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Friday tag

The FRIDAY tag is here to stay. 

Happy Friday

This is like the funniest thing I saw last Friday. I had to take a photo.

 Have a good one!

World Book Day 2026

Plan B

 Being a member of The A-Team myself I love it when a plan comes together. But I am also aware of how important it is to always have a plan B or two (what some people call a plan C).

And I firmly believe this is even more true in the digital world. Yes, it is important to have a backup of your data, but that alone does not solve all your problems.

If you are using other people's software (especially commercial software) you have to use the software in the way that other people expects you to use it, otherwise, things might not work properly.

Experience in life teaches you to be prepared when the software does not do what you want it to do but it does what the designers want it to do instead.

So in respect to the websites I am working on, I usually have my plans B and C at hand so that I can say oh yeah I love it when my plans comes together :) 

 

 

copyleft

 [This is a crosspost from my phlog post (gopher blog) from Saturday Mar  7  9:30:28 2026]

If you've ever visited my website 'chalsattack.com' you might have

noticed that I have a copyright sign on it. Make no mistake, I am more

the kind of copyleft guy than any other thing you can think of. But I

think I need to explain you one thing first.

In the first place, I put the copyright symbol several years ago only

because I thougt it was super cool having it on a website. I never

gave it any more importance.

Now that I am moving to a different hosting plan (same hoster,

different plan) I revised the text and thought that the copyright

should go away and enter the copyleft one. But much to my surprise I

learnt that copyleft is a mirroed copyright sign and well, I copied

and pasted the code I found on the internet but the sign refused to be

properly displayed.

Too bad. I will try again, no doubt, and I will eventually manage to

display it. I am too stubborn to give up. But I think the copyleft

symbol should have a better/easier way to be displayed.

UPDATE:

(Adding a copyright sign is as easy as typing "©" I just found

out there is "🄯" for copyleft. Let me try...)

What the heck! It works! I am a bit happier now

UPDATE 2:

"🄯" works too in html. "🄯" is hex. "U+1F12F" is unicode

I think I got it right this time with my raspi

 Like I said in a previous post I upgraded my raspi model 4 to trixie (Raspberry Pi OS) successfully some weeks ago. It works fine, the only problem I had back then was configuring the network with a static ip (it is a usual thing). 

 Again, like I already said it pisses me off that I have to re-image the sd card to full-upgrade it. So I thought I should try to install "pure" debian instead of Rasberry Pi os and try to upgrade it by simply running apt full-upgrade (or dist-upgrade). So I did.

 I installed bookworm and then upgraded to trixie. It was fantastic and super fast. So I think that from now on it is going to be a blast updating and upgrading my raspi.

But only time will tell. The fist problem I had after the upgrade (it was configured to connect with inet) was again setting a static ip. What the hell! What is going on with that freaking raspi firmware? I finally could configure it properly and well, here I am writing this post.

 I have not installed a lot of software on it so far. I installed gpm, mc, byobu and weechat. I also installed network-manager because I imagined it would be easier to set the ip with it, but no luck. I removed it and continued with inet. 

 I don't know why it should be that hard, inet's config file is pretty simple in itself. 

From:

iface eth0 inet dhcp

To:

iface eth0 inet static

heck! 

 

 

Tiny greenhouse evolution

With wheels yeah

Juke box hero

I am reading Lou Gramm's biography authored by Scott Pitoniak and himself. 

It is a fantastic book. Easy to read and of course worth reading.

I am truly enjoying it.

Cold morning

In my area -5C is out of the ordinary. Freezing. 

Today is Magi's day. Children are opening their presents and having fun. Who cares about cold today? Tomorrow is a working day. That'll be a completely different story.

Have fun!!!

The geekiest thing

Configuring my wifi extender is probably the geekiest thing I did in 2025 by far. It is sad but true :-(

Raspberry Pi OS 2025

This week I upgraded my raspberry pi os to trixie. And this time it is 64 bits. I had 32 bits before.

