#uckermark — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #uckermark, aggregated by home.social.
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Am Freitag den 04. September 2026 spielt um 19:00 Uhr der fabelhafte Dominic Merten bei uns in der Dorfkirche in Groß Dölln. Der ist cool, lustig und sogar aus der Gegend. Habe ihn schon mehrfach live gesehen und kann sagen es war ein großer Spaß
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#weeklyreview 32/2026
Monday was a really lovely summer night in Berlin. We seized it at a rooftop bar in Mitte with a few good cocktails.
On my way back home I snapped a picture of a public ad display that seemed to have issues with its hard disk and this displaying Linux console information. Posted that on the Fediverse of course and was surprised by the attention that post got. Almost 500 likes by the time of writing.
Post by @[email protected] View on Mastodon
I’m not after a lot of likes or boost in my feed. What I’m but happy about is, that the Fediverse seems large and popular enough for a tiny fringe instance to get that far of a reach.
Kiddo was home in Berlin this week and we had lunch together in the city on Monday and were dining out at a Sushi restaurant on Wednesday. Weather in principle was bearable in Berlin I’d say. I was even surprised that the cooling in the office was working. We don’t have an actual air condition, but rather a weird cooling system that is broken more often than not.
Friday evening we attended the mobile summer cinema in Templin. That’s a summer event series were the local cinema is traveling around with their mobile projection setup and show movies at various places in the Uckermark. This time they were screening “Amrum” from German director Fatih Akin. Very lovely movie. Beautiful pictures, good actors and good story.
Weird enough it was a cold evening and people were showing up with their winter coats in preparation for temperatures around 12º C. Pretty weird when just a day ago we were akin under more than 30º C during the day.
Saturday started with a long overdue run with my buddy Jan in the village. Just a short round to get into it again for us two old battle horses.
The rest of the day I spent ripping out the floor in #project25.
Oh… and we finally got the new kitchen installed in the village house. Finally. But the new fangled appliances are the end boss. One really needs to read the fuckin instruction manual to get the induction cooking field with touch control started. I miss the good old time of physical buttons. I mean it’s a bloody cooking field. You have 4 stoves that you can turn on or off. Why does that need sophisticated touch control?
#Berlin #Cinema #Cocktails #enEN #project25 #rooftop #Uckermark #weekly #weeklyreview -
@Blumi147 gibts hier in der Umgebung den ganzen Sommer: https://www.mkc-templin.de/kino/mobiles-kino/ #Uckermark #kino
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"Amrum" von Fatih Akin. Wirklich ein sehr schöner Film #Uckermark
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Day two of the residency has been very intensive. Didn't have much time to document stuff, so here is a rough video of the two upper floors while we were testing our setup.
#sound #fieldrecording #residency #Uckermark #gramzow #Speicher
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mobiles Kino #Uckermark groved sich gerade eine bevor es los geht.
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Eine kurzweilige Liste mit merkwürdigen also bemerkenswerten Ortsnamen in Deutschland:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Bdk/Liste_merkw%C3%BCrdiger_Ortsnamen_in_Deutschland
Während #Rußland also sowohl im LK #Wittmund und LK #Eckernförde liegt, finden sich #Cuba in #Gera und #Afrika im LK #Uckermark. 🤷♂️
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#weeklyreview 29/2026
A single screw can screw up the whole day
We just wanted to do a short trip to project25 on Sunday. But all of a sudden the tire pressure sensor showed an alarm for declining pressure.
So we drove to the nearest gas station to check and perhaps top up. There I saw the reason for the loss of pressure – a screw deep inside the tire profile.
Of course the new fangled car doesn’t come with a spare tire. Only a messy TireFit kit witch of course didn’t seal the puncture. But we at least got home to call the roadside service.
They said they would attempt a patch and a while later a young powerful lady from the ADAC showed up to try to fix the tire. In the smoldering sun we tried to patch the hole with some fancy rubber sticks. But couldn’t get it sealed eventually. So had to call the roadside assistance again.
