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Yesterday, New Years Eve we had a meal with/for the Moldovan workers building our house addition. Lots of meat, which D ordered from a Palestinian restaurant in Ramle since we never touch the stuff + tabouleh and other local salads. The building contractor brought the booze - a bottle of scotch and wines. They seemed to appreciate the occasion and tomorrow they have the day off. Moldovans are mainly Orthodox, but they don't seem to mind celebrating both dates.

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Watched "It was just an accident" (2025) by Jafar Panahi. He's a brave man and the film deserves the acclaim.

Coexistence after Gaza

Wife went yesterday with Noam to a screening in east Jerusalem of Coexistence My Ass, which is one of four films about the Palestine-Israel conflict that have been shortlisted for this year's Oscar in the documentary category.

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In early december I began to look at the expenses associated with maintaining servers and other related web services and decided to economize. I decided that in place of a self-hosted WordPress installation I would bring back my static site and host it on some extra storage I had in my email system.

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Successfully upgraded MX Linux to 21-3 (currently the newest version). I used the previous version for about four years without upgrading it (and I see that it is supported till 2024). But Debian 10 was becoming a little problematic. I had to use several backports, app-images, flatpaks, etc., so when my VPN stopped supporting Debian 10, it was definitely time to upgrade.