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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

We started dating while I was knee-deep into :scala: and FP, so needless to say my spouse is very concerned about me enjoying Shell, Python, and YAML in the evenings

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

[EA, confusion] Last week’s Economist ran a long-ish explainer on EA (they don’t like it) and I still have no clue whatsoever about what that is

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I wrote a lil tool that goes through a Docker Compose file and for each bind mount, creates the folder on the host with correct permissions. The only thing you'll have to do is tell it about the desired state: volumes: - type: bind source: /opt/test2 target: /foo x-setup: 1000:1000:700 # uid […]

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

nothing like self-hosting in a home lab to convince me that self-hosting is not a reasonable solution for laypeople against Big Tech

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

today a PhD student explained to me how academic publishing works I graduated in 2019 and have published ~8 papers since

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Yesterday I spent two hours debugging an issue where Docker silently skips exposing ports when a container is attached only to internal networks. It makes no sense to me and I have found no explanation for this behaviour. Any ideas? Also, I completely forgot how these debugging sessions feel

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

“Are banks intermediaries of loanable funds” – the greatest thread in the history of macroeconomics, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

> Compose ignores any fields that start with x-, this is the sole exception where Compose silently ignores unrecognized fields. XML solved this decades ago :old_man_yells_at_cloud:

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I thought RAM is expensive now, but why on earth are HDDs also friggin expensive? I bought a 6 TB disk for 150 € in 2023, now it's double that?!?!?

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

[Health, vaccine] To all my fellow non-youngsters: If you're getting the shingles vaccine, prepare for the night by taking an extra blanket in your bed. You're welcome.

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

today I listened to not just one, but two, podcasts about what happened at Jackson Hole, like a normal person

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

In other self hosting news: Does a good, small OIDC provider exist? If possible, smaller than Keycloak. DB at most SQLite, static configuration preferred.

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

After 22 years, it is time. I bought a new trekking bike 🚲

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

@eh Could you help us figure something out? In Hardangervidda, there are a few huts without staff but with groceries. How does it work? How do we pay? Do we need a nyggel? (We don’t want to sleep there, just perhaps restock)

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

I was struggling with migrating from Redis to Valkey, because the latest Valkey (9.x) can't read the file format of the latest Redis (8.x). The error message is something like: # Can't handle RDB format version 13 Fortunately, there's an easy workaround. Upgrade to Valkey as usual. But pass […]

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Paper accepted 🎉 First time in an econ-adjacent journal

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

[Shitpost, depol] "Ein Kipppunkt in der Kanzlerschaft" auf die Melodie von "Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit"

Screenshot von tagesschau.de. Schlagzeile: "Wir erleben gerade einen Kipppunkt in der Kanzlerschaft"

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

To prepare for our multi-day hike in Norway, we're currently experimenting with making one-pot meals out of dried food. So far, Pilaw turned out fine. Next on the list: pasta. Internet suggests about ~1 l of liquid for ~0.5 kg of pasta. Any tips?

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Booked our travels! We’ll go hiking/camping in the Telemark 🇳🇴 in August ⛺️

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Made a total rookie mistake in thinking I could just walk … welp, at least I survived crossing the highway

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

I have four papers outstanding: - One with elapsed notification deadline (lol) - One with review "arriving in a few weeks" (as of last month, lol) - One waiting for Springer typesetting, supposed to appear next week (lol) - And finally, just went through typesetting, supposed to appear in June […]

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

[Pun] Who called it org chart and not örgåsbord

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Hi Canada 🇨🇦 I’m in Toronto, what’s good?

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

I just saw that the Lithuanian rail operator added a direct train from Vilnius to Tallinn. That means it should be possible to reach, within two days, Tallinn from Munich by train :meowthinking: (EN from Munich to Warszawa, then one hour later onward train to Vilnius, then next day to Tallinn)

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

And we're kicking off this year's April Cools' day :aprilcool: First one is by @predrag, in which he is struggling with a self-cancelling TV subscription predr.ag/blog/the-self-cancelling-s…

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The Self-Cancelling Subscription

When family TV show night became systems debugging night.

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@predrag/1162684345841… … and we’ve updated the website with more options to submit :aprilcool:

hachyderm.io

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Paris, je suis dans toi It’s been a while … probably scala.io ca. 2014

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

#Immich is a fantastic piece of software. Truly awesome. That is all.

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

I just obtained a DNS wildcard certificate using a Python script (mod_wsgi) and two bash scripts from behind a home router firewall :excellent:

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Volunteering at the polling station, a vignette. Voter: This is quite a large ballot paper ... Me: Sure it is. There's no need to rush though, take all the time you need. Voter: Absolutely not.

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

What is the current best option for folder encryption on Linux? I'm reading that ecryptfs is deprecated somehow? (Also, somewhat related: Arch Wiki seems to be having TLS issues, so I can't look up from a good source)

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Today in home IT achievements: I managed to get a Scansnap N1800 (ca. 2011) running.

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

*Michael Jackson voice* Just schieb it, schieb it, Just schieb it, schieb it, The snow’s out to get you, better räum while you can Habe Spaß beim Schneeschieben ❄️

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

[Econ, shitpost] Me trying to get my wife to drink more: You'll need more liquidity, or else you'll fail the stress test. Basel III is coming.

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Turns out some old talks have resurfaced on YouTube. How about "What Haskell can learn from Scala", 2015, by yours truly? 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbOr8JxuYRI

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

My wife: *listening to a country playlist* Me, instinctively: We've got both kinds of music here, country and western! My wife: :excuseme: Me: :oh_no_bubble:

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Here's a quick idea to improve web page performance. I am rendering a bunch of maps with leaflet.js on a page. This requires a lot of traffic, and it's not even clear whether people would look at all the maps. My idea: put the maps into individual <details> elements. Wrap the loading logic […]

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

You cannot iterate over a dictionary in Liquid??? I thought I had done it before, but turns out, Liquid just treats it as an array. So you have to do this: {% for item in site.data.foo reversed %} {% assign key = item[0] %} {% assign value = item[1] %} ...

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

> give a remote presentation > have an internet connection dropout > notice that the mobile hotspot doesn't work (since iOS 26 somehow) > notice that corporate Windows won't let you connect to WiFi anyway because cable is plugged in > pray that the router restart will fix it > come back to […]

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

My Arch package manager just suggested to update `reiserfsprogs`. I think the last time I used ReiserFS was ca. 2004. I don't know why I even had it installed

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