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STORY TIME !

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….

Thanks Facebook

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.

Sorry for the rant.

 

 

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WTF Google

WTF Google

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.

I added a redirect now.

Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot

Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot

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.

here’s a stackoverflow post explaining the steps in detail.

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.

neat 🙂

soup.io will be coming back online

So soup.io has been down completly for over a week now.
At last there’s some information about the incident.

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.

just say something next time 🙂

 

 

 

blog update

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

hotel wlan rant

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*

reminder to myself : run openvpn on 443

Synology and the DTS issue

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

Hello World again !

So welcome to my new site.

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 stay tuned.

And I hope you come back to visit some time.

I recommend subscribing to the RSS feed 😉

Hello world!

You’ve come to the end of all posts.

I started this Blog early 2017.

All the old stuff might still be arround if you are lucky.

But I plan to take it down some time in the future.

 

So long and thanks for all the fish

 

Pre-ToasterBotnet 2016

2016

December 2016

- Fefe über Populismus, Wahrheit & Lüge - Jung & Naiv: Folge 289 - 33c3
- Machine Dreams (33c3)
- SpiegelMining – Reverse Engineering von Spiegel-Online (33c3)
- Build your own NSA (33c3)
- 3 Years After Snowden: Is Germany fighting State Surveillance? (33c3)
- Martin Haase(maha): Die Sprache der Populisten (33c3)
- How physicists analyze massive data: LHC + brain + ROOT = Higgs (33c3)
- Nicht öffentlich. (33c3)
- You can -j REJECT but you can not hide: Global scanning of the IPv6 Internet (33c3)
- Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Becoming a secret travel agent (33c3)
- Shut Up and Take My Money! (33c3)
- The DROWN Attack (33c3) Talk
- The DROWN Attack

- Amazon Go Is About Way More Than Groceries
- Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income
- How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
- IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree
- BTWahl: 1. Hochrechnung 2017
- Handheld TESLA COIL GUN at 28,000fps
- Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem

November 2016

- PBS has a new youtube channel
- IP Over QR Code!
- Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?
- Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation as a Platinum member
- Regex that only matches itself wtf ?
- The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb
- Trump-Tracker
- Behind the Scenes at Trump Headquarters - Meet the Speechwriter
- StackOverflow Importer

October 2016

- Before the Flood - Full Movie | National Geographic
- 3 Rules for Rulers 
- Noam Chomsky - Jung & Naiv: Episode 284
- The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe – False Vacuum
- How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
- The 2016 Nobel Prizes: Chemistry and Physics!
- Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought
- IRC v3
- Tatü, tata: „Cyberwehr“ für Hilfe bei IT-Sicherheitsvorfällen geplant – Unternehmen sollen kostenlos mitmachen
- The Large Hadron Collider is running out of disk space
- LEAKED AUDIO: Hillary Says Free Healthcare & College 'We Cannot Do'

September 2016

- Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species
- Scandals: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- Outsourcing der Barbarei
- Two years spamming spammers back
- golden Cubes and Gravitational Waves - Sixty Symbols 
- Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination | Space Time
- Sonneborn - Meine 1. Rede zum "State of da Union"... 
- Europe announces that all scientific papers should be free by 2020

August 2016

- Abmahnbeantworter
- Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
- TIL this actually exists: Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics
- Why Brexit happened -- and what to do next | Alexander Betts
- How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
- Why I live in IRC(2015)
- Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Journalism (HBO)

July 2016

- Space Emerging from Quantum Mechanics
- Die Gewalt der Plattform und der Preis des Postkapitalismus
- My 23andme and You
- Apollo 11 Source Code - Bug Report
- Sunspring | A Sci-Fi Short Film Starring Thomas Middleditch

June 2016

- What are “actual pictures” of atoms actually pictures of?
- Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
- Drowning in a sea of information
- UNCOUNTED: The True Story of the California Primary
- Anthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016
- parsimonygate & Occam's Razor
- 2001: A Picasso Odyssey
- Theories of Everything

