- NEVER click on a link that looks like that
8 Nov '23
Every time one of my posts on this journal ends up somewhere on Reddit
Lemmy, Twitter Mastodon Nostr Bluesky or Hacker News, lots of
people seem to be irritated by the site’s URL. Hence, let me do a quick
introduction into what’s called Punycode, and why I’m using this domain
name.
- How Do You Trust That Your Personal Machine Is Not Compromised?
27 Oct '23
A while ago I stumbled upon a simple yet surprisingly interesting question on
Hacker News, which seemed to have some people (re-)evaluate their current
setups and look for ways to improve. Hence I figured that it might be an
interesting subject to cover.
- Fitness Tracking for the Privacy-Conscious
12 Oct '23
An introduction and review of the Garmin Instinct 2X Solar Tactical
smartwatch.
- Anytype: Notion, but Open Source
3 Sep '23
Ten years ago, the internet was flooded with so called note-taking apps,
from Microsoft’s Notes and Google’s Keep, over Evernote, all the way down
to open source software like Standard Notes.
Within the last few years however it seems like all of these apps
became basically irrelevant thanks to one silent killer.
- Reclaiming (Mobile) Privacy with GrapheneOS
10 Nov '22
… and improving your smartphone’s security along the way!
- Moxie Marlinspike on Decentralization
10 Aug '22
Moxie Marlinspike, founder and former CEO of Signal Messenger LLC, on the
topic of decentralization and why centralized systems are supposedly the way
to go.