Author: tom

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run free Thoughts

Vorfuss, Mittelfuss, Ballen – Wie gehen beim Wandern?

Begriffsklärung:

  • Gehen: Spazieren gehen. In meinem Sprachgebrauch auch oft als “laufen” bezeichnen. “Wir sind nach Hause gelaufen” (alemannisch)
  • Laufen: Joggen, manchmal würde ich das auch als rennen bezeichnen. Im englischen eher “to run”. Eigentlich klar, einen Marathon laufen. Geschwindigkeit: Marathongeschwindigkeit.
  • Rennen: Schneller als laufen, aber vielleicht noch nicht ganz ein Sprint, oder doch?
  • Sprint: Maximalgeschwindigkeit
  • Schreiten: Tänzer, auf der Bühne, ein langsames Schreiten.

Wieso?

2022 (oder so), habe ich “Born to run” von Christoph McDougall gelesen. Ich war fasziniert von der Tatsache, dass erstens, der Mensch ein Ausdauerjäger war, und zweitens es möglich ist, mit Sandalen 40, 100 oder noch mehr Kilometer zu laufen. Nicht, dass ich ab diesem Zeitpunkt nur noch mit Sandalen rumgelaufen bin.

Nun ist 2025, ich habe das zweite Buch, “Born to Run 2 – Trainingsplan” beschafft. Einmal ganz durchgelesen, und nun möchte ich den Trainingsplan umsetzen (das allerdings ist eine Geschichte für einen anderen Beitrag).

Jedenfalls frage ich mich, wenn es für die Lauftechnik so wichtig ist mit dem Vorfuss aufzusetzen, bzw. die hohe Schrittfrequenz zu halten, wie wandere ich dann? Und soll ich in Zukunft überhaupt noch wandern?

Manch einer meint ja, dass Vorfuss, oder Vorfuss-Mittelfuss auch beim Gehen verwendet werden sollte. Grund sei, möglichst wenig Belastung auf die Ferse auszuüben.

Nach der Lektüre dieses Artikels, wo Vorfussgang und Fersengang (aka Ballengang) beschrieben werden, und diesen zwei Youtube Videos ist für mich der Groschen aber Gefallen. Beim Gehen (und somit auch beim Wandern) lässt man das Bein schlicht nach vorne pendeln, und kommt dadurch automatisch mit der Ferse auf. Dann verlagert man das Gewicht nach vorne, rollt automatisch über den Fuss ab, und lässt das nächste Bein nach vorne Pendeln. Für mich ist das am Natürlichsten.

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Server

Configure proxy for PS4 to use socks5

PS4 cannot use a socks5 proxy. See a couple of sources.

However, you can create a local proxy, that in turn tunnels the traffic then to your socks5 proxy. Now you can use the desired app (looking at you, amazon) on the ps4.

Use gost: (go simple tunnel)

vi gost-service.sh

>>> content
#!/bin/bash

gost -L :8888 -F socks5://username:password@ip-address:port
>>>

#enable firewall?! sudo?
ufw allow 8888
ufw reload

Test the tunnel

./gost-service
# you should see output, or working tunnel

# try with this (ifconfig.me returns the ip it sees)
curl ifconfig.me
# now with proxy
curl -x localhost:8888 ifconfig.me
# best, also try it from another pc, so you can check firewall
curl -x yourlocalserver:8888 ifconfig.me

Now you’re basically ready, to configure the PS4, or any other client.

However, to make it more persistent, let’s create a service and start. Use systemctl to create the service.

sudo vi /lib/systemd/system/gost.service

>>> content
[Unit]
Description=
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/path/to/file.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Start the service

sudo systemctl enable gost.service
sudo systemctl start gost.service

Configure PS4

Settings -> Network -> WiFi/Cable? -> Manual -> Select, all default until proxy: Use Proxy -> configure, host and port

Done 🎉

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Server

draft: socks5 proxy on linux server vps

socks5 proxy on your vps let’s you route traffic from your pc, over the server. This can be useful, for example, if you want to use some services that are only available in one country, but you’re in another. You don’t need to get some fancy VPN service, just use a socks5 proxy.

