Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server

Since a years we know, or might suspect, our chats are listend on, our uploaded files are sold for advertising or what purpose ever and the chance our social messengers leak our private data is incredibly high. It is about time to work against this.

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Proton Authenticator: Don't you want diversification?

When Proton released its new authenticator in July 2025 I had mixed feelings about that. A new authenticator app although there is a bunch of viable, secure and privacy-respecting as well as well-maintained alternatives. When did you as an ordinary user trusted all your secrets, mail, vpn, password, 2FA and so on, to one company and what happened next?

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Hugo with Codeberg and BunnyCDN

While enshittification is rolling across a lot of US-based services, let’s try to host our static Hugo page with EU-based services only. Domain, deployment, CDN: we’re going back to the roots - or into a more modern tech-era for European internet services.

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