Hearing Aids Shenanigans
A short story on phones, hearing aids, the Fediverse and a beautiful garden.
Jan Wildeboer’s Blog
It's where I share my personal thoughts and takes.
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PSA on Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), UPDATED
This is a short PSA (Public Service Announcement) on how I dealt with the Copy Fail vulnerability. This will be updated as soon as the updated kernel packages are made available. This is a pragmatic post on how to deploy a mitigiation RIGHT NOW.
Hello Digital Autonomy
I never really liked the term Digital Sovereignty for the way I have built my digital presence. Sovereignty is about nations. Big, bureaucratic, faceless organisations. It feels heavy. Burdensome. Static. The real question behind the term is a bit more complex.
Conway: Think Networks First, Actors Second
Or why we need to work together to find the right language, terms, tools to understand what is happening and how to fix it in better ways. Together, not as lone geniuses.
Domain prices in 2026 for my portfolio
1. 2024 Moving domains - The Big Transfer — Moving Away From gandi.net 2. 2026 Domain Price Update - Comparing the 2024 to the 2026 prices
S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 3: In Practice
Now that we have our own local S3 storage with garage and it is reachable via the standard https: route, let’s start doing things with it. Benchmarks! Backups of machines in the local network and maybe more!
S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 2: Reverse Proxy
In Part 2 we will put our garage instance behind a ngi9nx reverse proxy. This not only encrypts the traffic between clients and the server, it also allows us to use garage almost as if we are working with the Real Deal, so that existing solutions can be configured without hassle to work with our instance instead.
S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 1: Basic Install
Garage is a lighweight, open source implementation of S3 object storage. In Part 1 we will bring up an instance in our local network, not on the internet.
OCT – My Framework for Digital Sovereignty
Over the past few months, I thought a lot about #DigitalSovereignty. I talked to experts, from analysts over legal experts to people running companies and public authorities. I tried to distill what is really at the core of the principle.
IPv6 at home — my simple solution
I am learning enough about IPv6 to be able to understand and run my home network with it. I am by no means an expert. And I am sure that this post will attract (friendly and respectful) comments from which I can learn and expand my setup. But you have to start somewhere. I guess that goes for a lot of people out there. So I will share what I have done.