This week we had the opportunity to be in St. Johann, a small city in the state of Salzburg in Austria and a prime skiing destination, to deliver a small workshop on Kubernetes and Rancher.
Although St. Johann is a very touristy destination, even outside of winter, prices were surprisingly low and the food was exceptionally good.
We’ll definitely try to come back!
After my recent fallout with my dietician I was lucky enough to find a trustworthy new one in a rather short time frame, and I can say I’m quite happy.
I really enjoy if someone takes me seriously and explains the background details of a diet and change of lifestyle, and slowly but surely I’m incorporating the diet (and some exercise) into my daily life.
To put it with Cody Wanner: Let’s do this thing!
A weekend full of extreme contrasts, for me at least – and I’m not done with it yet
Friday, 11/9
Sunday, 11/11
Oh well. Quiet day for me.
Copyright 1971markus@wikipedia.de / Cc-by-sa-4.0
There’s a lot of hype and clickbait around the EU’s revised copyright directive – a well balanced summary on the subject can be found here.
Let’s take a step back – the new copyright directive is not aimed against the freedom of speech or small creators; quite the opposite, it’s aim is to protect creators, big and small, from theft. All it does is shifting the burden from the creator to the publishing platforms, in case a piece of art gets misappropriated, and it specifically only targets big publishing platforms (in the latest amendment at the time of writing).
Of course do YouTube and Instagram/Facebook dislike that – even though it’s not a new responsibility, just a new means of enforcement, it might negatively impact their bottom line.
Will Article 13 ban memes in YouTube videos? From my point of view, memes are covered by the “Fair Use” clause, but I’m not a legal expert.
What it will finally ban though, is the use of copyrighted music in YouTube videos, monetized or not.
A couple of weeks ago I started a medically supervised diet of the low-carb variety, or least that was what I thought.
The initial diet protocol looked to me like a slightly modified Keto or New-Atkins plan, however, I got a little bit suspicious when I found out about the added (costly) Ozone therapy and (even more costly) daily injections; after I felt really ill for a couple of days I started to research on Google – definitely something I should have done earlier.
It turned out that the good doctor was using the highly controversial hCG diet protocol, as documented on hcgdietinfo.com and hCG-Diet respectively, without telling me; and I really don’t want to know what the injections were …
Needless to say that we parted ways immediately.
Luckily for me I found a respected Keto practitioner nearby, so I will be able to continue.
Lesson learned:
The Call for Papers is now open for the KubeCologne Conference 2019.
If you’re interested in Kubernetes and Cloud Native software development, and want to present something – this event is for you!
Submit you abstract now!
The conference will take place from February 6th to 8th in Cologne, Germany; the event will be held in the KOMED convention center, which is centrally located in Cologne’s Media Park.
Let’s recap what happened last weekend:
Things that didn’t happen:
All hopes are now on the outcome of the midterm election in the US, and on SUSE.
Losing an election in Democracy is absolutely normal. It’s [a] part [of democracy]. The serious problem is to lose Democracy in an election. It would be tragic. Let’s turn [it around]!
Tweet by Carlos Minc in support of Fernando Haddad
#HaddadPresidente #ViradaComHaddad
A couple of days ago Rancher have released Rancher version 2.1.1 as latest and stable
Rancher v2.1 introduced new improvements to Kubernetes cluster operations and app management, as well as a migration path for users moving from Rancher’s Cattle orchestrator introduced in 1.x to Rancher Kubernetes.
You can also use Rancher 2.x to quickly set-up managed clusters in a hosted Kubernetes provider, such as Google GKE.
The following Kubernetes providers are supported in Rancher 2.1:
Rancher 1.6 to 2.1 Migration documentation
Today I had to go to Bonn, to Deutsche Post/DHL, and finally found a BMW i3 nearby; from Drive Now, one of my favorite car sharing companies.
I selected the appropriate hourly package, and off we went – boy, is that car fun to drive!
The i3 was set to one-pedal driving and maximum recuperation (It was the first time for me in an i3, so I have no idea whether that’s the default setting or came from the previous driver)
In one-pedal mode, the ‘gas’ pedal is no longer linked to the power you send to the engine, but to the car’s forward motion. In this mode, there is no coasting, you keep the pedal in the same position to maintain speed. And if you (abruptly) take you foot off, the car will (abruptly) brake and come to a full stop. It took me a mile, or so, to get used to it, but once I got the hang of it, it felt like the perfect way to drive smoothly.
The i3’s dashboard shows everything you need to know about power consumption and after a while if becomes really fun to drive as energy-efficient as possible. The dashboard could be a bit less stark though – why not make driving energy efficient a game and reward drivers with new cars for the navigation system?
Enough talk, here’s Madeleine:
(Drive Now name all their cars)
