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eAusweise and Digitales Amt (ID Austria) Apps not working correctly
Last updated on August 18, 2025: Please note that this information may be outdated and incomplete. It is not my responsibility to ensure that it is kept up to date. TL;DR: Open this link in your browser (https://ida.gv.at/u/web2app-pruefen) on your smartphone or tablet and click/tap the banner at the top (usually on the right) on Open / Öffnen. The prerequisite is that both the eAusweise and ID Austria (Digitales Amt) are installed on the same device. Full Article For some time…
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PiHole not working on iOS anymore?
There’s a trick inside your network. If you are using PiHole in your wireless network and it’s not blocking Ads on iPhone anymore do as follows. Go to I had to remove a public IPv6 address because my providers serves IPv6, but my internal network as well as PiHole are running on IPv4. And it looked like iOS was favouring the IPv6 DNS Server. In my case 192.168.0.131 is the PiHole, while 192.168.0.1 is my…
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Adding Watermark and Temp to the Image using macgick
The probably most tricky part of preparing the Image for the Website.For documentation purposes. The workaround to name the file TEMP.bakjpg is due to the deletion of remaining *.jpg files in the directory in the last step of the script. rm *.jpg Therefore i am renaming the image capt*.jpg to TEMP.bakjpg to prevent the current image from being deleted. The problem was, if the script is canceled du to an error or outage, there are…
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Apple Siri became the worst voice-assistant so far
Can you still remember when Apple introduced Siri. That was a milestone. You had the feeling you could talk to your devices in the future, like Jean Luc Picard and his followers on board the Enterprise. nn 2023 has arrived and it is fair to say that Apple has managed to make Siri even dumber with every update. nn Even simple tasks like setting a timer are acknowledged by our iPad in the kitchen just…
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EOS 1000D Shutter Count
Using gphoto2 the commandline tool allows me to read the shutter count of the weathercam. gphoto2 can be easily installed on linux based systems as well as on macOS using brew. On macOS you have to install brew first to then install gphoto2 using brew install gphoto2 Connect your Canon EOS 1000D using your mini-USB cable and power it on. Open Terminal and type gphoto2 –get-config /main/status/shuttercounter It will then show you the current shutter…
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New Project: Horrorskop.at
Last week I’ve launched a website called Horrorskop.at nn Technically it’s nothing special just a simple WordPress Page including a randomizer for its content. nn The interesting thing is, they are horoscopes, but they are anything but encouraging and joyful. Therefore it’s named horrorscope. nn 90% of the content was generatedwith chatGPT and the cover image with Stable Diffusion. TThis applies to both the negative predictions and the haikus. nn Have fun! Or not…
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weathercamPi Up2date 03.2023
Since I have announced that I will continue to operate the weather camera actively, instead of simply waiting for the hardware to fail, an update is due in the next few days. I have to thank a supporter supporting me to buy some replacement hardware. nn If the installed EOS 1000D stops working, I now have a replacement that can be used within a very short time. In addition, a donated RaspberryPi3 is ready as…