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 …
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 …
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 …
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 it.
The basis for everything, as is so often the case these days, are text files in one of the low-barrier-of-entry markup languages. Two …
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 my time. Then the Joplin file sync approach was better, but still far from perfect.
In the 1990s I had …
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 are getting in real time, and everything is just a click away. Besides the big commercial packages there is also a sprawling landscape of free …
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.cand.362635.1.0.pdf.
This thing makes for good, if somewhat dry, reading. It's information straight from the horse's mouth, though; you might be …