Feuerfest

Just the private blog of a Linux sysadmin

On subscriptions...

  • September 13, 2025 •
  • Stuff •
  • Christian

Subscriptions only make sense when the cost to the company providing the service is ongoing.

There. That's the only type of subscriptions I am willing to pay for. Probably for the rest of my life.
What? Companies will find ways? Sure they will. After all that's already happening. Watch Louis Rossmann's YouTube channel if you want to know what I mean.

But this will also mean that the list of companies whom I will never buy from and delete my accounts will only grow.
And I will probably save a lot of money in not buying any of their goods. Yai!

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Sweet memories

  • May 26, 2025 •
  • Stuff •
  • Christian

At one of my previous employers we were allowed to create our own groups in the Intranet portal. There I created a group called "Christian's curious cyber content cabaret" and renamed it to "Christian's curious Corona cyber content cabaret" during the pandemic years.

The image below is the header image from that group which - as far as I am informed - still exists today. Years after I left that company. Albeit nobody posts there anymore.

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"The IT Crowd" Android easter egg

  • May 7, 2025 •
  • Stuff •
  • Christian

Holy shit! Didn't know of that easter egg.

Have you ever entered the "new emergency number" from The IT Crowd into your Android caller app?

I advise you to do so now. No, you don't need to press the call button. You don't need to actually establish/make a call. Just enter the complete number, that is:

0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

Cooooooool! 😆 And it even worked with my LineageOS ROM. 😆
(Doesn't work on GrapheneOS phones from what I heard.)

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GitHub is apparently a search engine

  • April 21, 2025 •
  • Stuff •
  • Christian

Colleague 1 (ironically): "GitHub what's that?"
Colleague 2: "Search engine for OpenAI API-Keys, AWS-Credentials and open S3-Buckets. Also private keys and passwords."

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