Another while later her colleague showed up with his towing truck and explained that he’d bring the car and me to his tire dealer where they swap the tire.
Since it’s the countryside this of course wasn’t around the corner but a 70min drive one way. The guy was very friendly and quick. Gave me a used tire and then I could drive back home.
In the process we figured that the new car is actually running on winter tires. Which shouldn’t be the case given it’s July.
Took me several phone calls to figure out that I have apparently skipped some checks on the lease company and been able to order winter tires from the OEM. Usually the lease company orders their own winter tires. Now the OEM has shipped thar car with winter tires and of course that needs to be swapped. Fun, fun, fun.
Power!
Charged the car on a how power charger for the first time. From 15% to 80% in about 15 min. That’s very impressive and scary with an electrical engineering background. Seeing 300.000 Watts being pushed into the car is quite something.
In other news
Our small lemon tree eventually shed the first fruit. It was hanging on the tree since last year and I guess it’s sort of ripe now.
I quite love the works of Meike Stoverock. Not only her books Female Choice! and the novels about the detective rabbit (those are outstandingly great in my opinion), but also her Podcast “Olle Kamellen” and her writing in “Amor & Psyche“. She is so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about every topic she writes. And she is brutally honest. But still her writing is very accessible although she’s coming from an academic background and often writing about academic topics. She manages to put them into words that anyone can easily understand and relate to.
I can highly recommend leaving a subscription and supporting her!
And now there was a chance to get one of her wonderful doodles. Of course I couldn’t resist and got the first one!
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Rechte töteten fast einen ukrainischen Studenten: Brutale Gewaltexzesse in der #Uckermark (€) #afd #RechteGewalt
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/brandenburg/rechte-toteten-fast-einen-ukrainischen-studenten-brutale-gewaltexzesse-in-der-uckermark-15839980.html?bezuggrd=NWL&utm_referrer=newsletter -
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#weeklyreview 26/2026
as mentioned last week already… the week (I count from Sunday for this blog series) started with a paint job in the house. Was pretty exhausted on Monday still and my neck hurt from looking up to the ceiling for a long time. Definitely a full body workout …
My new breakfast routing is “overnight oats”. While I hate giving in to fashion trends, this one is really good. But it’s not new anyway, just the fancy name. My friend Slamr shows up in the office every once in a while with her jar of overnight oats and I’m like: yeah… should have done this as well.
Looking into it, it’s actually super easy to prepare. I fill a large jar 1/3 with coarse oats, 500g of plain yoghurt, chia seeds, flax seeds and a splash of milk. When I feel fancy I add a whole apple in slices or banana in slices and let it sit in the fridge over night (guess that’s where the name comes from 😉 ). Refreshing and healthy in the morning. And it lasts for almost the whole week. Real easy time saver.
Since I woke up with quite an headache on Monday I also tried lemon espresso which I heard on the Interwebs can act as a painkiller similar to Aspirin. Did some research now and there seems to be no scientific evidence of this effect. What’s know is, that black coffee alone can support the efficiency of painkiller slightly. So it’s actually just a fancy drink then 😉
Amsterdam
On Friday I was in Amsterdam for a business trip. Best day according to the dutch national weather warning system. People were urged to avoid going outside in the sun of they can. Fortunately the office has a real air condition and it’s wasn’t that bad all. Apart from the flight back. Total chaos at Schiphol airport. Massive queue as they had closed down all but a few security lines. I literally only made it last minute to the plane after a long sprint through the whole Airport after security. Just to wait another 45min at the gate because some checked-in passengers were still missing. They had to pry out their luggage from the plane before we could start.
But at least I made it back to Berlin the same day and wasn’t stuck in Amsterdam at 40º C.
