I guess I prefer to use to the WMF project Wikivoyage – it is adfree (so far).
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music: Asaf Avidan: Anagnorisis – the 2020 album
- https://www.AsafAvidanMusic.com/products/anagnorisis—3-.html – Anagnorisis album, tour, …
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlMbB7lodnQ – the album teaser – directed by Wim Wenders, starring Bobbi Jene Smith
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi_Jene_Smith
- https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08CVPFJ5Z
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagnorisis
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagnorisis
- https://www.dwds.de/wb/Anagnorisis
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robots.txt – robots exclusion standard
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
- https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-robots-txt/
- https://www.fixrunner.com/wordpress-robots-txt/
- https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-optimize-your-wordpress-robots-txt-for-seo/
Yoast (apparently) does not let me edit robots.txt any more – most of the articles point me to Yoast.
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i3 (window manager)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I3_(window_manager)
- https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-use-i3-window-manager-ubuntu/ – how do I get my Ubuntu to use i3 instead of Gnome?
- https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/beginners-guide-i3-window-manager/ – also: which packages to install
- https://i3wm.org/docs/
- https://i3wm.org/docs/refcard.html
- https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html
- https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_default_keybindings
i3 is a minimalistic tiling window manager designed for X11 – it supports virtual desktops.
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“ShellCheck finds bugs in your shell scripts” – shell script analysis tool
- https://www.ShellCheck.net/
- https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
- “You can cabal, apt, dnf, pkg or brew install it locally right now”
- “already packaged for your distro or package manager”
- “written in Haskell, if you’re into that sort of thing”
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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?
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robots / web harvesters eating up my Internet traffic volume
- https://wiki.hostsharing.net/?title=Traffic – recognise, analyse, block, …
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My 2 top volume killers:
… wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron …
$HOME/var/web.logThat 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:
… wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/assets/fonts/inter/Inter-upright-var.woff2 …
$HOME/web.logThat’s a font file, that gets downloaded excessively from my WordPress site(s). The problem gets described here:
I zeroed the font file in question – after backing up the original. (In fact I accidentally zeroed the other font file w/o backing it up.)
I can reverse the effect of zeroing that font file
- by de-activating the WordPress theme in question,
- removing, re-installing, and re-activating that theme.
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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 download their ISO image
- I chose the minimal installation
- the minimal installation works
Task: resizing the VM window vs. resizing the Ubuntu desktop inside
- the related magic lives within VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (supporting “any” OS and OS flavour)
- add VBoxGuestAdditions.iso to the respective VM as optical device!
- the respective guest OS will mount the optical device and hopefully autorun “something”
- because I had chosen the minimal installation, the 1st mounting resulted in complaining about missing utilities resp. packages: gcc, make, perl
- “sudo apt-get install gcc” led to another complaint and the suggestion to execute this:
- “sudo dpkg –confgure -a”
- now again: “sudo apt-get install …” for: gcc, make, perl
- after rebooting the guest OS: the Ubuntu desktop inside resizes, if you resize the VM window
Task: get familiar with the Gnome desktop’s concept of workspaces!
- the Activities button leads displaying “the Dash” with thumbnails of the running workspaces
- “the Dash” lets you reorder the running workspaces
- https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-keyboard-shortcuts.html.en
- read the desktop’s help text on keyboard shortcuts!
- CAVEAT: maybe I should switch to KDE and Kubuntu instead (as I have used KDE for quite some time now, far more than Gnome):
- https://kubuntu.org
Task: get my banking application running!
- my banking application is implemented in Perl, so for installing Perl modules through the utility cpanm install the resp. Debian package:
- “sudo apt-get install …” for: cpanm
- then “cpanm …” for: JSON, Getopt::ArgvFile, XML::Simple