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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Childhood memory from Munich: We’re sitting at a table eating breakfast when a patrol car parks right outside and two police officers exit (you know how they look in their Bavarian uniforms, boots, belts and all), they’re both in the prime of their lives, tall and strong, walk straight up to the counter and say nothing more than a good morning before a breakfast spread magically appears on the counter before them, with two Maßkrug of beer. The police officers devour the breakfast and down the beers faster than I can breathe, before they say a simple thanks and go out to their car and drive away. No visible payment. My little brother and I just looked at each other, both knowing that we had just seen something one doesn’t see every day.




  • Every time I have to reinstall my operating system (its really only a few times in a decade),

    Reinstalling your operating system once a decade seems a bit excessive. When you’re more experienced you’ll probably not want to do it that often.

    creating gpg keys

    While it is a good practice to create new PGP keys with some regularity, there’s absolutely no reason to do it at the same time as reinstalling your operating system, doing that is only an unnecessary complication. The normal thing to do is to copy the entire home directory (and at least the keyring) from the old installation to the new.

    Am I doing enterprise level security for the sake of an icon or is this really more secure?

    The purpose of PGP signing git commits is to make it possible for others to verify that a commit has been created by you and not by someone else pretending to be you.

    If there are other people who look at your commits and want to verify that they really were made by you then this matters a lot. If no-one does that with your commits, it doesn’t matter at all.