White Dinner
On Saturday, in the countryside we had our annual white dinner in the village. Despite the heat still quite many people showed up in the evening and brought their favourite food to share over drinks and conversations. Always really lovely to see how good this works with the really minimal effort and coordination.
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5. Digital Independence Day Templin
5. Juli 2026, 14:00:00 CEST - GMT+2 - Pestalozzistraße 22, 17268 Templin, Brandenburg, 22 Pestalozzistraße (Templin)https://f.termine.di.day/events/ba096cf2-80d1-4061-a27d-a02bd4fe6a57
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#weeklyreview 25/2026
sheeesh…. Thursday already… can hardly remember what happened last week. Going through my photos and Mastodon feed to refresh memory.
My father and his son
Last week Sunday my wife had organised a reading of book by a famous German author in a special location. This was special for us for multiple reasons. The venue is the old royal gymnasium in Templin. It was the location of the Prussian Joachimthalsche Gymnasium for a couple of years in the early 20th century and is quite an impressive ensemble of building in the city of Templin. We ourselves know it from out time at school where it was used as boarding house and external sports facility for our gymnasium. An NGO is currently trying to turn this into a proper school again.
The reader was our former teacher and principal of our Gymnasium. I’d even call him a friend as we were close already during my school time. We were his first class when he became a teacher and later we navigated the time of the German reunion together where he was elected principal and I was part of the pupils council.
The book “my father and his son” is a curated collection of letters from the son of Hans Fallada – a famous German author from the first half of the 20th century. His son was a pupil at the Joachimthalsche Gymnasium in the 1930/40s and had a letter exchange with his father.
The session was accompanied by Boris Bell percussions. This combination (Holger reading and Boris performing percussions) we already witnessed at a reading event last year in Kappe.
The rest of the week was the usually busy with AI stuff at work and fiddling with my own tech. Upgraded my new shiny Linux laptop with stickers and a 1TB SSD drive.
Renovations
On the weekend we did some impromptu renovations at the countryside house. We painted two walls with colours and the rest just white. That was quite exhausting as it’s of course bigger than originally anticipated. I guesstimate that we painted around 150 sqm. Actually ran out of white paint. So will have to finish that part next weekend.
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#weeklyreview 24/2026
This was a busy week. Two social events and long work days. Of course also more fiddling with tech. But it all started with the 4th
Digital Independence Day Templin/Uckermark
For the fourth time we met in Templin to show and tell people about alternative to big commercial technology. This time a bunch of new faces showed up and we were a total of 8 people. Its getting traction despite our lousy advertisement efforts.
One quote from my partner in crime resonated with me especially:
You don’t need to switch directly from Windows to Linux. Rather start replacing application by application with their open source alternative. Once you’ve replace InternetExplorer or Chrome with Firefox, MS Office with LibreOffice and Outlook with Thunderbird, you’ve likely already covered the majority of your computer use. When you then switch from Windows to Linux you’ll be met with familiar applications already.
The 5th event will take place on July 5th in Templin again.
Movies & Paintings
Back on Sunday evening Berlin K2 started to watch a movie it seem to like. The story is about a woman at the end of the 18th century. She’s supposed to get a portrait of her painted by a another woman.
The scenery looked more and more familiar the longer I watched. Eventually it struck me. One scene of that movie we’ve got as an painting from my dear friend Cristina Carrillo.
The movie is the french “Portrait of a lady on fire” by director Céline Sciamma and it’s really good.
Greybeard gathering
As it was the 2nd Tuesday of the month our group of old hackers gathered again at the Pratergarten. This time it was warm enough to start sitting outside in the beer garden and in the sun. One guy joked that direct sunlight is not the right environment for hackers.
Why greybeards you ask? Because a lot of the original male software developers of Unix (think Kernighan & Ritchie ) were sporting full beards and eventually those became grey. Funny enough in our group I’m the only one with a beard … and I’m not a hacker.
Always quite an interesting meeting as those guys know a lot beside mere programming and computers. Learned quite some things about Taurus weapon systems this time.
