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Phishing Attempt on Steam

Well, that happened… …just a word of warning: Be careful on the internet! I was randomly contacted by some dude on Steam late at night, stating that he wanted me to connect with his buddy - fine, right? While he did not identify himself properly, I shrugged it off, as he just wanted to hook me up with his friend quickly. I was like “Sure, why not?”, let’s give it a shot.

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LaTeX is shit

Here is my list of problems… Bad parameter transfer: {} is so illegible in quantities Commands are illegible: In LibreOffice I write e in R or m = abs (M) and have what I want. Done. Nesting is shitty to read: If it ends with }}})} you have a lot of fun! Not live: Okay, I’ll put it behind bracket number four… Wait five seconds… Damn, put it next to it and again… - And only when Overleaf isn’t going crazy!

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Prusa Mini+ WiFi and virtual USB

What? The Prusa Mini+ has a problem: It has no WiFi. Also the software does not support any wifi module until now - that feature is planned, but not implemented. Additionally the web interface is, let’s say, not really working, as the printer struggles with serving the static contents (like .css and .js), which are required to render the site. This issue is also known since release 4.3.0 but also not resolved (#1285).

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Kernel Panic by SCSI

I’ve notices some kernel panics on one of my vms when ever any other vm was doing some more cpu intensive work. It seemed there was no reason, as there was no unusual ram usage or vm-host events! So I ignored it for a while until I was finally able to trigger it by using one of my own services - here is a little record of the crash (just in case of further reference):

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Star Trek and Orville

Some actors known from “Star Trek” I noticed inside “The Orville”: Robert Picardo: Ildis_Kitan / The Doctor Timm Russ: Dr. Sherman / Mr. Tuvok Marina Sirtis: Schoolteacher / Deanna Troi John Billingsley: Cambis Borrin / Dr. Phlox Penny Johnson: Claire Finn / Kasidy Yates-Sisko Brent Spiner: Sounds familar? / Lt. Cmdr. Data

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