LIEBERBIBER

25. August 202225. August 2022 sturmflut

Running darktable on RISC-V

How well does darktable work on RISC-V? Surprisingly well, if the hardware is fast enough…

Allgemein

1. January 2021 sturmflut

On Hiatus

There have been no new posts on this blog for the last 20 months, so I am finally putting the site on hiatus.

English Technology

2. April 20192. April 2019 sturmflut

The state of the USB-C connector in 2019

In episode 2×46 of the Bad Voltage podcast, Stuart Langridge predicts companies will finally embrace the USB-C connector in 2019. Which prompts both Jono Bacon and Jeremy Garcia to ask: “What doesn’t ship with USB-C today”? Turns out a lot of devices still do…

Linux Ubuntu

16. January 201925. August 2022 sturmflut

Updating Micron 1100 Series SSD firmware on Linux

I’ve had quite a number of performance-related issues with Micron 1100 Series M.2 SATA SSDs in various constellations over the last 18 months. Turns out a firmware update to a rather “secret” version fixes that.

English Linux Open Source Security

4. September 2018 sturmflut

A look a the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware

I recently had the “pleasure” of helping a friend with his GNU/Linux box which was acting up. Turns out he had infected his machine with the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware, probably by installing an unofficial Kodi plugin.

English Linux Technology

17. July 20184. September 2018 sturmflut

Improving data safety on Linux systems using ZFS and BTRFS

Why everybody should you care about data safety, and how ZFS and BTRFS can help protect the data on your Linux systems.

Photography Technology Travel

13. April 201819. July 2018 sturmflut

I went to Fukushima

I’m an engineer and interested in all kinds of technology, especially if it is used to build something big. But I’m also fascinated by what happens when things suddenly change and don’t go as expected, and especially by everything that’s left behind after technological and social revolutions or disasters. In October 2017 I travelled across Japan and decided to visit one of the places where technology had failed in the worst way imaginable: the Fukushima Evacuation Zone.

Linux Open Source Photography Ubuntu

24. February 201819. March 2018 sturmflut

Open Source Color Management is broken

Since I am now in the business of photography and image processing (see my travel photography blog here), I thought

Linux Open Source Programming Ubuntu

14. January 20182. April 2019 sturmflut

What a GNU C Compiler Bug looks like

Back in December a Linux Mint user sent a strange bug report to the darktable mailing list. Apparently the GNU C Compiler (GCC) on his system exited with an unexpected error message, breaking the build process.

Games Linux Open Source

29. December 201724. February 2018 sturmflut

Forgotten FOSS Games: Boson

In 1999 “Boson, our attempt to make a Real Time Strategy game (RTS) for the KDE project” was announced on the kde-announce mailing list. You don’t remember KDE having a full 3D RTS? Here’s why.