the dao of flow

Last week I registered to Cliqset in the hope to finally find the last über-aggretator I need to combine all my live stream services. As my expectations were not fulfilled I tried to explore my disappointment and to find out what I was missing in all the aggregators I tested so far. In my opinion [...]

It’s good to see that there is a growing movement that aims to free the online identity and the social graph from silo platforms with dubious privacy agreements and to offer decentralized entities as new harbors. While I like the idea of the Diso Project that tries to implement decentralized social networks by extending server-located [...]

Finally I finished a new theme for my page that suits my functional and aesthetic wishes. Currently I think it is too early for HTML5/CSS3 but I will move to it at some point based on the current theme. Additionally I changed the name of the blog to something more meaningful – “dao of [...]

There were two other HAR presentations that I like to recommend: At first Roger Dingledine explained the performance issue of the network privacy tool TOR in his talk and the ways of dealing with this in the future. He had a lot of small anecdotes about the project that made the talk really interesting [...]

At HAR are some electro mobility hardware hacks around and people are usually happy to offer a test ride.

It’s summer hacking camp time again! The Hacking at Random (HAR) opened its gates on Thursday and a lot of interesting things have been going on there since that. As usual I want to share some of my personal views on selected parts of this huge event and give some insights about what is [...]

Pumping data into the cloud is getting more and more popular. Although I like the scalability, flexibility and also the more efficient use of computation power I think it brings a lot of disadvantages (privacy, vendor lock, etc.) with it. Luckily open source projects like GroundOS (which will be released soon) start to offer open [...]

I find it sad that many even quite popular online platforms still do not offer TLS/SSL encryption for the login process and beyond that to keep users passwords and data safe. In some cases the option to use encryption is available but not everybody is aware of that. So I compiled my personal collection of [...]