And good luck trying to get somebody from their "customer support" to help ...
We're back at work! Had a really good time enjoying an actual vacation at Cavallino Tre Porte in Italy. Our family beach holiday in a fantastic camp site was the best time of this year for now! Hoping everyone else gets a change to enjoy this too somehow where ever they might be.
So not to have this previous post as my last post: I am happy to have made a nice Python "picture uploader" app for our family pictures. Thanks to Flask it was only a matter of finding some good tutorials and articles and the thing actually works.
Highly recommend the NEMO museum in Amsterdam - our 4-year old and the whole family loved it!
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Can I trust Cloudflare's DNS not to spy on me? Thinking the family safe service is a nice idea, but could not find their privacy policy.
Had another great time at the Staufenplatz Osterkirmes fun-fair today with the family. Enjoying this Easter holiday all-things-considering.
We had a great Easter-weekend with the family! So fortunate that we can enjoy life like this in peace.
Anyone know Ukrainian's that need digital space for keeping files safe? I have an FTP server hosted in the Netherlands and I can give away 3 times 10 GB (30 GB). It's not a huge space, but it might be enough to keep some family data safe? PM me if interested.
I think I am in shock. Cannot concentrate much on work. This war is getting too close to my home. Today I went to help out an Ukrainian refugee family who are staying in a hotel nearby. Two kids, including grandma. Got them a clothing shop gift certificate and bought some coloring and sticker books and a box of Legos they can take with them as they find somewhere safe to stay. Something normal. Some chocolate too as Easter is coming. Then I see the articles and pictures on the news and Twitter and I catch myself thinking: What the heck am I doing? Less than a day's driving away from my own house people are dying in a war, cities are destroyed. And for what??? Stop this inhumanity and madness!
@jackyalcine The hardest "Meta" app to ditch for me and my family will be WhatsApp - it's the only thing my parents in law are accepting right now as chat app. We have about 7GB worth of picture files in our family group. I backed these up, but still will be hard to replace with anything else.
Really impressed with YunoHost and NextCloud as a solution for our family online presence.
Папа, поверь — Dad, believe
"After a post on Instagram complaining about his father’s disbelief went viral, he launched a website, papapover.com, which means “Papa, believe,” with instructions for Ukrainians about how to speak to their family members about the war.
“There are 11 million Russians who have relatives in Ukraine,” he said. “With 11 million people, everything can happen — from revolution to at least some resistance.”"
You keep your passwords and secrets secure in a password manager. But what happens when you lose access to the password manager, or when something bad happens to you and your family needs access to something really important only you knew the secret password for? I use a DiceKey. https://
What I've realized in the last year is that social media is very overrated. Family and real life friends matter more than any digital-only connection.
Had a great family weekend! Having an almost four year old tell you he loves you is the best feeling in the world.
Family is everything.
Donated blood at the Düsseldorf Uniklinik with the family today. Happy it worked out as the last time was June 2020...
Flood Destruction
Do not trust your basement
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Seeing that devastated family house basement left a big impression on me. The destruction level of a flooded basement full of family memories was really high. 99% of everything in that basement is lost after a couple weeks in dirty, mucky river water and slick. Furniture destroyed after it floated freely in the dark water. When the water eventually recided, all of the stuff, even the heavy furniture pieces, got thrown around the rooms. A photo projector and dias, all in there containers, probably 40 years old, all destroyed. Photo albums completely returned to sticky pulp as the water dissolved the paper. When you try to pick it up, it all falls apart. Old board games, puzzle pieces, even a whole set of the classic electronic Battlefield game, all scattered around the water and covered in muck. The pieces kept coming towards the vacuum cleaner head while I was working to suck out the lower levels of the basement. We managed to get about 100 buckets of stinky dark river water out. Books were everywhere and also completely destroyed. It really hurt me emotionally to see all these family memoriabilia scattered and destroyed like that. Perhaps as a dad, it is one of my worst nightmares that our family memories would be returned to only that ... memories which eventually will be all forgotten and lost.
Never keep your precious things in your basement!
Never-ever store irreplaceable family valuables in a basement or sou-terrain if you have the option. Today, I witnessed the utter destruction of a flooded basement full of family relics and memorabilia, two weeks after the flooding. Photo albums, photo slides and a projector, nothing stands the test of being submerged in water and being left in a damp moldy basement. Not even a model rail-way ...