TIL: When using dark GTK+ themes on your Linux desktop, Firefox does not handle them too well as the translation between the Firefox UI toolkit and GTK does have some issues. For instance, these native GTK text inputs on websites are practically unusable: You cannot tell but I actually entered “Takuto” in that field…
Continue readingDivision by Zero
Just stumbled across this little nugget. Best explanation why division by zero is undefined:
Continue readingGnome 3 – Keep screen awake while locked
I’ve been a Gnome user for well over 10 years now and I still love it. Gnome 3 is a fantastic environment that empowers users while getting out of the way. However: Gnome 3 has its own ways of doing things and it can be quite annoying if you prefer a different approach to things…
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As you may or may not know, the General Data Protection Regulation is now in effect as of May 25th. This is a private site and I don’t track my visitors nor do I collect any data on them. I’ve made the following changes as a precaution: Comments are now disabled. They were never used…
Continue readingNot cool, N26
January 2016, I switched banks. I moved from my traditional german bank, GLS Bank, to the then one year old startup N26, formally known as “NUMBER26”. I’ve done this for the follwing reasons: Real time banking: All transactions, like card payments etc. are instant. Instant (!) Pushnotifications on my phone about any account activity such as…
Continue readingState of payment in Germany
There is one thing that I must put out here first. I am very much pro privacy and I try to defend the right to privacy as much as I possibly can. To give some examples: I do host my own email I do host my own Dropbox replacement (ownCloud) I do use PGP /…
Continue readingA year on a budget
I’ve never been good with money in my life. I did okay. I did not have any debt apart from two credit cards although I’ve never carried a balance and always paid them of in full every month. I was making my bills. I’ve never been late on anything. Last year and the years before…
Continue readingDissecting E-Mail Malware
I’ve been receiving a lot of mails like this recently: It reads: Dear Sir or Madam, attached you’ll find a new order from BSH Household Appliances LLC. Please include the order number on your invoice as a payment reference for us. Kind regards, BSH Order Center — This E-Mail has been checked for viruses by Avast Antivirus-Software As…
Continue readingSilex Skeleton
I’ve been looking for a good, minimalistic MVC microframework for PHP development for designing RESTful APIs. I’ve found Silex and I love it because it comes with some bare essentials: A simple dependency injection container and a router. That’s it. Nothing else. Need more? Use Composer to plug in more stuff. This allows me to build powerful…
Continue readingE-Mail Verschlüsselung
Ab sofort nimmt mein Mailserver keine E-Mails mehr an, die unverschlüsselt reinkommen. Solltest du mir also eine Mail schicken und du bekommst eine Unzustellbar-Mail, dann steht da sicher folgender Fehler drinnen: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first Das heißt, dass dein E-Mailanbieter keine Verschlüsselung von E-Mails auf dem Transportweg unterstützt. Damit ist gemeint:…
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