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And off we go straight into part two of my summary of things that moved me in 2018!: Raising My Shields – Year 5 Ever since the Snowden revelations in 2013 I’ve been moving more and more services I use into my own domain and made sure as much of my Internet traffic as possible … Continue reading Things That Moved Me in 2018 – Part 2

I've been running Prosdody, an XMPP messaging server on one of my Raspberry Pi's for ages now, mostly for desktop instant messaging and testing mobile messaging clients every now and then. Yes, I could use a public XMPP server but why should I if I can host it myself, too? It's easy to install from … Continue reading Upgrading My Prosody Server for Advanced Mobile Messaging Features

In a previous post I wrote about what has changed in desktop computing in the last 6 years. In summary not very much, I still use my notebook from back then for some purposes with an up to date operating system for multimedia consumption.  So what about mobile computing and mobile devices, how have things … Continue reading What has Changed In Mobile Computing Since 2009?

Just about a year ago I bought my first Raspberry Pi out of curiosity and to get my Owncloud server project started. At the time it was an experiment but it turned out to be the most liberating computing experience I had in many years. A large part of this is due to Owncloud that … Continue reading Some Thoughts On My 8th Raspberry Pi

I recently came across a press announcement that a German mobile network operator and a security company providing hardware and software for encrypted mobile voice calling have teamed up to launch a mass market secure and encrypted voice call service. That sounds cool at first but it won't work in practice and they even admitted … Continue reading If You Think Any Company Can Offer End-to-End Encrypted Voice Calls, Dream On…