IT System Administrator focusing on Linux systems.
Maintainer of Edmontonian Social.
Advocate of self-hosting, and privacy.
Loves food, pets and fixing “old” tech.
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Filtering Emails
Email may feel like a necessary evil of modern age. It actually is a useful and practical method of communication made useless and ugly thanks to noise. The sinister thing about noise is that, the digital kind of noise is not as obvious, even though it is just as obnoxious as noise in real life.…
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Notifications suppose to be a method of being reminded of important things, but in last few months, I missed important events due to notification and email noise. Noise is a sickness infecting the tools and methods that helped me put my life in order. I am fighting the noise, to make phone notifications useful again,…
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February, March, April 2026
I had enough of those non-essential notifications, and have been dealing to get rid of them for the last few months.
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Japanese Bowl by Peter Mayer
I learned about this poem today, and thought it would be important to share. Poem can be found by clicking on lyrics link for Japanese Bowl on the original album page: https://www.petermayer.net/heaven-below. Song version of the poem is available DRM Free on Peter Mayer’s website, or with DRM on streaming services, Youtube, Spotify. Thanks to…
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January 2026
I missed a very important appointment. I wasn’t busy, or preoccupied with anything to miss my alarm and notification. Nope, I was just sitting at home, partially bored for not having anything to do. Apparently I became deaf to my own phone, and subconsciously ignored all the beeps and rings the phone was supposed to…
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December 2025 Review
December is the month when everybody goes into jolly holiday mode. To me, this means a sharp drop in social events around the city.
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We all are under attack
I would like to offer my condolences to everyone in Bondi Beach Jewish community. Pointing gun at civilians is not an act of any religion. It is a disgusting incitation effort.
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November 2025 Review
It has been a loaded month. Overwhelmed by assignments, and also few exciting things happened. I became aware of a possibly medical setback about myself.
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Analytics is enabled on this site
I don’t like being tracked. I expect you to not like being tracked too. This post is to explain the reason I have analytics enabled on this site. You can view this site’s analythics here.
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Logitech MX Master 3S – Review after one year of use
There are updates. Please read them for more complete conclusion. Great mouse with 1 fatal flaw. Left mouse button breaks fast. It is a well known issue. At only 99 USD, this probably was the most recommended model of mouse under 100 USD. I saved money and paid Logitech that price. After little over a…