We inherited a flat — but what to do with it when we don't want to live in our home town? Sell it! That would give us a foundation for our own place, assuming the market doesn't go mad. We knew our neighbour had once been interested in a bigger flat, so we approached her first....
I had to decide whether to wait for the iPhone 13 or swap my iPhone 8 for a 12 straight away. Since the 13 was quite hard to come by, I went ahead with the swap. Thanks to iCloud backup it's fairly painless — but there's a catch with apps that manage the second factor, especially...
What were the highlights of this year?
OS: Windows 10 — unfortunately I don't get a choice at work, so I suffer through Windows.
HW: watch, Garmin Instinct Tactical — GPS/GALILEO and GLONASS, supports MGRS — what more could you ask for.
Podcast: Kecy a politika, the comm...
Like everyone else, I was waiting for my chance to get the booster. Being among the first vaccinated put me in a tricky spot — five months from my vaccination was up in mid-December. But technically nobody could give it to me before six months… That changed, fortunately, and on 27 December...
Last year Red Hat announced the end of classic CentOS, shortening support for v8 — see here. If your system runs v8, you have until 2024, though the situation with the final version isn't very cheerful. One option is migrating to CentOS Stream. Where I see the catch is a higher de...
Autumn arrived and heating became relevant. We were surprised to find it was doing whatever it pleased. That's down to how heating works in our building during the season. Still, it's not pleasant to wait in the morning for everything to warm up to the right temperature. On the flip side,...
As part of a company team building event I got to try golf. I'd always been fascinated by how cleanly a player can strike the ball and wanted to know what it felt like. So a colleague and I signed up. I was hoping I wouldn't be completely hopeless.
We got excellent instructors who started t...
I got the opportunity to take course FOR578, Cyber Threat Intelligence. I'd always been curious about how to do it properly. As I discovered after completing the course and during exam preparation, it's a hugely complex area. Only then do you really realise how common cognitive bias...
During October I was supposed to be teaching cybersecurity to secondary school students as part of the "Master Digital Technologies" programme as an instructor. Due to low interest a partner had to be found to support the teaching. That partner turned out to be Huawei. At that poi...
Times move on and it was time to replace our old mower with a battery-powered one. Picking the right one turned out to be quite a challenge. The garden is fairly large — over 600 m². That means you need a big battery capacity. We also wanted self-propulsion so everyone could mow, n...