May 2016

- The empty brain
- P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo
- Die Steffen Seibert Ultras
- We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely | Juan Enriquez
- Tilo vs. BR-Chef Wilhelm: "Der Bayerische Rundfunk ist nicht unabhängig" 
- Last Week Tonight : Todd Talks
- The Philosophy of South Park
- Trump answer that will instantly make you dumber
- Cyber Gedoens
- Programming Cheat Sheets
- Theorists perplexed by hints of unexpected new particle
- WeaselDefense

April 2016

- Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders
- The most mysterious star in the universe | Tabetha Boyajian
- The LHC has been taken out of action for a few days... by a weasel
- Die Anstalt: AFD und Verfassungsschutz
- The Zen of Python Illustrated
- How Animals Think
- Bubble Burst Bernie
- This Video Has Consumed X of Y(auto changing title)
- awesome Bernie Ad
- Linus Torvalds: The mind behind Linux
- Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | Tim Urban 

  April Fools Day Jokes
- Python 8
- Google Cardboard Plastic
- Certified Dogecoin Professional
- Cern Music
- CountryOS
- Donald Trump's Huge Campaign Announcement
- Star Trek White Noise Sleep Machine
- Humble Indie Font Bundle

March 2016

- How to Hack an Election
- Trump vs. Bernie in the First Ever @midnight Presidential Debate
- Böhmermann - Frühling für Frauke
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption (HBO)
- Washington Post Runs 16 Anti-Bernie Stories In 16 Hours
- Roadmap to the stars / Scishow - Photonic Propulsion
- The Trouble with Transporters  ->  Follow up from Minute Physics

February 2016

- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Donald Trump (HBO) (video)
- Gödel’s incompleteness theorems are connected to the real world
- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Mentors Mike Huckabee (video)
- Sonneborn rettet die EU (VIII): TOP-US-Anti-Terror-Gadgets (video)

January 2016

- The Origin of Matter and Time (video)
- Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump and the GOP (video)
- WiFi guest access? You gotta touch the banana
- The Sanity of Madness (video)
- TrumpScript - Make Python great again
- TED - James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email (video)
- The True Nature of Matter and Mass (video)
- RetroPie Project

Pre-ToasterBotnet 2015

2015

December 2015

- A message from George Orwell: your digital rights (video)
- Frank Rieger über Demokratie, Überwachung & "Lügenpresse" - Jung & Naiv: Folge 247 (video)
- Unsere Cyber Cyber Regierung (video)

- cool c3 talks imo (videos)

 - The exhaust emissions scandal („Dieselgate“)
 - Philipp Winter: How the Great Firewall discovers hidden circumvention servers
 - Alexander Graf: Beyond your cable modem
 - Steini: Quantenphysik und Kosmologie
 - Fefe, frank: Fnord-Jahresrückblick
 - Martin Haase/maha, Kai Biermann: „Nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen“ – Floskeln in der Politik
 - Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology
 - rop, frank: Ten years after ‚We Lost The War‘

- What is Something (video)
- What Are Quantum Gravity's Alternatives To String Theory?
- Black holes have a size limit of 50 billion suns
- THE FLYING CAR (A Short Film by Kevin Smith) (video)
- The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation
- Darth Trump (video)
- How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk (video)
- In a Nutshell - Quantum Computers Explained (video)
- Glitch Primes and Cyclops Numbers - Numberphile (video)
- MS-DOS 5 Promo Video (video)
- 99 Problems but a switch aint one - cisco parody (video)
- what is spacetime really - Stephen Wolfram

November 2015

- Fraktus - Welcome to the internet (video)
- TED: We Can Now Edit Our DNA. But Let's Do it Wisely - Jennifer Doudna (video)
- greentext
- The Star Wars says
- Star Wars HoloChess (video)
- Why everything is just the worst (video)
- Uptime Funk (video)
- Honest Teaser - The Force Awakens (video)
- Debian MailServer SPF and DKIM