Linux to the rescue
A friend of mine water damaged their HP Laptop. Wouldn’t boot up anymore despite the fans turning when powered on. I took out the harddrive to see if that’s still working. And it is. Got Windows 11 on it. Now while we have access to the mere files, some valuable data is still hidden inside programs and their proprietary formats.
Unfortunately the Disk didn’t fit in own HP laptop as it’s got a different SSD connector. What I had though is a SSD-to-USB adapter. I thought it should be possible to create a virtual machine though that simulates the original Laptop to some extend and use the USB-device as it’s hard drive. The normal VM wizard didn’t lead to success so I asked Perplexity to help me create the correct QEMU/KVM call.
And it delivered. I needed to create a software TPM device first as the original Laptop uses UEFI. After some fiddling I actually got the original OS booting up on my trusty Linux Laptop despite some 10 years hardware difference. The Documentation and explanation of the steps can be found here.
My friend but has now bought a similar laptop as replacement. We’ll put the disc into the new Laptop and will hope that the system will just come up. Let’s see. But good to know that my approach would have worked using virtualization.
Beer & Burgers
On Thursday it was time for our beer & burger gathering again. This time in West Berlin … Upper Burger Grill in Charlottenburg.
The Burger was quite OK. Not the best I ever had … but also not the worst 😉
After the burgers we felt fancy and decided to pay the Monkey Bar a visit. That’s a quite popular bar at the moment at the end of the Bikini House Berlin. It oversees the “Zoologischer Garten” and I guess you could see the monkeys during the day.
The view is indeed stunning. You can see over to the Gedaechtniskirche, the Bikini House and of course the Zoo. What I found most interesting was the audience. Every age group from Teenagers (I hope 16+) to people probably approaching their 80s were there. So they’re doing something right attracting such a diverse age group. Then again the Ku’damm area feels a little weird to me. Everyone seems to be pretending their rich and famous. Some surely are. Most just pretend and want to part of the hype. Also… it seems to be mostly russian speaking people nowadays in that Area.
Elk
This week the Version 1.0 of the alternative web client for Fediverse services named “Elk” was release. I’m hosting my own instance and are using it currently as my main Mastodon Client on the web.
One nice notable feature (among many others) is it’s ability to compose longer threads. The compose window let’s you split your longer writings into multiple properly linked posts. I know that some people struggle with this. Many Fediverse instances have a character limit for their posts – usually 500. I’ve patched my Mastodon instance to allow 5000 characters in a single post. So if your instance has a short limit and you want to post longer texts then consider using Elk for this purpose.
Local LLM stuff
I’ve continued playing with my LiteLLM setup. Also finally got OpenCode configured and used Qwen3.6 with Ollama on my laptop to write me some Ansible playbooks for installing and configuring OpenCode. That worked quite well.
I’ve also tried to calculate the cost of my Ollama setup on my Laptop at the energy price of 30ct/kWh. The M2 Max CPU/GPU seem to be able to churn out ~ 50 Tokens/s while consuming 65W. For 1M tokens it would roughly need 5.5 hours at 65W. That’s about 0,3575 kWh and thus ~ 10,7ct/1M tokens.
Of course I build myself a benchmark tool that produces the numbers for all available models on my machine and spits out a respective config file for LiteLLM
Full Reportollama-bench Results
Date: 2026–06–15 18:28 Models: 11 Prompts: 3 Runs/prompt: 3 Max tokens: 200
Power draw: 65W Electricity: 30 cent/kWhPer-Model Details
deepseek-r1:1.5b
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated200—Generation speed164.58 tok/s±2.04Time to first token345 ms—Total wall time1571 ms—Energy consumed28.22 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000042327—Cost per 1M tokens€0.0423—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#1200159.46199858.76€0.000000088146#2200165.2113324.29€0.000000036442#3200165.7513124.19€0.000000036278#4200166.0415824.63€0.000000036946#5200165.7813324.22€0.000000036336#6200165.4413324.26€0.000000036397#7200165.3015724.71€0.000000037068#8200163.9513224.45€0.000000036668#9200164.2813424.44€0.000000036665embeddinggemma:latest
No successful runs.
