So my Diskstation died yesterday. It went down a few times with no apparent reason and at the end was totally toast. I had the infamous Blue Blinking LED of Death. As a compulsive Datahoarder, I started to get nervous pretty quickly. I tried to get the thing working again with all sorts of tips from various forums and websites. No luck. After a couple of hours I gave up and realized this thing is absolutly borked. It’s a few years old and has no warranty anymore…
So I said fuck it… Ordered a new model with overnight express. There goes 400 Bucks.
Migration
I waited 24 hours and was eagerly awaiting dorbell. DING DONG. My new NAS was here. At this point I was expecting to waste at least half a day setting everything up again. I thought I had to do at least some configuration. Or importing a backup of some kind…. to my suprise that wasn’t case. I just plugged in my RAID Array and booted the thing. It asked me if I wanted to migrate and after that it rebooted for a couple of minutes. As soon as it was back online everything was there. Literally everything. Even the Videostation had all settings and thumbnails. The library didn’t need indexing. Every little thing was the same as before.
Now that’s what I call a seamless migration. 20 Minutes after the package delivery I’m sitting here and writing this post. Orilla is back online after 24 hours of outage and I’m back in the Datahoarding business. Very cool. It’s very satisfying when stuff just works.
I have followup to my previous post. While the video was quite interesting I want to clarify that I advice to stay away from this guy if you want to do personal development.
EDIT: Serious talk for a second… Okay I watched some more videos of this guy and looked up spiral dynamics. Spiral Dynamics is interesting and a helpful model to understand people and their very diverse values. Of course you can’t take it literally but you can use it to understand people and value structures…. But I watched some more videos of this Leo guy. And while some of his videos are quite interesting. Some of them are very dangerous to the point where I actually believe he’s a malignant manipulator and hypnothizes people to fuel their ego. I can’t be sure but I have a strange feeling about him. So I think it’s better to stay away from this guy if you are looking to do personal development. Don’t get me wrong he seems to be a smart guy and has some insights which are quite helpful. But he contradicts himself a lot and some of his stuff make the impression that he’s more of a narcisstic cult leader. Remember …. The less you know the more you think you know and he seems to give easy answers to profound questions. Nothing is that simple and nobody is above manipulation. Just be carefull
That was interesting. This dude just made me smile and laugh, as I was recalling events from memory.
That actually explains a lot when I think about it.
If I had to put myself somwhere I would say I’m a big chunk of orange, with some green and given enough free time, I occasionally tap into yellow to the point where I am not even sure what my reality is anymore. So basically I’m just a confused perplexed Hippie with a stock portfolio, who reads too much weird stuff on the internet, is really into science and questions his own reality as he starts to think he’s going mad. Sounds about right…. or wrong … I’m not sure… I’m not even sure if I actually understood the whole talk or if I just think I understood it. But I honestly think I have my yellow moments here and there. Well… as everything it’s up to interpretation. I might as well be beige and just delusional. Maybe a lot of people think they are yellow and in reality they are just high or have mental issues or it’s yet another hierarchical system to put yourself above others. Why the fuck does everything have to be so hierarchical all the time? We need to start thinking more flat… Just kidding… everybody chill and spread the love.
I think I need to take a nap.
EDIT: Serious talk for a second… Okay I watched some more videos of this guy and looked up spiral dynamics. Spiral Dynamics is interesting and a helpful model to understand people and their very diverse values. Of course you can’t take it literally but you can use it to understand people and value structures…. But I watched some more videos of this Leo guy. And while some of his videos are quite interesting. Some of them are very dangerous to the point where I actually believe he’s a malignant manipulator and hypnothizes people to fuel their ego. I can’t be sure but I have a strange feeling about him. So I think it’s better to stay away from this guy if you are looking to do personal development. Don’t get me wrong he seems to be a smart guy and has some insights which are quite helpful. But he contradicts himself a lot and some of his stuff make the impression that he’s more of a narcisstic cult leader. Remember …. The less you know the more you think you know and he seems to give easy answers to profound questions. Nothing is that simple and nobody is above manipulation. Just be carefull
sweet , now I need to pay money to be allowed to lend my country money and have a guaranteed loss. Sounds like a good deal, especially for 30year bonds. lol
I researched upcoming movies. From the Summer Blockbusters in the coming months to the weirdest Indy flicks with unknown release dates and I currated list with my most anticipated movies coming soon and far in the future. I’m working on this list for a while. Here are my picks:
But Spider-Man again ? I think I’ve had enough Spider-Man movies at this point. I’m only looking forward to this one because it finally has my favourite villain in it. It’s about time they brought us Mysterio… after we’ve seen the lame Green Goblin about 3 times now.
