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Did you know that SSH can match “things”? I sure didn’t!

Tonight I wanted to grant SSH access to a service account that didn’t have a home directory, but was required to use keyauth. After a bit of research on the internet I added a new config file to /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d.

Match Group homeless
  AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/authorized-keys/%u

%u automatically resolves to the current user.

I also needed to create the group homeless and add my service account to it. And, of course, I also needed to add the public key to the referenced file above. (So, if your service account is called pinkie, you’ll need to add the key to
/etc/ssh/authorized-keys/pinkie).

Until today the issue with Apples new apps to synchronize with my iPhone is still not fixed. I wasn’t able to find any other users with similar issues, but also have to say I didn’t dig very deep. I choose the brutal way and simply removed all apps and installed the previous iTunes version 12.13.0.9 (thanks to theapplewiki.com).

My iTunes library was still complete, which was nice, but synchronizing to the iPhone still yielded the same old error: Preparing to Sync. Since killing the MDCrashReportTool.exe is easy enough, I decided to write a quick Autohotkey script for it.

At the end of December 2023 I decided to switch back to CDs and stop using Spotify. The idea was triggered by the announced price increase and I thought, that for all the money that I spent on it per Year, I can actually buy a few CDs that I then own. During this thought-process I also remembered a very foolish decision from a few years ago:

In the years before music streaming services, I collected all my MP3 files in folders sorted by artist and album. It was the logical thing to do, because CDs contained one artist and album (apart from Bravo Hits and Dream Dance ᕕ(⌐■_■)ᕗ ♪♬). Then Spotify came and I had access to virtually everything – that changed my listening behaviour. I moved from a sorted folder full of artists and their albums to playlists. Since I didn’t have my folder collection anymore, I sometimes didn’t know what music to listen to. In the end I almost only listened to one particular playlist. Thinking about this today, makes me feel limited somehow. I stopped listening to whole albums, and just played the few songs that I really liked. If you only ever play the really good ones, they can get boring over time.

In January I had time to visit the Döberitzer Heide again. This time I walked in from the north-west side and after passing some interesting bunker ruines, I met these fellas:

Eigentlich hatte ich mir angewöhnt in Englisch zu schreiben, dass geht einfacher von der Hand. Aber der Hashtag #WMDEDGT ist Deutsch, also bleiben wir dabei.

So, worum gehts jetzt? Ich las bei assbach.de den #WMDEDGT - Dezember 2023 und fand die Idee so gut, dass ich sie direkt nachahmen wollte. Und dann habe ich auch noch gelernt, dass die Idee schon >10 Jahre alt ist! Wow, danke Frau Brüllen.

Jetzt aber mal los:

This month I took a walk into the Döberitzer Heide for the first time. While walking through the woods I noticed a watch tower on the map and decided to take a closer look. Unfortunately it was already pretty dark and the current weather isn’t favorable to climb a tower. So I walked into viewing distance and turned back. Definetly a spot I want to visit again during the day. Sadly, I didn’t wear proper socks for my boots and was presented with some bloody heels.

I received the film and there were actually some okayish pictures on it. However, due to several distractions I didn’t take time to reflect on those images properly.