gemma4:12b-mlx
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated200—Generation speed25.33 tok/s±1.73Time to first token441 ms—Total wall time8376 ms—Energy consumed151.04 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000226563—Cost per 1M tokens€0.2266—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#120029.632633169.43€0.000000254139#220025.97126141.34€0.000000212014#320025.60109143.04€0.000000214565#420024.92338151.04€0.000000226557#520024.41112149.95€0.000000224931#620024.25100150.73€0.000000226102#720024.19333155.31€0.000000232968#820024.54106149.07€0.000000223605#920024.49111149.46€0.000000224189glm–4.7-flash:latest
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated200—Generation speed49.06 tok/s±2.71Time to first token1104 ms—Total wall time5202 ms—Energy consumed93.78 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000140672—Cost per 1M tokens€0.1407—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#120052.427969212.82€0.000000319226#220052.5022972.97€0.000000109457#320051.7922073.76€0.000000110633#420047.7230181.17€0.000000121749#520048.6822278.23€0.000000117351#620048.0522579.28€0.000000118926#720047.8632181.28€0.000000121927#820048.2822278.84€0.000000118265#920044.2722585.67€0.000000128512gpt-oss:latest
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated190—Generation speed51.89 tok/s±5.22Time to first token1195 ms—Total wall time4883 ms—Energy consumed87.95 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000139035—Cost per 1M tokens€0.1390—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#120064.297670194.70€0.000000292055#220056.0432470.33€0.000000105494#320049.2035279.81€0.000000119716#416949.4638768.75€0.000000122042#520050.0838879.18€0.000000118768#614547.3339062.41€0.000000129125#720049.3442880.98€0.000000121468#820050.5940978.83€0.000000118245#919450.6540876.58€0.000000118427lfm2.5-thinking:latest
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated200—Generation speed220.08 tok/s±25.13Time to first token179 ms—Total wall time1110 ms—Energy consumed19.85 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000029775—Cost per 1M tokens€0.0298—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#1200254.3090330.53€0.00000004579#2200256.758115.55€0.000000023331#3200246.508116.14€0.000000024204#4200193.0210620.65€0.000000030974#5200197.348719.90€0.000000029855#6200205.028219.13€0.000000028694#7200206.7010519.39€0.000000029091#8200209.448218.75€0.000000028132#9200211.658418.60€0.000000027903llama3.2:1b
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated133—Generation speed169.33 tok/s±9.77Time to first token348 ms—Total wall time1163 ms—Energy consumed20.82 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000046968—Cost per 1M tokens€0.0470—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#1200155.79178555.43€0.000000083146#2200156.2716626.15€0.000000039231#3200161.4316525.39€0.000000038085#468185.091799.90€0.00000004367#5117173.1216515.21€0.000000039005#672176.9816210.30€0.000000042897#7116173.4717915.34€0.000000039682#8117169.4916515.47€0.000000039674#9107172.3616414.20€0.000000039822llama3.2:latest
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated140—Generation speed81.62 tok/s±2.52Time to first token524 ms—Total wall time2250 ms—Energy consumed40.45 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000086673—Cost per 1M tokens€0.0867—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#120080.353315104.81€0.00000015722#220083.2616446.41€0.000000069612#320083.5116646.32€0.000000069477#411386.1620027.37€0.000000072663#510482.3816525.83€0.000000074512#611381.1116728.21€0.000000074901#711180.1320628.79€0.000000077798#810880.2516627.35€0.000000075972#911177.4316728.94€0.000000078218mistral:latest
