A friend of mine recently asked me about cryptocurrencies. I gave him the short story, but I'll post the long story here as well, for anyone interested.

What's the point?

In its most basic form, a cryptocurrency is a list of balances in accounts. Only people that have the password …

Thermal shutdown

I started playing some games on my Debian laptop. After some time of intense fan blowing, the laptop shut down. I figured this was likely a thermal shutdown - the device turning itself off to protect itself.

I started monitoring the temperature - and it was getting to 100ºC at …

The Venus Project is a vague "solution" to current problems of civilization. They claim that through a "Resource Based Economy", coupled with advanced science and engineering, everyone can reach a very high standard of living.

This "Resource Based Economy" claims that "all resources must be declared as the common heritage …

Updated 2019-11-18.

The GDPR is legally convenient, in case you are a private person, and want the illusion of control over data gathered from you.

However, when considering its actual impact, and looking at it from different perspectives, it can appear strange, and perhaps even scary.

Broad definitions

I had …

Apple denies any possibility of data recovery after your device is not bootable. This is plainly false.

On top of that, they ban people who know how to recover your data from their forums. Jessa Jones was banned from the Apple forum for offering support to people. It's almost as …

The EU Parliament recently adopted a new copyright directive which makes a site owner responsible for what the site's users post (Article 17 AKA former Article 13).

As with most legislation nowadays, it must have been initiated by some group which would benefit from it - as opposed to "good" legislation …

The more I think about tech giants, the more I want to use self-hosted services.

On this blog, I will talk about what I want to do with my life.

The first and most important item on my list is self-expression.

When you use a private service like Facebook, Google …