Someone who just bought his first Mac asked me which essential (GUI) apps I currently use that I could recommend to him. As this will probably happen again I'll just keep this list here so I can …

As someone who hates Google Hangouts with a passion it took me surprisingly long to look into a way to use it via an IRC bridge to get rid of the annoying Chrome app. Today I finally had some spare …

I recently moved from using a wildcard certificate to using a bunch of certificates from Let's Encrypt. I was a bit hesitant in the beginning because it seemed like a lot of work and hassle to deal …

Storing backups in Google Drive with duplicity was broken for a long time now. Luckily someone wrote a new backend that is now able to make use of the new OAuth API requirement enforced by Google. To …

Quick guide based on @CthulhuSec's tutorial for setting up a Tor hidden service. If you don't know what a hidden service is read this high-level description before continuing. Install Tor Install the …

Just like every year the time between Christmas and New Years is best spent at the Chaos Communication Congress happening at the CCH in Hamburg. Following is a list of all the talks I went to see. …

This shell script will send you a push notification if there are new Gentoo updates available. It's based on ftf's Ruby script for Prowl. {{< gist dewey 902a0da58f85feca974a >}} Application …

If you don't like ending up like the plane in the header image (Jeff Sheldon, Unsplash) you should probably make sure you do have a good backup and restore strategy. The goal of this short guide is …

Quick script which lets you check if you have enough storage space to download all these sweet Linux distributions you already grabbed the .torrent file for. Nested directories ( *cough* collages) …

There are a lot of scripts and applications out there acomplishing the same task, most of them are probably more polished than what I came up with, but there was always something missing which made …