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated190—Generation speed36.54 tok/s±1.59Time to first token373 ms—Total wall time5595 ms—Energy consumed100.72 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000159125—Cost per 1M tokens€0.1591—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#120039.252688140.58€0.00000021087#220039.288393.54€0.000000140311#320035.6549102.23€0.000000153349#420035.21160105.52€0.000000158286#520035.4552102.85€0.000000154271#617335.665588.65€0.000000153722#717236.4115888.21€0.000000153854#818735.905495.07€0.000000152513#917735.995489.84€0.000000152266qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated200—Generation speed66.81 tok/s±2.82Time to first token980 ms—Total wall time3987 ms—Energy consumed71.85 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000107768—Cost per 1M tokens€0.1078—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#120069.277994196.48€0.000000294719#220070.3610053.15€0.00000007972#320070.296152.49€0.000000078734#420068.6716155.50€0.000000083247#520065.4810156.97€0.000000085461#620065.106556.64€0.000000084967#720065.0016958.62€0.000000087933#820063.759858.43€0.000000087638#920063.347358.33€0.000000087495qwen3.6:latest
MetricAverageStd DevTokens generated200—Generation speed57.33 tok/s±1.49Time to first token1332 ms—Total wall time4859 ms—Energy consumed87.37 µkWh—Cost per token€0.000000131056—Cost per 1M tokens€0.1311—Per-run breakdown:
RunTokensSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost per token#120059.589619234.39€0.000000351579#220059.6027765.84€0.000000098764#320058.2427167.18€0.000000100772#420056.8936070.31€0.000000105468#520055.6927470.08€0.000000105124#620056.1627269.55€0.000000104324#720057.0337370.38€0.000000105568#820056.9327168.61€0.000000102909#920055.8727470.00€0.000000104995Model Comparison
ModelSpeed (tok/s)TTFT (ms)Energy (µkWh)Cost/token (EUR)Cost/1M tokens (EUR)deepseek-r1:1.5b164.5834528.22€0.000000042327€0.0423embeddinggemma:latest—————gemma4:12b-mlx25.33441151.04€0.000000226563€0.2266glm–4.7-flash:latest49.06110493.78€0.000000140672€0.1407gpt-oss:latest51.89119587.95€0.000000139035€0.1390lfm2.5-thinking:latest220.0817919.85€0.000000029775€0.0298llama3.2:1b169.3334820.82€0.000000046968€0.0470llama3.2:latest81.6252440.45€0.000000086673€0.0867mistral:latest36.54373100.72€0.000000159125€0.1591qwen3.6:35b-mlx66.8198071.85€0.000000107768€0.1078qwen3.6:latest57.33133287.37€0.000000131056€0.1311Ranked by generation speed:
#burger #did #enEN #food #Linux #LiteLLM #QEMU #Uckermark #weekly #weeklyreview
1. lfm2.5-thinking:latest — 220.08 tok/s
2. llama3.2:1b — 169.33 tok/s
3. deepseek-r1:1.5b — 164.58 tok/s
4. llama3.2:latest — 81.62 tok/s
5. qwen3.6:35b-mlx — 66.81 tok/s
6. qwen3.6:latest — 57.33 tok/s
7. gpt-oss:latest — 51.89 tok/s
8. glm–4.7-flash:latest — 49.06 tok/s
9. mistral:latest — 36.54 tok/s
10. gemma4:12b-mlx — 25.33 tok/s -
Der Landkreis #Uckermark setzt weiter konsequent auf sein umstrittenes Pilotprojekt. Nach Rissen an Weidetieren erteilt die Untere Naturschutzbehörde nun deutlich schneller Ausnahmegenehmigungen zum Abschuss von Wölfen. Bereits innerhalb von 48 Stunden kann ein #Wolf als „Problemwolf“ eingestuft und mit Nachtsichtgeräten gejagt werden – auch Elterntiere von Rudeln sind betroffen.
