Tue Dec 31 04:20:09 CET 2024

- February was the month of the delphinusdnsd 1.8.0 release:
	o last release on github.com, it has been made read-only (archived)
	o last possible release on the 1.x.x branch
	o there is opportunity for a 1.8.1 release outside of github.com, in 2025
	o paved the way to EDWIN (Enhanced DelphinusDNSd on Windows), (little done by 2025)
	o personally feeling very satisfied with this project which started in 2005 (19 years development)

- March/April/May marked OpenBSD 7.5 release, which at later time is "considered" a candidate for a personal
	fork.  This is an evaluation to be determined by 7.7 release time whether I want to fork it.  That
	means, that the new fork would just be a 1-person effort, possibly only backporting fixes from the
	7.7+ branches, and adding very little to it.  Things to be considered are:

	o tearing out perl for ruby (rewrite of the ports system, which could be imported from FreeBSD)
	o upgrading the sleep/hibernating code for amd64 so that my laptop can wake at specific intervals
		in order to do a task around wifi.
	o etc etc, I still have to evaluate if a fork would even happen.

	At this point in time I switched providers to 1und1 for 250 Mbit/s Internet on a per month 
	basis/contract.

	In this time period the medications that I had been taking for 22 years have been phased out
	completely.

- June/July, decision to return to Canada, finding out that I still have PR status (surprise!), but in the
	end being prevented at the airport in frankfurt to board the flight, had ticket, reservations, etc,
	to settle in the Ottawa region.  An obvious setback but turned out to be OK.  Money not refunded.
	I also fired my psychiatrist after reading what she gave to me for the doctors in Canada.


- August/September/October, this all was funded by my own money, adding up debts with my health insurance,
	before being forced back on Welfare.  Upgraded my old netbook which turned out to be very awesome!
	It's hardware is:
	o Acer Aspire Netbook from 2015, very upgradeable
	o replaced spinning harddrive with 1 TB SSD
	o replaced wifi card to something compatible with OpenBSD (iwm in it now)
	o replaced RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB.
	Also in October, I started rebuilding my entire house LAN anew.	

- November/December, cancelled 1und1 VDSL, for a 500 MB telekom smartphone plan for 10% the cost.  Obviously
	a new mode of operation.  I have cut my Internet costs by 75% from the beginning of the year. Current
	costs right now are (5+13 EUR/mo).  Also raided all my piggy banks at the end of the year to pay off
	my debt with the health insurance, which will be done in the new year 2025.  Some ideas for projects
	related to the "offline" mode are:
	o a more mobile lifestyle which has me on the go, instead of sitting in the office for 12 years
	o offline browsers, offline protocols, offline compression algorithms

	Some thoughts around DSL after using it for 25 years (after sympatico DSL at 1 Mbps in 1999 or so).  
	Good riddance!  I don't expect to ever use DSL technology again.  New technologies for Internet have 
	to be others (including fibre optics, or staying with radio/LTE)

Sum up: This has been a very relaxing year, with little delphinusdnsd DNS programming being done and exploring
	new things, with new ideas, new projects coming up.  I'm turning 49 in 2025, and am looking forward to
	starting a new open source project for the next 15-20 years.  This will put a handful of Open Source
	programs under my belt before I'm slated for a natural death sometime in the 2050's.
	In 2024, I started living in my living room for once!  After 11 years in this apartment, where I spent
	the lion's share programming DelphinusDNSD in the home office, and spent half the time ~5.5 years
	working at a VOIP operation in Canada (thank you to Adam again).

Some excitement for 2025:
	o I don't think I want new computer in 2025, settling on the hope that I can perhaps get a new laptop
	in 2026.  I may replace a laptop battery on my MacBook Pro mid-2015, trying to get Mac OS on it seems
	impossible.
	o I am looking forward to perhaps getting a GPU card in March to speed up certain operations and
		programming on OpenCL under Windows.  I have my hopes set on the following specs:
		* Nvidia RTX 5070 ($400-$600) 225 Watts, 18 GB RAM, 4 nm technology, 6400 CUDA cores
		* or similar
	The reason this is needed is due to a program that I'm working on currently, but also for future
	interests in ML and AI.