Creating your own custom CA
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...
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Snowflake
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
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
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
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...
Re-installing Matrix-Synapse server and migrating data
I was running a Matrix-Synapse server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and recently noticed that it did not receive any updates anymore. It would not have come as a surpr...
Migrating from Wordpress to Jekyll
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
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 ...