Author: keijo
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“Beyond the Veil”: When Death Isn’t the End and a Giant Wheel Appears
Ever felt you dodged a bullet that should have hit, only to find the world subtly changed? This post dives into ‘quantum immortality’ – the unsettling idea that consciousness might navigate away from death into an altered reality. A journey through personal stories, quantum mysteries, and the strange echoes of ancient visions like Ezekiel’s Wheel,…
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Italy’s May 1st: A Celebration of Irony and Precariousness
May 1st is recognized globally as Labor Day, a moment to honor workers’ rights and contributions. Yet, in Italy, the annual “Festa dei Lavoratori” feels less like a real celebration. It seems more like an exercise in collective irony. Look beneath the surface, and the reality for many Italian workers is far from festive. The…
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Resetting root password in Ubuntu 22.04 from those pesky openstack images
One of the ‘perks’ of spinning up a VM from a precompiled Ubuntu image in the catalog is that it may come with a pre-filled root password that needs changing to give us root access from QEMU when the instance is created in a private network without an elastic IP. My personal approach to google…
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The Outdatedness of Human Beings… Really?
Philosopher and journalist Günther Anders wrote this in 1956. 1956! We will face spirits with what is futile and playful. It is good, in chatter and incessant music, to prevent the spirit from thinking. So, my take is that constant exposure to trivial entertainment and distractions could prevent my children from developing critical thinking skills.…
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Getting the openstack Ubuntu VM an IP address for its NIC in the private subnet
So, after fiddling for a while with all the setbacks of bringing an Ubuntu VM in the LAN where the previously deployed pfSense plays the gatekeeper, it was clear that trouble was in for longer, since the NIC wouldn’t comply and play nicely by getting the configured IP from the subnet. The Tale of The…
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On a quest to pfSense under OVH
Well, many a few times I happened to set up a pfSense instance. It’s just that, when these have to be set-up under OVH, whether at their public Cloud in Horizon, or using a Proxmox/ESXi hypervisor, things tend to be tricky for routing them into the Internet. This is how it happened today, and how…
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Stumbling on Bugs (1)
Went on to play some Microsoft Games from their Rewards website today, as part of the daily task of adding 10 points to the Rewards loyalty program. Their “Bejeweled” web version looks a little rough around the edge: