Do you recall back in 2023 where I mentioned failing my C programming class in college? So long ago! Going into this holiday break (a two week vacation for me), I got bored and picked up the old source code and input file and I finished the assignment…on the 30th anniversary of my Incomplete. Assignment:Based …
Author Archives: Shawn
Vector
Telling people about my hometown, as if that explains who I am. Nobody cares. We all have our damages. What can you do, though? That’s who you are now. Provide.
Endlich
Took my Deutsch I final this morning. I don’t believe I did well. Probably 50%. It was oral with another student over Zoom. We each were given separate facts about a fictitious person that we had to ask questions about, and we had to answer in full sentences im Deutsch. My vocabulary is bad, because …
Ejecta
Dreamed this morning again of having to move out of my last apartment (the one I was in for nine years before developers kicked us out). This dream, I wasn’t the last to move out, but I did see other people throwing a party in the pool even though the demolition crew was on site. …
FreshRSS and Fail2ban
Based on my prior installation success with FreshRSS, I felt it was necessary to put it behind a fail2ban filter to drop inbound traffic from abusive external IPs. My FreshRSS installation is using the simple tarball on top of webroot method; I’m not using containers or anything. It’s all bare metal, so it’s piggybacking off …