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I would like to participate in a bathing competition some time.

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When I was working half-time I was making and doing fun things and hobbies were hobbies. Now - working full-time - I spend too much time being annoyed that I don't have more free time. Accepting that this is life is the most cowardly thing I've done. Good thing I notices in time.

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LOST

Name: Summer
Last seen: Last week
Character traits: Warm to hot, sunny, dry
Special needs: Cooling with water or moving air

If found, please return to Europe

THANK YOU!
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Project: mixlog

I just canceled some domains that I had registered. Among them were the domain names mixblog23.de and mixlog.de. Both of which were once used for a blogging platform of mine that wasn't alive for a long time. But I kept the domains just in case. (I don't know which case that would have been.)

The platform was initially supposed to be called Mixblog, but I couldn't find a free domain name that I liked. So at some point I registered mixlog.de, which by now sounds better and more familiar to me anyway.

The point of mixlog was - apart from me having a website to build and something to learn on - to create personal feed of content from different blogs on that website and other sources (RSS feeds). It could essentially be used as a feed reader in a web browser with the ability to publish stuff on the same site. RSS aggregation wasn't scaling well, so it would have been difficult if many people would have used it as a feed reader for many feeds. But that wasn't its main purpose anyway. So, you could post blog posts, image galleries (which technically were blog posts too) and links to posts on other websites (which imported the content and worked as a repost). You could follow blogs and repost and fav posts from bogs on mixlog and from other blogs as well. Classic blog comments existed too. Pingbacks and RSS feeds were supported as I still liked to think was standard back then.

I saw the platform as like sort of a twitter with fewer members, more features and without contrains (no small character limit, reblogging and following blogs from other websites was supported). When I later learned about tumblr, I started to think of mixlog as like sort of a tumblr with more features and a less professional design and UI. But I don't think tumblr even existed when I stopped working on mixlog.

So why isn't mixlog around anymore? At its peak there were three active users on the platform (not daily active, far from, actually). That included me, a friend who tested it with me in the early development stage and another friend, who tried it out for a short while. Altogether there were four user accounts/blogs. And mine was the only one that showed sings of prolonged motivation to post stuff. So when it became clear to me that nobody but me would be using it I thought it to be overblown for a personal weblog, stopped adding features and eventually took it offline instead of fixing a potential vulnerability of the underlying framework.

I guess this here is just to say: R.I.P., mixlog! You will forever have a place on my backup RAID.

(tba: screen shot)

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Some Thoughts on Hoarding

Here are in short my tips to reduce hoarding of stuff you think you may need some day but almost certainly won't. If you're not really a hoarder - as in the worst examples that TV likes to portrait - but do have a problem throwing things away despite not having space to store all that clutter, this may help to clean out your storage. (I'm assuming it may because it does for me.)

  1. Be aware that you are keeping stuff that you don't actually need or use reularly. Make yourself aware that your reasons to keep things may not be as good as you feel they are.
  2. Weed out things that you didn't use for a long time. Maybe plan an afternoon or sorting every six months or make a rule on how long you have to not use something in order to declare something unused. Use that time also to reflect on your reason to keep things. Is it really important to keep an object related to a good memory? How sure are you you will build that project some day that you've started to gather parts for?
  3. Sort unused things in three catagories, like: "Definitely still need it for a good reason", "Don't currently need or use it, but...", Don't actually need it". Then as move many things as possible from the second to the third catagory. Find reasons for doing so (be honest, you know the reasons) until you only have two catagories left.
  4. Ask a friend for a favour: Give them everything from the "don't need it" catagory and ask them to throw it away for you because you don't have the heart to do it. Chances are they can at least somewhat relate to your problem but have no problem throwing things away they've never seen before. IF they decide to keep some of it then it's their problem now. Feel free to donate valuable or really useful things or give them to a give-away store before throwing away the rest. Don't keep things because you want to seel them for money unless you do it right now and get rid of the things immediately.
  5. Forget about all that stuff so you don't feel bad when the day comes where you actually could have used one of the things you gave away.

If you have too much money you then buying storage or land to store things without having them clutter up your house is an alternative. But it's not really worth it. It's just paying money so you can keep that warmish feelng of still having access to everything but you'll also keep your problem. I mean unless you're really collecting something valuable or you become "that guy" for your town with large property where everybody goes before buying anything other than foot. Some towns have such a guy who stores avery piece of wood and metal they see so others can browse for their DIY projects. I like these guys. But you don't have the property for such a stock, do you? So don't try to be that guy for you town, for your friends or just for yourself. It takes the same amount of space in either case.

Being a digital hoarder myself, I'm hypocritical enough to have a different opiniont about data hoarding. But I'll write about that another time.

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Chaos Communication Camp 2019

If you don't know what the CCC camp is, I'm not going to try and explain it. You'll find introductions and it's history explained. (See the links below)

I wnet again this year. For me it's a rather expensive vacation. But it's worth it and I'd probably even do it if I didn't know where to get food until my next salary.

There are so many thoughts about this event. It's just such a unique and overwhelming experience. It feels good to see that the community is able to create such an overstimulating and incredibly welcoming world. It does feel like a different world, and I'm sad every time it is over. I thought I'd write at least a few entries about the event. But I find it hard to put into words what Camp is for me and what it feels like. So I guess I'll leave it at that for now.

  • Event Wiki: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2019/wiki/Main_Page
  • Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Camp
  • CCC event blog: https://events.ccc.de/category/camp/camp-2019/
  • Decumentary "All Creatures Welcome": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNj9Vll8E1Y
  • Hackaday Article: https://hackaday.com/2019/08/30/cccamp-5000-hackers-out-standing-in-their-field/
  • Flickr Picture Search: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=CCCAMP19
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    Open Directories

    Here are some links to open directories I deem interesting or deemed interesting at some point for some reason or another. This list is not maintained; expect dead links.

  • https://the-eye.eu/
  • http://dl.booktolearn.com/
  • http://erewhon.superkuh.com/library/
  • https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwJdvQM0LylNQW9oMldpY2Q5bUE
  • https://mirror.thelifeofkenneth.com/sites/
  • https://mirror.thelifeofkenneth.com/lib/
  • https://mirror.thelifeofkenneth.com/lib/World%20Tracker%20Library/worldtracker.org/media/library/
  • http://mirror.macintosharchive.org/
  • https://c64.archive.computer/
  • https://porn.jules-aubert.info/humble_bundle/
  • http://repo.palkeo.com/repositories/
  • https://cdn.media.ccc.de/
  • https://repo.zenk-security.com/
  • http://kunalsdatabase.com/ebooks/2015/
  • http://kunalsdatabase.com/ebooks/2016/
  • http://kunalsdatabase.com/ebooks/literature/
  • http://kunalsdatabase.com/ebooks/computer_ebooks/
  • And more subdirectories of http://kunalsdatabase.com/ebooks/
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    Photos of Fireworks

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    When I still had some motivation to go out to take photos I used to take photos of fireworks whenever there was an opportunity. I especially like these pictures of a show at Dürkheimer Wurstmarkt (multiple years). There are some more in my gallery at DeviantArt.

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