When it comes to Godzilla, I’m personally more on the side of team TOHO and like the goofy low budget japanese movies way better than the Hollywood adaptation. I’m not exactly expecting much from Godzilla: King of the Monsters, but I’m just interested and curious how this movie will turn out. As far as I know they will follow this one up with Godzilla Vs. kong in 2020.
Yesterday is about a guy, who wakes up in an alternate timeline where he is the only person to remember the beatles. This plot just sounds like a lot of fun. Mix in a lot of Beatles Hits and this is probably gonna be awesome entertainment. Can’t wait.
Midsommar looks like it’s gonna be weird and disturbing. Judging by the trailer alone it makes the impression that we can expect a good horror movie.
MOVIES IN DEVELOPMENT, RUMOURS AND WEIRD STUFF. ( RELEASE DATES UNKNOWN )
The onania club
Hanna secretly joins a group called The Onania Club. Its members, strong independent L.A. women, get aroused by the misery of others.
If this doesn’t sound weird enough for you, just watch the trailer which shows women masturbating to 9/11
The Blob Remake
The Blob reportedly gets a remake. I like both the 1958 and with Steve McQueen and the 1988 remake. The blob is a funny and trashy Horror ScFi which is about … well …. an alien blob which just gets bigger and eats people.
FREAK SHIFT
The only thing I heard about this is: A city gets attacked by giant crabs. Sounds fun, I’m in … 🙂 There’s nothing else known about this movie yet.
Inversion
Inversion is currently in pre-production and is a korean project. The plot revolves arround earth losing its gravity, which sounds interesting enough for me to get hyped.
Untitled Wizard of Oz/Horror Project
Okay now this sounds really awesome. The Wizard of Oz as a horror flick must be hella awesome. I can already imagine how Dorothee and Toto follow the yellow brick road… but it leads to much darker and deadlier adventures … please let this happen.
This prequel to Bubba Ho-Tep finds Elvis shooting a film in Louisiana when he runs afoul of a coven of she-vampires. Buba Ho-Tep was weird and kinda funny, so I’m looking forward to this movie.
HALO
Personally I have never played the video game and I don’t know much about the backstory. The only thing that got me exciting about this movie is that it is written by Alex Garland, whose last two movies ( Ex Machina and Annihilation ) were awesome Sci-Fi flicks and quickly joined my list of my favourite movies of all time.
Machete Kills in Space
Following the last two ridiculous and funny grindhouse style movies from Robert Rodriguez, Machete now goes to space. Some people say the second one wasn’t that good, but I still had a good laugh. Looking forward to another one.
Untitled Ghost Busters Project (2020)
After the 2016 Ghostbusters Reboot, I hope they learned their lesson. Please be good, please be good, please be good, please be good …
Dune comes back to the big screen. I don’t know what to expect yet, but I’m hoping we are in for an epic Sci-Fi adventure.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST….
LASERPOPE (2020)
As far as I know, this started as a Kickstarter project after the success of Kung Fury. This looks friggin’ awesome. Please make this happen. I love it. Make it happen. I can’t wait.
That concludes my list of most anticipated movies, coming out in the future. I hope you liked it and discovered projects which weren’t on your radar. 🙂
Maybe you know some insider tips yourself and would like to share them. Contact Me and tell me your picks.
