traveling Not all those who wander are lost 50 km on a single weekend, two stages. 935 metres in height in total. Enough time to re-focus once again for a short amount of time, pulling the plug for two consecutive days and think about encountering and mastering obstacles.
How to deploy your own Joplin Server-instance with Docker Using your data on any device is standard these days. Controlling where this data is stored is another story — in terms of Joplin, you can…
Signal Proxy — a way for people experiencing censorship to communicate with Signal While most of us have free access to the Internet and its services, certain states and authorities still practice censorship. Recently…
The European Union must keep funding free software Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using…
The condemned live longer — welcome back, Network Utility Once upon a time, MacOS (or Mac OS X) installations came with a nice GUI for basic networking tasks like traceroute, ping or nslookup…
How to skip the ChatGPT for Mac waiting list and get access now This month, OpenAI has released the native ChatGPT-app for macOS alongside GPT-4o. Anyone can install this app yet but your account will…
Little Snitch 6 released, taking Mac-privacy to the next level Four years ago I blogged about Little Snitch 5, a software firewall-like product from Austrian company Objective Development, which…
VMware kills Players, makes Pro free for personal use While Broadcom still does Broadcom-things after acquiring VMware and turning pricing and portals upside down, at least the question what…
Tusks — Make posting to Mastodon feel like posting to a blog Sometimes I come across apps that I would never have missed. Apps that come out of nowhere and still find their niche — Tusks by developer…
Bitwarden launches new MFA authenticator-app The use of a second factor to secure online accounts has become a must over time, long before the triumph of passkeys. Although there are…
Apple locks users out of their Apple IDs without explanation “Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don’t go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems…
Microsoft adds recommended apps to the start menu in Windows 11 Microsoft is currently battling a lot of bad press but as if that wasn’t enough, there’s still something else to add: According to a recent…
German state of Schleswig-Holstein bets on digital sovereignty for the modern workplace An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech…
Microsoft Edge bug could have enabled attackers to install malicious extensions without detection Years ago, I took my first steps on the internet with Netscape Navigator. Today, browsers serve more than just as a gateway to the World…
Stability AI loses CEO ahead of reframing business model With AI already being more than just „the next big thing”, it is more than clear that, with great power, there comes great responsibility…
How to delete stored credentials from a YubiKey Using YubiKeys for securing accounts is a premium step to a nearly ultimative security approach besides Passkeys or „simple” 2FA. Alas…
Spring Cleaning — Tidying up your Mastodon-instance After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way…
My default apps starting 2024 There have been many lovely events in the Internet over the years and one to cherish especially is the one where users simply blog about…
Season Greetings and goodbye forever, 2023! It was a special and somehow strange year — paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human…
New Outlook seemingly sends sensitive data to Microsoft Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact…
Is Bluesky worth a visit? While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X — formerly known as “Twitter” — the question is which service is able to…
The unhealthful peak of Internet service pricing While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak…
How to fix seemingly disabled Apple Pay on macOS There aren’t many glitches with macOS in my common use cases but lately and after migrating my user from one Mac to the other, I realized…
Stop worrying about people that aren’t worried about you 2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is…
The Fediverse — A vivid and modern approach to today’s Social Network-landscape When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape.
