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 :-(