Zero Signal

It was a special and somehow strange year – paired with many experiences and the proof that there are often unexpected insights into human nature.

Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Microsoft's new Outlook-offshout is seemingly sending sensitive data to Redmond could shake the world IT to its very foundations – years after the once acquired mobile Outlook-app did the same.

While many people and even corporate brands are fleeing from X – formerly known as “Twitter” – the question is which service is able to provide shelter. The Fediverse with products like Mastodon or Misskey/Calckey/Firefish is definitely an option while Jack Dorsey, former Twitter CEO and Co-founder, tries to gather up the masses with his latest project, Bluesky.

While we mainly rely on subscription-based Internet services these days, it is more than obvious that, with saturation of demand, the peak of user acceptance in terms of constantly-raised pricing has been reached while the market is in a state of odd turmoil.

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 that, seemingly, Apple Pay was deactivated for whatever reason.

2020 and 2021 had some steep learning curves in my evaluation of relationships with other individuals and even these days, experience is growing as you never stop learning...

When I once discovered Mastodon, the Fediverse was already a nice approach in helping to rebuild the polluted Social Network-landscape.

Yesterday, the latest iteration of Debian Linux in version 12, codename „Bookworm“ was released. Everyone of you thinking that a direct upgrade to the new system is essential at this early stage may do so as many package have been updated.

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 influencing events that are still ahead.

When Anthrax released their famous album „The Sound of White Noise“ back in 1993, aiming for silence and harmony wasn’t the main focus. Today, Dark Noise is a tool willing to phase down the pace of everyday life by providing natural sounds on all Apple-based OSes, striving for calmness.