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Auto-update Android apps with F-Droid & Yalp Store

I consider auto updates of userland software as an important and also convenient security feature, easpecially on mobile platforms. As far as I know this is already the default behaviour for Android systems with Google Play Store preinstalled. Some time ago I switched from Play Store to the open-source F-Droid market which offers many good […]

Software

Sandbox and torify Signal messenger on Linux

Most of the popular Linux distributions don’t offer any sandboxing or anonymization capabilities and it can be quite difficult to find a good solution. In this post I’m going to describe how I manged to sandbox the messenger app Signal and tunnel all it’s traffic through the anonymization network Tor. All the tool you need […]

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Download an installation medium directly to your flash drive

For a longer time I was looking for a more direct and faster method to setup my Linux installation medium on an USB flash drive. Usally one would download an ISO image and wait for it to finish before copying to the drive. Both tasks could take some time, depending on your internet connection and […]

Software

Stopwatch module for py3status

Whenever you use a tiled window manager like Dwm, Awesome or i3 on your linux desktop, you might also want to replace or modify the default behaviour of the status bar. Usually you’ll display some common information like date, battery level or informations about your network connection. Compared to the quasi standard program i3status, you […]

Artwork

Open source powered GNU Casino slot machine

For our private party some weeks ago we prepared a fun slot machine in the spirit of GNU open source software (I’m aware that this might sound contradictory). We already had an old internet cafe terminal but had to change the internal hardware to more recent components. Then we were ready to install a most […]

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Easily setup a native instance of Onlyoffice documentserver on ArchLinux

For quite a time I was looking into an online office solution, espacially as an integration into my existing Nextcloud service. At first, there was a lot of publicity for the teamup of Collabora Online together with Nextcloud. It’s a more complex solution, which includes a LibreOffice backend and a LeafletJS frontend. On the one […]

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Pishare – Erster öffentlicher Webtorrent Index

Fasziniert von der Möglichkeit, sozusagen P2P Dateien von einem Browser zum anderen Browser zu transferieren, habe Ich mich vor kurzem umgeschaut, was es in dieser Hinsicht schon für Anwendungen und Implementierungen gibt. Webtorrent hat sich dabei als eine der am weitesten entwickelsten Bibliotheken herausgestellt, die direkt im Browser via Javascript verwendet werden kann, sowie auch […]

Hardware

ArmStone A9 als Mediacenter und NAS

Mit Hilfe eines kleinen, leistungsfähigen und energiesparenden Mini-Computers, einem ArmStone A9 ARM-Board, ist es mir endlich gelungen, einen Daten-Server (NAS) für meine WG einzurichten. Die Platine wird eigentlich in der Industrie verwendet (z.B. in Automobilsystemen) und hat dementsprechend viel Peripherie, die Ich eigentlich garnicht benötige. Trotzdem eignet sich das Board mit Gbit-Ethernet und einem Sata-Port […]