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Veranstaltungstipp heute 14:00 Uhr: "Mein Vater und sein Sohn"
Lesung mit Klang
Aus dem Briefwechsel zwischen Hans Fallada und seinem Sohn. Gelesen von Holger Dehmelt mit zwischendurch Schlagwerk von Boris Bell -
#Radtour 174: #Unteruckersee, #Prenzlau und #Oberuckersee (ca. 53 km)
Die Landschaft um die Ober- und Unteruckerseen wurde von der letzten Eiszeit speziell zum Genießen angelegt. Nach den Tieren und Pflanzen haben das auch die Menschen bemerkt. Grund genug, um ein weiteres Stück #Uckermark mit dem Rad zu entdecken. Die An- und Abreise erfolgte über den Bahnhof #Seehausen (Uckermark)
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#weeklyreview 23/2026
Last week was again very busy work wise. Current project involves multiple meetings per day. But that’s not the only project I’m involved in. So hard to find time to actually work on stuff and process all the meetings.
AI tools at least help summarise the meeting transcripts and extract action items from them. This is a bit of an advantage over earlier days when you might have had a meeting recording that no-one ever listens to again. Now we get at least half-decent meeting summaries and action items extracted. But still no time to actually follow up on these 😉
Got a replacement battery for the shiny HP Spectre Laptop I recently got from Slamr/Fi. Swap out was easy and now the thingy lasts between 2-4 hours depending on the workload. I love this device. It’s almost like a new MacBook Air. Small, sleek, fast and with stamina. Given it’s about 10 year old hardware I’m amazed.
LiteLLM
started to play around with LiteLLM as an AI and MCP gateway. Part of my job fortunately but also out of curiosity. Idea is to hide all the various LLM providers behind a central gateway/proxy and control access and budgets centrally.
In my case the LLM providers are Ollama on my Laptop and desktop server as well as my OpenAI subscription. I’ve also registered my Paperless MCP server at the gateway so tools can use it via HTTPS.
My use case of n8n here is, that a new Paperless NGX document triggers an n8n workflow. This workflow will summarise the document content and populate this into and custom field of the Paperless document. Paperless NGX doesn’t do this out of the box yet. Also write myself a few SKILLs to analyse and optimise Paperless documents with tools like OpenCode or Claude using my MCP.
Flowers
Near Templin is a field which is planted with poppy seeds this year. Last week that was in full bloom and it’s obviously very beautiful. Many cars stopped for the people to get out take pictures…. so did I 🙂
Reading
Making good progress on my current book “Gödel, Escher, Bach” and quite like it. So much so that I also got a German copy of the book for my kids. I’m reading a crappy version from Apple Books. But at least that way I can read in the gym while being on the machines.
Konnichiwa
And we’ve finally been able to check out the Japanese style restaurant “TOWA” in Eberswalde. Very lovely place and delicious food. We’ll be back
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ moor frog ✧
The moor frog (Rana arvalis) is a reddish-brown, yellow, grey or olive frog in the family Ranidae, found in Europe and Asia. Usually 5.5 to 6.0 centimetres (2.2 to 2.4 in) long, it has horizontal pupils, partly webbed feet and, in males, nuptial pads and paired vocal sacs. The species inhabits varied wetlands, meadows, forests, steppes, bogs and...
#europe #asia #uckermark #germany #europeandasia #wikipedia
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There was a good turn-up this time despite our lack of advertisement in the region ;)
One good hint from @reneoelke was most notable in the context of switched from Windows to Linux:
Maybe start switching application by application on Windows first. IE to Firefox, Outlook to Thunderbird, Office to LibreOffice etc.
Once that feels comfortable the switch to Linux is much less of a jump than if you switch everything at once.
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The opium harvest will be good this year. Or the Mohnbrötchen ;) #Uckermark
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Nächster Digital Independence Day in Templin am Sonntag den 07.06.2026 um 14:00 Uhr
https://events.diday.org/events/ed8e18df-4821-461b-b520-ed93a2b6e611
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#weeklyreview 22/2026
That first super hot day … in may. Fortunately only one day at a sweltering 30º C. The rest of the week was much more acceptable.
