I encountered an old Debian system and tried to upgrade it from Debian 10 (buster) to Debian 12 (bookworm).
During the apt-get dist-upgrade it did run into a problem, where libcrypt.so.1 was removed and the upgrade failed to continue.
Additionally this caused that dpkg itself also stopped working and that sshd stopped accepting new connections.
Thus fixing the following error became urgent:

/usr/bin/python3: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Luckily I was not the first person to run into this issue.
In a Stack Overflow answer I found the crucial workaround taken from a comment on the corresponding Debian bugreport.
The following steps allow to manually install a copy of the missing libcrypt.so files to fix the issue (when running this you might have a newer version of the package at hand, thus adjust the dpkg-deb step accordingly):

cd /tmp
apt -y download libcrypt1
dpkg-deb -x libcrypt1_1%3a4.4.33-2_amd64.deb .
cp -av lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/* /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
apt -y --fix-broken install

Applied the CSS flexbox mechanism to the archive page.
This helps to transform the steadily growing lists of monthly archive links into a more userfriendly layout, going from a single column to eight columns and bringing all the links above 'the fold'.

I'm continueing my festival summer also this weekend. Yesterday I've attended the Simmentaler Bier Festival, which celebrates the 10 year anniversary of the Simmentaler Bier brewery.

The festivities included some fine music from far away and not so far away.
Rooftop Sailors opened the afternoon with their refreshing rock music.
Then came my favorite, Open Season, which was a nostalgy throwback as I was attending their concerts already 22 years ago ❤️
Last band of the day was Delinquent Habits, which brought their habit from LA to serve the public Tequila shots during the concert.

Open Season - Rocksteady

One of my favorite moments from the second weekend of ZÜRICH OPENAIR 2024: the concert of Lost Frequencies, especially the drum&bass live performance of The Feeling 🥳

Lost Frequencies - The Feeling (Lost Frequencies & Andromedik Deluxe Mix)

Finally took the time to create a /now page and add it to the blog: /now 🎉

Still need to figure out if it will eventually replace the about page or not.
For now the about page links to the now page.

Proton Mail can sign (and encrypt) emails when it knows the PGP key of the correspondent. For this is provides PGP keys to its users.
Unfortunately most of them are not searchable via the traditional PGP keyservers. With the following command you can download the public PGP key of a Proton Mail user:

curl -s 'https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=user@protonmail.com'

Also, just discovered that GPG Keychain on Mac detects if the clipboard contains a PGP key and asks if it should import it. Very nice feature which saves a couple clicks :-)

Thanks to this post on Hacker News, I was reminded of the joy of regex crosswords :-)

Nice to see that the regexcrossword.com site has gained quite a list of puzzles and challenges since the last time I blogged about it.

Also very cool is the RegEx Crossword project of Jimb Esser, which provides a very smooth interface for solving hexagonal regex crosswords in the browser.
I remember solving the original MIT hexagonal regex crossword on paper back in the time.

And in addition there is a built-in editor which allows you to create your own hexagonal regex crosswords.
Thinking of using this to create some fun puzzle for the colleagues at work.

Vim Racer is a fun game to show off your vi skills 🚀
(also insightful to explore the leaderboard and see which commands were used by others)

Catchy memory from the first weekend of ZÜRICH OPENAIR 2024: Armin van Buuren's version of Artemas - I Like the Way You Kiss Me, which is very similar to the Bassjackers Remix 🔊

Artemas - I Like the Way You Kiss Me (Bassjackers Remix)

Added the /reading page to the blog to keep a list of various books I'm currently reading.

It is very bare-bones currently, I expect over time it will grow (both in number of books and also in amount of content, such as ratings, links and commentary).
Might take a while, stay tuned 🤓