After an update of my packages, OpenVPN suddenly didn’t connect anymore and dropped an error:
invalid IP6 config received!Apparently this happens because “OpenVPN 2.5.0 started to pass incomplete IPv6 configurations when the server is not fully configured for IPv6 but has some IPv6 directives…
» read moreWhile the subtitles of the VLC player on Gentoo looked rather ugly, they looked nice on Windows—to a point it really bothered me. After some online searching, I came across a forum post that…
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Korean Food - Dolsot Bimbimbap Recipe (Creative Commons). Sous Chef/CC BY 2.0
A nice recipe for the Korean dish Bibimbap. Besides being delicious, it takes me back to my time spent in Asia 🌏. If you’re a vegetarian, simply leave out the meat and enjoy the veggies.
a very tall building with a lot of plants growing on it. Daniel Seßler/Unsplash License
I recently stumbled upon the “Vertical Forest” (ital. Bosco Verticale) in Milan, two award-winning skyscrapers. Don’t they look cool?
A very useful overview for tracking Coronavirus cases in South Africa.
After many hours of work, the filming location database is finally online. It’s an open and free database of filming locations: the data is licensed under the ODbL.
OpenStreetMap/iD/Esri
Exciting news for mappers in Pretoria (as myself): the Esri World Imagery was recently updated to a much sharper, more detailed version. This makes mapping way more pleasant and reliable. Awesome!
Giving presents to someone who cares about Soft- and Hardware Freedom is difficult (I know my wife struggles). The Free Software Foundation’s Ethical Tech Giving…
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Logo of the OpenStreetMap project. Ken Vermette, OSM/CC BY-SA 2.0
It’s official: the coming State of the Map is set in Cape Town!
Paul Piff is a social psychologist, talking about his research on how people behave when they feel wealthy.
Updating LineageOS 16.0 on your Sony Xperia XA2 can result in no network, bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It’s a common problem, but there is a solution: update the firmware, but to an older version than 50.2.A.0.*. After that, updating to newer LineageOS versions won’t be a problem anymore. Here’s a step-by-step guide how it worked for me.
Note: If…
» read moreVorbis nominal bitrate at quality levels for 44.1 kHz stereo input. The new libvorbis v1.2 usually compresses better than these values (effective bitrate may vary).
| Quality | Nominal bitrate | |
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| Official Xiph.Org Foundation Vorbis | … | |