October 2015

- China 'to start work on super, super-collider by 2020'
- ohne worte
- How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham) (video)
- Why Donald Trump Is A Gift To Democracy (video)
- Chromoscope
- MySQL Bug gets a cake (video)
- Quantencomputer - Erstes Logik Gatter
- mycli
- Forget Steve Jobs, Get Ready For Michael Dell (video)
- Phpunit VW Extension
- Rapping the History of the Neutrino (video)
- Neutrino Nobel Prize - Sixty Symbols (video)

September 2015

- taler
- The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained (video)
- The Motivation for a Monolithic Codebase (video)
- Why Security Experts Are Using Mutt

August 2015

- The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks(viddeo)
- How "oldschool" graphics worked.(video)
- Superconductivity at -70°C
- Giant Mystery Ring of Galaxies Should Not Exist
- Why do some people assume that the Planck length/time are the minimum possible length and time?
- 3 Messages We've Sent to Extraterrestrials(video)
- HN: Windows Platform Binary Table / Lenovo autochk.exe Discussion reddit thread
- Cat Feeding Machine
- Theories of Everything, Mapped
- Python Wheels
- The Fighting Techniques Of James T. Kirk

July 2015

- UCLA unveils augmented reality teaching sandbox
- Vim Keyboard
- Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle
- bocker - Docker in 100 Lines of Bash
- $100 Mio. for SETI
- Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stackoverflow”
- SciShow - DeepDream: Inside Google's 'Daydreaming' Computers (video)
- Pentaquark - Sixty Symbols (video)
- What if there was a black hole in your pocket? (video)
- be a rockstar
- snow - A layer 3 virtual network that uses public keys instead of IP addresses
- GIT T-Shirt

June 2015

- Fuck off As a Service
- IFG Antrag fuer Bundestrojaner Sourcecode
- Must-watch videos about Python
- Microsoft to support SSH!
- What are the dark corners of Vim your mom never told you about?

May 2015

- KUNG FURY Official Movie (HD) (video)
- 4.000 Years of World History
- Smart Mirror Project
- gnu-pricing
- This page exists only if someone is looking at it (so it may not be there anymore soon) 
- Actual Math behind silicon valleys dick joke
- Computational Hydrographic Printing (SIGGRAPH 2015)  (video)
- Postillon Nach zahlreichen Skandalen: NSA verkauft Tochterunternehmen BND
- Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist? (video)

April 2015

- Docker without Docker
- Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox
- stacksort
- Josh Triplett - Porting Python to run without an OS - PyCon 2015 (video) mind-blow at 22:45
- How To Write Unmaintainable Code
- Little Bobby Tables has a cousin
- theFuck
- Lorem Ipsum Bug x)
- A GIF History of U.S. Retro Gaming Consoles: 1972-1996
- ??!??! operator
- The Six Stages of systemd 2014 (video) 
- let's encrypt
- save the internet
- The Real Doctor: Tom Baker vs. David Tennant - Nerd Court (video)
- How to build a brain with Python (video)
- maximum bandwith (video)
- Technocracy movement
- Vim as a Python IDE (video)
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO) (video)
- LHC is back in operation
- PHP: a fractal of bad design
- Python 3 Metaprogramming (video)

