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Location: Vantaa, Finland
Date and time: 2024/12/08 11:45 (local time UTC+2) - 09:45 (UTC)
Frequency: 15290kHz
SINPO: 2/5
Equipment: Tecsun PL-680 + wire antenna
Content Heard:
Unsure, asked a friend and only words they could understand were “Tokyo 23”.
Notes: I cannot speak Japanese, sadly. Lots of static and interruptions.
Contact: NHK WORLD-JAPAN | Contact Us
Card received:
In the middle of the year, I got a Quest Pro, mainly to use with Resonite for face and eye tracking.
With this standalone headset made by Facebook, came a small program that (allegedly) cost them billions to make: Horizon Worlds, their own platform. You know, the one without legs.
Well, I tested it for a bit.
Why? I was curious.
Will I move to Horizon Worlds anytime soon? Hell no.
Verkkokauppa.com is a chain of web and physical stores originating from (and limited to) Finland, akin of Amazon here if you will.
When trying to search for a USB-C computer mouse, IPvfoo1 told me that the website was accessible over IPv6, which I never noticed before.
I then queried the DNS server to see where it was hosted and:
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: verkkokauppa.com
Address: 34.95.73.242
Weird, no v6 there, let’s try with the www subdomain now:
Last week, I received my new laptop: a Framework 16.
As per my usual tradition when I receive a new cool device, I have to write about it a week later, then either three months or a year later (as I did previously with my Index, or work MacBook Pro M1).
As you may know, my previous laptop was a ThinkPad x200.
It’s not exactly a young machine, being around 16 years old now.
It’s no secret that I work around GitLab during my day job and that I generally love this software.
This blog post is therefore not biased at all in any way or form. (do I need to mark this further as sarcasm, or did everyone get the memo?)
For this quick tutorial, you’ll need:
For this, we’ll be using docker compose which provides an easy way to bring services up from a configuration file.
This tutorial just provides a bare bones instance that you will need to configure further later.