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I just successfully repaired my Fairphone 4 for about 15 Euros.

This procedure might brick your device.

Assuming one has an old Yubikey, that needs to be disposed.

In this post we go through the steps to create your own personal Certificate Authority (CA) from scratch using only openssl.

We all know that Kindles are evil, and Amazon tracks everything what you read and bla bla bla … But this story really shows how much they collect about you.

Imagine the following: You’re stuck at a Telescope site.

Fossil based mobility was our biggest individual CO2 footprint, and with our new amazing electric car, this is now a thing of the past.

Happy new year fellas!

There’s a known issue with Civilization 5 on Linux, where it randomly crashes with a segfault.

As a follow-up of my previous adventure on getting FreeBSD 14.3 running on the CM4 - Forget about FreeBSD 14, just use FreeBSD 15.

Holy moly, it works!

Update - Just use FreeBSD 15 - it just works!

Last week I was in the UK and the UK mobile network is … weird.

This is a custom recipe I made for a little friend of mine, who cannot have eggs.

Signal Proxy allows users in countries who are subject to network limitations and censorship to connect to the Signal network via a Proxy server.

Over the last decade, NetworkManager has become one of the most widespread network managing solution.

I recently found a handful of coins on the parking lot of our supermarket.

Last winter season was the first season for our new heatpump in our permanent home.

Restic is a mature, effective and secure backup solution that covers a wide range of use cases.

Just a quick shoutout to the Dutch weather provider KNMI, who open sourced the official Android App plus Infrastructure on Gitlab.

I recently discovered Nepenthes, a tarpit for LLM web crawlers.

Welcome to the year 12025 human era.

… or at least more upstream.

Multiple online sources report that Microsoft claims Recall to be an opt-in experience and you can remove it.

Fascism isn’t knocking on the door with a “hello, I’m fascism, please empower me”.

Mqtt is a lightweight publish-subscriber protocol for message queues, typically used with IoT devices, but also for monitoring services.

Life goal unlocked: Living in our own home.

Please, don’t spam my forgejo instance.

How does it look when your database is starved from memory and runs into trouble?

Peter Fouché, a combat medic and founder of the charitable organization project Konstantin has died on the 27.

An excellent summary of the benefits of “A"I: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again.

feldspaten.org runs now on a much more resource-friendly ARM-Ampera based cloud instance on Hetnzer.

podmansh executes a login shell within a podman container and allows you to have a containerized platform for users to login.

I got a Samsung 990 Pro NVME SSD, which by default reports a blocksize of 512B.

Recently I expected a package from UPS from a domestic provider.

Plasma 6 lands in openSUSE Tumbleweed and it’s awesome!

I find RISC-V an interesting architecture as a truly open hardware platform.

I love Free Software because it empowers people and allows them to use, repair and maintain devices beyond an arbitrary defined lifespan.

Note: In an older version of this article, some of the things stated here were wrong.

Immutability done right.

I’m happy to announce that last week our first child was born.

Sorry for the outage last week.