ring the bell icon on their profile (Mastodon 3.3.0 feature).

https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v14.0
You can support our development via https://opencollective.com/Tusky

Some examples from youtube:

- The Force Awakens: https://invidious.tube/watch?v=4fDlPI1vI2A

- Robocop (from Be Kind Rewind): https://invidious.tube/watch?v=9ZM5ZD0t1sg

Thank you for a wonderful #ArtReference @Curator . Here's my lazy Sunday sketch from it with some strange light and color effects from my crappy phone cam ;)

#MastoArt #traditionalart #watercolor

RT @[email protected]

Each transaction recorded to Bitcoin's distributed ledger currently uses ~640 kWh of electricity, or roughly the amount needed to drive a Tesla 2,200 miles (3,500 km).

Bitcoin's baked-in inefficiencies that make it bad for anyone concerned about climate.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RARohde/status/1360510362337091584

Dr. Robert Rohde on Twitter

“Each transaction recorded to Bitcoin's distributed ledger currently uses ~640 kWh of electricity, or roughly the amount needed to drive a Tesla 2,200 miles (3,500 km). Bitcoin's baked-in inefficiencies that make it bad for anyone concerned about climate.”

Twitter