Mike Kuketz writes about the IFG (Informationsfreiheitsgesetz), which the government wanted to restrict without further proof…
Love that story
Hill-climbing on a single speed bicycle – and wow, with about 12kg it even was ca. 4,5kg lighter than mine (which has gears tho)…
Confirmed [Bug]: Conky 1.25.2 crashes on KDE Wayland due to font initialization assertion #2498
With its latest upgrade to version 1.25.2 on Arch Linux, my conky stopped working. I tried a few things, looked into KDE as well, all the same. Then I found an existing bug report about it which I confirmed. Like the bug reporter, I tried downgrading the package to its previous version 1.24.2, tried it – et voilà – it worked again. So until this bug is resolved, I’ve put conky into the ignore version of pacman.conf, and that’s it for now… it’s back in its full glory:
As always, thanks for reading.
Update from Monday, Oct. 18th, 2026: just read that it should be fixed in version 1.25.3, but that didn’t arrive in Arch yet, so let’s wait…
Makari went GCN
What a nice surprise! Canadian vlogger Makari Espe who runs a Youtube channel and her ifailoften.com website went over to the UK to do a 100km gravel bicycle ride with Conor from GCN, which is the world’s biggest cycling site. Watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5htHeuHkI or visit Makari’s channel at https://www.youtube.com/@makariespe/videos or GCN’s at https://www.youtube.com/@gcn/videos
Have fun…
Arch warning about a deprecated ALL_microcode setting
Had to follow “infoslaw”‘s advice to mitigate it. Just in case anyone else has this…
Happy anniversary Bella!
Today three years ago, this was the first photo we took of our newest family member:
And this is an out-of-camera snapshot from today. She wasn’t yet ready to come back in; probably she hadn’t had her 10,000 steps yet, just like me:
More photos of her are in her Flickr album. And like always, thanks for viewing/reading.
Land’s End to John O’Groats – what an epic ride!
Just saw this video from Oscar Boyd, and wow was that beautiful!
It’s been a while since I was in England and Scotland, and until now I’ve never seen Cornwell or Wales, sadly. And if I could afford it, that would definitely be on my bucket list, although I’d first need a smart trainer before I could dare to do that on a bicycle.
Nevertheless, well worth watching, and thanks for sharing this, Oscar & family – even the music was great! Next I’ll watch his other content about Japan, Italy, and so on… and I’m very much looking forward to seeing that, although I really love Scotland – so thanks again mate!
Preaching water…
… but drinking wine? As taz reported, the “Dienstwagen-Check” of our politicians of 2026 is out. And only one of them all doesn’t have a “Dienstwagen”, but a “Dienstfahrrad”…
Reminds me a bit of Downing Street 10, where they had champagne parties during Corona lockdowns. In the UK, a prime minister could fall for that behaviour – we are far apart from such consequences, sadly.
That’s why I like The Independent
Sam Kiley writes:
“Trump has been a useful idiot for Moscow and India”
and:
“Authoritarian populists like Vladimir Putin know that when fellow anti-democrats start calling them “my friend” the writing may be on the wall.”
Yep.
Read more about “keeping the band together” in his own words.
Debian, LLMs, and the end of “Reichweitenangst”
It’s so interesting to read Planet Debian sometimes. Although this is almost entirely collected from Debian developers, and written and collected mostly for them as well, it’s simply fresh. And honest. And even if I don’t understand some of it, once I started giving back a bit to that project, I’m following their planet.
The Debian developers recently had a discussion about the use of LLMs (“AI” as called by the general public), and how to deal with it. That was surely interesting, and here are some I found particularly good to read. The vote is now over by the way.
I’m also often surprised to read about people’s (DDs) main jobs, and sources of income. Aigars Mahinovs for instance works for a big and seemingly very innovative German car maker, and his take on one of the company’s latest models is really interesting, even if you – like me – may not be in the “target” group of buying a new electric car anytime soon. But wow, this would be a model and company to watch, even if I’d really like them to stop offering in-car software on a subscription-based model. You’ve read that right: as it has been reported elsewhere (I don’t read and/or link to that site anymore), some of the in-car software will stop working after a certain amount of time in case you don’t continue to pay for it. But I understand people like my wife’s colleague who wants her next car to be of that brand. The one Aigars is driving now might be the end of “Reichweitenangst“, a term I thought was German, but it was first mentioned in the US…
Like always, thanks for reading.