UPDATED Oct. 2024: added extra instructions for Debian Recently I got myself a YubiKey Bio which I wanted to replace the YubiKey 5 with in terms of unlocking my LUKS2 encrypted drive(s). In this s...

Running your own instance of Nextcloud is probably one of the best solutions for reclaiming some privacy and avoiding services hosted by Google, Apple or Microsoft. I tried to cover the task of ins...

With version 38 just being released I decided to give Fedora a try again. From time to time I’d like to check out how things are going with other distributions. And sometimes it’s nice to have real...

UPDATED Oct. 2024: added info about ECDSA keys 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...

Recently this post about Keyoxide came up in my Mastodon timeline and of course made me curious. Turns out Keyoxide is a little like Keybase: based on GPG you can claim an identitiy and have to add...

Countries which heavily censor internet access usually have a non-democratic and oppressive government - and thus very likely no free press (s. currently Iran or Russia for example). Sometimes the ...

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 to receive push notifications. As I’m run...