Hi, I’m Benedikt

Welcome to this obscure spot of the interweb that I call mine own! This is where I write up thoughts, observations, notes for myself and/or others and the like. If you want to get to talking to me about anything I write, there is a “Reply by Email” button at the end of each post. If you’d like to suggest changes, you can use the respective button above each post, it will lead you to the repository where the code for this site is hosted where you can file an issue. You can also hit me up on mastodon and yell at me there.

Please Stop Lying

I hate lies, I hate lying and I dislike liars. I am aware that there’s philosophical debate around the issue of whether or not lying is acceptable. There seems to be a social consensus that, to a degree, lying is acceptable and sometimes even necessary or at least advisable. I disagree. Granted, there might be situations where telling the truth might mean the death of a beloved person but for the vast majority of people this situation is contrived and unrealistic. For most of us it’s probably a matter of convenience or personal gain. Some jobs incentivise lying more than others do, I should think, but even so, you’re never compelled to lie to save yourself or others from serious harm. ...

April 29, 2025 · 4 min

Setting up my Printer/Scanner in Fedora

Printers are devices straight from hell. Just stating a fact. Despite this unfortunate fact I can’t live without one. Digitization is woefully behind in the country I live in so there’s no way around occasionally having to scan and print stuff. Even if it’s just taxes once a year. A short while ago I bought a new printer/scanner combo because the old one died on me. I spent quite some time researching a good choice and settled on a Brother device because those are, at least in my humble experience, easy to set up on the machines I have. ...

April 10, 2025 · 4 min

On Separating Creator from Creation

This post has been in the making for a long time now. Not so much on paper (metaphorically speaking) but rather in my head. So now the time has come to finally write down my thoughts. They may be meandering or a bit stream-of-consciousness but I’d rather have that than nothing. This may also end up quite verbose. You have been warned. I was prompted by various events in the past, online discussions and, last but not least, one of Kev Quirk’s blog posts about this subject. It is also related to a post series of a dear fedifriend of mine. ...

January 31, 2025 · 11 min

Review: Sea of Stars

Introduction Over the past few weeks I’ve played an finished Sea of Stars and I decided to write a review for it. I’ll be going over some things but keep it mostly spoiler-free until the end of the review. The spoiler section will be marked and the article will be concluded by a spoiler-free section at the very end. Sea of Stars is a fairly recent game in the style of a JRPG. It was inspired by Chronotrigger (which I’ve played but never got very far) and adopted a few mechanics from it, as far as I can tell. You play a party of people and control them from an isometric point of view. Combat is turn-based and the way you travel over the map seems very reminiscent of Chronotrigger. But can it compete with the original? We’ll see. ...

December 25, 2024 · 10 min

How To: Deploy Services with TLS Certificates in a Tailscale network

Perhaps you’ve been in this situation before. You have a home server which hosts an bunch of stuff. Possibly in VMs, containers, what have you. You want a way to address these servers from elsewhere so you configure a reverse proxy that routes to each of these based on hostname. Personally, I have Jellyfin, Adguard Home, Uptime Kuma and a few other things deployed on the same machine and wired-up this way. ...

November 8, 2024 · 5 min