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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…

Mastodon

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…

Bits & Bytes

Bluesky: Lohnt sich ein Besuch?

In Sachen Twitter-Ablöse ist das Fediverse mit Produkten wie Mastodon oder Misskey/Firefish definitiv eine Option, während Jack Dorsey, ehemaliger Twitter-CEO und Mitgründer, mit seinem neuesten Projekt Bluesky versucht, die fliehenden Benutzermassen ebenfalls entsprechend „aufzusammeln“.

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…

How to upgrade Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm

Amongst them was PHP so that other repositories aren’t necessary anymore for the moment.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

While the past is gone and the future still is still ahead, Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote can be a synonym for a proactive way of…

Dark Noise: Simple. Fast. White noise, refined!

When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise” back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus…

How to install PHP 8.2 on Debian 11

Although Debian is a modern Linux-distribution based upon stability, it sometimes misses actual packages like the latest PHP-iteration.

Mastodon

Mastodon — More than an alternative to Twitter and definitely here to stay

Whether Twitter is doomed since Elon Musk’s takeover or not (changes for federated services have never been that good!), it’s always an…

What if… ?

During the pandemic, a lot of rather moderate things happened in everyone’s life but sometimes you aren’t prepared for additional struggle…

How to implement Snowflake with Docker on a Synology-NAS

In many areas, we have unlimited access to the Internet while other regions or single people are blocked from venturing through the web…

Great minds discuss ideas — average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people

Sometimes, people need a weird idea to achieve something special. After our last team event was rather a remote-playing session with lots…

Life is vivid — try to live it that way!

Experiencing the Black Metal-wave in the 90s, visiting Norway was surely one thing on my bucket list. Decades later, I set my foot on…

How to backup Microsoft 365 with Veeam and Wasabi

In our case, Microsoft provides this service and, albeit doing basic protectional work with recycle bins and a certain retention time, data…

Nextcloud Hub 24 aiming at Big Tech-competition

As of 2022, the need for independence, the need for data protection and privacy based on Open Source-solutions, has developed in a discreet…

Nextcloud and European Governments aiming at building a Digital Sovereign Office

There must be an Office beside Redmond’s variant and, so far, Nextcloud embraced the Open Sourced-based version of Collabora Online and…