Author: Darko Luketic

I'm a self-employed developer since 2004. I have been working professionally since 2000. My first contact with computers was the C64 at the age of 11 where I coded in machine code and assembler. I worked with PHP professionally for 11 years, nowadays I prefer Angular, Go and Flutter, but I'm open minded. However I would dislike taking a step back to PHP. My services are for hire I'm also looking for remote employment.
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DJ Mixing Software comparison

This is a work-in-progress post.

So far I have tried 3 DJ mixing software products.

TL;DR: VirtualDJ wins, but it’s not really free

Mixxx
Free Open Source
+ Can handle any file format
+ Has up to 4 turnables
– Very unintuitive UI, which makes it hard to build sets and analyze tracks for BPM and key values.

VirtualDJ
Free for personal use, but very restrictive licensing
+ Technically the best software so far
+ Can use ASIO for main and WSAPI for headphones
– Only 2 turnables by default (update: You can install additional skins to have 4 decks, but they’re ugly)
– Every time it starts, it wants you to sign in/create an account
– No way to create a set list?
– Subscription based

Serato DJ Lite
Requires an account to be created, no way of deleting that account manually.
– Wants to upsell you on pretty much everything, cloud offers, their Pro subscription and it’s constantly nagging about it
– No proper audio configuration possible
– Tiny waveform display
– Control missing

Serato DJ Lite has to be some kind of joke.

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Netcup zensiert den Begriff Hetzner

Ich wollte mich eben vorab erkundigen im netcup.de Forum über etwas, und habe 3 mal “Hetzner” geschrieben im Post.

Das konnte ich nicht posten, denn das Wort Hetzner ist bei netcup zensiert.

Total uncool, und ich werde meinen RootServer dort kündigen und auch keine weiteren Server bestellen dort.
Geht garnicht sowas.

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Wasser nach Apfel nicht ok

Wasser zu trinken, nachdem man einen Apfel oder mehrere Äpfel gegessen hat ist, noch wie vor, nicht ok und führt im schlechtesten Fall zu Durchfall.

Man googlet ja oft verschiedene Dinge und AI, die Google und andere einsetzen, ist bekannt dafür zu lügen. Aber es ist nicht die AI, die in diesem Fall lügt, sondern verschiedene Suchtreffer, die auf der ersten Seite stehen.
Dort wird behauptet, dass sinngemäß das Wasser früher zu “Großmutters Zeiten” kontaminiert war und deshalb das trinken von Wasser nachdem man Obst, in diesem Fall Äpfel, gegessen hat als schlecht oder schädlich angesehen wurde.
Wasser, ist nach wie vor, Wasser und das trinken von Wasser nach Obst sollte erst ca. 30 Minuten nachdem man Obst gegessen hat erfolgen, sonst riskiert man bestenfalls Blähungen, schlimmstenfalls, wie bei Feigen, blutigen Durchfall oder Erbrechen.

KEIN WASSER NACH OBST ist nach wie vor ein guter Rat.

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Beware of ent (entgo.io)

If you’re using Go, you’ve likely heard of ent. Some Ex-Facebook employee maintaining and developing an open source version of the public version of Meta’s entity framework for Go.

Well there’s a catch.
Migrations.

They sweet talk you in their documentation to use Atlas. Ariga’s Atlas, not the MongoDB one.
But Atlas is a proprietary cloud offering.
There might be a free tier, but who cares?
You have to give other parties access to your schema, if you want to containerize your binary or even if you’re not distributing your schema with your binary. Not just your schema, also your database.

To me that is a breach of trust.

That is “open source” software being used as bait for a lock-in cloud offering.

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2 machines with bridge devices and same mac problem

You’re using systemd, maybe you have cockpit installed and are creating a bridge on each host because you need them for libvirt virtual machines.

One machine is your old workstation and you copied the filesystem to the new machine.

But when you create a bridge you local machine suddenly receives the same IP your old machine has received.
Why?
You search around, “How do I set a new MAC address on a bridge?”
But none of the answers work.

Then you remember, “Hey, systemd uses machine-id for each machine”.
And indeed it does.

  1. You have to rm -f /etc/machine-id and dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id
  2. Reboot the system
  3. Recrete the bridge

    4. -id