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17.06.2025

Well, looks we are heading into WWIII... it sucks. I hope i am wrong but with the ongoing war in Ukraine and the ever more heating conflict over there between israel and iran... but i really have a bad feeling about this.

12.06.2025

It's somewhat fascinating: Here i am, preparing a notebook targeted for a classic "office use" scenario, but the machine has a 2 TB drive and 64 GB of RAM... what the hell!?! I mean yeah, i get it, it is simply amazing how powerful modern machines are, but for what use?! Even my (in comparison) extremly anaemic DevTerm is, what, 10.000 times faster than the computers that brought mankind to the moon...

09.06.2025

Well, perhaps i read too many wrong sources or something else is completely wrong with our software ecosystem... i mean, look at it: My DevTerm is powered by a Raspberry Pi CM4, a little SBC that is, what, 10.000 times more powerful than systems that did run whole companies or hospitals back in the 80s and 90s? And now i can barely log in to my online banking provider with it. Just think a moment about this... doesn't it sound profoundly wrong?!?

06.06.2025

Nearly half a year gone without any update... time to change this!

I dabbled again a bit into the Fediverse and, while i still like the IDEA, i will end my participation there. Why? Well... in the end its always "the people". Please don't understand me wrong: There are absolutely amazing people on the Fediverse, but there are also tons of the same guys, gals and everything in between that has made Twitter X and Reddit such a bad place before. I think i will now more often post here instead writing to a microblogging service.

I also have upgraded my Devterm some time ago, now it runs on a whopping fast Raspberry Pi CM4 which makes working with it a much more pleasant thing. Also the HDMI out now works, so i can finally plug it into my old Acer 22" screen to have a proper desktop replacement, ALSO it runs now a proper Debian, so the Ubuntu-isms are gone.
I will write up a bit about this in the coming days in my "computer stuff" category.

04.01.2025

Here we are, the year 2025! I spend the last few days contemplating a bit about my (digital) life choices, is it not a complete waste of time to spend so much time with, to be honest, completely obsolete technology? I mean, nobody will hire me for my time sunk into Forth programming or my dabbling into Interlisp. Nobody NEEDS today the knowledge how to get an harddisk running on an Atari ST or how to format a floppy on a C64. Why the heck i am sinking so much time into it?

Well, i came to the conclusion that it is not THAT different from gardening or foraging. You don't NEED to garde or forage (at least here in the western world), but it is somewhat more of a hobby. It's in a way a method for conservating a craft that otherwise would be forgotten in a while. And who knows? Perhaps some time in the future the day will come where there IS a job offer for maintainig some legacy product... i mean, the US nuclear weapons are running on 8" floppies, so, at least there is hope ;-)

27.12.2024

The christmas days are over and - at least until new years eve hits - everything is back to normal(-ish) again. I will not bore you, dear reader, with stories about my christmas days, let's just say they were ok, everyone had fun and we all ate way too much.

As ever with the end of the year i am contemplating a bit about the changes this year brought, and... i think the changes were mostly positive. At the very minimum i have finally noticed that the web is NOT the dead, platform dependand commercialised hellhole that i thought it had become.

23.12.2024

I am now removing a few graphics from the homepage again because i think it looks a bit too... i don't know, not right i guess. Also i like to have the website look better on lynx.

Funny: For years on end i thought the web of personal homepages and little themed sites were gone, but since i started diving ever deeper into this rabbit hole i dig up more and more treasures. And interestingly: Many of those sites are seemingly active, not just remnants of a time long gone. I am currently thinking about shutting down my gotosocial instance and leaving the fediverse (as other social media before) for good because i notice the same bad habits i had before forming again.

19.12.2024

Finally brought the page online, but still there is much to tinker and fill with content. But alas: Here it is, my new website! After some thinking i decided to host it on Neocities instead of my VPS because... well... i have a bad history of letting contracts expire.


You can contact me via email at ralfwause@posteo.de or via the Fediverse @the_wiz@bbs.coredump.online