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This Blog supports ActivityPub!

I enabled the ActivityPub WordPress plugin on my blog a while ago already but completely forgot about it! Time to change that. If you’d like to get notified about new posts you can follow this blog from any platforms compatible with the ActivityPub protocol (e.g. Firefish, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Akkoma, Friendica, Peertube) via lenz@blog.lenzg.net.

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Preventing Warnock’s Dilemma in Google Docs

I recently learned that Google Docs supports approvals on documents, which help to ensure that people read and react to your request for feedback to avoid Warnock's Dilemma.

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Our Heatle has finally arrived

After more than two years of waiting, we finally received our #Heatle induction heater. And it was worth the wait!

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Visiting the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) in Hamburg

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to visit the German Climate Computing Centre (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum – DKRZ) here in Hamburg to learn more about their research and tour their data center. They recently installed a new supercomputer named HLRE-4 Levante, and it was very impressive. What surprised me most was how quiet a data center can […]

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Web Browser Add-Ons to boost your productivity

I’m using Mozilla Firefox as my primary web browser, this is the application where I spend a large portion of my working day on. While it comes with a nice set of features out of the box and is under constant development, there’s also a great ecosystem of add-ons and extensions that make my daily […]

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Printing with a Brother MFC-7460DN laser printer on Fedora Linux 33

This is a follow-up to my previous post Configuring a Brother MFC-7460DN Laser Printer/Scanner on Fedora 23 (64-bit), as things have fortunately changed to the better in the meanwhile. As described in this post, setting up this printer in CUPS on Fedora has become quite an ordeal, as Brother no longer updates the printer drivers […]