Even better, by using a firefox extension like FoxyProxy, you can enable the proxy only on select pages, like ARD, ZDF, SRF, ORF or Amazon Prime.

socks5 proxy on vps

Use docker compose to manage your services running on your server

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Configure a username and a password. I do this, so that I avoid other people using my proxy. Since A LOT of port scanning is happening on an internet server, I’m assuming, some might find, that under a specific port, I’m running a socks5 proxy. If it weren’t protected, everybody could use my proxy and route traffic through it. Not what I want.

Configure Firewall

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FoxyProxy

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Good Reads

I may be wrong – Björn Natthiko Lindeblad

🚧draft🚧

Most interesting “quotes” or passages.

  • When they were waiting near the port to catch a ferry. Since they didn’t and couldn’t handle money, they just needed to wait, until someone buys them a ticket. The philiosophical lesson behind, to trust in the world, and in humanity, to provide and help each other.
  • When the author how he thinks the general philosophy in Thailand when there is a group of people, and another person joins. People there seem to be happy, that there is one more person. His own culture was more like, oh no, we don’t want one more person.

Ok, these passages need some proper citation and more ellaboration. However this is my first good read entry, and I just wanted to tell, I read this book in 2024.

Changelog:

  • Resetting publish date to 2024.
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Desktop

Logitech G Pro X Lightspeed DTS – how to actually enable Surround Sound (spatial sound) Windows 10

So, if you are like me and you just bought the Logitech G Pro X Lightspeed Headset with DTS and read somewhere, that it should have Surround Sound, you might have thought: yeah, that is nice. I need a new headset, so I might have an advantage if I actually hear, where the

You think, what-the-fuck, it sounds an awful lot like stereo. You find out, that it actually is! 🙂

Then ok, wow, there is the option for Spatial Sound (aka Surround sound) and you think, yeah lets enable it.

Bam! It doesn’t work!

  • Downlaod, install and start the DTS-X app.
  • Make sure codec is loaded
  • Go to Sound Settings
  • Enable Surround Sound

Update 2025: Windows 11 is out, now it’s not even possible for me to easily configure it with the trick before. Surround option just disabled. Well, I gave up on Windows, with Windows 11. I only have it because, from time to time I play Fortnite. I couldn’t even be bothered anymore.

Update April 2025: I’m using Kubuntu as my main driver now…, no surround there anyhow. It might be possible somehow, but I couldn’t be bothered. Didn’t really sound like surround anyhow. Also, I have to say, I never really heared the surroundyness of the headphones. You can’t compare it AT ALL, to proper surround sound from like a speaker setup. There you hear all directions, on the headphone, not really.
Funny enough, Kubuntu doesn’t allow me to have my taskbar on the left, but here I cut them some slack 😛

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Server

Setup your Linux Server

State: draft

Note: This shall serve as a collection of all relevant commands, so that one might save some time searching the world wide web.

USER and OS: Configure your own user and setup daily OS upgrades.

# Change root pw:
passwd
# add personal user 
adduser USERNAME
# add user to sudo group
adduser USERNAME sudo
# install unattended upgrades package...
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades
# ... and enable
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades

FIREWALL: Install firewall and setup. You may want to change SSH port. Make sure to first allow ssh (so that you will not be excluded from your own server), allow the new port and once connected successfully, deny ssh.

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Server

Strato Linux VPS (Linux-V10) and caprover – no happy end

TL;DR: caprover does NOT run on Strato Linux VServer (e.g. Linux V10). Think about nginx reverse-proxy, certbot and docker-compose instead.

The whole idea of running my own server was to install caprover and then be able to easliy create and push web applications. However, it did not work as intended…

This is a note to everybody that tries to install caprover, a self hosted PaaS (something like heroku) on a Linux VPS hosted on strato: It does not work.

The Strato VPS Linux servers, e.g. Linux V10, seem to be docker containers themselves (This might be the reason, why one can rent such a server at the low prize of 5 EUR/month). Caprover however would need to be installed on a non-dockerized host machine. Inside a docker container, the swarm and networking capabilities seem to be restricted.

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Thoughts

Hello world!

So I always wanted my own blog. Here it is: Tada!

I intend to collect useful information that I searched tediously in the internet, so that it may be more easily accessible. For example, how to setup and secure a private linux server, how to run docker containers on it and setup a reverse proxy and use letsencrypt certificates.

Another part might be some interesting projects I am working on.

So this is it: Hello world!