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  • 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…

  • Is it finally over for Developers?!

    We’ve heard it all a couple of times: “GenAI is replacing Software Developers”, Vibe Coding, … A C-Levels dream to (finally) get rid of expensive software developers by using AI.

  • Take Back the Stream: Support PeerTube’s Mobile App

    Big Tech dominates online video. Algorithms, Ads, and tracking define what we see and who gets heard. PeerTube offers a real alternative – decentralized, open-source, and powered by its users, not corporations. Now, PeerTube is taking a critical next step: building its first official mobile app. Framasoft, the nonprofit behind the project, has launched a…

  • I found my replacement for LinkedIn!

    If you’ve followed me, you might have noticed that I had pulled back my activities on LinkedIn gradually: I posted less, stopped interacting and deleted my content. But I kept returning – only to feel the same mix of disappointment and annoyance every time. Eventually, I asked myself: Why did I keep coming back –…

  • AI Agents: Loyal Only to the Prompt

    Recently I thought “If AI scrapers are scraping my website, would a prompt injection work? Just adding invisible Prompt commands …?” And just today, a colleague sent me this link to an article about prompt injection in GitLab Duo: Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft: TL;DR: A hidden comment was enough…