Farewell Telegram - Hello Signal!

In the last few years I started to use Telegram as my main messenger, beside good old SMS/e-mail. I never used WhatsApp as I try to stay away from the Facebook/Meta/… ecosystem. Telegram seemed like a good choice as a lot of people I know are there and we e.g. mirror our KDE channels often to Telegram for better outreach, too. And all old messengers like ICQ more or less were abandoned by everybody I know including myself ;=)...

December 17, 2021 · 2 min · Christoph Cullmann

Keyboard Fun

Keyboards? In the recent past, I started to get more interested in the quality of the keyboards I use at work and home. I always hated to use very cheap low-profile boards, but otherwise I more or less always worked with what came stock with my PC in the good old times ;) TKL boards A longer time ago I bought some Xtrfy K4 TKL White Edition keyboard, my first keyboard that had no numbers block....

December 12, 2021 · 3 min · Christoph Cullmann

BorgBackup - Continued

In my last BorgBackup post I described my new setup using BorgBackup for the backup of my private data. After two weeks of use, I have now first experiences on the way the incremental backups perform and some additional information how I apply this to backup a virtual FreeBSD server hosting some of my stuff. Incremental Backup Performance ;=) I must confess, I am positively impressed. As told before, my duplicity setup did have a very bad performance (even just in the locally to my NAS)....

September 10, 2021 · 7 min · Christoph Cullmann

BorgBackup

Backup is always something you under-appreciate until you need it. Therefore, since I lost a lot of my mails due to non-existing backups in the past, I tried to keep proper backups around the last decade. At least this allowed me to keep all my Kate related development mails intact since 2001 or so, not that bad ;=) My old way of doing backups: rsync & duplicity So far, I did my backup on my Unix machines by using rsync to a second host and duplicity to archive stuff on my old Synology NAS....

August 28, 2021 · 5 min · Christoph Cullmann

Join the KDE e.V.

The KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE Community in legal and financial matters. The KDE e.V. is for example responsible for paying the servers that run our GitLab instance and all our other web services. The e.V. takes care of sponsoring developer sprints and contributor travel costs, too. You did participate at some Akademy? This wouldn’t have been possible without the KDE e.V., both by sponsoring and helping to organize the event!...

February 20, 2021 · 2 min · Christoph Cullmann