su: pam_start: System error (FreeBSD 14) 17 Mar 2025
After upgrading a FreeBSD system or jail to version 14-RELEASE it may happen that any command involving PAM will fail with the following error:
sheeplog
Checking (macOS) Mach Service Availability with Swift 27 Mar 2024
Testing for mach ports is useful if you have an app that talks to an XPC service,
agent or daemon and you’d like to check for availability of the endpoint before
pulling out an entire NSXPCConnection. This would, for example, allow you
to show a progress indicator while the app waits to pull data over XPC into the UI.
Zitat des Tages 20 Jun 2023
Wenn eine kleine elitäre Minderheit der oberen Bildungs- und Einkommensschichten der Gesellschaft der großen Mehrheit der Andersdenkenden ihre Werte durch Belehrungen oder Verbote aufzwingt, kann das wohl als eine Art Diktatur gewertet werden.
– Manfred Güllner, Chef Forsa, in Junge Freiheit (Archiv)
integrate google/osv-scanner into drone ci pipeline 15 Mar 2023
in my drone ci pipeline i use the following step to run google’s osv-scanner and send an email if vulnerabilities have been found.
1. CoronApril 1 Apr 2020
Virologen haben entdeckt: Vom wichsen bekommt man Corona!
Malen nach Zahlen 31 Mar 2020
Weltweit 800.000 Infizierte. Knapp 40.000 Tote. 11.000 Corona-Tote allein in Italien. Innerhalb von zwei Wochen steigt die Anzahl COVID-19-positiv Getesteter von 1.000 auf 23.000. Zur Zeit sind es 60.000.
FactoryGirl? FactoryBot? The Gender War Is On. 23 Oct 2017
FactoryGirl was a ruby gem to help test automation. It followed
the SemVer approach to release versioning and scheduling. At least
until version 4.8.2 in which they replaced all occurrences of [Gg]irl with
[Bb]ot. They then yanked version 4.8.2 off of rubygems and renamed the entire
library to factory_bot.
Quote of the Day 29 May 2017
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
— Napoléon, Voltaire, Phillips and others
FreeBSD: /usr/local/lib/libpkg.so.3: Undefined symbol "utimensat" 18 Feb 2017
TL;DR
Fix your pkgng repo url to prevent pkg from installing incompatible binaries, e.g.http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/release_2for x.2.
Waiting for tax cuts 11 Feb 2017
While all these people seem to be outraged about Trump in one way or another he seems to be on track implementing the things he promised.
pip: install package into home directory - always 10 Feb 2017
TL;DR
Don’t usesudo pip install <package-name>like everybody on the internet tells you to. Usepip install --user <package-name>. To omit--user, create apip.confas outlined below.
Meinungshoheit 7 Jan 2017
Wer weniger etablierte Medien konsumiert, sich für Kommentarspalten nicht zu fein ist und aktuelle gesellschafts-politische Diskurse an der Basis verfolgt, dem muss die wachsende Diskrepanz zwischen herrschender und niederer Meinung gerade zu ins Auge stechen.
The Panama Shepherd 14 Apr 2016
When @Snowden dropped the #panamaPapers hash tag I was excited and turned to Spiegel Online to find out what it is about.
Chemtrails are not contrails 28 May 2015
Vor einiger Zeit sah ich mit einigen eher intelligenten Freunden (mit akademischem Hintergrund) eine Pseudo-Dokumentation, welche einen Rundschlag gegen einige Verschwörungstheorien machte. Ich erinnere mich noch sehr gut als einer der Protagonisten im Film mit kräftig deutschem Akzent das Wort “Chemtrails” in den Mund nahm und alle in Gelächter (auch ich, “Kehmträyls” hört sich gut an) ausbrachen und komisch guckten, als das Thema tatsächlich noch beleuchtet wurde.
Quote of the Day 19 Mar 2015
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
— Mark Twain
Followup: EU data protection 11 Mar 2015
After reading my previous post on data privacy in the EU you may need some convincing because I didn’t give any solid proof for the allegations. It also focussed on German law so, I’ll use this post to connect the two.
Nineteen Eighty Smart TV 8 Feb 2015
A short and good read is the privacy policy of Samsung’s SmartTV line.
"Data privacy regulations in the EU are among the strictest" 1 Feb 2015
That’s what I read everywhere. Especially Germany is said to, by law, offer immunity to government interception of private data. But it appears that outsiders (and insiders, sadly) are unable or unwilling to cut right down to the truth.
Denn die Mark war eine starke Währung 17 Oct 2014
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing zur Geburt des Euros:
A few numbers 15 Sep 2014
Looking at the following graph and assuming the quantity of military spending correlates with its quality, I guess sheep would agree that Russia surely is the most evil threat to world peace these days.
Chrome ftw! 11 Sep 2014
Chrome supported device emulation for a while now but it was always rather simple in terms of functionallity. Version 38 has this:
Quote of the day 13 Jul 2014
The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
Facebook Liberation 11 Jul 2014
The other day I tried to log into my Facebook account which I only used for the German Facebook page for Cocktailicious.
Quote of the day 17 Jun 2014
To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.
Es grenzt ja an Selbstmord, wenn man Kollegen kritisiert 19 May 2014
Der erste Post in deutsch. Ich habe lange darauf gewartet und nun endlich den richtigen Impuls. Dank an Frau Krone-Schmalz.
Judge died 6 May 2014
I just discovered to much of my surprise that John Judge of COPA died 3 weeks ago.
A very reasonable researcher and speaker, I discovered his work only a year ago. So without further ado let me honor his legacy by just letting him speak.
To be OSCE or not to be OSCE 29 Apr 2014
Following the latest event in Ukraine, the abduction of “OSCE observers”, I just finished reading an interview with Webster Tarpley conducted by Iranian Press TV.
This is not a technical problem 9 Apr 2014
If not for NanoBSD already, I almost fell in serious love with Poul-Henning Kamp.
Who are you? 4 Apr 2014
Damn, I love that man. Not because of, how other accomplices like to say, his populistic views but because he's darn right.
It's an Outrage! 31 Dec 2013
Somebody just spoke what he thinks is the truth and the Internet is about to explode.
Bullshit Mainstreaming 10 Dec 2013
Finally, gender mainstreaming and related commits, pull requests and discussions have found their way into the software community. It may very well have been there since don’t-know-don’t-care but at least an uproar is audible.
How to interview 30 Nov 2013
50 Years 22 Nov 2013
Half a century ago, today, what happened? Huh? Right. Kennedy was shot. I’m not the let’s-be-silent-for-a-minute kind. Rather, I like pushing sheep around.
Reverse-proxy a Rails app with Apache 25 Oct 2013
Recently I had to make one part of a Rails app available via a path of another Apache vhost.
The Rails app is running at http://app.example.com/engine-name and has to be accessible at http://www.example.com/app.
