mika

IT guy playing the drums. CEO of SynPro Solutions. Grml project leader + Debian Developer. Founder of Grml-Forensic. Automating things to get worse at Tsundoku.

2026-02-13

@gregoa_ yeah, similar to FAI developer meeting in Extremadura back in 2008 8-)

I very much hope that the situation in the inner city of Buenos Aires is OK-ish nowadays, given that there seem to exist vegetarian and even vegan restaurants nowadays :)

2026-02-12

We had a @grmlproject developer sprint, and it's so much fun and productive to work in open source projects with amazing folks.
Thanks @jkirk @ch2500 + @Anarcat đŸ€—

2026-02-12

Looks like I'll be joining DebConf26! đŸ„ł
#debian

PS: I'd highly appreciate tips on visiting Argentina (Santa Fe + Buenos Aires) + Chile (Santiago + ValparaĂ­so), both as an IT nerd, but also for food (vegetarian!) + family outings! đŸ€—

Screenshot of Debconf26 registration
2026-02-11

Juhu @linuxtage 2026, ich bin mit "Tatort đŸ€Ą-IT" dabei! Zeit fĂŒr 🍿!

Screenshot der Einreichung eines Vortrags mit dem Titel "Tatort “Clown-IT"" bei den Grazer Linuxtagen 2026:

Aktueller Stand deiner Einreichung:
Einreichungsart: Vortrag (45min), Track Admin, Sprache Deutsch, Dauer 00:45
Herzlichen GlĂŒckwunsch zur Annahme deiner Einreichung!
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christian mockcm@chaos.social
2026-02-11

kenn ich jemanden in wien, der erfahrung mit grĂ¶ĂŸeren nextcloud-setups hat, inkl talk und collabora?
ein kunde von mir brÀucht da evtl consulting...

2026-02-09

OVHcloud, đŸ€Ą-IT!

Screenshot from OVH with  "Authorize %!s(<nil>) The application now has access to your account"
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Michael Stapelberg 🐧đŸčđŸ˜șzekjur@mas.to
2026-02-06

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

GitHub PR i3#6564, where Orestis explains how he tested the patch.GitHub .patch file for this PRDebian issue with unexpected delay — the sleep(1) call made it into the code!test with git-am(1)
2026-02-01

"dgit: autopkgtest regression: SHA1 is not considered secure since 2026-02-01T00:00:00Z" -- bugs.debian.org/1126793
đŸ€Ą -IT!

2026-01-31

apt, SHA-1 keys + 2026-02-01:

michael-prokop.at/blog/2026/01

You heard it here first đŸ€Ą

2026-01-31

@mirabilos ✅

2026-01-31

OH, in a P1 emergency meeting:

M: this is going to bite us in 3 years again, BTW
J: uhm, right
M: could it be that we'll have another P1 call in 3 years?
J: let's call it a socialising feature, if we shouldn't have a meeting in the near future, we'll at least have one in 3 years

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2026-01-14

@0xabad1dea Working at an ISP, we once moved to a shiny new office they'd hooked up to the UPS of the data center down the street. The capacity not being that great, they had red outlets "for the important stuff" and grey ones for everything else. When a transformer blew up and plunged most of the city into darkness, all the routers and workstations turned off and only the printers, the fax and the pump for a colleague's desktop fountain stayed on. Turned out they'd wired it the other way round and nobody ever tested.

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flowolf :verified:flowolf@graz.social
2026-01-08

Die aktuellen BeitrÀge in den Medien zum #KÀltetelefon haben mich ob der KomplexitÀt die richtige Nummer, im richtigen Bundesland, zur richtigen Tageszeit, zu finden etwas frustriert.

Also hab ich das hier gemacht:
kÀltetelefon.at

Kurz und bĂŒndig. Schnelles Auffinden der Nummer.

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graz.socialwir@graz.social
2026-01-08

Wir haben fĂŒr die Stadt Graz Empfehlungen fĂŒr eine gesunde digitale Kommunikation und Öffentlichkeit formuliert.

info.graz.social/positionen/em

In den kommenden Wochen werden wir mehrere GesprĂ€che mit verschiedenen Grazer Stadtpolitiker:innen fĂŒhren, um auf die Problematik, das Fediverse und das „+1-Prinzip” aufmerksam zu machen.

Danke an @offene_netzwerke, ihr gebt uns Mut!

ZunÀchst fokussieren wir uns auf die Stadt Graz, eine Ausweitung auf Bund, Land oder UniversitÀten ist jedoch angedacht.

2025-12-30

Definitely a Thriller, esp. for sysadmins đŸ€Ą

Cover of a book with title "The puppet master" by Sam Holland, labeled as Thriller, incl. "Er kontrolliert dich." (He controls you), "Er lĂ€sst dich bĂŒssen" (He will make you pay) + "Er beobachtet dich" (He watches your every move).
2025-12-23

The good thing about having kids is that sometimes you get the things for yourself you dreamed of as a teenager. 🙃

Thanks for all your feedback, finally I'm the proud owner of a "Garlando Pro Champion ITSF" Foosball / Wuzeltisch!

In other words, the ones of you who know where I live are invited to visit and "beat" me! đŸ€“

FTR, I ordered it at tischkicker.de AKA kickersport.de, order process, delivery and setting it up all went perfectly fine.

Picture of a Garlando Pro Champion ITSF" Foosball / Wuzzeltisch
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2025-12-23

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

A Combine soldier threatening with a baton, in front of a door. Which one is a greater menace in gamedev?
2025-12-13

@leyrer sehr brav! ;)
(Also ich fÀnde eine Session zu "moderne, weniger bekannte aber coole/hilfreiche/... Tools sehr fein, gerne auch im Sven Guckes Show & Tell-Stil wo sich dann auch die richtigen[tm] Leute treffen können :))

2025-12-13

@leyrer schau auf alle FÀlle bei den GLT26 vorbei! :) (Call For Lectures lÀuft bereits! pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt26/ )

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