2026-W43: Beam Me Up

What a week. It was planned to be a very relaxed week with mostly food, drinks, conversations and not much else. Which it almost was. I was quite lucky on Wednesday when the whole patch business started that it was a very rainy day anyway, so I could patch my little server here without disrupting the vacation proceedings too much.
If you want to read more about what happened there, I can really recommend the blog post by Larry Garfield about The real lessons of php2shell and the posts he links to. Very well written and I absolutely agree with his assessment that what we saw was actually a masterclass in how to react to this kind of situation.

Lately I’ve been mostly carrying one of my small Micro-Four-Thirds cameras around and I’m mostly happy with their JPGs. I tend to crop and rotate a bit, but that’s it. Last week I brought my big chunky Sony along, with adapted Contax G lenses and mostly took black and white photos. Straight out of the camera they are still very impressive – but somehow more so than with the other cameras I feel the need to fiddle around with the raw files. Alas, I refuse to rent Lightroom and I haven’t really found an alternative that works for me. Such a bummer.

In other news, I had the first snowfall of the year, made a very good deal on my favorite socks (Falke Walkie Lights, if you need to know. Not an ad.) and got talked into another SailNavSim Jules-Verne-Trophy.