So long and see you next year or so, for another Cinephile Anticipation-Report
The final Season Game of Thrones is what happens when you are trying to be so edgy and unpredictable, that you sacrifice 7 seasons of intricate character arcs and throw complex plot development out of the window just for the sake of the lulz and to be able to say … “Didn’t see that one coming, did you ?” lmao wtf
I’m still on my Journey to watch my way through the history of cinema. Meanwhile I keep updating my list of the best movies of all time. I know some of these movies aren’t very good but I rank them according to my own personal preferences, favorites, nostalgic reasons, sentimental and re-watch value. Besides the obvious picks you might discover some weird edgy stuff. If you haven’t seen some of these, consider them as a recomendation for your next movie night 😉
It sure isn’t that easy to come up with a list of 100 favorite movies. So there’s pretty much all of Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Rodriguez and a lot of Edgar Wright in there… because I like all their movies. Who doesn’t ? Also a loot of goofy and weird stuff in there.
Getting My Shit Together With Regards To My Finances
GO FROM ZERO TO HERO WITH YOUR FINANCES.
I’m doing a serious blog post now, serious blog posts are cool. I have the weirdest hobbies sometimes. I get hooked on topics and can’t focus on anything else for months and months. It was the year 2017 and I decided I needed to to something productive for a change 🙂 … I wanted to improve my finances. I had a decent salary at the time, but I noticed I was throwing the money out of the window as fast as it was coming into my bank account. Something needed to change. Little did I know, I will get hooked in the coming months.
I still have the checklist from two years ago.
research apps and tools.
move everything to online banking.
get an overview of my subscriptions and bills
kill some subscriptions
use less power
do your taxes
look into investing
That was the idea. Well it has been two years and I’m hooked on finances and economics. Oh yeah and I’m totally aware that this sounds boring as hell. But you might wanna read what I have to say if you are in the same position I was about 2 years ago. All of a sudden I started saving a little money here and there. Start saving for retirement is always a good idea. I was already contributing to Riester and decided to put additional money into an ETF savings plan. Time for an online broker account. About the same time the 2017 crypto craze started to unfold. Everybody and your Grandma was buying Bitcoin… and so was I.
Looking back now, I know that crypto is the most risky and most insane way to “invest your money”… if you can even call it that. I gambled… I won … I gambled again … I lost… But after all the up and down, I made a little profit. The important thing here is that Cryptocurrencies got me into economics and markets. One day you are sitting there buying some Ether and Bitcoin. The next day you are reading Whitepapers, Market analysis and listening to Andreas Antonopoulus talk about the future of money. You loose your mind and get greedy and suddenly you talk about the collapse of the world wide banking system and think cryptocurrencies are the answer. I’m exaggerating here but this was the spark that initial got me into topics about the global economy, the banking system, how money works and how to keep your cool if the market tanks. I wouldn’t miss it for the world. It’s easy to spot the top of a bubble in hindsight but it’s a whole different thing to expirience a financial bubble from a front row seat with some skin in the game until you panic sell. Fun times. I learned a lot of stuff, which will probably come in handy in future investments, risks and crisis. But enough about crypto, we all know the one and only global currency will be dogecoin.
At the end of 2017 I was thinking of optimizing my finances to squeeze more out of my paycheck. It was fun putting money into stocks and crypto. So I wanted to learn more. At this time I started to read financial blogs, articles and subscribed to a ton of youtube channels.
I started using multiple bank accounts and would add even more later on to seperate different categories. This helped a lot. I used one account for my living expenses, which had a fixed amount of money coming in every month.
Savings Account ( Investment and Emergency Buffer )
Checking Account ( Bills and fixed costs )
Luxury Savings ( For big things like a new computer or vacations )
Living ( This gets 400€ a month for gas, groceries, clothes )
I also started tracking my networth which increased by about 30% in the first few months just by knowing where my money goes.
I made a nice little spreadsheet with fancy colors.
These are fake numbers of course… You can download the ODS template here : Networth_Template Sorry I only do libreoffice 🙂 Some people don’t want to add furniture and material goods into their networth. I like to add it in, because I can track if money is flowing into material things and I can see how the stuff I bought is depreciating over the years. Nobody cares anyway it’s just for yourself anyway. Add in whatever you like 🙂 As I saw my networth increase and my investments accumulate some more, I was thinking of ways to further improve my situation and there basically was one thing I haven’t tried yet… doing a budget and tracking every penny.
