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2022 December 1st

Boter op ons hoofd

Het is verschrikkelijk dat er vele arbeiders zijn omgekomen bij de bouw van de voetbalstadions in Qatar. Of dat nu tientallen, honderden, of duizenden arbeiders waren.Maar is het niet net zo verschrikkelijk dat er jaarlijks miljoenen mensen omkomen van de honger, terwijl wij het graan dat hen had kunnen voeden gebruiken om het vee vet te mesten voor onze dagelijkse homp vlees? Of net zo verschrikkelijk als de duizenden vluchtelingen die jaarlijks omkomen op de Middellandse Zee, omdat we hen onze welvaart niet gunnen? Of als de miljoenen arbeiders in verre landen die werken onder embarmelijke omstandigheden om bij ons de schappen van de ALDI, de Action en de Primark gevuld te houden?We hebben in het Rijke Westen natuurlijk veel bereikt in de laatste pakweg honderd jaar, zoals stemrecht voor vrouwen, openbaar onderwijs, recht op abortus en euthanasie, en het homohuwelijk.

2022 July 21st

Scoop

I have migrated from winget to scoop. Winget is a big stap up from manually downloading and installing applications, but in the end it is mainly just a wrapper around the application installer. You still get installer popups, which started to get under my skin.So far, scoop works great:I have reinstalled all applications (except those from Microsoft, just to stay in touch with the Microsoft way of installing).

2022 June 21st

The Hypervisor Conundrum

Windows 11 Pro came pre-installed with a set of virtualization features:Microsoft's own hypervisor: Hyper-VHyper-V Managament ToolsHyper-V GUI Management ToolsHyper-V Module for Windows PowerShellHyper-V PlatformHyper-V Hypervisor (We'll come back to this one later)Hyper-V ServicesVirtual Machine PlatformWindows Hypervisor PlatformWindows SandboxWindows Subsystem for LinuxDespite my misgivings about Hyper-V itself, I was pleasantly surprised that WSL now included graphical abilities.

2022 June 13th

WSL GUI

Just found out that WSL Preview provides WSL GUI which allows me to run graphical Linux apps.

2022 June 8th

New laptop arrived

My new laptop arrived 'early' (May 31 instead of Jun 21: good marketing by Dell). These are my experiences so far with my intention to work under Windows instead of Ubuntu.On the surface, Windows 11 isn't that much different from Windows 10. It may be very different under the hood, but I can't tell.The winget package manager works like a charm.

2022 June 6th

Emacs + GPG = EasyPG

I looked at KeePass to store confidential information on Windows. But then it occured to me that org files can easily be encrypted, so now I use that instead.Just add the extension .gpg to your file (so vault.org becomes vault.org.gpg) and you're good to go. The double extension lets Emacs know its both encrypted and an org file.

2022 June 5th

Website monitoring

I maintain a number of websites for different clients and need to monitor their status. At this point a simple check if the site is still up would be sufficient, so I would prefer something simple. Other requirements: open source, self-hosted, configurable, web dashboard, automatic alerts and preferably available through docker compose.