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  • Trying Bookwyrm

    Besides programming and all kinds of IT stuff, I really like reading books. Regarding my Calibre library, I am reading between 10 and 20+ books a year. The spectrum covers a couple of IT books but mostly Science Fiction and Fantasy books. Bookwyrm? And since I joined Mastodon and thus the Fediverse, I came across…

  • Seems like I’m really off LinkedIn

    I’ve written a couple of times in the past about my goal to leave #LinkedIn. The last time was a month ago, when I wrote, ‘I found my replacement for LinkedIn!‘. Since then, I’ve only logged in to add new contacts, to check if it’s someone’s birthday, or to read messages.

  • Loops soon SelfHosting!

    I just saw this post from @dansup announcing self-hosting to be available for Loops “very soon”. If you haven’t heard about Loops before: Loops is a short-form video platform designed for the decentralized Fediverse, where users share videos like TikTok. Compared to TikTok, Loops offers a few notable advantages: it’s decentralized, so no single company…

  • Das Ende von GameTwo – Und ein Neustart?

    GameTwo ist ein Gaming-Magazin im besten Sinne – ehrlich gesagt auch das einzige Gaming Magazin, das ich wirklich regelmäßig nutze. Produziert wird/wurde es Rocket Beans in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ZDF und dem funk-Netzwerk (Quelle: Wikipedia). Als Nachfolger von GameOne wurden seit 2016 ganze 382 Folgen veröffentlicht (plus diverse Short Videos). Leider konnte die Finanzierung nun…

  • The end of “The Azure Podcast”

    As I am a regular listener of the The Azure Podcast. I was a bit surprised to see the title of the latest episode: Episode 521 – The Final Episode. That sounds like final, final – like as if it wouldn’t be continued? And indeed! :-( In this special final episode of the Azure Podcast,…

  • Comment Sections do not need to suck (maybe)

    Recently I read the blog post Why Comment Sections suck – re:I want to comment on your blog post | Kami’s Corner. The article discusses the various problems of comment sections in blogs. And actually, I wondered if a Fediverse-integration couldn’t address some of those issues:

  • Numa Hack: When “Access Control” is just a Number in a URL

    Not long ago, I covered the Merkur hack from Lilith Wittmann – a glaring example of careless handling of sensitive data. And today, here we are again! Another service, another broken-by-design system. This time: the hotel chain Numa, exposing tens of thousands of identity documents to anyone with a URL and a browser. What happened I…

  • A New Era of Social Media – Video by Elena Rossini

    If you are not following Elena Rossini, you might have missed her really great video about the Fediverse. I find it a very nice and clean way – not focusing on technology but on us, the users. She doesn’t lecture or explain too much – she just shares what she’s found: a space that feels…

  • PeerTube and Platform Control

    I didn’t even plan to blog something today, but a couple of things came together around PeerTube that convinced me to drop a post today. But, maybe before we start … PeerWHAT? you might ask. Interlude: What is PeerTube? TL;DR: An open source / self hosted YouTube PeerTube is a video platform that works a…

  • DNS4EU: a private, safe, and independent European DNS resolver

    Recently I switched my DNS Resolver to one of the European public DNS resolvers | European Alternatives mainly for privacy reasons after reading Cloudflare’s blog post about analytics in their free-tiers. But I missed the malware protection. But today I just got aware of DNS4EU For Public! DNS4EU is an initiative by the European Commission…