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Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a
damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily
pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every
funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand
of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from
deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's
hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish
Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
- Run a Nostr Relay as Tor Hidden Service on OpenBSD
15 Feb '24Let’s set up and run our own “private Twitter” on Nostr, a simple, open protocol that enables truly censorship-resistant publishing on the web!
- Lemon v2
8 Feb '24
After nearly five years of inactivity, I decided to breath in new life into Lemon: Meet Lemon v2, a complete rewrite in Go! - A World without Passports
2 Feb '24
According to my analytics dashboard, there’s a 70% chance you’re reading this on your phone. Maybe at home, or maybe while commuting to work, using your mobile data connection, for which you’ve probably signed up on a mobile contract. A contract for which you had to prove that you are you, likely by showing your national ID or passport. A contract for which you have to pay regularly, probably using a bank account that you also had to identify yourself for upon opening. - A Brief Review of the Star Labs StarBook Mk VI Ryzen Ultrabook
25 Jan '24
As announced back in the update of Q4/2023, I went ahead and ordered a Star Labs StarBook Mk VI with an AMD Ryzen processor to finally replace my previous laptop and eventually my workstation. This is a brief review of the device itself, without going too much into software details. - Updates 2023/Q4
19 Jan '24
Project updates from the previous consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools. - An Overview of Privacy-Focused, Decentralized Instant Messengers
16 Nov '23
An overview of privacy-focused, decentralized, open source alternatives to popular non-freespywareinstant messengers like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Viber, Facebook Messenger, Skype, and Apple iMessage. - 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,TwitterNostr 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. - Updates 2023/Q3
30 Sep '23
Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.