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I’ve participated in this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
program and have been working on the small (90h) “autopkgtests for the rsync
package” project at Debian . 




 
 Writing my proposal 
 
 Before you can start writing a proposal, you need to select an organization
you want to work with. Since many organizations…
In the beginning of July I have announced that I
want to write reviews/summaries of books I read, movies I watch, and podcasts I
listen to and publish them as blog posts. Judging by my posts since then, one
could conclude that I managed to read a single (!) book in the mean
time. Nothing could be further from the truth. 
 In addition to the thus far reviewed “A Psalm for…

 title: A Psalm for the Wild-Built 
 author: Becky Chambers 
 publication year: 2021 
 my rating: 3.5/5 
 
 After finding an interest in solarpunk ideas 
recently, it wasn’t long before this short novel ended up on my
reading list. 
 The book describes the journey of a young individual looking for
purpose in a very cool solarpunk world. The novel…
Going forward I will write review/summary posts about
movies I’ve watched, podcast episodes I’ve listened to and books or
articles I’ve read 1 . By formulating my thoughts in reviews, I hope
to a) memorize more from the content and b) have a quick lookup option
in case I forgot stuff after all. And if my reviews are helpful to
others, I’ll be doubly…
I like reading. And ever since I bought myself an ereader 1 after
having to move with a lot of physical books one too many times, I have
never regretted that purchase: It is light (and thus I can always have
it with me), can hold thousands of books, allows me to read in the
dark (as it has background light), has an integrated dictionary, and
(given my reading habits) is also…
I bought myself a Pinebook Pro 
in December 1 . The current Pinebook Pro batches come shipped with a
default Manjaro ARM plus KDE as a desktop
environment installed on the laptop’s eMMC. Apart from some weird
sound issues (for
which workarounds are discussed in the same thread), the software
works fairly smoothly. However, Manjaro is a somewhat
 problematic 
…
Over the Christmas break I have (yet again) overhauled this blog. I
had reworked it earlier this year already, when I moved the blog from
the www to the blog subdomain and changed from the
 hydeout to the
 minimal-mistakes 
 Jekyll theme. However, I was not convinced of
the result for various reasons. 
 While the minimal-mistakes theme came with a lot of functionality,…
Disclaimer : I do not hold any stake in any blockchain based crypto
token. 
 With the recent downswing in blockchain based crypto token prices, the
hype about them has luckily died down a bit. If their prices (will
ever) start rising again, however, my suspicion is that media will
once again devote attention to them and many malinformed bandwaggoning
decisions will be made…
This post is a translation of Rohan Kumar’s 
English post WhatsApp and the domestication of
users 
from the beginning of 2021 into German. 
 Ich habe WhatsApp nie genutzt und werde es nie
nutzen. Nichtsdestotrotz habe ich das Bedürfnis, einen Artikel über
WhatsApp zu schreiben, weil es ein perfektes Beispiel ist, um eine
Gruppe von Geschäftsmodellen zu verstehen,…
You’ve most likely found yourself in situations where you needed
internet on your computer but had no WiFi network close-by. What do
you do? Fire up a hotspot from your smartphone and share its internet
connection with the laptop. The technical term for sharing a phone’s
internet connection with another device — be it over WiFi,
Bluetooth or USB — is tethering .…
Under construction …
After I replaced my old smartphone, which hasn’t been receiving
Lineage OS security updates for a long time anymore, I was looking for
good uses for the device. Given it’s age, looks, and lack of software
updates, selling it would have been a challenge. Porting postmarketOS
onto it would have been interesting, but realistically I lack time
(and skill?) for that.…
This post will describe how you can replace the proprietary Lenovo
firmware on a ThinkPad T400 laptop with
 libreboot . 
 Libreboot versions from November
2022 onwards
 ship binary blobs to support more
boards . GNU
boot is a libre
alternative. 
 None of what I am writing here is new - much rather it is a structured
guide which integrates different sources…
After watching Nathan Freitas’ Libreplanet 2021 keynote on “Ten years
of empowering activists AND everyday people through free mobile
software” 
in which he briefly mentioned the PinePhone, I grabbed mine from the
bottom drawer of my wardrobe and booted it up for the first time in a
while. 
 After fooling around with it for a little and upgrading the…
In an ever more globalized world where people become increasingly
mobile, it is likely that you have friends whom you can’t meet easily
because they live far away from you. At times you might not even be
allowed to meet with people who live close by, as we’ve all
experienced in the recent past … 
 Thanks to technological progress and the wide availability of…




 
 Privacy — why? 
 
 Many people dismiss the need for privacy by claiming that they “have
nothing to hide”. Let’s have a closer look at this statement and
figure out why it is so ignorant and dangerous . 
 First of all, it is objectively wrong. Everyone has something to
hide. Next time someone tells you he or she has “nothing…

 
 
 
 
 
 Reading list 
 
 
 
 
 
 Reading list 
 
 Table of Contents 
 
 
 1. books 
 
 1.1. Fiction 
 
 1.1.1. Epic 
 1.1.2. Science Fiction 
 1.1.3. Drama 
 1.1.4. Historical fiction 
 1.1.5. Psychological novel 
 1.1.6. Comedy / Satire 
 1.1.7. Tragedy 
 1.1.8. Crime 
 1.1.9.…
I am a European fighting for a dignified life in the digital age. 
 I want to live in a world where each individual can maintain their
 privacy and the people as a collective are in control of their digital
infrastructure . 
 Feel free to have a look at my reading list . 
 You can give me public feedback (questions, ideas, rebuttals) on my
blog by sending a plain text email…
This is a collection of resources which I recommend you to check out
on the topics of freedom, privacy, technology, and free software. 




 
 Organizations 
 
 
 
 
 
 description 
 language 
 
 
 
 
 digitalcourage 
 German association advocating for civil rights and privacy in Germany and the EU. 
 German 
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