Privacy in Computing
In May 2023 we finally joined the "renewable revolution" by having photovoltaic panels installed on the roof and purchasing an inverter to feed power into the grid. Of course one of the main fascinations of the system is that one can acquire performance data from the system and graph that data to see how the system is doing. "kWh peeping" instead of "pixel peeping" if you will...
There are lots of howtos describing how to …
Digital photography workflows tend to be dominated by a relatively small number of proprietary, commercial software suites that have been optimized over years or even decades. Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, or Affinity Photo are household names, and they're all available for both MacOS as well as Windows. Which also means that most prosumer and professional photographers use those operating systems as the fine-tuned applications are their bread-and-butter tools they generally can't do without.
A small …
Something I've been meaning to try for a while was using a physical MFA token in conjunction with SSH to secure connections to remote servers. I've been casually reading blogs on the subject, but it seemed to be a bit of faff surrounding the issue.
Then when the OpenSSH project released version 8.2 it came with support built-in and "only" like 2.5 years later I finally got around to try it out...
Part …
I've avoided delving into the calendaring topic for a long while. It seemed a hassle and also I wasn't sure how to best integrate work and private calendars. I don't have very many private appointments anyway, and the ones I do have should ideally also block out the respective times in my work calendar so people don't book me for a meeting when I'm at the dentist or something. So I just put my private …
Recently in the Fediverse @joel@fosstodon.org announced a blog post he had
written about some niche FOSS mobile apps that he has found
useful and I thought
that is a great idea if everybody did that. So here's my pick.
You can find all of them on F-Droid by clicking on the section title.
This is a very nicely done minimalist note taking app that essentially does only two things: make …
Phishing, online scams, and identity theft are big problems. All three of them are quite closely related, and to a significant degree revolve around something virtually everyone has these days - an email address. Let's look at the definitions real quick:
Phishing is a type of social engineering where an attacker sends a fraudulent (deceptive) message designed to trick a person into revealing sensitive information to the attacker.
A scam is a deceptive scheme or trick …
Fans of tiling window managers generally do not have a full-featured desktop environment such as Gnome or KDE installed. One of the more obviously missing UI elements is the search bar for quick access to programs and to search for things.
dmenu is an extremely versatile utility that can best be described as the equivalent to the fuzzy finder fzf, just for graphical user interfaces. In general terms it presents the user with a list …
Here's a quick pointer to a piece of software that I like a lot. It's called the
Powerful Quick Image Viewer, or pqiv for
short and it is - as the name suggests -
a rather powerful image viewer that can be used from the command line (and thus
in a scripted way as well).
In my digital image processing workflow (to be described in a future post) I have the need to review a large number …
I got my start in system administration in the early 1990s, maintaining a university institute full of Sun Microsystems workstations. Those were the late days of the Unix wars, and the main contenders were Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), and Sun. Sun were well-loved in the Universities - the machines weren't the greatest, neither was their software, but all around they had a reasonable package at a reasonable price.
One …
Posted by fedops in InfoManagement
It took me a while to come up with a coherent description of the questions that ultimately led to the solution I'm presenting in this post. Which in itself I think is quite straightforward. Bear with me here while I lay out the ideas: