Le Hip Hop francais

As a 90s child I have been growing up with Hip Hop. Recently I have been diving back into the past and re-listened and rediscovered some great Hip Hop.

Let’s see if I manage to embed Youtube.

Some highlights. Afrob & Warda Mellouki – En position de debat

I suck at french (you probably guessed from the missing diacritics) but I like the theatralism and the bombast attitude.

Next up Keny Arkana:

Don’t lookup Keny Arkanas questionable political views, but I love the energy.

Psy 4 de la rime – Jeunesse France.

A song that also works great live (Check out Urban Peace version on Spotify/Tidal) and I love positive nationalism.

Sniper – Brule

And last a classique from Guru (RIP) & MC Solaar – Le Bien et Le Mal

There is probably lots of stuff I have no idea about. So maybe I will update this later

Orienteering

Last week I was busy participating in my first Orienteering event, the Vienna Orienteering Challenge.

On Thursday I did my first orienteering run in Türkenschanzpark and ended 24th of a 26 people field. I was so excited, that I forgot to start my watch, so no livelox. I also forgot to turn the map, in a detour of several minutes.

On Friday Leg 1 of the challenge happened in the Otto-Probst-Siedlung. I had expected the run to take place in Wienerberg area, so I had the wrong shoes. Still I managed to finish the “Newcomer” course in a good time.

So on Saturday I decided to run the “Men Open” course. The area was the MQ and I managed a surprising good result finishing third.

Unfortunately on Sunday I had exhausted my luck and finished only 9th out of 10. I had problems with three control points and my back tracking/ recovering strategy was “run around in circles”, which is not the most efficient way to find something.

I am looking forward to my next orienteering run.

 

While this blog was down…

..lots of things happend.

  • Tastebuds.fm shut down. So now I need to post more about Music here.
  • I had to switch my ISP. Now with WienEnergie. It is faster and I have IPv6 again. Unfortunately no static IP neither IPv4 nor IPv6.
  • FreeBSD: I replaced inek.arved.priv.at with a netgate firewall (called slon.arved.priv.at, because the 100MBit NICs where limiting the Internet speed. Because I no longer have a static IP, there is now a wireguard VPN to connect to home.
  • Sports: After buying a Garmin watch I started to train regularly. Ask me for my strava user name.

Booting FreeBSD on minisforum pc

Installed FreeBSD security updates on krava.arved.priv.at. On reboot the kernel hang.

kernel.old also hang. Downgrade to 13.2 also hang.

Tried disabling hardware components via device.hints.

First suspected the keyboard, as atkbd printed the last line, but finally found out, that uart needs to be disabled

See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/boot-hangs-on-cherrytrail-uefi-system-installer-preinstalled-stick-no-dmesg-written.57321/

Music stats 2023

My Top Artists 2023 according to last.fm

  1. Calogero
  2. Pinhani
  3. Shohruhxon
  4. Fletwood Mac
  5. Mariah Carey
  6. Michael Jackson
  7. Hande Yener
  8. Django Reinhardt
  9. Heart
  10. Bahamadia

Looks like I am getting old. Most of  the artists had their peak in the last millenium.

Top Tracks

  1.  Azzamchik – Blatata (2023)
  2. Ismael Lo – Tajabone (1990)
  3. Michelle Gurevich – Here’s the Part (2020)
  4. Ana Coman – Run (2020)
  5. Aylin Aslım – İçtim İctim (2009)
  6. Ed Alleyne-Johnson – Oxford Suite Part 1 (1992)
  7. Feyyaz Yığıt – Samsun’lu Değilim (2013)
  8. Heart – Wild Child (1990)
  9. Loboda – Ne Nuzhna (2017)
  10. Martin L. Gore – In a Manner of Speaking (1989)

wireguard debugging

Playing around with wireguard at the moment. Terminology is a bit confusing.

  • Q: You can see the incoming “Handshake Initiation” packets on the server, but the server does not respond?
    • A: Check again that the server hat the correct pubkey configured for the client
  • Q: You have multiple peers configured but only one works?
    • A: In AllowedIPs every client needs to be on its own subnet, e.g. a /32
  • Q: Your clients can’t communicate with each other?
    • A: IP forwarding needs to be enabled

 

Updating unifi to debian bullseye

With version 7.5 unifi finally supports openjdk17 which means it is about time to update the vm to bullseye. Of course the mongodb dependency is still horribily outdated. Luckily old mongodb  debs for buster are still available at https://www.mongodb.com/download-center/community/releases

The unifi deb required < 5.0. 4.4 reported that it is too new for the database and 4.2 failed to migrate the database so I had to start again.

  • Download a backup of the config before upgrading.
  • After the upgrade wipe /var/lib/unifi/db
  • Create a dummy account like described here: https://gist.github.com/AmazingTurtle/e8a68a0cbe501bae15343aacbf42a1d8
  • Login and restore the backup.

Using the PC rooms of Vienna University for writing a LaTeX document

So I tried to use the PC rooms of my university for less distraction.

Bad idea, I was distracted by the broken setup.

First problem: no git installed and it is prohibited to install software. Workaround: Luckily there is still an SSH access to login.univie.ac.at where git is installed.

Second problem: On login.univie.ac.at there is only pdflatex installed. Unfortunately my document requires xelatex or lualatex. Workaround: Use the TeXWorks GUI which has xelatex and lualatex available.

Third Problem: I haven’t been able to get biber working with my document. No workaround available, so back to working on my laptop.

Potential Workarounds that did not work:

  • SSH from the windows PC to my Laptop on the WLAN. Unfortunately this seems to be prohibited by the Network administrator
  • Using the external Display on my Laptop. Unfortunately there is no HDMI cable, so a HDMI cable should be come part of my emergency cable pack.

…to be continued.