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It's where I share my personal thoughts and takes.

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2026 8

  1. Hearing Aids Shenanigans
  2. PSA on Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), UPDATED
  3. Hello Digital Autonomy
  4. Conway: Think Networks First, Actors Second
  5. Domain prices in 2026 for my portfolio
  6. S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 3: In Practice
  7. S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 2: Reverse Proxy
  8. S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 1: Basic Install

2025 13

  1. OCT – My Framework for Digital Sovereignty
  2. IPv6 at home — my simple solution
  3. My Own DNS Server At Home - Part 1: IPv4
  4. Create and use working S/MIME certificates with step-ca
  5. My doorlock and my digital sovereignty
  6. Be the LetsEncrypt in your homelab with step-ca
  7. My Cute Homelab (updated)
  8. Eurovision 2025
  9. Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken
  10. Thoughts on RTO — Return To Office
  11. From iCloud to Nextcloud: Contacts
  12. Botnet Part 1: Those Stealthy Botnets
  13. The MRZ Part 1: A Relic With Potential — IMHO

2024 19

  1. Using Woodpecker CI for my static sites
  2. Woodpecker Shenanigans
  3. Hungary’s Bluff Is Called. Chatcontrol Stays Zombie
  4. On Field Of Use In Free and Open Source Software
  5. My Digital Life After Twitter (G+, Facebook, Instagram etc)
  6. Designing access/identity badges with ICAO 9303, 8th edition in mind
  7. The two tales of xz-utils and Crowdstrike
  8. Running a runner for codeberg/forgejo on RHEL9 and 10 as user
  9. Be a Builder of Decentralisation - codeberg, forgejo, runners
  10. Vacuum Robot Microfiction
  11. AOPD 0 - The naive start
  12. Charging SEVs — A Modest Proposal called AOPD
  13. Do The Right Thing
  14. The Big Transfer — Moving Away From gandi.net
  15. Find attachments when parsing emails in a robust way
  16. S-Express - A Security Tiger Team for all FOSS maintainers
  17. The BÆD books, my little trick
  18. On actively avoiding solutions to keep problems alive
  19. The 2024-02 Spam Wave on the Fediverse and what we can learn (unfinished)

2023 5

  1. Finding and blocking spambots and other unwanted guests
  2. Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Jekyll website
  3. (OBSOLETE) A Quick Fix For The Verified Status for Github on your Mastodon Profile
  4. Running uptime-kuma with podman and RHEL 9 as a systemd service
  5. The No AI/ML clause on this blog

2022 14

  1. How to read your e-mail headers
  2. DRAFT - getHash(id) - NSYNC - an eventually consistent system to share and update/verify content. Decentralised, NO Blockchain, CDN, P2P, TCP/ID
  3. E-Mail Done My Way, Part 2 - dovecot
  4. E-Mail Done My Way, Part 1 - postfix
  5. E-Mail Done My Way, Part 0 - The journey
  6. E-Mail Done My Way, Part 3 - DKIM/DMARC/SPF
  7. DNS Done My Way, 2022 Version
  8. The daily struggle to stay informed about Corona in Munich
  9. PeerTube Video Embedding in a Jekyll Blog
  10. E-Mail Done My Way, Part 4 - The final stuff
  11. Corona In Munich - numbers and problems
  12. A short, concise guide to participating in a protest
  13. German Card Paying Drama - the Verifone H5000 Part 1
  14. German Card Paying Drama - the Verifone H5000 Part 2

2018 1

  1. SundayRecap

2016 1

  1. #MyOpenHA Part 1 - Philosophy

2014 5

  1. Thank you, Tesla Motors For The Patents, but …
  2. Why (Linux-)devs use Macbooks
  3. Just a thought
  4. Paper task management - the Corbinizer as A4
  5. GPG, subkeys, the genius of it!

2013 3

  1. Edward Snowdens letter to German government/Authorities
  2. That HP/Microsoft “study” on the Linux Migration in Munich? Hm.
  3. Munich: That HP/Microsoft study has a few problems, we guess.

