Month: August 2020
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The Jews Who Fought for Nazi Germany – Tablet Magazine
Traitors or survivors, cowards or brave men—fools or wise heeders of Jewish parables on the sanctity of each individual life? https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ellen-feldman-nazi-germany
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robots / web harvesters eating up my Internet traffic volume
https://wiki.hostsharing.net/?title=Traffic – recognise, analyse, block, … … My 2 top volume killers: … wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron … $HOME/var/web.log That is functionality of my own WordPress site(s) – rather suprising, that my own software “kills” me. It is actually my “top volume killer”. The problem gets described here: https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/disable-wp-cron/ … … wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/assets/fonts/inter/Inter-upright-var.woff2 … $HOME/web.log That’s a font file, that…
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my Ubuntu VirtualBox virtual machine
https://pragprog.com/titles/bhcldev/ – “Small, Sharp Software Tools” – I followed the instructions in chapter “Creating an Ubuntu Virtual Machine with VirtualBox” my host OS: macOS … I chose to use the current Ubuntu LTS release (20*) as opposed to the 18* one mentioned in the book – on my 2nd try I surfed to kubuntu.org and…