Howto

Creating your own custom CA

6 minute read

As the constant security warnings displayed by my browser when accessing my local infrastructure annoyed me already for a long time I decided to look into th...

Snowflake

3 minute read

Countries which heavily censor internet access usually have a non-democratic and oppressive government - and thus very likely no free press (s. currently Ira...

UnifiedPush and ntfy

3 minute read

Running an Android phone without Google’s proprietary Play Services - which drain your phone’s battery like mad - comes with the downside of not being able t...

Installation of Prosody XMPP server

6 minute read

Choosing “the” right messenger is not an easy task as you (or at least I do) want to pick one with a good balance of usability on the one side and security/p...

Installation of Jitsi Meet

3 minute read

Once I took care of my Matrix-Synapse server I also wanted to upgrade the OS of my Jitsi Meet server - which of course would force me to re-install everythin...

Migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll

4 minute read

This blog has seen a couple of Wordpress releases and for a short period was even hosted on Blogger. Since comments are disabled it’s a pretty static website...

Installing Nextcloud on a Synology NAS system

6 minute read

Since my Android of choice “CalyxOS” comes with a neat little backup utility called “Seedvault” which will create encrypted backups to Nextcloud I of course ...