A lot of work? for sure. Boring? hell yes. tedious? probably. Is there an app for that? tons.
This is when I started using YNAB . Ynab is awesome, It makes budgeting actually fun. Trust me. It’s a zero sum budget. So you give every dollar a job. It’s pretty intuitive and easy to learn. Way better than managing a shitload of excel spreadsheets. And the mobile app makes it possible to enter transactions on the go.
Who would have thought that budgeting can be fun. I for one sure wasn’t prepared for that. Paying for YNAB was worth while. In the first half year of using YNAB I increased my Networth another 31%. I saved so much money, I couldn’t believe it.
What now? I have ticked all the boxes for personal finances, I learned all about Investing, Stocks and Markets. I’m doing a budget. What is the next step, aside from increasing your salary… You might have guessed it.
The FIRE Movement. When you are always looking for ressources and tips to improve your finances, you will eventually end up with the guys and gals of the FIRE movement. It means Financial Independence / Retire early. The most known guy is probably Mr. Money Mustache, but there are bloggers popping up all over the place.
The movement is getting a foothold in germany as well, called Frugalismus.
These guys have some radical ideas on how to save money and achieve retirement at an early age. The basic math says you need about 25 times your anual expenses in Investments to retire. At that point you can take out 4% every year, without depleting your investment.
(Fake Numbers)
So I crunched the numbers and did the math. And it really is quite simple. If you squish your expenses down and save more you might have the chance to reach financial indepence. It’s also quite fun. Let’s wait and see how I’m doing in a year or so. It is really interesting to shuffle the numbers arround and see how to get the most out of your money. I created a nice FIRE Calculator in Libre Office, but it’s not quite finished yet.
Back in 2017 I never would have thought I will get hooked on financial topics and save that much. It’s actually a fun hobby instead of a chore now. So to sum it all up and if you want to get a grip of your finances :
lower your expenses step by step
use multiple bank accounts
live of a certain fixed amount you grant yourself each month
use online banking / put everything on autopay
pay yourself first ( obviously)
Learn to Invest
Start Investing in small amounts
Do a budget ( seriously it works )
Once you are on track it snowballs
Don’t be afraid to take some risks
I plan to do some future blogpost to go more into detail. cheers….
So I was fiddeling arround with Facebook-Integration and suddenly noticed that I can no longer publish to facebook. They turned of the fucking API features. Now you can’t even test Apps on your own profile anymore. And I was fucking clicking arround and wondering what the fuck is going on. Could have at least send me a notification or an email or something. There wasn’t even an error message pointing to the problem. Just “ERROR”. Thanks for wasting time. Why the in the name of Jesus do they make it so unecessary complicated to publish something via an api anyway? At least their stock is tanking really hard. That gives me some hope.
Facebook is a fucking waste of time. Even automating it is a fucking waste of time.
Fuck Facebook seriously. I better go back to reddit now.
Welcome to the ToasterBotnet ShitPostBlog Microblogging because of reasons shitposting memes all night long you can reach me at toasterbotnet <at> pirek <dot> de. I wish you happy scrolling. If you only want to see some videos about particular topics you can sort by categories or check the page index to navigate. Hit the Shuffle Button on the left to get random posts. And don’t forget to subscribe to my lame Youtube Channel.
I just noticed that Google Chrome puts a www. in front of the URL, even if you don’t type it in. I don’t use Google Chrome, so I didn’t know about this.
So toasterbotnet.pirek.de gets changed to www.toasterbotnet.pirek.de
So thanks google for deliberately sending visitors of my site to a non-existent subdomain. Does this feature serve any purpose ? This is just annoying.
what the actual fuck. I didn’t know it was that much. Time flies ……
Should I hit the breaks a little bit ?….hmmm ….. nahhhhhh
moaar Orbs ! moar Shrines ! moar Koroks ! moar Quests !
It just keeps going and going … 😀
Bought a Switch, bought Breath Of The Wild, no time for posting … gotta venture through Hyrule and let myself be killed by Guardians. Awesome game … 10/10 … would recommend. Zelda is back and it’s awesome again.