I did saw people post pictures of fallen green leaves claiming that the trees in Berlin are shedding their leaves because of the heat. That of course was utter bullshit as it rained quite heavily the week before and our trees don’t shed their leaves at a mere 30º C. I get climate catastrophe urgency. But bluntly and stupidly faking stuff doesn’t help anyone.
The countryside is very beautiful at this time of the year. Lush green and flowers and blossoms all over the place. We’re quite blessed over here.
Our bees have produced the first bucket full of honey. It’s our first honey since we’ve got them bees two years ago. We’re expecting to get around 50kg of honey this year. And we’ve grown from 2 bee hives to 3. Eventually taking over the beekeeping family tradition that went from my grandfather to my father in law and now to my wife and me.
Paperless NGX MCP
I started creating an MCP server for Paperless NGX. My intention was for me to talk to an LLM and have it modify/improve my Paperless documents. Paperless itself already got quite good AI models to do auto-tagging and detect the best correspondent and document type etc.
But I wanted to be able to have a document summary automatically created and also check whether a more powerful model would be able to improve on the tags etc.
I had searched for an existing MCP server. But the one I found didn’t actually work. Guess it was outdated and also fiddly to install. I don’t like the NPM based software as the NPM repository seems to be a huge security risk these days for all the worms infecting packages.
So I started to create an MCP server in Rust with the help of Claude Code. That worked out quite well and I’ve now got a working MCP that is just a single binary you can drop on your machine. Not additional stuff to be downloaded or installed. I’ve also started to write some skills for Claude and OpenCode to encapsulate my Paperless improvement prompts.
Iris Photos App
Stumbled across the Iris Photos app on Mastodon. This looks interesting and I gave it a try. It started to index my rather large photo archive which lives on my home NFS server. That’s more than 2 TB of data and hundred thousands of picture a few thousand videos. I wasn’t patient enough to let it finish. But I keeps picking up the task whenever I connect the NFS mount again. Definitely spend the 14 bucks of an introductory price as the app looks very promising to me. Especially like the stats feature 😉
Linux rules
Got a beautiful old notebook from a friend. An HP Spectre x360 with an Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM and 256GB SATA SSD. Probably about 10 years old. The screen can be folded so the device doubles as a touch tablet. The screen is quite good although I still don’t get what you’d use a touchscreen on a notebook for 😉
I’ve put Debian Linux with LXQT desktop on it, everything work out of the box and it feels like brand new. Unfortunately the RAM is soldered to the board. But at least the dead battery is swappable and I might order a new one. Quite love this device for it has a usable screen with good resolution and good colours and angle visibility.
Zucchini Schnitzel
Had left over Zucchini and prepared it like a german Schnitzel with egg and breadcrumbs and then pan fried it. Quite delicious and pretty simple to fix.
Jugend Kella PopChor
Last weekend the Jugend Kella PopChor from Templin was on their world tour and visited our little village. The kids played life in front of our church and it was marvellous. Great to see their talent and enthusiasm. Also great to see how much the rather old population of our village enjoyed the event.
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Wie Gentrifizierung einen kleinen Ort in der Uckermark verändert
Wald, Seen und ganz viel Platz: Der kleine Ort Gerswalde in der Uckermark hat Berliner angelockt. So kommen Leben, Kaufkraft und kreative Impulse in den Ort - aber auch Konflikte zwischen Alteingesessenen und Zugezogenen. Von H. Oelert und K. Breinig.
#Gentrifizierung #Berlin #Brandenburg #Uckermark #LändlicherRaum
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Der Jugend Kella Popchor aus Templin spielt gerade in Groß Dölln. Es ist großartig. Die Kids haben und machen so gute Laune 🎉
#uckermark