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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
With the move of this blog to Codeberg I also changed the process of producing content. In fact one of the drivers was to redo this exact part. In this post I'd like to give an overview of the setup of the blog and the process of generating content for …
Posted by fedops in InfoManagement
I previously wrote about my note taking/information management process here and here. Quite a lot has changed so it's time for a re-revisit.
As noted I found the one-massive-file Wiki approach limiting, especially since it wasn't easily accessible from the command line which is where I spend most of …
Documentation-As-Code is a much better approach than your WYSIWYG editor of old.
The general consensus regarding how to create and maintain documentation has definitely changed over the past few years. People had come to regard WYSIWYG text processors as the gold standard. Effortlessly arrange text and images, see what you …
In July 2020 The Register, our usual source of unbiased news (ahem), ran an interesting piece on a pending court case against Microsoft in California. Within the article the actual complaint document was linked via courtlistener.com, to wit: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.362635/gov.uscourts …
Backups and more Network Sniffing
Loading up with Applications
Phone setup and initial impressions
Setting up the environment
Escaping the walled gardens
Google Changes the Rules, and that brings with it the end of the walled gardens.
A short news item on Late Night Linux episode
126 referencing this
Public Security Announcement
in r/privacytoolsIO on Reddit gave me a very rude awakening. It describes
Google forcing application developers to hand over …
Undoing the damage
Recommendations for what to recommend
Posted by fedops in InfoManagement
More than one way to skin the cat
Posted by fedops in InfoManagement
How to record what you learn and being able to find it again