April Fools Jokes


- Reddit - The Button
- Kernel.org rebrands in preparation for 4.0 release
- Introducing Dial-Up mode (video)
- Cyanogenmod Nightly Build update
- FAZ - Initiative erprobt das katzenlose Netz
- Introducing Snapcash! (video)
- New Back to the Future Movie Trailer (2015) (video)
- Selfie Shoes (video)
- Introducing PlayStation Flow (video)
- Parteien-Fusion: Piratenpartei und Die PARTEI schließen sich zusammen
- x86: Drop 32-bit support in Linux Kernel
- Tinder for Uber
- Introducing #MotoSelfieStick (video)
- Smartbox by Inbox: the mailbox of tomorrow, today (video)
- Support for negative number of CPUs is implemented in the Linux kernel
- Clippy is open-source on github
- com.google
- Fefe springt für Sascha Lobos Vortrag auf der re:publica ein
- CERN researchers confirm existence of the Force
- MS-DOS comes to lumia smartphones
- Gentoo website makeover
- Pac-Man on Google Maps
- xkcloud
- LHC Run 2 cancelled, CERN closes doors
- Microsoft Announces Its Own Linux OS
- Do It YourSelfie 360° Selfie Rig
- Die Klassiker kehren zurück: O2 verkauft Vintage-Handys von Nokia und Siemens
- Galaxy BLADE edge: Chef’s Edition
- The XQD - Quantum Entanglement Camera (video)
- Pac-Man in Ingress
- python yoloimport 
- CSS draft of including astronomical scales , also "double rainbow" !
- Introducing Google Actual Cloud Platform (video)
- LM hash wins Password Hashing Contest
- Add ROT13. A fast, keyless, powerful cipher.
- Meẗal - a python decorator library powered by umlauts
- Metasploit Banner Adjustments
- Disney/Pixar's X-WINGS Movie Trailer (video)
- live technician monitoring
- Peter Jackson Developing Doctor Who Film Franchise With All Surviving Doctors

March 2015

- Rocky's Printer - Eye of the tiger on a dot matrix printer (video)
- Your website should be so simple, a drunk person could use it
- Cards against IT
- Apple Engineer Talks about the New 2015 Macbook
- Programming sucks
- The Gentleman's Single-Use Monocle
- sans bullshit sans
- Linux 4.0-rc1 Hurr durr I'ma Sheep
- ChuckNorrisException
- unindexed - self-deleting site -> archive link 
- Moving online webserver using public transport (video)
- systemd gets a bootloader please ! stahp !
- exploding kittens

February 2015

- Win Cleaner (video) 
- The First Honest Cable Company (video)
- How People with Schizophrenia Use the Internet
- Magic
- Bundespressekonferenz: Zu viele Fragen unerwünscht
- In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory
- Thousands of people are watching this guy code a search engine
- it's a unix system, I know this - The Game
- Now, I can see wifi signals.
- Chaos Darmstadt stellt sich vor  (video)
- Ubiquiti Networks EdgeMAX Edge Router Lite (video)
- A regular expression to check for prime numbers
- 0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1
- DSCOVR Mission Launch video
- Silicon Valley Season 2: Promo (HBO) (video)
- Netflix und Nintendo arbeiten an Zelda-Epos
- Samsung warnt: Bitte achten Sie darauf, nichts Privates vor unseren SmartTVs zu erzählen
- Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps
- One-electron_universe
- Doctor Who Lego Set
- Supercomputer and the Milky Way - Computerphile (video)
- What It Is Like to Be Schizophrenic (video)
- Guido van Rossum: The Early Years of Python  (video)
- Raspberry Pi 2
- ARTE : Yps - eine kommunistische Erfindung?

January 2015

- Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen, which hopes to take Android from Google
- NSA tweets happy data privacy day
- EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance
- ssh-chat
- Software Library: MS-DOS Games
- arch-dev ML : Git repositories for AUR
- secure secure shell
- Inside a Google data center (video)
- Cards against science

Pre-ToasterBotnet 2014

2014

December 2014

- 31c3 is on - here is a summary of links and infos : Chaos Communication Congress
- How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?
- Kernel commit - 4 year old girl fixes formatting to make 's' happy :)
- The Joy of Whiteboarding with Rob Boss
- Fertig-Rechenzentrum im container
- DefCon 22 - Weaponizing Your Pets - Gene Bransfield
- DefCon 22 Videos online
- Superconductivity without cooling
- the 31c3 Fahrplan is online
- SWAPI - The Star Wars API
- NASA’s Journey to Mars News Briefing
- Star Wars: Episode VII Trailer - George Lucas' Special Edition
- Four ways Linux is headed for no-downtime kernel patching

November 2014

- The history of IRC
- Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet & PC video
- Aaaand they are forking Debian
- Java EE - writing a simple hello world application xD
- Host unknown - CISSP
- E-Cigarettes can give you malware
- Anderson Cooper tries schizophrenia simulator
- Lockheed Martin's overly dramatic commercial - we are all going to die
- Hackernews Evergreens
- GNU hello 2.10 has been released - A new era dawns
- Cloud and Heat
- Star Trek Nagios Dashboard
- Tetris printer algorithm and an  example GIF
- Crypto 101 - an introductory course on cryptography

October 2014

- Windows gets a packet-manager
- Facebook's osquery
- Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project
- Sonneborn strikes again - Tibor Navracsics
- openBSD fixes 37 year old bug with a 22 year old patch in head
- Systemd is introducing a VT ... WHy ?
- The Physical Web
- How does a computer chip work
- Learn Brogramming, The Hard Way
- Cameron raps the truth

September 2014

- Martin Sonneborn: Fragen an Oettinger
- The 31c3 Wiki is online
- Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper
- Fuckit.py - if it doesn't work just use more of it like violence
- SHELLSHOCK - Bash vulnerability
- uselessd - the smaller systemd :)
- There's a new unofficial installer for arch ( German Site )
- Reddit Thread - Just Sysadmin Things
- chromeos-apk - run android apps on the desktop (POC)
- Shout - finally a nice web-irc client :)
- a JPEG that becomes a PNG after AES encryption and a PDF after 3DES decryption
- Netflix introducing the Chaos Engineer
- Awesome pop culture caricature art
- sshrc - take your bashrc with you when you ssh
- Evolution’s Random Paths Lead to One Place
- AVGN - The Movie : it's finally out and it's awesome ;)
- Antique Case for Custom File Server : kickin' it oldskool
- ITER Assembly video
- Geek Art
- Browse the interwebZ with SMS :)

Pre-ToasterBotnet & Pre-Quickstop Wiki 2013

old but gold


Some old stuff which popped up again 🙂

- Kung Fury Trailer
- wat
- The Expert (sketch)
- Binary Metal
- Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing. Moderated by Neil DeGrass Tyson
- How to shoot yourself in the foot in various programming languages
- Unix recovery legend
- Back to the future - unix wildcards gone wild
- Stackoverflow - programmer jokes
- Stackoverflow - Comments in Source Code
- Microsoft Support - How to Remove Linux and Install Windows XP
- The Website is down
- The Website is down #2 Excel Hell
- Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out of College
- Leonard Susskind - Why is Time a One-Way Street?
- Nova - Brian Greene : The Elegant Universe
- GINK , or everything derrickcomedy
- Programming Jargon
- Leonard Susskind - The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking
- Rootless Root - The Unix Koans of Master Foo - From ESR
- everybody loves Eric Raymond - Webcomic Archives
- something of that ilk - Webcomic
- Windows 386 Promo video
- Geek Hero - Webcomic 
- The oatmeal comics
- Dog House Diaries
- Defcon 14 - Secrets of the hollywood hacker
- linux on a potato
- Numb3rs' description of IRC
- NCIS 2 idiots 1 Keyboard
- The Onion - World of World of Warcraft
- Bruce Schneier Facts
- Mindguard
- Linux on an 8-Bit Micro
- Code Monkey
- If carpenters were hired like programmers
- Epic Rap Battles of History - Einstein Vs. Hawking (video)
- Photoshop Rap Tutorial (video)
- Photoshop Rap Tutorial Part 2 (video)
- Rowan Atkinson - Conservative Conference