I didn’t even know this was possible. I personally don’t have a use case for this but it sounds kinda awesome. This method appearently lets you completly reinstall the root filesystem without rebooting the machine, which means you could swap the entire Distro on the running box.
If I get this right… you make a new pseudo-filesystem, start an init in it, ssh into it und unmount the real root to wipe it completly. So basically It keeps the running Kernel and swaps out everything else.
Appearently they have a hardware failure and are working on it.
I mean, okay this stuff happens but at least notify your users about it.
one single tweet would have been sufficient.
Instead everywhere on Twitter and Reddit people were asking themselves,
if soup is now down for good and if they took it down without saying something.
This is one of the reasons, I started this shitpost Blog.
Soup is definitly not reliable enough.
I will probably continue using it nevertheless and always keep in mind,
that one day all the data might be gone.
It’s okay if they don’t have ressources for customer support,
but c’mon … not even a single word for more than a week of downtime ?
Anyway, no worries. I hope its back up soon and they didn’t loose too much data.
I switched the blog to infinite scrolling,
so you don’t have to click that nasty “next” button
to get to older posts 🙂
much nicer.. have fun 😉
edit:
I noticed the syntax highlighter doesn’t work right,
when infinite scrolling is used..
and you can’t scroll the code window on a phone.
Will have a look at that when I’m bored some time in the future 😉
just FYI
Seriously…. who develops these shitty systems for hotel wifi ?
I know , I know , it’s been said a thousand times…
But I’m sitting here in Austria in a fucking hotel and guess what.
No wifi encryption
password security is a joke
They redirect all sites to the login site
I get a thousand certificate warnings
need 10 minutes to think of a site which doesn’t default to https
finally -> login
I wan’t to establish a ssl vpn tunnel
ALL FUCKING PORTS BLOCKED !
can’t connect with openvpn
can’t connect with IRC
can’t access my NAS
can’t connect with SSH
Search for free https tunneling solutions
give up
at least it’s fucking slow as fuck and the connection is terrible,
so we got that going … *sigh*
Today I noticed, that certain video files from my Synology would not play in the browser. I quickly found out, it’s an issue with DTS Audio Tracks, which appearently has been arround for ages. The Synology is not new, but I never noticed until now, because I mostly just played videos over NFS. But the Video Station also gives you the ability to play them over the browser, which is nice to have if you are not at home and want to play videos over a remote computer or your phone. So the only solution to get rid of this issue, as it seems, is just converting the files to have another audio format. I made a really simple script to help me with that. I didn’t want to do this manually since I have a lot of video files.
So if anyone has the same issue… a simple loop will do :
will probably need to leave it on over the night 🙂
#!/usr/bin/zsh
# Script for identifying DTS Audiotracks on the NAS
# and convert them to a specific target folder
LOGFILE=${HOME}/dts_scan_files.log
MOVIE_DIR=${HOME}/orilla/media/Movies
TARGET=${HOME}/DTS_CONVERTER_CONVERTED
if [ ! -d ${TARGET} ]; then
mkdir -p ${TARGET}
fi
if [ ! -d ${MOVIE_DIR} ]; then
echo "ERROR: could not find directory"
exit 1
fi
rm -f $LOGFILE
toucn $LOGFILE
echo "SCANNING FOR MEDIAFILES with a DTS AUDIO TRACK"
find ${MOVIE_DIR} -type f | while read file
do
filename=$(basename ${file})
mediainfo ${file} | grep -q "DTS"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "\e[1;31mFOUND DTS FILE:\e[0;33m ${filename}\e[0m"
echo ${filename} >> ${LOGFILE}
echo "converting the file and saving it to $TARGET"
ffmpeg -i ${file} ${TARGET}/${filename}
else
echo "\e[0;32mnot a DTS file:\e[0;34m ${filename}\e[0m"
fi
done
As you might notice I blasted out a few posts all at once.
This is a little appetizer what’s to come.
I post stuff from all arround the intertubez which I find interesting, funny, educational or worthy to be spreaded.
The categories are all over the place and I plan to post about news, philosophy, politics, technology, science and of course cats. Really anything cool which I stumble upon.
Now and then I plan to post about my own projects or thoughts on specific topics with a little more substance and original content.
So welcome to my new site.