Dodging Digital Colonialism
Under construction …
Citizen Science with BOINC
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. Throwing a working device away was definitely not an option; but just having it lying around also felt wasteful.
Librebooting a ThinkPad T400
This post will describe how you can replace the proprietary Lenovo firmware on a ThinkPad T400 laptop with libreboot.
PinePhone postmarketOS upgrade
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.
Play Settlers of Catan on the internet
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 …
Privacy in a digital world
- Privacy is a precondition for freedom.
- Most governments and a lot of companies invade our privacy for power and/or money.
- We can fight back!