 It sucks having to re-image the whole thing again and again. But being a toy, it is not that bad.

And again, as usual, I had trouble configuring its DNS. I had to connect a monitor to be able to use NetwokManager, even though it uses a terminal interfece nmtui. 

I have to say that rpi-imager worked pretty well.

Nevermind, now it is up and running fine. I only have to tweak some things here and somethings there and enjoy my renewed toy whose hostname is kiwi by the way.

The high blood pressure incident

   Two weeks ago, on October 15th, in a routine medical check the doctor
    found out that my blood pressure was so high that I could have
    suffered significant damage.
     
    I like to call it "the incident" for some reason, don't know why.
     
    From that day on, my life has changed significantly. Now I eat without
    any added salt, I avoid coffee, alcohol and any other thing that can
    make my blood pressure rise.
     
    What is more, since I need to lead a healthy life, I do not eat sugar.
    The only sugar I get comes from fruit. Can't get any healthier.
    Thus, I think I started a chain reaction in the sense that
    avoiding salt and sugar I do not eat ultra-processed food anymore.
     
    And, if you ask me, I will tell you that even though my life is a bit
    boring I really feel good (as in healthy) and also happy that it was
    all something I can write about without having suffered any damage or
    attack/stroke.
     
    As I am writing this, I have a blood pressure monitor attached to my
    left arm and it is telling me that the results are back to normal.
     
    Apart from regularly checking my blood pressure at home I have to go
    from time to time to the doctor's so that she can see that my health
    is on the right track. No problem, everything is ok now.
     
    Stay healthy!

Upgrading to trixie

Electric scooter

So so much fun!

Pine rescue

Weird as it may seem, the only way to save the pine that was torn in two by the wind is forcing a branch in a vertical position so that the sap goes up. 

From my experience I can only try it and hope it works. I am pretty sure it will. Cross fingers.

lynx

 I have several things to say beforehand to make my point clear. First is that even though the title of this post is lynx my favourite text browser still is elinks. I think that the configuration options are easier to handle, and I also prefer the layout of some websites as displayed by elinks (I've published several screenshots over time).

Second, if you visit my home page, you'll read:

 chals@chalsattack:~$ elinks -dump chalsattack.com 

But to tell you the truth I use lynx in my scripts.

And one last thing, Make no mistake, graphical web browsers are fantastic, they allow you to access infinite multimedia content, and I do really love them. 

So, if I do really love graphical web browsers and my favourite text browser is elinks. Why then am I writing a post named lynx? 

Well, sometimes the answer to complex questions is quite simple. I am using lynx these days to navigate to certain https:// sites that are not easily reachable with elinks. 

Another easy answer to that question is that I use https://chalsattack.com/ as my homepage in all my browsers, but always using the same homepage can be a bit boring so I wrote some aliases to start lynx with different homepages depending on my needs. This is quite simple, I know, but it is also very handy sometimes:

# lynx aliases & functions

alias lx='lynx https://chalsattack.com/'
alias lxd='lynx https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/'
alias lxg='lynx https://www.google.com/'
alias lxf='lynx https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/main.html'
 ...

and several more.

If I simply type lynx I get the browser's default page which leads to https://lynx.invisible-island.net/

To finish with by now, let me add that lynx is still actively maintained and this adds an extra level of trust in the browser.

Twenty years exclusively using GNU/linux

 WOW, let me hear that again: WOW!!!

In short. I started dual-booting in 2004 and switched to linux full time in 2005. This means that I have been using GNU/linux for two decades!!!

The word "exclusively" is used for emphasis, since I have also been playing and using other operating systems. Mainly BSD and occasionally Solaris (or some sort of derivative). 

But somehow I always come back to debian, do not ask me why. Call it what you want, maybe because I am too used to it or who knows. Maybe it is just love at first sight (which is very likely)

Keep on rockin'

Sowing with love

Christmas 2024