2012 11

  1. BREAKING! Deutsche Verleger haben eine Erweiterung der robots.txt vorgeschlagen!
  2. 6 things to know about patents, the short form.
  3. Bettina Wulff schmeckt lecker nach Hähnchen -For the Lulz
  4. Slic3r on RHEL6, 64 bit – HOWTO
  5. TNP/IP and TNP/ISP – Braindump of a solution #needhelp
  6. European Court decision. Oracle and Google should note.
  7. Generation @ – inspired by @smarimc
  8. Closing remarks on FOSSpatents
  9. Patent reform ideas, braindump version
  10. The Patent System – why it fails.
  11. FRAND fairy tales: Google, Motorola, Microsoft and numbers.

2011 17

  1. Did Apple photoshop a picture to make its point in Samsung case?
  2. Google not respecting my privacy? Games and data
  3. Apple v Samsung in EU – some thoughts, but IANAL
  4. Idea: Better architecture for computers
  5. Apple stops Samsung from offering Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe
  6. A rather radical plan to limit/channel patent trolls
  7. Dear Queen Beatrix,
  8. Switzerland: 0wned by Microsoft, OK by court?
  9. Microsoft: Absolutely NO (GPLv3-or-compat-licensed) Free Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps.
  10. Join us at #l33tm33t on sat evening, brussels, FOSDEM
  11. Strange messages on #egypt mobile networks – needs investigation
  12. Update on killassange.com, domainsbyproxy #IFWL
  13. WRT killjulianassange.com, killassange.com and godaddy
  14. No comment. #IToldYouSo #IFWL
  15. Samsung v Apple in NL: Happy selling, Samsung!
  16. PRR – Privacy Respecting Router a #freedentity idea
  17. [SOLVED] Joindiaspora and me – #FAIL all over the place

2010 27

  1. Congressional Research Service on wikileaks and prosecution #mustread
  2. Supporting Assange – change your profile pic everywhere
  3. [UPDATED] Patent Madness by Tandberg?
  4. Heathrow Express – a rant
  5. #possesa day 3 – let me fix your Ubuntu, Michael
  6. #possesa – day 2 – patching, translating, concentration
  7. #possesa – POSSE South Africa Day 1
  8. Facebook and education – my idea
  9. Oracle’s next target? Power switches #notkidding #irony
  10. Sixtus, GVU, Schwarze Schafe
  11. On Contributions – The GNOME Affair
  12. Oranje Boven! Show your support for the WC Finals! #JustForFun
  13. Switzerland – 0wn3d by Microsoft
  14. Bayrischer Nichtraucherschutz – Gleiche Zahlen, zwei Bilder
  15. #ashmob Updates!
  16. #ashmob - BBQ ash back to iceland! (Just for fun)
  17. Competition is fine – if facts stay facts.
  18. Open Standards – redefined?
  19. The dutch ACTA leak – rough translation
  20. WRT FOSDEM Beer Event
  21. Is Google forking the Linux kernel?
  22. Show Denmark your support! Sign the pledge!
  23. Denmark goes ODF. Only ODF. Sorry, OOXML
  24. Red Hat starts opensource.com
  25. Oracle/SUN Merger OK by EU commission
  26. Why we need Neelie (and some don’t want her)
  27. Why I will not sign the MySQL petition

2009 21

  1. Google on Open – mixed feelings
  2. Good news? The EU declaration on eGovernment
  3. The .NET Micro stuff – Where’s the beef? [updated]
  4. Microsoft, .NET Micro Framework, Mono for iPhone – Ouch?
  5. Why TheSystem and bloggers have a problem
  6. OOXML defect report – just the numbers
  7. [Sarcasm] Microsofts 10-K – some comments
  8. Using KVM in the RHEL 5.4 Beta – fixing bridges
  9. Spam protection on my blog
  10. Asking Switzerland for more neutrality …
  11. A short HOWTO to get laconi.ca running on Fedora 10
  12. Renaming Files based on mtime
  13. Short encrypted SD Card HOWTO for Fedora 10
  14. Working Dual Screen for my Aspire One with Fedora 10
  15. NetworkManager “Connection Established” annoyance SOLVED
  16. Me, Fedora 10 and my Acer Aspire One A110L – Happy
  17. Friday Rant: Viruses, Malware – what happened to due diligence?
  18. YouTube – Amazing sheep LED art
  19. Kadushin – Open Design
  20. Cool stuff: JBoss Developer Studio 2.0
  21. Sunday Wrapup