Week 12, 2020

GDPR and common sense by @edent (shkspr.mobi)
Every so often, I get a glimpse into the thought processes of someone who has a very different view of the world to me. I don't deal with people's personal information often. So I was surprised to receive an email with a multi-megabyte spreadsheet called "Pay and Bonuses 2020". The email contained t...

Heh, no idea what GDPR has to do with password protected attachments but this reminds me of a nifty customer that decided that NextCloud or KeePass files are way too complicated and simply dropped me required data in my HOME folder on the brand new server I was supposed to configure next day anyway. This I could access with my very own ssh key generated just for this purpose the day before. I had to admire the simplicity – and I needed that data on this server anyway 😀

Also auto-complete is a PITA on occasion. Looking at you Firefox.

TIL: How to configure ppp on remote server (knowhow last needed for a 1 💾 router + ISDN) + keepalive so I could access more Linux servers on a VPN via SSTP, a slow non standardized HTTPS tunneling protocol by M$ from 2007 that was invented because ipsec was “too complicated” 😭

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Sarah Burrini on Twitter (Twitter)
“Liebe Twitterinis, das @kickstarter für den neuen Ponyhof-Comicsammelband ist eröffnet!!! *kreeeisch* 🥳🥳🥳https://t.co/Iz1X3TunJj”

Ui, die @laburrini hat nen Kickstarter für den neuen Sammelband von “Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof”:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/418888858/das-leben-ist-kein-ponyhof-comic-sammelband