With summer just around the corner, it still surprises me that we still have snow here.
Not sure what they are doing over there, but Yle reported 30 cm of snow around the northeast of the country.
Quite honestly, I wish we still had snow here, in the south (and I know people around here will hate me for saying this). Summer is probably my most hated season.
I personally own a few Apple devices, mainly my phone, so at some point, I started looking for a news source to know when updates will be expected, new features to expect, etc.
9to5mac is the one that pops up at the top of search engines, naive me thought it looked alright at first glance.
The facade of this website falls as soon as you add their RSS feed to your reader: you’ll be greeted by what can only be described as just ads and just speculations.
For instance, the following kind of ad is posted quite frequently to pad the content the website offers:
Same with rumours, they claim to have a “release date”, yet this is a nonexistent product that random people online only speculate about. Rumours make up most of the padding 9to5mac has.
I’m not a fan of having slop in my RSS reader, my mistake for trusting a website like that.
Quick post to wish everybody a happy International Workers’ day.
And for the few Finns reading this, happy Vappu as well.
Back a few years ago, my personal ID number changed. Just to sum up for people who don’t know, in Finland, the personal ID number is used for everything. It basically identifies you to government and banking services.
Given the data debacle I talked about previously, I decided it would probably be good to request my own Posti data, as GDPR allows me to do so.
You can imagine my surprise when clicking the request link and hurting a wall saying I don’t exist:
After talking to some people, it turns out the way of fixing this is quite easy. You just need to log into the Moving Notification site of Posti (muuttoilmoitus.fi) with your bank details.
After doing so, I can finally access the data request page, as simple as that!
This month, I bought a bunch of music on Bandcamp, here are some recommendations:
That’s all for this month’s recommendations. This might become a more recurring thing, but wait until the next Bandcamp Friday, I’ll have plenty of those after it.
Here in Finland, it’s the Good Friday, meaning we get this Friday and next Monday off work.
That’s plenty of time for me to re-play some of my favourite games, and on the menu this time: Yakuza Kiwami 2.
I’ve finished this one months ago, but remains the one with the best music in my opinion.
If you’re interested, you can grab it DRM-free on GOG, or just grab the (almost) whole series DRM-free.
I wish the more recent games such as Gaiden, Ishin, Infinite Wealth and Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii would be released on there, but hopefully this will happen soon enough.
If I manage to do what I wanted, I’ll go ahead and re-play Yakuza 6 as well, but we’ll see.
I’ll write a larger review of the series at some point in the future. In fact, it’s been in the works for a while, but I haven’t finished it due to the sheer amount of content in those games.
If you live in Finland, you have without a doubt interacted with Posti. Recently, they announced large changes in their user data processing policies, taking into effect on May 20th 2025.
Bottom of the line is:
To avoid getting caught in this, visit the account settings page (on my.account.posti.fi), then on the left, select “settings”.
In there you will need to uncheck two options:
Also feel free to clean up any options you might have forgotten to disable before.
As a friendly reminder: do not forget to press “save changes” on the bottom of the page when done with the unchecking part.
With this, you should be pretty safe to proceed, tho just in case, I’d still watch this page just in case Posti has a magical bug that would re-enable everything for everyone.
Personally, I find this whole thing kinda scummy given Posti is an essential public service. Forcing that kind of analytics on people can only go badly on the long term.
I recently got myself a bread maker. While I used to make the bread myself, the bread maker makes it even easier given I can just throw the ingredients in and forget about it. Since I got it, that poor thing has been running at least once a day (yes, I eat a lot of bread).
My go-to recipe is generally:
Pretty easy, right? The machine will knead, let it raise, then bake the bread all by itself, just don’t forget to let it cool for around an hour after it’s finished.
Right now, I got a Point POBM400GS bread machine, but I wonder if I could modify it to add a small webcam and some simple thing that would just return how much time is left before the bread is ready.
Hell, bread machines seem so simple that we could probably even make an Open-Source one.
Watch out for the bread Grafana dashboard.