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.
Social Media 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…
How to implement Collabora Online in Nextcloud Hub 22 using Docker The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While…
Deploying Portainer on a Synology-NAS Various Synology-devices support Docker, a lightweight software containerization solution. Although this works quite well out of the box…
Microsoft announces Apple Silicon-optimized Teams-client Although Microsoft was quite fast with bringing native Office desktop-apps to Apple Silicon in no time, it was quite a long journey for…
UTM — a great alternative for Apple Silicon-based desktop virtualization In November 2020, Apple launched its ARM-based M1 SoCs. Since then, many vendors adopted their software to match the new platform — not…
Tor Browser now automatically bypasses Internet censorship While the world dismantles itself in many ways these days, the need for anonymity and freedom of speech constantly rises to help speaking…
Protecting your Linux-server with CrowdSec There are many ways of equipping your system with a basic protection. UFW and Fail2Ban always did a great job and CrowdSec is yet another…
Apple is approaching the problem with nagging-CAPTCHAs in iOS 16 They belong to the latter Internet-age but, along with the basically good idea of checking whether you’re a robot or not, CAPTCHAs often…
How to implement Wasabi S3-storage in Nextcloud or Synology Hyper Backup Lately I have been testing the Cloud Object Storage made available by Wasabi. While I have always tried to get familiar with Amazon’s S3 I…
The End of an Era: The iPod is dead, long live Music! Incredible to imagine that smartphone and music-player were separated once. Years before the first iPhone and even more years before the…
Microsoft silently releases M1-optimized Teams-Client for Mac Microsoft was one of the early-adopters when it came to embrace the Apple Silicon-platform in late 2020. Over the time, many apps were…
New Work: The Rise of the Triple Peak Day Things have changed over the last years and so did the way we work in many genres. The way of classic work is vintage now and while…
Return to offices is announced, but the model of hybrid work is here to stay! COVID-19 has been one of the riders of the apocalypse during the last two years but, in one special way, it was a driver to change the way…
History The Price of a Mile There’s a war raging in Europe once again. A sad fact that sends my thoughts back to World War One and the discussion for „The Price of a Mile” and the question how many soldiers need to be sacrificed to gain temporary advance in a senseless war:
How to use Geoblocking with Nextcloud Hub II Especially during these times there may be the need to regulate the access to webservers and specific solutions running thereon.
The only thing we have to fear on the planet is man How right Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was with this phrase is mere frightening and perfectly fits into the horrible events of, now…
