Dear Mozilla: Why Thunderbird 78.x is both great and awful (PGP)
I am writing this post because Thunderbird 78.x has issues for advanced PGP users
How to edit systemd service files the right way with overrides
In an earlier tutorial, I showed you how to obfuscate Tor bridges with obfs4proxy which required editing the Tor service files. The official Torproject documentation stated, that you needed to edit the systemd service files and change a variable in each, to allow the usage of privileged ports. So, I [...]
Open Letter: Why IT security is “obvious” to me.
I met someone through this very blog. We have been emailing back and forth, and eventually the question arised why I'm so interested in IT security. My response was, that there's no particular reason and I guess it's just "obvious" to me. To which he replied seemingly perplexed, that I [...]
What does the official minecraft-launcher.desktop look like?
If you are using a system that's not based on Debian/Ubuntu and want to play Minecraft Java these days, you don't install a Minecraft.jar file anymore. Instead, you use the new "Minecraft Launcher" that is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. While this launcher is nicely packaged into a .deb [...]
Is the new macOS Big Sur spying on your application usage?
Not really, or at least that's not the goal. Let me explain. So, people have been posting about the new macOS update being evil and sending an application hash to Apple before allowing you to open the application (unless you're offline, then it will just open the application). This sounded [...]
Why I can no longer recommend TripMode
In an old blog post I shared different ways to save data on different platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Android) On Mac in particular, I had recommended TripMode 2. An application for less than $10 that can filter which application can connect to the internet. With macOS Big Sur, many [...]
How I got into software development…
I just remembered, it was my Mac mini and Apple's software, and WoW that got me into software development. 😳 A bit of background I was a child and all our school machines were Macs… So, for compatibility’s sake I wished for a Mac mini for Christmas of 2007, which [...]
A Little History of Minecraft Servers (mostly Bukkit/Spigot/Bedrock)
Minecraft came out a bit over a decade ago, as a game written in Java that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux but only x86! That's because, while the game is written in Java, it depends on native libraries that are x86 (although I think now they're AMD64 so you [...]
How to cloud-sync Terraria from GOG.com and other games
Some games have "cloud sync" which means it will upload your save to the cloud and download and sync that save to all your computers so that you can continue to play where you left off, on any machine. Some games don't offer this or only partially. Terraria is a [...]
How to use FRITZ!Box with Namecheap Dynamic DNS (IPv4)
This is a quick guide on how to set up Namecheap Dynamic DNS on your FRITZ!Box.