Some long-needed server 💙

Just upgraded from Debian 11 to 12. And while I was at it rescaled the vServer at Hetzner from two cores to four – which is even cheaper: I save about four €uros per month. And it was just a few clicks. Oddly satisfying.

Update: Why certainly, there were some (not so obvious) issues:

• SSH users moved from the _ssh group in /etc/groups to AllowUsers in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
• spamd was not installed, anymore
• dovecot had a permission issue with an acme.sh certificate
• I had to rebuild the json3k services

Through the mail issues I found several ancient mbox files in /var/mail that contained messages that must have been slipped through the milter, probably at a time the mail server was configured with maildrop (now it’s procmail). Spring Fall cleaning FTW!

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Language models are trained by a simple trick.
We give them a line of text and ask them, “What comes next?”
We do this over and over again, and eventually, they learn to complete the line.
By this trick language models have learned to write poetry, prose, and quantum physics. It works because in text, as in life, what’s past is prologue.

Die Faire Computermaus von Nager IT.

Amelia Wattenberger is Bridging the hard and the soft.

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Effect of COVID-19 global lockdown on our Moon.

Lunar night-time surface temperatures of six different sites on the Moon's nearside were analysed during the period 2017–2023. Results showed an anomalous dip in the lunar night-time surface temperatures for all the sites during April–May 2020, the strict COVID-19 global lockdown period, when compared to the values of the same period during the previous and subsequent years.

Target: helma 🫨

Details on the web framework "helma" and its common security issues.

Exxon made the Amazon a toxic swamp of oil waste.

The Environmental Disaster No One Knows About.

Relevant: Pardon Steven Donzinger!

Cyberangriff mit Folgen: Web-„Zeitmaschine“ auf wackligen Beinen.

Das Internet Archive hat seit 1996 insgesamt über 860 Milliarden Einzelseiten aus dem Netz gespeichert – und ist damit das weltgrößte Archiv des World Wide Web. Ein Cyberangriff vergangene Woche legte das Archiv und seine „Wayback Machine“ für einige Tage komplett lahm. Seit Montag ist wieder – eingeschränkter – Zugriff möglich, doch die Attacke offenbarte ganz grundlegende Schwächen der digitalen Bibliothek, die sich vor allem durch Spenden finanziert.

Schade in dem Zusammenhang auch, dass die Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ihr Webarchiv so geringschätzt; das wär doch mal was für eine Digitalisierungsoffensive… (klar, da müssten auch ein paar Copyright-Regeln geklärt werden – das Archiv ist ja nicht einmal außerhalb der ONB abrufbar.)

Checks out.

Franz Michael Felder.

Der (ultramontane) Klerus feindete ihn stark an.

Spoilers!

Twin Peaks actually explained (no, really).

Not quite as long as season 3 but just as entertaining and watch-worthy. And yeah, I watched the latter again 🙈

Relevant: Chrystabell.