This week I wrote about “mass surveillance in the name of protection”. This is the Saturday/Sunday follow-up. (c) (r) ™ :-). (cross out whichever day doesn’t apply — or both, if you’re reading this on Monday!) What I’m writing here may sound absurd — but it really isn’t. Take a second and consider how your…
Mass Surveillance in the Name of Protection
The cost of confusing data volume with intelligence Once again, the EU is trying to push a bill that would allow scanning private communications for illegal content — all in the name of fighting terrorism and, of course, the golden ticket: child abuse. Don’t get me wrong, child abuse is absolutely horrific. But this bill…
Proxmox update
And time for a short Proxmox HA update. Hardware The first new — or actually, second-hand — hardware is coming in. I found a used 10 Gbit Ubiquiti XG 16 GEN 1 switch for a nice price. It comes with ten SFP+ ports and four regular RJ-45 ports, all supporting up to 10 Gbit. Core…
South Korea Invented the SSD. Then Forgot to Use One
Welcome to the South Korean Ministry of Digital Amnesia South Korea just managed to lose 858 terabytes of government data in a fire.Source: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/239988/zuid-korea-verliest-overheidsdata-door-brand-en-ontbreken-van-back-up.html Not in a remote village with barely any internet. Not in a developing nation hidden somewhere on the map. No — in South Korea. Yes, you read that correctly. South Korea….
Rant: The High Price of Looking Rich
I was browsing through captions on various news sites when one headline caught my eye. Dutch: “Ottelien (22) koopt liever Louis Vuitton-tas van duizend euro dan dat ze op vakantie gaat: peperdure luxe is hype onder jongeren.” English: “Ottelien (22) prefers buying a thousand-euro Louis Vuitton bag over going on vacation: overpriced luxury is the…
Rant Against the Overseas Orange Baboon 2.0
My friends thought my rant was too kind. Hence I asked ChatGPT to create a more punchy one. And oh yeah! ChatGPT delivers! Donald J. Trump — the self-proclaimed genius who discovered that autism is caused by… paracetamol. Yes, you read that right. The same paracetamol millions of people use daily without issue. The same…
Rant Against The Overseas Orange Baboon
Yes, this is a direct rant against the Overseas Orange Baboon, a.k.a. Donald J. Trump. Our make-up orange carrot stated this week that he had found the root cause of autism: Tylenol (more commonly known here in Europe as paracetamol). Yes, according to Trump there is a direct link between paracetamol and the prevalence of…
Reacher update: 27-09-2025
Another week, another update. Weight: 106.7kg ( -0,4kg) Chest: 106cm Waist: 104cm Belly: 105cm Body fat: 26.0% ( 7 day average: 26.7% ) And another quarter has passed. At the start of it, I said I wanted to be at 99.9 kg by now. Well… I didn’t hit that goal. Not even close! My weight…
Reacher update: 20-09-2025
Another week, another update. Weight: 107.1kg ( -0,5kg) Chest: 106cm Waist: 104cm Belly: 105cm Body fat: 26.5% ( 7 day average: 26.8% ) It won’t be long before I have to punch another hole in my belt. Even though the scale has mostly been moving sideways, my body is still changing. My chest is starting…
From Single point of failure to High Availability
I wrote before about backups. https://www.familie-kleinman.nl/brain/index.php/2025/04/12/backup-stories-what-was-needed-to-get-to-never-again/ . Backups are the last line of defense. If everything else fails, you fall back on them. But that raises the question: what’s the first line of defense, and what can you build in between? Having your data on multiple hard drives, in RAID, is such a defense. One…